From Addiction And Home Insecurity To Entrepreneurship: Meet Atlanta's Macaron Maven

Waking up in a mental facility wasn’t even the worst part. The worst part for 41 year old Ché Houston was realizing that she was repeating the worst of her twenties again in her forties, this time doubling down on her demons and beginning to do the things she’d heard addicts do when they hit rock bottom. Houston had gotten clean years earlier but this time her spiral back into addiction and mental health struggles had robbed her of control over not just her life but her mind and ultimately her identity.

Indeed, for years her relapse into alcohol and drugs had robbed her of the

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