First Things First

Feb 03 2025 137 ep. 33 mins 49

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Join Brooke Blurton & Matty Mills, your Deadly duo, as they share personal yarns through a First Nations Lens.

Listen as they connect through stories of shared, lived and first experiences.

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Embryos Are Being Created, a Baby is On The Way

Feb 03 2025 29 mins

WE'RE DOING A LIVE PODCAST AT THE AACTA FESTIVAL!Saturday 8th February 2025 - 12.30pmHOTA on the Gold Coast. It's FREE!Grab your tickets here: https://events.ticketbooth.com.au/tickets/first-things-first-matty-mills-brooke-blurton-uy55ru4 --------------------Matty is becoming a Dad! But at what cost $$$? The IVF process in Colombia isn't cheap and he shares all the

Sit In Your Shit & Put Your Faith in the Youth

Jan 27 2025 25 mins

WE'RE DOING A LIVE PODCAST AT THE AACTA FESTIVAL!Saturday 8th February 2025 - 12.30pmHOTA on the Gold Coast. It's FREE!Grab your tickets here: https://events.ticketbooth.com.au/tickets/first-things-first-matty-mills-brooke-blurton-uy55ru4 --------------------We're back in full swing of the pod again for the year so it's time for a proper catch up! What did Brooke a

BONUS: Our Two Cents on Jan 26

Jan 23 2025 26 mins

The conversation is kicking off once again about Invasion Day, Jan 26, Australia Day (whatever you might call it) and it's feeling like groundhog day. Some mob are exhausted talking about it, some mob are still pushing for the date to be changed. We wanted to reflect our feelings on the debate today, and share why it's still important to be talking about it and why our commun

Mitch Tambo & Voice of Lele Were Brought Together by Their Culture

Jan 20 2025 35 mins

Husband and wife duo Mitch Tambo + Voice of Lele joins us in studio to talk all about their home life with their 4 girls, and what it's like working and touring together. Plus Mitch shares his reason for making his music independently and how he believes Australia isn't quite ready to embrace someone like him just yet. And how Mitch and Lele bonded over their strong con

Blakfella's Are Built For Survivor

Jan 13 2025 32 mins

Our queen of Survivor Australia, Kirby Bentley is on the pod today sharing everything from her time filming season 9 of survivor Titans vs Rebels. Plus she let's us know exactly how she likes to play the game, and some of the juice from the upcoming series Survivor: Australia vs The World. Kirby is also an elite AFL player having both played and coached in the AFLW, she gives

Why First Nations Stories Need to Be on TV and Film

Jan 06 2025 28 mins

Today we're joined by Travis Cardona, the Director of First Nations at NIDA. Travis gave Matty his first media job, so today we share the story of how our own Matty Mills got discovered! Plus how First Nations stories are now becoming more prevalent in film + TV, and how NIDA is helping share more First Nations stories. As well as how Travis experienced typecasting duri

"Dating Apps Have Created a Throwaway Culture" - Sexologist Lucille Shackleton

Dec 30 2024 31 mins

TW: There is a small discussion of child abuse in this episode. If anything in this episode is triggering for you, you can seek help at any of the resources below: 1800RESPECT - https://1800respect.org.au/ https://whiteribbon.org.au/ Lifeline - 13 11 14 or https://www.lifeline.org.au/ https://blueknot.org.au/ Sexologist and Relationship therapist Lucille Sh

2024: Leave it at The Door, 2025: Let's Thrive

Dec 23 2024 25 mins

What are you leaving behind in 2024? It could be a trend that you're over, a bad relationship, for Brooke it's the phrases "100%" or "literally". And for Matty 2025 is all about you CAN be what you can't see! Todays ep is all about the things we're excited for in the new year... Including big this for this podcast too! Nova Entertainment acknowledges the traditional cus

LIVE Bonus: Today At Apple - Power of Storytelling

Dec 19 2024 33 mins

We did our first LIVE podcast recording at the Apple Store in Sydney last week, and we wanted to share the episode with you. We talked about the power of storytelling within First Nations culture and how storytelling shaped not only our lives, but our careers. We also shared why we now love using this podcast as a modern version of First Nations storytelling and continuing ou

Dannii Minogue is our Queer Cupid

Dec 16 2024 25 mins

We are graced with absolute royalty today DANNII MINOGUE!!! She chats to Brooke and Matty all about her career and her constant support and uplifting of the queer community and why it's so special to her. Plus she shares the new project she's working on where she plays a queer cupid! And we couldn't chat to a Minogue without finding out what the family does for Christma