Andrea Devaux is a quintessential renaissance woman. Her eclectic career includes spending time as a public speaker and media coach; film maker; theatre director; fitness instructor; author; president and co-founder of a women's business networking group; and last but not least: mother. In her formative years, she trained at the New Zealand Actors Theatre Studio, a Stanislavsky-based drama school. She then left her birthplace of New Zealand and cycled and sailed around the world"€"a trip that lasted almost five years, where she eventually found her heart and home in San Francisco, California. Her media career began when she was working for a major medical organization, training high- powered doctors to prepare for appearances on prime time television. Afterwards she transitioned into the position of on-staff media trainer for Media Alliance of San Francisco, while in the evenings she worked with local actors directing theatre and sketch comedy in downtown San Francisco. It was during th