Amanda Luxon

So there's that aspect of it.

I think we've had a lot of change in our life, and so we're not new to change, and I think what you do is you approach everything with –

What is it that is going to be good and we can get out of this?

And there's always bad things to everything.

But you go, would we have changed the situation?

No.

So let's embrace it.

So, yeah, there's lots of things that keep coming at us.

And there's a number of things that are definitely downsides and upsides.

But it's the journey.

And we made the decision together to do this.

And at the core of that was the mission to really give back and serve because he gave up quite a good and lucrative career overseas.

And so we had choices as to what we could have done.

And it was our choice that we wanted New Zealand to be a children's home and that he could

Yeah, give back and use his really unique set of very accomplished skills to actually give back because there's not a lot of people that actually want to leave what they're doing to come and work in government.

Why would you?

Why would you?

If you are not a career politician and you haven't lived and worked and just come up through the Wellington, you know, politician sort of... Elevator.

And you haven't really lived or worked outside of that.

If you've come in from overseas, then it has to be a choice.