An amazing thought leader in all things PR, Amanda Delosa has had to take a challenging road to high performance, and has done it with a lot of assumptions being thrown at her.

From a tumultuous childhood, she found a will to work that has seen her oversee the public relations in Canberra for elected politicians and build her own independent PR firm Yellowpanda, which now helps clients to build enormous growth in reputation through a deep understanding of their own value set.

We talk about the perceptions others have on us, how important it is to have belief in the understanding of ourselves, and having recently become a mum for the first time, how new chapters in our lives don't have to rule us (as we are the authors of our own lives!).