''Everyone thought I was crazy − my friends were telling me it was just a mid-life crisis... I had a good job, what was I thinking?'' says Gabriela De Urtiaga.
Instead of being ashamed of doing what you do or being what you are, I ask two important questions: Why not celebrate it? Why not be proud of the fact that the body you are in can do great things?
''I felt like garbage being a young, single mum on the DPB. In my opinion, most people looked at me and thought: 'You're not going to amount to anything,'" says Hannah.
What sort of woman leaves a high-flying corporate career to vie for the thankless task of becoming Auckland’s mayor? A woman like Victoria Crone, it seems.