This year, I gave my first Ted Talk - and it was on the 6 words you need to change your life. Never did I ever think growing up as a closeted child of working class Indian immigrants that one day, I’d be the representative of a country I didn’t believe I belonged in. And that one day, I’d be using my voice to tell my story on THIS global stage. I grew up stuck in the idea that who I was, was something to fix. That my race, sexuality, gender - my identity - was why I wasn’t ENOUGH. So LIKE many, I waited for a propellor moment to change my life. And TO many - when I became Australia’s Miss Universe - that was ‘it.’ But it wasn’t. I didn’t change my life waiting for a propellor moment with my mouth shut as I wore racial slurs, homophobic sentiments, sexist ideologies and blueprints for who I should be on my skin - it was when I realised the power of my VOICE. And if you listen to my talk, you’ll know why I’ll never stop saying these 6 words. My Ted Talk is now on Youtube and if there is anything I want you to know, its that you can, you are, and you will. #TED #TEDTALK #TEDX #TEDXSPEAKER #WORDS #SPEAKER #fyp #motivation #missuniverse #missuniverseaustralia #australia