Nobody plans to run for office. Especially not while working in nuclear medicine and trying to keep two kids alive and semi-fed. But one local issue shoved Lexi Melton out of the stands and onto the field.

In Part One of this two-part conversation, Lexi talks about what it’s like when an ordinary life collides with an extraordinary call - the fear, the chaos, and the kind of messy courage it takes to say yes before you feel ready.

It’s not about politics. It’s about what happens when life stops letting you sit it out.