Beyond Podcast

Matt & Corisande sit down with Kelly McCloskey, an accredited feng shui functional master and former real estate agent, to unpack why feng shui isn't waving cats and gold coins but a 2,000-year-old mathematical science. Kelly spent 15 years selling Melbourne's most expensive real estate before noticing the same houses kept producing divorce, illness and financial ruin for whoever lived in them — a pattern that eventually led her to quit real estate at 31 and train full-time as a feng shui master.
They get into the real science behind feng shui (compass degrees, not trinkets), why Kelly's own house has a door nailed permanently shut, the client who made over $100,000 after opening one window, and the actual feng shui reading Kelly did on Matt & Corisande's own home.

Matt & Corisande, with Kelly, discuss:
Why feng shui is a mathematical formula based on your home's exact compass direction, not "new age" trinkets or hanging gold coins
The houses Kelly sold that kept producing the same divorces, illness and financial ruin for every owner, and what finally made her connect the dots
Why she quit real estate at 31, studied feng shui full-time for two years, and what her dad said when she told him
The four wealth, power, luck and health sectors every home has, and the simple (and sometimes extreme) ways clients activate or avoid them
Why the same house can support one person and work against another, based on their own birth chart
Rapid-fire answers to real questions from the Beyond Community on doors, decluttering, redecorating and common feng shui myths

Chapters
00:00:00 Trailer 
00:02:00 Intro to Kelly McCloskey 
00:02:28 What Feng Shui Actually Is 
00:03:35 Kelly's 15 Years Selling Melbourne Real Estate 
00:04:56 Leaving Real Estate To Study Feng Shui Full-Time 
00:07:58 How A Sandwich Shop Magazine Changed Everything 
00:09:04 "Has Kelly Joined A Cult?": Her Family's Reaction 
00:11:06 Compass Directions, Floor Plans And Why Feng Shui Is A Science
00:13:06 Why You Can't ChatGPT Your Feng Shui 
00:14:03 Gold Coins, Red Ribbons And "New Age" Feng Shui Myths 
00:15:00 The Four Celestial Animals And The Basics Of Form School 
00:16:00 The 24 Sectors, Animal Years And Forecasting What's Ahead 
00:18:50 Wind, Water And What Actually "Activates" A Sector
00:21:29 The Three Luks: Man, Earth And Heaven Luck Explained 
00:25:39 Layering Birth Charts, House Charts And The Year's Energy 
00:28:05 Kelly's Own Monkey Sector And Her Son's Chronic Cough 
00:30:54 What Anyone Can Do Right Now: Declutter And Get Your Floor Plan
00:32:10 Why The Same House Doesn't Suit Everyone 
00:33:52 The Lung Transplant Client And The Misplaced Bathroom Basin 
00:40:03 Why Feng Shui Is Having A Moment Right Now
00:45:38 Join the Beyond Community 
00:46:39 Kelly's Cash Corner And The Testicular Cancer Story
00:48:12 Wealth, Power, Luck And Health: The Four Sectors Explained 
00:51:45 Can You Layer Manifestation Intent Onto Feng Shui? 
00:56:21 Burial Sites, Common Myths And Modifying Your Chart 
01:00:47 Feng Shui For Restaurants, Shops And Businesses 
01:04:06 Rapid-Fire Community Questions: Doors, Mistakes And Redecorating
01:19:27 Kelly's Own Manifestation Practice 
01:21:04 What Does 'Beyond' Mean To Kelly? 
 01:22:04 Where To Find Kelly

About Kelly McCloskey
Kelly McCloskey is an accredited feng shui functional master with the International Feng Shui Association, based in Melbourne, Australia. After 15 years as a top-performing real estate agent, she left the industry to train full-time in classical feng shui, geomancy and building biology, and now reads homes and businesses worldwide using compass direction, birth charts and the Chinese calendar to identify and activate wealth, power, luck and health sectors.
Find out more about Kelly: https://kellymccloskey.com/
Follow Kelly on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kellymccloskey_fengshui
About Matt & Corisande Cooke
Matt is a manifestation coach, researcher, speaker and the author of Beyond Wanting: The Art of True Manifestation. For years, he has explored the intersection of manifestation, consciousness and the quantum world, helping people understand how to work with their thoughts, emotions and intentions to create their future.
Corisande is a creative director with a deeply intuitive approach to life and business. Through meditation, she often experiences remarkably vivid glimpses of what’s ahead, seeing ideas, spaces and possibilities in extraordinary detail, sometimes long before they become reality.
Together, they bring two different perspectives to Beyond: Matt’s endless curiosity for understanding how the unseen might work, and Corisande’s instinctive ability to feel and see it before it arrives.
Sign up to Matt’s Saturday Manifestation Newsletter: https://www.mattcooke.me/newsletters
Buy the book Beyond Wanting: The Art of True Manifestation here: https://bio.to/beyondwanting
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Matt & Corisande sit down with Flora Crichton, a nutritional therapist specialising in fertility, to unpack why so many unexplained infertility and recurrent miscarriage cases trace back to something almost no one is taught to check: the microbiome. Flora shares her own years-long battle with endometriosis — including the painful periods, hospital visits, and being told to “just take the pill” — and how she went on to resolve her symptoms naturally, which is what led her to train as a nutritional therapist and specialise in fertility in the first place.
They get into the surprising link between oral hygiene and miscarriage, why a couple’s shared microbiome matters as much as either partner’s individually, the real answer to “should I freeze my eggs,” and — for the first time ever on the podcast — Matt & Corisande finally share the six-year-old belief, planted by a stranger at a wedding, that they’re convinced nearly stopped them from conceiving.
Matt & Corisande, with Flora, discuss: 
Flora’s own experience with endometriosis — the symptoms she ignored for years, why it’s so often missed on a scan, and how she brought it into remission naturally rather than going on the pill
What endometriosis actually is, and why it can make the uterus a harder place for a baby to implant, even in women who don’t know they have it
Why the mouth’s microbiome is directly linked to miscarriage, and the simple dental habit most couples trying to conceive are skipping
The real conversation around freezing your eggs: when it makes sense, when it doesn’t, and the women she’s worked with who conceived naturally in their 40s, 50s, and even 60
What Flora’s learned from testing hundreds of couples about the gut, uterine, and seminal microbiomes, and why she tests partners together, not separately
Matt & Corisande’s own six-year journey with a prophecy from a stranger that nearly became a self-fulfilling block to their fertility
Chapters
00:00:00 Intro
00:02:00 Intro to Flora Crichton
00:02:28 What Flora Does: Fertility Nutrition Explained
00:06:08 Flora’s Personal Battle With Endometriosis
00:08:32 What Is Endometriosis And How It Affects Fertility
00:10:38 Spotting, Diagnosing And Reversing Endometriosis Naturally
00:13:34 Studying Nutritional Therapy And Discovering The Microbiome Link
00:16:08 Inside A Fertility Consultation With Flora
00:18:47 The Gut And Reproductive Microbiome Explained
00:19:45 The Surprising Link Between Oral Health And Miscarriage
00:21:09 Feeding The Good Bugs: Diet For Fertility
00:26:37 Why The Body Needs To “Train” For Pregnancy
00:29:25 Biological Clock Myths And The Power To Heal
00:31:25 Matt & Corisande’s Cut-Healing Story
00:32:55 Does Age Really Affect Your Fertility?
00:36:10 Should You Freeze Your Eggs?
00:37:13 Join the Beyond Community
00:41:13 Preparing The Body: Chakras And The Uterus
00:42:05 Flora’s Sister’s Fertility Story
00:46:02 Matt & Corisande’s Untold Pregnancy Story
00:54:01 The Belief That Nearly Stopped Them Conceiving
00:56:34 Sperm Quality, Resistant Partners And The Shared Microbiome
00:59:10 Rebuilding Your Body After Birth
01:02:06 Miscarriage: Causes And What Helps
01:04:12 The Frequency Of Love, Letting Go And When To Consider IVF
01:10:21 What Does ‘Beyond’ Mean To Flora?
01:11:12 Where To Find Flora

About Flora
Flora Crichton is a nutritional therapist specialising in fertility, working with couples facing unexplained infertility, recurrent miscarriage and endometriosis. After resolving her own endometriosis symptoms naturally, she trained in nutritional therapy in Sydney, Australia, and now runs a UK-based practice, Flora Crichton Nutrition, combining comprehensive testing (blood, gut, and reproductive microbiome) with diet, supplements and lifestyle work to help couples optimise their health before and during conception.
Visit Flora’s website: https://www.floracrichtonnutrition.com/
Follow Flora on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/flora_crichton_nutrition/
Connect with Flora on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/flora-crichton-nutrition-b85471a7/
About Matt & Corisande Cooke
Matt is a manifestation coach, researcher, speaker and the author of Beyond Wanting: The Art of True Manifestation. For years, he has explored the intersection of manifestation, consciousness and the quantum world, helping people understand how to work with their thoughts, emotions and intentions to create their future.
Corisande is a creative director with a deeply intuitive approach to life and business. Through meditation, she often experiences remarkably vivid glimpses of what’s ahead, seeing ideas, spaces and possibilities in extraordinary detail, sometimes long before they become reality.
Together, they bring two different perspectives to Beyond: Matt’s endless curiosity for understanding how the unseen might work, and Corisande’s instinctive ability to feel and see it before it arrives.
Sign up to Matt’s Saturday Manifestation Newsletter: https://www.mattcooke.me/newsletters
Buy the book Beyond Wanting: The Art of True Manifestation here: https://bio.to/beyondwanting
Join the Beyond Community: https://the-beyond.mn.co/landing/
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Matt and Corisande sit down with social worker turned somatic coach Tamu Thomas, who nearly collapsed on her way to work before everything changed. 
From the panic attacks she didn't even recognise as panic attacks, to the moment she stood in a slave dungeon in Ghana and felt her ancestors tell her to get up, they unpack how Tamu rebuilt her entire life around flourishing instead of grinding. 
This is her honest account of burnout, ancestral healing and a six-figure book deal she never saw coming, and the simple practice that's replaced work-life balance for good.

Matt & Corisande, with Tamu Thomas, discuss: 
The early warning signs of burnout Tamu ignored for years, from a three-month headache to losing her sense of joy, until her body finally shut her down
Why she believes "achieving is healing", and how taking the action your patterns say you can't teaches your nervous system you're safe
The visceral experience she had in a slave dungeon in Ghana, and the message from her ancestors that changed the course of her life
Her "ancestral board meeting": calling in her grandparents, Grace Jones and Beyoncé for guidance whenever she's struggling
Why there's no such thing as work-life balance, only harmony, and the simple script she uses to communicate that with her daughter and her team
The six-figure Hay House book deal for Women Who Work Too Much, and the "impossible" offer that landed days after her trip to Ghana

Chapters
00:00:00 Intro
00:00:23 Welcome to Tamu Thomas
00:00:48 What Human Flourishing Means
00:01:52 Purpose, Mum Guilt And Achievement Culture
00:06:45 Tamu’s Burnout Story
00:09:33 Growing Up In A Sierra Leonean Household
00:10:02 The Early Warning Signs She Ignored
00:14:07 Why She Stayed 16 Years Before Leaving
00:15:17 Her Daughter And Breaking The Legacy Of Depletion
00:16:50 Role Models: Her Mum And Auntie Aminata
00:19:01 Mum Guilt And The Comparison Trap
00:21:31 What Children Actually Need From Us
00:25:01 Tamu’s Trip To Ghana And Cape Coast Castle
00:29:25 From Trauma To Post-Traumatic Growth
00:32:02 Subconscious Survival Patterns, Even At Seven Figures
00:36:56 Join the Beyond Community
00:37:58 Epigenetics Explained Simply
00:40:27 The Cherry Drops Story: A Lesson In Kindness
00:41:47 Leaving Social Work To Build Her Own Business
00:47:01 Discovering Somatic Coaching And Toxic Productivity
00:49:09 The Ancestral Board Meeting
00:54:55 Harmony Over Balance
01:03:51 The Suez Canal Analogy For Changing Course
01:06:08 Her Book Deal And The Ghana Connection
01:10:31 Where To Find Tamu
01:11:24 What Does ‘Beyond’ Mean To Tamu?

About Tamu Thomas
Tamu Thomas is a former social worker and family court advisor turned somatic coach, speaker and author. After burning out so severely she thought she was dying on her way to work, she retrained in positive psychology and somatic coaching and built Live Three Sixty, helping individuals and corporate teams build their lives and careers around flourishing rather than grinding. Her first book, Women Who Work Too Much: Break Free from Toxic Productivity and Find Your Joy, is published by Hay House. 
Visit Live Three Sixty: https://www.livethreesixty.com/
Follow Tamu on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tamu.thomas/
Buy Women Who Work Too Much: https://shop.hayhouse.com/products/women-who-work-too-much
About Matt & Corisande Cooke
Matt is a manifestation coach, researcher, speaker and the author of Beyond Wanting: The Art of True Manifestation. For years, he has explored the intersection of manifestation, consciousness and the quantum world, helping people understand how to work with their thoughts, emotions and intentions to create their future.
Corisande is a creative director with a deeply intuitive approach to life and business. Through meditation, she often experiences remarkably vivid glimpses of what’s ahead, seeing ideas, spaces and possibilities in extraordinary detail, sometimes long before they become reality.
Together, they bring two different perspectives to Beyond: Matt’s endless curiosity for understanding how the unseen might work, and Corisande’s instinctive ability to feel and see it before it arrives.
Sign up to Matt’s Saturday Manifestation Newsletter: https://www.mattcooke.me/newsletters
Buy the book Beyond Wanting: The Art of True Manifestation here: https://bio.to/beyondwanting
Join the Beyond Community: https://the-beyond.mn.co/landing/
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In this solo episode,  Matt and Corisande share what really happened when they were invited to sit in the front row at Dr Joe Dispenza’s Progressive Retreat in Basel.
From the extraordinary energy of being just inches away from Joe to the moments that challenged them most, they unpack what it’s actually like to experience one of his retreats from the inside. 

This is their honest experience of sitting front row at a Dr Joe Dispenza retreat, and what happened that neither of them expected.

 Matt & Corisande discuss:
Why they went to Joe Dispenza's 8,500-person Progressive Retreat in Basel as research ahead of their own Barcelona event
Corisande's resistance to the work, leaving the retreat early on day one, and the avoidance she had to face to go back
The profound meditation vision Corisande had of reality breaking down into colour, then code, then numbers
The "plug half pushed in" metaphor Matt uses to describe what's shifted in Corisande since starting this work
Why there's no such thing as work-life balance, only harmony, and how they communicate that with their family and team
Dreaming smaller to manifest faster, and why MrBeast is proof that reality always surpasses your wildest expectations

Chapters
00:00:00 Trailer
00:01:50 Intro: A Solo Episode Fresh From Their Joe Dispenza Retreat
00:02:59 How They Ended Up Partnering With the Company That Hosts Joe Dispenza's Events
00:05:55 Going to Basel as Research Ahead of Their Own Barcelona Event
00:07:00 The Energy Joe Dispenza Brings Into a Room
00:07:45 Inside an 8,500-Person Arena in Basel
00:08:11 Corisande's History With Joe's Work Since Her 2019 Awakening
00:09:21 Travelling With Humphrey and the Support That Makes It Possible
00:10:54 Joe's Stamina: Back-to-Back Retreats in His 60s
00:12:47 The Limiting Belief: "How Do I Be All the Things?"
00:14:01 Facing the Avoidance: Leaving the Retreat Early on Day One
00:17:44 The Heraclitus Quote That Landed Differently This Time
00:18:54 Making Space for the Unknown: Joe's Lightbulb Moment on Synchronicity
00:22:15 The Unplugged Socket: What Changed in Corisande
00:25:59 Corisande's Real Experience in the Meditation
00:27:03 Exploring Reality Through Information Theory and Simulation
00:28:40 Corisande's Vision: Reality as Numbers and Code
00:32:15 Join the Beyond Community
00:33:24 When You Get Caught Up in a Programme, You Switch Off the Magic
00:35:04 Facing the Guilt: Choosing the Meditation Over Staying With Humphrey
00:39:42 Consciousness, Choice and Losing Free Will to a Programme
00:42:14 Why There's No Such Thing as Work-Life Balance, Only Harmony
00:48:33 Viewing Houses They Couldn't Afford to Feel Who They Needed to Become
00:54:04 Dream Smaller to Manifest Faster
00:54:30 The MrBeast Example: Manifesting Beyond Your Wildest Dreams
00:57:25 Doing It From Soul: Giving Without Expecting Anything Back
00:59:05 Join the Beyond Community (Outro)

About Matt & Corisande Cooke
Matt is a manifestation coach, researcher, speaker and the author of Beyond Wanting: The Art of True Manifestation. For years, he has explored the intersection of manifestation, consciousness and the quantum world, helping people understand how to work with their thoughts, emotions and intentions to create their future.
Corisande is a creative director with a deeply intuitive approach to life and business. Through meditation, she often experiences remarkably vivid glimpses of what’s ahead, seeing ideas, spaces and possibilities in extraordinary detail, sometimes long before they become reality.
Together, they bring two different perspectives to Beyond: Matt’s endless curiosity for understanding how the unseen might work, and Corisande’s instinctive ability to feel and see it before it arrives.
Sign up to Matt’s Saturday Manifestation Newsletter: https://www.mattcooke.me/newsletters
Buy the book Beyond Wanting: The Art of True Manifestation here: https://bio.to/beyondwanting
Join the Beyond Community: https://the-beyond.mn.co/landing/
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This week’s guest is Gavin Ramjaun, the broadcaster and journalist with 22 years on British TV behind him: from CBBC's Newsround and Sportsround through to BBC Sport, Sky News and ITV's This Morning. 
 
Gavin talks candidly about choosing journalism against his family's wishes for him to go into medicine, and how he broke into a notoriously closed industry by writing around 100 letters a week before landing his first jobs as a runner for Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway and Gordon Ramsay's Hell's Kitchen. They get into the visualisation coaching from broadcast coach Ray Alexander that taught Gavin to mentally rehearse every show before the cameras rolled, and why he now sees that same "clarity of vision" running through every high achiever he's interviewed, from Samuel L. Jackson to Novak Djokovic, as a form of unconscious manifestation. 
 
Gavin also opens up about losing his dad and welcoming his first child within days of each other, what that taught him about purpose, and the ongoing challenge of staying present as a new parent in a world designed to pull your attention away. 

 
Matt & Corisande, with Gavin Ramjaun, discuss: 
Writing around 100 letters a week to break into television, and the "you won't hit the target unless you take a shot" mindset that got him his first jobs as a runner for Ant & Dec and Gordon Ramsay
The visualisation coaching from Ray Alexander that taught Gavin to mentally rehearse every broadcast before the cameras rolled, and why he calls it "unconscious manifestation"
Interviewing A-list names like Samuel L. Jackson, Mariah Carey and Justin Bieber, and what 22 years of live TV has taught him about staying authentic on camera
Going against his family's hopes that he'd go into medicine, and the self-belief it took to choose journalism instead
Losing his dad and welcoming his first child within days of each other, and what that taught him about purpose
Building Manzilla, his men's mental health platform, and the ongoing challenge of staying present as a new parent in an always-on world

Chapters
00:00:00 Trailer 
00:02:01 Where Did Gavin Travel From Today? 
00:05:14 Gavin on His 22-Year Broadcasting Career 
00:09:26 How Gavin Learned to Trust His Intuition and Build Connections 
00:14:01 The Challenges Gavin Faced Breaking Into the Industry 
00:18:17 Where Gavin's Drive Comes From 
00:21:42 Gavin on the Coach Who Taught Him Visualisation 
00:28:25 Gavin on Visualisation in High-Performance Sport 
00:34:16 Why Goals and Vision Matter in the Pursuit of Happiness 
00:40:03 Join the Beyond Community 
00:41:05 Gavin on Going From Behind the Scenes to Prime-Time TV 
00:42:23 Gavin on Resilience, Rejection and Determination 
00:46:40 Making Your Intentions Stand Out Through Authenticity 
00:49:29 Gavin on Handling Powerful Personalities in Interviews 
00:54:38 Gavin on Staying Composed on Live TV 
00:55:14 Barcelona Event 
00:56:47 Gavin on Staying Composed on Live TV (Continued) 
00:59:15 Gavin on His 2026 Projects: Manzilla and Dadzilla
 01:03:15 Finding Your Place in a Changing Media Landscape 
01:05:41 What Gavin Would Tell His Younger Self Today 
01:08:50 Gavin on Navigating the New Media Landscape 
01:11:53 Gavin on Doing What You Love and Finding Balance 
01:14:45 Gavin on Being Present in the Modern World 
01:18:54 What Going Beyond Means to Gavin 
01:19:32 Where You Can Find Gavin 
01:20:22 Gratitude for the Inspiration Gavin Brings
 
 
About Gavin Ramjaun
Gavin Ramjaun is a broadcaster and journalist with over 20 years of experience across the UK's biggest networks, including BBC Sport and BBC News, Sky Sports News and Sky News, ITV's This Morning and Daybreak, and Channel 5. He began his career as a runner on Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway and Gordon Ramsay's Hell's Kitchen before becoming one of BBC's Newsround presenters. He's also the founder of Manzilla, a men's news and entertainment platform tackling men's mental health, status and identity.
 
Visit Gavin's website: https://gavinramjaun.com/

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About Matt & Corisande Cooke
Matt is a manifestation coach, researcher, speaker and the author of Beyond Wanting: The Art of True Manifestation. For years, he has explored the intersection of manifestation, consciousness and the quantum world, helping people understand how to work with their thoughts, emotions and intentions to create their future.
Corisande is a creative director with a deeply intuitive approach to life and business. Through meditation, she often experiences remarkably vivid glimpses of what’s ahead, seeing ideas, spaces and possibilities in extraordinary detail, sometimes long before they become reality.
Together, they bring two different perspectives to Beyond: Matt’s endless curiosity for understanding how the unseen might work, and Corisande’s instinctive ability to feel and see it before it arrives.
Sign up to Matt’s Saturday Manifestation Newsletter: https://www.mattcooke.me/newsletters
Buy the book Beyond Wanting: The Art of True Manifestation here: https://bio.to/beyondwanting
Join the Beyond Community: https://the-beyond.mn.co/landing/
Follow Matt on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mattcookecoach/
Follow Corisande on Instagram: ...