{"id":3852,"date":"2023-02-01T08:12:00","date_gmt":"2023-01-31T21:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onthecoastpublications.com.au\/onthecoastfamilies\/?p=3852"},"modified":"2023-02-14T07:02:03","modified_gmt":"2023-02-13T20:02:03","slug":"coffee-with-a-coastie-maz-matty-for-breakfast-on-hit101-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onthecoastpublications.com.au\/onthecoastfamilies\/coffee-with-a-coastie-maz-matty-for-breakfast-on-hit101-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Coffee with a Coastie – MAZ & MATTY for Breakfast on Hit101.3"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Listen to the full interview here<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Welcome to Coffee with a Coastie. We had the great pleasure of going into their Gosford studio to chat with the wonderful Maz and Matty from Central Coast\u2019s Hit101.3 Breakfast Show.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Maz & Matty \u2013 Having known each other for 20yrs, What were your initial thoughts when you found out you\u2019d be working together?<\/strong>
Maz <\/strong>\u2013 I\u2019ve always wanted to do a brekky show with Matt. It may sound a bit weird, but we met in radio when we were cutting our teeth as junior producers with no idea how radio worked. And I remember 20 years ago we were like, we should do a breakfast radio show together.
Matty <\/strong>\u2013 That\u2019s right shooting for the stars (laughter). When Maz called me, it was a no\u2013brainer. She asked would I be interested and if I wanted to throw my hat in the ring? And I was like, Oh, just gimme a sec, Hell Yeah, absolutely. To come full circle and be in this environment with Maz doing brekky radio is great.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Matty \u2013 You\u2019ve had an eclectic career from pastry chef to producing radio shows, TV presenting, to now being back in radio. When you were in high school would you have ever imagined you\u2019d have such an impressive resume?<\/strong>
High school me would be absolutely pinching himself right now. I feel very blessed to have had the life that I have. I knew at high school that I wanted to be a performer of some sort, but I had no idea what it was. I tried to dance, and I couldn\u2019t dance. I tried to do musicals and I couldn\u2019t sing, tried to act, and I was an over actor. I used to listen to the radio a lot as a kid. In the morning with my dad, I\u2019d listen to AM before he went off to work and then I\u2019d switch it over to FM and listen to certain shows that I really enjoyed. But to know that I\u2019m doing
radio now, 15 year old me would be losing his mind.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Maz \u2013 Having left radio what was it that drew you back?<\/strong>
After being fired from radio in 2015, it took me a while to get over it. I\u2019d spent so much of my life and career working towards the pinnacle breakfast job in Sydney and then it just all blow up in my face. So I tapped out of radio, opened a gym and went on a whole fitness thing. I studied nutrition and did wellness coaching, quit drinking, wrote a book about it, and moved to the Central Coast. Then after Henry\u2019s first birthday, Jase who was overseeing the Newcastle radio station rang me out of the blue and said he\u2019d heard a rumour that I was living on the Central Coast, and I was like yes I am. He said, well I need someone to do a maternity leave contract for six months. Would I be interested? I said absolutely not. Then I thought about it for a week, and I had an epiphany. I can\u2019t show my son how to grab life by the balls if I\u2019m not going do it. How can I expect my child to say yes to things if I\u2019m not going to? So purely for my son, I rang Jase back and said yes, I will come and do six months. Because I want to be able to say to my kid, Mummy did this thing that was scary, so you can be brave too. Cause I was so scared to come back and I\u2019m still here two years later.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Matty \u2013 You regularly called into the Merrick and Rosso show and stalked Maz and the street team to get a job on Nova. What advice would you give to a young radio enthusiast who is trying to break into the industry today?
<\/strong>I think the stalking laws have changed dramatically in the last 20 years. So, you\u2019d probably get arrested for that behaviour now. To think hitting up Maz and Brad on the streets all those years ago and then calling into the radio show and dropping off profiteroles to the station would end up with me getting a gig as a junior producer is just mind blowing. The landscape\u2019s changed a lot from when we were junior producers 20 years ago. But it still comes back to visibility. If you want to be on the radio these days start recording, record stuff, do stuff, put it on socials, get on Instagram, get on TikTok. I got picked up to do Channel Seven\u2019s Sydney Weekender from Instagram videos. So, it\u2019s still visibility. Just get out there and put your work in people\u2019s faces, and don\u2019t be afraid of people saying no.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Maz \u2013 Out of all the roles you\u2019ve had and all the people you\u2019ve met, who was the one that took your breath away and why?
<\/strong>It\u2019s really hard to pick one. But when I interviewed Pharrell Williams when I was doing the Dan and Maz show in 2014, which was a really critical year for me. As it was the year I realized that I was a functioning alcoholic and I needed to stop drinking. I did the interview with Pharrell and although I love him as an artist, I wasn\u2019t really expecting it to be much more than here\u2019s your new album and everyone loves your freaking song and blah, blah, blah. But we were having this chat and he said something along the lines of, well you know what it\u2019s like to have a gift. And I don\u2019t know, it just imprinted on me, and I started crying in this interview and he was like, I get it, I see it, and I thought, wow. I probably got all the validation I\u2019d ever wanted in my life from this one person in this one moment who sat with me and held space for me, even though it was about him. So as much as I want to say it was at an MTV after party or whatever. I\u2019ll never forget that moment because I felt seen, and I think everyone just wants to be seen and heard.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Matty \u2013 You come across as having been a confident, go\u2013getter from a very early age. How do you instil that level of enthusiasm and boldness into your kids?
<\/strong>My parents were strict growing up. But I look back now and they just gave me every opportunity to do what I wanted to do.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My parents let me sing Christmas carols across the street to raise money for a charity. Knowing very well that I couldn\u2019t sing, and I was in year six, going to high school the next year. When I turned up to the quadrangle in year seven, everyone was calling out, there\u2019s Carol. So I\u2019d probably try and think of another way. But my parents just went, let him go, let him fly and see where he lands. And I think that\u2019s what I\u2019m doing with my kids. Just let them fly and see how they go. Parenting is really tricky because there\u2019s no rule books.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I don\u2019t know what I\u2019m doing to make them be the best they are, but I really hope it\u2019s working, whatever I am doing. I heard a really great analogy of kids the other day. Some are dandelions and some are orchids and so there\u2019s kids that are like dandelions and will grow in a crack, in full sun, not need water, and they will flourish. Then there\u2019s orchids who need a bit more attention. They need to have the right conditions to grow and to flourish. They need to be watered on the right day and you need to look after them. They\u2019re both as important as each other, but you\u2019ve just gotta know how to manage the dandelion and how to manage the orchid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Maz & Matty \u2013 The end of the year is normally a time to wind down but you guys are just starting to ramp up your new show together. What does the Maz and Matty show look like in 2023?
Matty <\/strong>\u2013 Hopefully a lot of the same for me personally. We love opening up the phones, having people call in and chat to us.
Maz <\/strong>\u2013 The thing that I love about this show and the feedback that Matt and I are getting, is that we are just a reflection of people\u2019s lives and we are not trying to do anything, we\u2019re just genuinely interested in each other, in each other\u2019s family life, in our extracurricular activities and bringing it all to the safe space of radio and people seem to be really loving that magic. And we just wanna keep doing that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This interview has had to be edited for readability and length. Listen to the full interview here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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