Not to be defeated by her inner fears, she continued: "But you know what? Sometimes in life when you're on a quest to improve yourself, no one else's opinion or judgement matters. You’ve gotta own yourself and wear your challenges like a boss - after all, no one else is gonna do it for you!"
In 2011, Turia survived a horrific brush with death, which saw her suffer burns to 65 per cent of her body, lose several fingers and spend a gruelling five months in hospital after she was trapped in a grassfire during a 100 kilometre ultra-marathon in the Kimberleys.