CHRIS LUXON on how his family influenced him from a young age

Why did you take that step? Because with that step comes a lot of criticism. Obviously, the media are all over you. People are attentive. Tell me about it. Yeah, look, I mean, I think it's something that I'd always felt compelled to do. I was very fortunate. I had a dad who, you know, was a very good sales guy and a business guy, and my mum went to university a year or two after me to do a diploma in social work. So between my mum and my dad, I had just an eternally born optimist as a dad and had some good business orientation and a mum who actually went on to become a great counsellor, psychotherapist here in Christchurch. And between the two of them, great young parents, but incredibly enthusiastic and positive and just. I feel so gifted that I got to have them as my parents, really. But we were just raised, all three boys, to sort of, you know, use the talents, skills, abilities that we've been given and hook it up to something bigger than ourselves.