UK vs Canada with Millie Bright and Kadeisha Buchanan
00:00Hello and welcome to We Are Chelsea, the official podcast of Chelsea Women, brought to youin association with Skoda, who are the official car partner of Chelsea women and proud supportersof women's sport. I'm Kaz de Mores and today I'm delighted to bring you the heart of theChelsea defence as I'm joined by Millie Bright and Kedisha Bucannon.Captain Millie Bright is the longest serving player at the club and Kedisha joined the Bluesfrom Leon back in 2022.This is We Are Chelsea with Millie Bright and Kedisha Buchanan.Millie, Kadisha, welcome back to the pod.
00:41How are you both?I'm good, thanks, and you?I'm not too bad.I mean, it's raining, so I'm never happy when it's raining.So that means you're never happy?Exactly.You do know we're in England, don't you?I know, I know.
00:54But I just feel like, you know when you get glimpses of sunshine and you're like,oh my god maybe maybe we're going to get an indian summer and then you get rain and then lower yourexpectations i'm wearing a bright jumper have you just come from training yes yeah are you fedand watered yes so just a bit tired but fed and watered and happy yeah we're good yeah we're all goodchilling very good well i want to start off by asking you katisha a little bit about millybecause we've had few others on the pod and they all said milly very nice things they said thatyou really made them feel welcome.You took them under their wing.
01:30You looked at a bit, you were like, what did they say?Yeah, because it depends the time of day they caught me.No, I'm kidding.You were like, oh no, I'm worried.What have they said?No, they said you made them feel welcome.And you said that, yeah, you really hosted them in a nice way.So I want to know, did Millie do that for you?
01:46What was Millie like when you first met her?No, she didn't do that for me.I don't remember that.The best, but I think based on personality,I think you're very welcoming, very nice, very talkative.If you get the conversations going, I'm more probably quite shy,so she probably had to force it out of me,but I think it was natural and, yeah, I felt very welcome by Millie.
02:16And what are the tips that you give people to survive London lifewhen they first arrive from a different city or a different country?Well, I'm a northerner, so I'm used to people.stopping in the streets, having a conversation,getting to know strangers, how's the day,you know, I know right, stuff like that.So when I came down, it's just so fast-paced.So my advice is get from A to B
02:38and don't expect any stoppages in between that.Just get there.But yeah, it's just fast-paced,but I think, obviously, we're in Surrey,so it's a little bit quieter than the city.But a lot of our girls do like the city lifeand exploring and it's completely different.But, yeah, I'm more of a farms and fields kind of guys.
02:57So.But, Kadisha, you've come from Toronto.So for you, it's city life, city life.Yeah, but nothing compares to like London City.I think it's massive city.It's like overwhelming sometimes.Yeah?Yeah.
03:11Do you live near the city or do you live more further out here?Yeah, I live more further out.Okay.So it's quite quiet.You like the quiet life.Yeah.You like the quiet life.I spoke to the girls and asked them who would, who was most like, we did a game and it was like,
03:23who was most likely to do what?And they said that Kadisha was most likely to walk down the.catwalk.Yeah, agree with her.Because she's very fashionable.Yeah, I wouldn't, like, for me,I wouldn't want to be the walkingand all the flashing lights,
03:38but I would say I'll be more like stylists,maybe put on the fit and make melly walk.Okay.Because we want,Keisha take the lime light.She deserves the limelight.So we're like, go, go, go.Yeah.
03:50But I wouldn't, I wouldn't mind.If someone just says,I dare you to, I'm like,okay, I'll go.What is it about fashion?What is it about fashion?What is.it about clothes because yeah they all seem to say that you're the fashionable one i don't know i think
04:04both of my parents are fashionistas like are they yeah my mom used to wear like red hair to mygames red canada nail polish red flags like she'll put a red flag in her hair and she shave itlike i think she's very like outside the box with her style and my dad as well um he loves jewelry gold soI think I get it from both parents.It's a way of, I guess, expressing themselves and an outlet.Yeah, exactly.So you've taken that on.Yeah.
04:37I think we all wore the same things as well.So when you have the time to dress up, you want to show yourself and express yourself.So can we maybe see you shaving your head with the Canada flag?No.I did that back in 2015 World Cup and now I'm growing up my locks.Yeah.Well, they look great.Thank you.
04:58Millie, what about, I guess what about you in terms of TikTok?Because they said that you were the most likely to be TikTok famous.So I want to know when you started on TikTok, are you addicted?Be honest.Oh, I'm absolutely addicted to TikTok.I just, I get caught in a scroll.I get caught.And it was funny, actually, because the other day we were talking and, you know,
05:21there's so many conspiracies and this and that.And then we all get talking like, oh, my God, did you see that?And it's just you get hooked.But I like making funny TikToks as well.Normally it's things that are absolutely irrelevant to meand then the fans catch on and they're like,oh my God,like something's happened.
05:36I'm like,no,it's literally just TikTok.Like everyone's so serious.Like it's just,TikTok started in,God,it was before COVID.
05:45So it was just a place for everyone to connectand to get through a really rough time in the world.And I feel like now if you post something,it's like,oh,it's like,guys,it's just a song.
05:55Like,it doesn't mean absolutely anything.what is your feed like because the algorithm works to what you like so do you have a lot more danceson your feed or do you have animals or do you have conspiracy like what is your feed usually it'scleaning get so many cleaning tips off there cleaning tips yeah are you like cleaning do youit's your house very clean so many yeah i mean i've got three dogs so it has to bewell i would have said if i had three dogs it would be the opposite yeah three dogs is a lotOh, it has to be...
06:23Actually, it's the short-haired French.He sheds a lot, but my two sausage dogs, they're long-haired,and they don't shed as much as him.Oh.And I would hate for anyone to come to house and be like, oh, it smells like dogs.Like, no, it's fresh.Okay, because that is what I was imagining.Yeah, no, no, no, no.
06:43Do you have a look at her TikTok and go, what you do?Have you got TikTok, Disha?I do, but I'm not on it as much.Okay, so you're not a poster.you just watch.Don't really watch either.It's just there.Cadish is so cool, isn't she?
06:57She is.She's so cool.When my nieces come, then we'll make TikToks and that's it.I'll do it for the younger ones.Yeah, it's fun.I do like to dance.So they just have to get me going and then it'll be fun.Okay.
07:12Good tip.Okay.She's a dancer.We just got to get her going on.Yeah.They'll feature soon.She'll feature soon.Be patient.
07:18Be patient.Are you the first on the dance for?Like when you guys won the title, were you the first on the dance floor?I think I'm the first on the dance floor, for sure.Okay.Who's joining you on there?Trying to join.Yeah, who's trying?
07:31Erin.Yeah, I'll say Erin.Erin.Neve.Yeah.Yeah, has Neve got some moves?Confidence is up there.Confidence is there.
07:41It's all that matters.She's getting better.I've been teaching her.Okay.Yeah.What about Millie?Has Millie got good moves?Turns out when drinks a month.
07:48Yeah.Millie's just around talking to everybodyI'm just keeping the group togetherlike making everyone's actually dancingNo stand by us don't stand on the edgeGet involvedCan we see a TikTok of the two of youYeah absolutely
08:02I won't be dancing thoughMaybe you can teach me some dance movesAnd that can be the TikTokYeah maybe we could do oneBut you could find it and thenYeahIt'll be beginners level thoughJust bear that in mind
08:13We're going to play a little gameAnd it's UK versus CanadaWhich is betterAnd you have to both be honestWho's betterAvril Levine or Harry StilesAvrilAvril Avra Levine
08:26Oh that's itI didn't think you were both going to say thatYou said honest answersYeah I love itOkay whyWe loving skater boysYeah that was me as a kidWas it?
08:36YeahOh I love thatOr AvrilYeah I justI don't think I really listen to Harry StylesNoWhat about Celine Dionversus Adele?
08:47SalisInteresting.Because...I like Adele.Interesting.Yeah.Yeah.Because I've got good memories from when Rach sings the songs.
09:00Okay.So it's like for me that's...They're both incredible, but I've just got good memories of like friends,like Rachel's my best friend singing songs.And she literally thinks she's Celine, so.Okay.Happy memories.Happy memories.
09:14Okay.And why Adele for you?I mean, I love Adele.voice. It's beautiful.But Celine, she's stillgoing. Like, she'sincredible, great performer, butyeah, it's the vocals for me.
09:28Okay.Niagara Falls versusLake District.Well, I've never been to Lake District.I don't know what... It's so nice.You should go. Did you just saythe Lake District is better than Niagara Falls?Yes. One of the wonders of the world.
09:44Yeah, I've been. What do you think?I mean, I've never...I've also been to Lake District and it's more accessible.I can get there any time.I can go when I want.And it's home.Niagara Poss.I mean, I feel, I've not been to either.
09:59And you're right, the Lake District is more accessible.I feel like the Niagara Falls.It's one of the wonders of the world.Yeah, it is special, but you told me to be honest.I'm being honest.I'm going to have to visit.That you're trying to persuade me.Once is the best time to visit the Lake District.
10:11Summer's beautiful because I feel like you can see everything,but the winter for me, those walks just hit different.okay so if you like it a little bit the winter season it's nice and cold nice and coldnice and cold nice and cold is not good together yeah well I'm none so maybe we're in the summeryeah yeah uh Tim Hortons versus Pratt Tim Hortons oh Tim Hortons by far sorry I've been to a Tim Hortonsnot bothered not bothered not really bothered on there is one in Lester but it doesn'thit as the one in Canadaokay what do they serve
10:51tell us for those you don't knowthere's coffeetimbitstimbits is like mini donutsthat does sound a bitthat's yeah I don't reallydon't want to offend anyonedon't really rape Pratt
11:04I thought Pratt was French to be honestI didn't realize it was Englishit was English it sounds Frenchit sounds French rightpretamoggiyeah are you are you Frenchare you Frenchno
11:16And the last one, maple syrup versus honey.Oh, maple syrup.Maple syrup.Yeah.Well, why is that Canada, UK?Like, do you guys make your own honey here?No, we're just trying to, listen, we're clutching at the nearest thing that we've got to maple syrup that we have in England.If you're doing, like, English, you should have said, like, Henderson's or something, like, not with maple syrup, but something proper English.
11:43Or you should have done, like, fishing chips or something, like, compared.and maple syrup.No.Fish and chips or like poutine.Something like, okay, fish and chips andlike English, like, do you know what I mean?Fish and chips.Do you know what a poutine is?
11:56No.Oh, it's very good to be fair.I've had one.It's like chips.It's like gravy.Yeah, gravy, cheese.Oh, people have that at the, uh, chippy there.And then you can put baking and you can put like a lot of like ground beef stuff in the
12:14stuff in the stuff.She was like, no, you have this.She's like, yeah, I can get that at the chippy.No, she said chips, cheese and gravy.I said that's what people would have at the chippy.What's a chippy?Fishing chips, like, sausage, battered sausage, fish cakes, chips, chips, chips.Chip, boy.
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13:15don't just take my word for it though search the scoda range today to jump in and see for yourselflet's talk a little bit about family because i know family is so important to both of youhow much support have you had from your family growing up and i guess now that you're herei think they're the reason that i am here i speak so highly of my family but um i think we've allhad especially probably our generation we've had a different experience maybe in ourcareers and have footballing careers in terms of if I feel like your parents have to make so muchsacrifice for you to be able to make those training sessions when it's part time and you're semi-prowhilst working and you know many other factors and to this day I'm 31 and my mum and my
14:00mum and my dad's still come to every single game and I remind him that you can have a day off likeyou can't have a weekend to yourself and just breathe and relax and they're like no no nothey're down with the shirts on the Chelsea shirts or even England shirts but yeah I mean I haveI've always said to my mum and dad,I owe every single trophy to you guysfor putting me in a position where I can live the dreamthat I've always wanted to.And how many sisters have you got?
14:24Two older ones.You've got two older ones.Now you've got little bobbas in Chelsea shirts as wellcoming to support you, haven't you?Yeah, little rascals, loud and proud, I always say to him,but yeah, they absolutely love it.And I think they love the girls just as much as the football, to be honest.But yeah, big family.
14:41And what about you, Kadeja?Because you've got six sisters, so big family as well.Yeah. How much have you felt the support from your family?Yeah, I'm massive. I think growing up, I had two older sisters playing soccer as well, so it's quite competitive.It took a lot of the community as well to get me to trainings and stuff like that to game.So it takes a village to raise a family. That's what I always say.It did take many people to get me where I am today.But yeah, I think my two sisters pushed me to my limits at time, a lot of times.
15:13but I think they made me who I am today.Yeah, I was going to say that's amazing that you had older sisters playing footballbecause I feel like that's what really helps.You always want your kid to play with the older ones, don't you?Because they push them and they help them.I also have five brothers and the oldest one played as well.So it come from quite a soccer family.So it was quite competitive and fun.
15:37I did cry to my mom at time saying they're cheating.They're pushing me over and she just said, get on with it.I said, okay.Love just brush it off.You said it takes a fillet and I have just had my second child.It's hard.I want both of my daughters to be playing for Chelsea Women's basically.And then how do I not be the pushy mum because I want her to love it?
15:57Because your parents weren't pushy, were they?No.How do you get that balance?Would you have liked them to have been a bit more pushy?No.Every decision I made was my decision and that's one of the biggest things that I look back on.I feel proud of and that's not to say that my mum and dad didn't expect.expect me to, you know, whatever I'm taking part in, I have to be committed.
16:17Okay.So on the flip side, as me and my sisters, horses were our thing as kids.If we were at a horse, we were getting up before school.You go do your chores.You come back, get ready for school.You'd go to school.You'd come back.You'd then go and ride and practice for the show at the weekend before my football match.
16:33So it weren't about being necessarily, like, forcing us to do anything.But there was, you know, there were boundaries and rules.Like, if you want that alongside your football, then you have to.you have to do your chores you know i had to be on time i had to respect my teammates i had tobe a good person when i was there train my hardest not sulk after losing like and that's gotto be hard i feel like everyone i've spoken to in the chelsea team they just like winning and theyyeah we hate losing but i think you for me i that's something i grew into when you know i'mlittle i just wanted to have four and i wanted to enjoy myself yeah nobody liked losing but i
17:10weren't going home like an angry child.I think it's when you start.Now I'm an angry child.Everyone just knows like, okay, leave Millie B.My dad's the only one that will probably be like, you're okay.Because I won't really snap at him.And then everyone else is like, Levi just steps aside.I'm like, yeah, good choice.
17:26I love that.Kadeja, what was it like for you?Yeah, I think at first my mom didn't really know the game.So she was just encouraging and just wanting me to.be the bestversion of myselfand for my dadit's where I took
17:45soccer after himhe was a footballeraround like the communityI'm not professionallybut he played a loton the weekendso he was kind of likemy coach
17:55but he shouldn'the shouldn't have been my coachbecause you're not allowedto coach from the sidelineas a parentbut he didn't understandthose ruleshe's just like being
18:04a Jamaican that he ishe was just kind of likeshouting at meand telling me what to dobutI think and like he didn't have to because I knew what was expected of me and like my decisionmaking and they all got better. But he did help me and he was very he would like run up and downthe sideline. That's how I imagine I'm going to be. Did you like it? Was it okay? No. Oh,
18:29you didn't like it? It's very embarrassing. No, I did not like it at all. Did you do that with yoursisters as well? Yeah, my sisters as well. And did they like it? No, no one. And my mom. And my momwas on the other end of the pitchand he was on the other end of pitchbecause she couldn't.It's quite like embarrassing to be honest.He's the only one that was like shouting.He was making good points,
18:53but it's like you can't coach from the sideline, sir.Yeah.Okay.So maybe I should rethink my position in these.Some places have fines now as well.I remember when I was at Sheffernard Academy,if parents shouted on you could get a fine.Wow.
19:10Because I know some of the parents did that in the age route when I was in itand a couple of the parents that always got fines because they couldn't help.And they probably weren't shouting on good things.It was more just, and it was like a rule of the academy.I like to be respectful and allow the coaches to coach.So yeah, some places do have fines.I might have to sit in the car then.Maybe we can have a coffee or something.
19:34Yeah, just shout from the car.Where no one can hear me.Maybe I'll do that.do your family come out to watch any games because they're so far away yeah definitely wheni played back in toronto um i get like 70 tickets or so hundred sometimes you'd get a hundredtickets yeah yeah yeah yeah so but here are not so much obviously because it's far and theyhave family and work so it's quite difficult but yeah when i'm back home in canada on home soilthe whole family comes out wow that must have been such a big change to have a hundred people
20:14come and watch you and then be here and run a regular basis you haven't got your family was thatquite hard um i think i'm used to it um yeah yeah i'm used to it i've been away from sincecollege so then leon and then now chelsea so but it's always a good home warm welcome yeah yeah ummilly i want to talk to you about young minds because you've done some work there how do you thinkit's helped your role, I guess, as team captain in understanding people and what they're goingthrough, especially your teammates? I think I've always been quite aware of other people.I think because of the nature of who I am as a person, I would always look to help someone elsebefore myself. And I find if I know people are struggling, I'm not helping them, it actually
21:03gives me anxiety. Like, my family is my biggest trigger. So if they're going through stuff,that will make me anxious and then I'll be worried and stressed.And so I feel like that's probably just how I am around others.And if I feel like I always want to fix things and make things,I like things to be happy and smooth and just for everyone to get along.So I feel like that's always been within me from a young age.Probably just never knew how to express my feelings and my emotions.And I said in my young minds interview that I've always seen myself as like the glue in my family.
21:37trying to keep everything together and I've tried to be a little bit more open aboutthese sorts of feelings and the way I think and, you know, how it affects mebecause ultimately I'm trying to help everyone else, but your mental health is just as importantas your physical health and actually flip it and it can be your superpower, not a downfallif you take care of it and it's something that it does need taking care of.And it's just about learning about yourself, being aware, but ultimately helping someoneelse get through a tough time as well.What do you do for your mental health
22:09to be away from football and let go of the pressures?Animals are my biggest thing.Yeah, obviously back home we've got the horsesso when I get a couple days off,which is probably rare these days.But when I do, I try and go back to Sheffieldand just spend time up there with my mum and dad and my nephewsand that's my childhood.
22:29Just freedom, just complete freedom.And obviously down here, it's coffee, spending time with Levi.the dogs and yeah in moments i've always said that i write a journal um not all the time but when i feellike i need to just get things down on a piece of paper good or bad how i'm feeling and then reflectswhen i feel like i need to do that oh nice what about you cadisha because it's how you're not soclose to home yeah i think i am used to it but it does get sad sometimes when the family'sgrowing and there's new young ones and you want to meet them. But I think for me, if stuffgets overwhelming from my family, I just tend to just remove myself from the group and just
23:18take time for myself and I love to sleep. And I think I therapy clean and therapy shop. Sothose are my outlets. I just want to ask, what do you think are the biggest differences betweenthe two of you as players and do you think those differences help the team oh i definitely thinkwe compliment one another 100% and in what way i mean i can leave me really in the box by herselfand she would destroy everybody and i can leave you in a one v one and i can just jog back and you'll beyeah no there is just deal of it yeah no i do think we compliment one another i think both on and off theball um but i think on the pitch we're yeah i mean i want us to be that monster centerparent center back pairing that no one wants to face and both very aggressive i think we love
24:13winning our jewels um yeah what i like when i play with you is just like the communicationit's like on point to the tea and we communicate like throughout the game whether it's justsmaller conversations or just left, right, tactical stuff, I feel like we're very in tune towhat we need to do to get the job then and we just kind of work at it.And are you both loud on the pitch to one another?Sometimes we don't always need to be loud.Like we'll just have our own little conversation, whether it's a break in play or, I mean,I'm definitely a loud one.
24:54I feel like at the back we kind of have to be.we have to be organising the rest of the teamand I can't be any other way thoughI don't doubt that I do not doubt thatI think a lot of the times when I think mostcommunicate it's like between units so I thinkmy communication stops like at a midfieldor the goalkeeper where I feel like Millie's voice
25:18can carry to like the strikersor like she can yeahyou guys always seem so like everyonethat I've spoken toyou seem to get on so wellalmost like a familydo you think you bicker like family as wellI mean it just happens
25:35everyone is competitiveand then you just leave it thoughwhen you leave the matchor you leave trainingyeah that's the ruleyou step off the trainingI think we've always hada really good environment at Chelsea
25:45and I've been here 10 yearsand there's a reason for thatand there's a reason players stay for so longit's because we yeahyou play for your teammatesas much as you play for anythingelse. My last question. How would you describe each other in three words? I'll go stylish,calm, yes, and committed. Me for Millie will be honest. Um, a beast. Not just physical,
26:23but like the way she smashes the ball left foot right footsomething I've never ever seen in the woman's gameit's and it's on a dime like every time she smash the balllike my heart just like warms inside I'm just like wowlike I wish I could do that um um and my last onewill be I think just like friendly I feel likeyou know those like teddy beers like yeah i'm red yeah i always say this giant like obviouslylike with canada and playing up against england like you really don't want to get in milly's way
27:05and stuff but i feel like after like knowing her and playing she's like oh like she's actually likenice but on the field she just seems like mean and just like ready to like tear your head upand then like me hurry her you're just like oh okay good uh listen thank you soso much for coming on.I really appreciate it. Thanks for having us.Thank you for listening to We Are Chelsea, the official podcast of Chelsea women,brought to you in association with Skoda, the official car partner of Chelsea women,and they are proud supporters of women's sport. Remember to subscribe, give us a review,
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