Living in poverty worsens every type of life outcome for children, from physical and mental health to earnings, educational attainment, child welfare involvement, and risky behavior--and the longer children live in poverty, the worse their outcomes are as adults. Guaranteed Income (GI) is a policy that seeks to redress such inequities by providing recurring, unconditional cash to eligible participants. Substantial prior research has shown that increasing a household's income improves children's outcomes--and that a key path by which that happens is by improving the mother's mental health. This brief is woven from the stories shared by 67 parents and guardians participating in city-led 12-month guaranteed income (GI) pilot programs in the Southeast (USA)--in Atlanta, GA, Birmingham, AL, Louisville, KY, and Shreveport, LA. This brief shows how that process unfolds through parents' own stories of how GI pilots affected their and their children's lives. [Abt Associates acknowledge support and coordination from: Mayors for a Guaranteed Income, IMPACT (Atlanta, GA), Embrace Mothers (Birmingham, AL), YaLIFT! (Louisville, KY), and Shreveport Guaranteed Income Pilot (Shreveport, LA).