FULL INTERVIEW: Maia Wilson

Today, Stace Azura and Charlie caught up with Silver Ferns player Maia Wilson in the lead up to Daffodil Day on the 30th of August. ANZ is helping the Cancer Society to make every daffodil count this Daffodil Day – text DONATE to 2442 

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
The Flavor Podcast Network, the Flavor Breakfast Podcast with stace A,
Zorah and Charlie joining us to talk about Daffodil Day.
We have Silverfern, Mile Wilson, Nada, no my height am
I so good to see you? So Daffidil Day, this
is massive.

Speaker 2 (00:19):
And you were saying that you've been working with Day
and said you know they are part of your totalal
team for a long time. So how does it feel
to be able to work on Daffodil Day, especially with them?

Speaker 3 (00:28):
Oh, such a full circle moment. Something that is Dafitil
Day or cancer and cancer society in particular New Zealand
is something affects one in three people. Everyone who's everyone
is either directly impacted by cancer or they know someone
who has. So for me and my story, my mother
had lung cancer in twenty twenty in Lockdown, had a

(00:49):
third of her lung taken out. And then my grandmother
before her head breast cancer, non Hodgkins lamp foma and
leukemia was the thing that ended up taking her away
from us. So something Yeah, how cool to be able
to use my platform and to breathe some life into
such a cool COPA part that is definite all day

(01:09):
and your mum's okay, still talks too much, but still there.

Speaker 2 (01:14):
You're like, oh, there's still a lot of lung left.

Speaker 3 (01:17):
There's a lot of it. There's still a lot of
singing to go. So if you know any Maori family,
it's a guitar in new hand.

Speaker 2 (01:22):
That's so awesome and so as a far no, what
do you see as kind of the benefits of say,
the Cancer Society and the way that people can be
supported if we text donate to two four four two.
What does it really look like? The support?

Speaker 3 (01:35):
Yeah, I think for us it's a lot about wrapping
uffy and total around people for a really hard time,
whether it's resourcing such as counseling or just that helping
hands some final struggle getting to their appointments, and there's
that awesome person who can pick you up, drop you
off and give you a little bit of monarchy and
a little bit of uffy because this is such a
sensitive time in someone's journey and it's not just the

(01:59):
end of jaw that's having to live through this, but
the wider far no, So how cool to be out
of support?

Speaker 1 (02:04):
My nan gets driven up to the hospital when she
goes to get her maloma, her former cancer treatment. So yeah,
that's so helpful because she stays on it. She stays
on her own stubbornly, she wants to stay there on
her own, in her in her home. So in order
for her to get all the way to Auckland, it's

(02:25):
the safest thing is to have someone else drive her.
So it's incredible to have those sort of resources, and
it's so important for you know, people to donate exactly
for those sort of reasons.

Speaker 3 (02:36):
Yeah, And I definitely think like a lot of the
campaign this year is every daffitil counts, So whether it's
you're going to the supermarket and you see the collectors
out there, or whether it's so easy these days to
go online. There's a really easy platform on the website
to be able to donate. But yeah, just making sure
that people know it's not just a token thing, like

(02:57):
it really goes to change these people's lives. Make a
really stressful and hard time just a little bit easy
on people.

Speaker 2 (03:04):
Yeah, So as you say, you can text donate to
two four four two and.

Speaker 3 (03:08):
No doubt half the fitness is all a part of it,
And what I should people think about it's about being
fit and healthy, going to the gym, having to run
the shuttles that I don't want to do a lot
of it actually is about making sure that you're going
to the doctors and getting checked up. I know for
a lot of our fino that that can be daunting
just going to a doctor. So for me, I know,

(03:29):
to make sure that I'm being able to get out
there on court, I need to make sure that the
engine's working the way it should be, that it's not
a shameful thing to be able to go to the
doctor and even just ask a question. So for me,
it's making sure that, yeah, ticking all those boxes, the
more that we can have these open and honest conversations
with our own fino and our own backyard, or make
these conversations easier like for our coma to aquilla who

(03:53):
maybe are a bit shy to tell you what's going on,
or yeah, just making sure that's it's about raising awareness
a fine and educating yourself and that's not scary.

Speaker 2 (04:02):
Be like, maya be brave so we can do it.
So then to greet thor hat of mine, thank you
so much for coming. Because Deaffidil Day, we're making every
deafidel count aren't we? So you can take stoneat two
two four four two. Then I Queen Maya will save.

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