Amanda Anderson - Keynote Speaker

I’m not here because I read it in a book.

I’m here because I lived it.

My brother was murdered.
My sister and father died of terminal illness.
I survived a stroke, divorce, and relentless, soul-stretching parenting and frontline trauma that rewired my nervous system and never gave me a break.

For 17+ years, I’ve worked in NLP, resilience, and deep, real-world mental health - the kind that won’t fit into a neat soundbite.
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I teach people how to take the raw, twisted remains of what detonated their lives - and build something fierce and true from the rubble.

Because once you change what it means to you, you change what it fuels.

I've spent 17+ years in NLP, led Global Mental Health at L'Occitane En Provence, and now run frontline domestic violence and homelessness response across NSW.

I've sat with people at the actual worst moment of their life.

I've seen what happens in someone's face the second they finally say the true thing out loud, after months or years of not saying it.

I've also lived it myself, not just watched it.

My brother was murdered.

I lost my sister and my father to illness.

I've had a stroke, been through a divorce, and I'm raising two neurodivergent kids while working a frontline job that doesn't care what kind of week you're having.

Playing small got me through a lot of that.

It also nearly cost me everything... more than once.

This isn't a framework I read about somewhere.