Yorta Yorta man Koolyn Briggs is training almost every day for the New York Marathon as part of the Indigenous Marathon Project."I was drinking five, six times a week, I wasn't eating healthy, I wasn't working out.""I didn't really have many other good influences in my life, and I didn't have any platforms like this to engage in," he said.
"We do face significant burdens of disease and it's easy to see everyone else around you facing the same sort of things and feel like 'that's just what you've got, this is me for life'," Murray said.Murray grew up with family members who worked in the Indigenous health space and he was inspired to become a physiotherapist.
"Unfortunately, it's all too common .Briggs said he led an unhealthy lifestyle for about 18 months before he decided it was time to turn his life around."I decided to change my story, changed my life," he said.