Beyond Podcast

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
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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/
Follow Matt on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mattcookecoach/
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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/

Follow Gavin on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/gavinrofficial
Follow Gavin on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@gavinrofficial
Listen to The Manzilla Men's Podcast: https://rss.acast.com/manzilla
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/
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This week, Matt & Corisande sit down with Kate Harrison, the UK's leading colour therapist and founder of ChroME, whose relationship with colour started long before she spent 20 years as a stylist working with names like Armani, Selfridges and Marks & Spencer, and fronting her own TV show. 
 
 After training in traditional colour analysis, Kate went looking for something deeper, and found an advanced diploma in chroma therapy that changed the direction of her career entirely, leading her to pioneer the concept of the "Soul Shade": the one colour that reflects a person's energy, and the tool she now uses with everyone from private clients to corporate teams. They get into the "grey period" Kate went through when she and her husband lost their business and she stopped opening the curtains, the bright yellow jacket she wore to walk back into a room and relaunch it, and how a yellow vision board helped manifest a booking with the Happy Place festival. 
 
 Kate also shares why she and her husband, a green and a red, balance each other out, the colour work she's done for Chris Evans' CarFest sponsors, and what it really means to trust your instincts enough to "colour outside the lines." 
 
 Matt & Corisande, with Kate Harrison, discuss: 
Growing up with an art teacher for a dad, and the 20 years Kate spent as a stylist working with the likes of Armani, Selfridges and Marks & Spencer
Fronting her own TV show before training in an advanced diploma in chroma therapy that changed the direction of her whole career
What a "Soul Shade" actually is, and how it differs from simply knowing which colours suit your skin tone
The "grey period" Kate went through when she and her husband lost their business, and the bright yellow jacket she wore to relaunch it
Why Kate (a green) and her husband (a red) balance each other out, and how "magnetic pairing" works with complementary colours
Manifesting a booking with the Happy Place festival through a yellow vision board, and the colour coaching Kate's done for corporates including Chris Evans' CarFest sponsors

Chapters
00:00:00 Trailer 
 00:01:32 Intro to Kate Harrison 
 00:03:06 Kate's Path Into Colour: An Art Teacher Dad and 20 Years as a Stylist 
 00:04:37 Working With Armani, Selfridges and Marks & Spencer 
 00:06:18 Fronting Her Own TV Show 
 00:08:12 Finding Chroma Therapy and Retraining 
 00:12:27 Introducing the Soul Shade 
 00:18:33 Colour Coaching for Corporates and Personal Branding 
 00:24:41 Preparing to Take the Stage for Her TEDx Talk 
 00:33:54 Losing Their Business, the Grey Period and the Yellow Jacket Relaunch 
 00:37:37 Join the Beyond Community 
 00:41:16 The Grey Period After Postnatal Depression 
 00:49:06 Magnetic Pairing and Complementary Colours 
 00:53:43 Colour Coaching for Chris Evans' CarFest Sponsors 
 00:58:00 Green and Red: Kate and Her Husband's Soul Shades 
 01:02:48 Barcelona Event 
 01:04:23 Manifesting a Booking With Happy Place Through a Yellow Vision Board 
 01:23:37 What Does "Beyond" Mean to Kate? 
 01:24:25 Where to Find Kate
 

About Kate Harrison
Kate Harrison is the UK's leading colour therapist and the founder of ChroME, a colour therapy and wellbeing brand. After 20 years working as a stylist for names including Armani, Selfridges and Marks & Spencer, and fronting her own TV show, Kate retrained with an advanced diploma in chroma therapy and went on to pioneer the "Soul Shade": a personalised colour prescription built around a person's energy. She now works with private clients and corporate teams on colour, confidence and personal branding, and has spoken on the subject at TEDxWarrington.
 
 Visit ChroME (including the free Colour Selector tool and Soul Shade quiz): https://chro-me.co.uk/

Follow Kate on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/katethecolour/
Follow Kate on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@katethecolour
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/
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Matt & Corisande sit down with Alex Mytton, best known for a decade on Made in Chelsea, to unpack the story behind the version of him most people have never seen. They talk about the chaos and drinking that came with a decade of reality TV, losing his mum to brain cancer in 2019, and the night he smoked DMT and was shown, in his words, "another place" entirely — an experience so far outside anything he understood that it took him years to talk about it publicly. 
They get into the telepathic message that came through during a blindfolded meditation a few weeks later, the ten days of silence he spent at a Vipassana retreat in India with no phone, no talking and, notoriously, no toilet paper, and how an anxious Instagram story asking people to join him on a walk turned into a hiking club, a series of retreats, and Frolik, his sober "conscious party" nights. 

Matt & Corisande, with Alex Mytton, discuss: 
What a decade on Made in Chelsea taught him about fame, chaos and "the currency of drama"
Losing his mum to brain cancer in 2019, and the grief he didn't let himself process until years later
The DMT experience and the later "telepathic" meditation that asked him one repeated question: what can I do?
Ten days of silence, no phone and no talking at a Vipassana retreat in India, and the moment he "got his fists back" against his own thoughts
How one nervous Instagram story turned into a hiking club, then a series of retreats, then Frolik, his sober conscious party nights
Why authenticity, not love, came out fastest in a Faraday cage experiment on human emotion, and what that says about being honest in public

Chapters
00:00:00 Trailer 
00:01:33 Intro to Alex Mytton 
00:02:13 What Alex Does Today 
00:04:51 Life on Made in Chelsea 
00:08:24 Coping When the World Thinks It Knows You 
00:10:58 Was Made in Chelsea Scripted? 
00:13:09 What the Show Left Behind, Good and Bad 
00:14:18 Drifting Through His 20s Without a Plan 
00:15:32 Tracing the Pattern Back to Being Three Years Old 
00:19:38 The Turning Point: Losing His Mum 
00:25:28 The Out-of-Body Experience That Changed Everything 
00:35:16 Join the Beyond Community 
00:36:19 Coming Back Into His Body 
00:38:56 Synchronicities and Seeing the World Like a Child Again 
00:42:00 Falling Back Into Old Patterns 
00:44:22 Quitting Everything and His 'Jesus Year' 
00:48:09 Booking a One-Way Ticket to Vipassana in India 
00:52:07 Inside Ten Days of Silence 
00:57:27 Barcelona Event 
00:59:01 Coming Home and Starting an Illegal Hiking Club 
01:04:15 Building Retreats and Launching Frolik 
01:15:41 What Does 'Beyond' Mean to Alex? 
01:19:43 Where to Find Alex
About Alex Mytton
Alex Mytton spent nearly a decade on Made in Chelsea before stepping away from TV and the music industry after losing his mum to brain cancer in 2019. Since then he has built Alex Mytton Retreats & Wellness, running retreats around the world — including in Wales, Morocco and South Africa — combining breathwork, hiking and nature immersion, alongside Frolik, his sober, music-led "conscious party" nights, and an informal hiking community he started with a single Instagram story. 
Follow Alex on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/alexmytton
Book a retreat with Alex: https://www.alexmytton.co.uk

About Matt & Corisande
Matt is a manifestation coach, speaker and the author of Beyond Wanting: The Art of True Manifestation and has spent years teaching people how to work with the quantum field to manifest their future and create their best life. Corisande is a creative director who perceives the future through meditation, with a level of detail that consistently surprises even Matt.
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: https://www.instagram.com/corisandecooke/
Join the Beyond podcast community on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/beyondpodcast333/
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: ...