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Beyond This.....

Medium Matilda

Beyond This... is the podcast that explores what happens when evidence meets intuition.

Hosted by internationally recognised evidential psychic medium Matilda, each episode dives into the mysteries of consciousness, life after death, intuition, human behaviour and the moments that challenge everything we think we know. With honesty, humour and an unwavering commitment to critical thinking, Matilda explores the extraordinary without asking you to leave your common sense at the door.

Featuring conversations with world-renowned guests, powerful personal stories, practical intuitive development and thought-provoking discussions on current events, spirituality and the unseen world, Beyond This... is for the curious, the sceptical with manners, the believers and everyone in between.

Whether you're searching for comfort after loss, wanting to strengthen your own intuition, or simply fascinated by the bigger questions of life, this podcast invites you to explore them with openness, discernment and courage.

Because sometimes the greatest discoveries begin just... Beyond This...

About Matilda

Matilda is an internationally recognised evidential psychic medium, teacher, speaker and podcast host whose work has helped hundreds of thousands of people reconnect with their intuition, navigate grief and discover that they already possess far more inner wisdom than they realise.

For more than two decades, Matilda has dedicated her life to demonstrating that the connection between this life and the next can be explored with integrity, evidence and compassion. Her demonstrations and teachings have attracted audiences around the world, while her podcast, Beyond This..., reaches listeners across dozens of countries through conversations that challenge, inspire and empower.

Known for her practical, down-to-earth approach, Matilda encourages people not to place anyone on a pedestal—including herself. Instead, she teaches discernment, critical thinking and self-trust, helping people recognise the intuitive guidance that has always been within them.

Whether delivering evidential mediumship, making global predictions, mentoring developing mediums or speaking on intuition and consciousness, Matilda's mission remains the same: to empower people to trust themselves, find meaning in life's most profound moments and discover that love, connection and wisdom extend far beyond what we can see.

Her work is built on one simple belief:

You don't need to become intuitive. You simply need to remember what you've always known.

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Tuesday · 30 min
Awakening Isn't Enlightenment — It's Grief for Who You Used to Be
Send us Fan Mail Spiritual awakening isn't about becoming more spiritual — it's about finding out who you are underneath everyone you had to be to survive. In this solo episode, Matilda unpacks why "awakening" so often feels like grief rather than light: the sunk-cost grip of identities we've spent years building, the pain of deconstructing roles that once kept us safe, and why none of this requires religion, belief, or a spiritual label to be real. Whether you're mid-unravelling right now or just starting to notice the cracks, this episode ends with a guided meditation — You Are Safe While You're Becoming — to remind your body you're not falling apart. You're just becoming. As always Matilda offers new predictions for the coming months towards the end of the episode Matilda's Website Spilling the Tea with Laurie Rivers LICENCE FOR MUSIC ON YOUTUBE ESXZO0FGVBYLMWFT Support the show
September 9 · 1 hr 2 min
John Edward Revisited | New Predictions, Mediumship & Self-Limiting Beliefs
Send us Fan Mail Due to being out of town due to a funeral Matilda is uploading an old episode with new predictions and a meditation. This week on Beyond This…, we’re revisiting one of my favourite conversations from 2025 — my original interview with internationally renowned psychic medium John Edward. With John returning to Australia for his October–December 2026 tour, it felt like the perfect time to bring this conversation back. John and I talk openly about mediumship, the spirit world, what happens when we connect, and the realities of doing this work professionally. As two working mediums, it’s an honest, fascinating and at times very funny conversation about a world we both know incredibly well. But this week's episode isn't simply a replay. I've recorded a brand-new introduction with some new predictions — sharing a little of what I've been seeing and feeling around current events and what may be coming next. I've also included a guided meditation focused on self-limiting beliefs. So many of the limitations we place on ourselves don't come from what we're actually capable of. They come from the stories we've collected about who we are, what we're allowed to have, what we're good at and what is — or isn't — possible for us. This meditation gives you an opportunity to become quiet, identify some of those beliefs and begin loosening your attachment to the ones that may be keeping you stuck. So whether you heard my original conversation with John Edward in 2025 or you're discovering it for the first time, there is something new for you in this week's episode. In this episode: • New predictions from Matilda • A guided meditation for identifying and releasing self-limiting beliefs • My original 2025 conversation with John Edward • Mediumship, the spirit world and life as a professional medium • Why developing trust and discernment matters • And plenty of conversation between two mediums who have a LOT to say John Edward returns to Australia from October through December 2026. And I'll be back next week with a brand-new episode of Beyond This… As always, thank you for listening — and a huge thank you to my Patreon community, who proudly sponsor Beyond This… and make the podcast possible. Matilda's Website Spilling the Tea with Laurie Rivers John Edwards Tour dates EVOLVE TV PLUS YOU TUBE LICENCE CODE DOSVCLBWPPM5H4X6 Support the show
September 1 · 1 hr 17 min
What It Really Means to Be a Medium — Allison DuBois
Send us Fan Mail This week, Matilda steps away from the usual format for something rawer and more personal. In the middle of a genuinely hard week — watching someone she loves near the end of their life, and her own dog struggling to recover after a procedure — she opens up about a question she's asked constantly: does this work ever make grief easier to carry, even for the medium? Matilda unpacks the myth of the "unshakeable" medium, and why proximity to death and spirit doesn't inoculate anyone against fear or exhaustion — it often does the opposite. She talks candidly about anticipatory grief: the mourning that starts long before a death actually happens, why almost nobody prepares you for it, and how animals in a household often carry that same heaviness in their bodies without a word being said. Midway through, Matilda is joined by fellow medium Allison DuBois for a conversation about the personal cost of this work — how she recovers after emotionally heavy sessions, and what she wishes more people understood about what it takes to hold space for others while carrying your own grief. A more honest, unfiltered episode about what it looks like to keep showing up when you're running on empty. Contacts Matilda's Website Matildas Live Events including in person and Psychic Circle Matilda's Patreon Join her Cold Case Coven Here Allison Dubois Contacts Allisons Website Allisons Vodka Licence for YOUTUBE. PUL37YUZMUWWCCUL Support the show
August 25 · 34 min
Under the House: Eclipsing Your Self-Limiting Beliefs
Send us Fan Mail Under the House: Eclipsing Your Self-Limiting Beliefs Have you ever wondered why some dreams always seem just out of reach — no matter how many times you visualise them or write them down? In this episode, I'm digging into the quiet, often invisible stories that shape everything we believe we're capable of and worthy of. We'll unpack where self-limiting beliefs actually come from (often inadvertently, from the people who love us most), why fear of failure keeps so many of us stuck in a loop of never trying, and how these old beliefs quietly sabotage our ability to manifest the life we say we want. I'll share the analogy I come back to again and again — self-limiting beliefs as the foundations of a house — and walk through exactly how to notice, question, and rebuild that foundation from the ground up. This episode also lands right alongside a partial lunar eclipse and full moon in Pisces on August 28th — a combination known for surfacing exactly the kind of buried emotional patterns and old beliefs we're talking about. I'll share what this eclipse window means for you and why it's the perfect moment to release what's no longer serving you. I'll also get personal, sharing my own experience living with a chronic pain disorder and being blind in one eye, and how I've learned that our limits don't have to be the only thing writing our story. This episode closes with a guided meditation designed to help you release an old belief and start reinforcing a new, bigger foundation — so come back to it when you can sit quietly and really listen. If you've ever felt like something invisible was capping what you're allowed to have, to try, or to become — this one's for you. MUSIC LICENCE 3RGHSPAATSAV1TIJ JOIN PATREON MATILDA'S WEBSITE Support the show
August 18 · 40 min
Purgatory, Anger & the Truth About Mediumship
Send us Fan Mail Episode Description (long — for podcast platforms) In this episode, I'm taking apart some of the biggest myths about the spirit world and mediumship — the ones that quietly create fear and keep people stuck in their grief. We cover: The myth of purgatory and being "stuck" after death How religious conditioning shapes what we expect from the afterlife Why your loved ones are never angry or disappointed with you The truth about suicide and the afterlife (handled gently — see content note below) Whether mediums research their clients beforehand Why a big following or long waitlist doesn't prove someone is (or isn't) legitimate And then — because you don't need a medium to feel close to someone you've lost — I walk you through a guided meditation you can return to any time, using a simple, repeatable practice to sit with your person again. The Chair the popular exercise Matilda performs at her live events is the meditation today - to help you connect with your loved ones who have passed New Website Live and Zoom Events Patreon Support the show
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August 11 · 38 min
The Love You Are Not Ready To Receive
Send us Fan Mail We've been sold a myth: that healing is something someone else delivers to us, and that romantic love is the cure for whatever's broken inside. In this episode, Matilda breaks down why that belief quietly destroys good relationships — and what it actually looks like when an unhealed person is loved: interrogating love instead of receiving it, testing before trusting, mistaking chaos for chemistry, performing instead of showing up, leaving before you can be left. Drawing on patterns that show up again and again in readings — and messages from spirit about the regret people carry over guardedness, not over loving too much — this episode reframes healing not as a prerequisite for love, but as a practice you carry inside it. The episode closes with a guided meditation designed to help you sit with what it feels like to actually let love in. Time Stamps 0:00 | Welcome 1:30 | The myth we've been sold 7:00 | What unhealed love actually looks like 15:00 | The spirit perspective — what comes through in readings 21:00 | The reframe — healing as practice, not prerequisite 22:-- Predictions 25:30 | Guided meditation: Receiving Love 33:00 Close YOU TUBE LICENCE ZF3YAIVN2N3DERAV Matilda's Links Live Show in Bendigo Matilda's Website Patreon Support the show
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August 5 · 30 min
The Ones You Didn't Want to Hear From
Send us Fan Mail The people we least expect to hear from are often the ones with the most to say. In this episode, Matilda explores why difficult and estranged relationships still come through in readings — the parent who caused harm, the friend you fell out with, the family member you'd rather not think about. Why do they show up? What do they actually want to say? And what does it mean when spirit brings forward someone you didn't ask for and maybe didn't want? This isn't about forced forgiveness or tidy endings. It's about understanding why these connections don't just disappear — in this life or the next — and what spirit seems to want us to know about the relationships we'd rather leave behind. As always Matilda includes new predictions and an oversight on predictions that happened last week - some of them almost immediately. This episode ends with a deep meditation. Live Event Bendigo Matilda's Mediumship Mentorship Program Zoom Mediumship Demonstration Matilda's Website Social Media Links Patreon Support the show Support the show
July 28 · 37 min
The Soul Already Has Everything it Needs
Send us Fan Mail We're taught to see our soul as something incomplete — a project to fix, heal, and perfect. But what if the soul arrives whole, and everything that triggers us here on Earth isn't proof something's wrong, but an invitation to learn? In this episode, Matilda unpacks why "I'm triggered" so often becomes "I'm retreating," and offers a different way through: treating every hard moment as an opportunity instead of a threat. Includes a short guided meditation to help you meet your next trigger differently. The soul arrives whole — you're not broken and becoming, you're whole and remembering. Earth isn't the punishment, it's the classroom — friction is the curriculum, not a glitch. "Triggered" implies something happened to you. "Opportunity" implies something is available to you. Same moment, different posture. Every trigger is a teacher in disguise, pointing at something worth looking at. Retreating doesn't remove the lesson — it postpones it, and it comes back louder. Flow isn't the absence of friction. It's movement through it, not around it. The key question to ask in a triggered moment: "What is this actually offering me?" Live Event Bendigo Matilda's Mediumship Mentorship Program Zoom Mediumship Demonstration Matilda's Website Social Media Links Patreon Support the show Support the show
July 21 · 45 min
The Lie We Tell Ourselves to Feel Safe - Confirmation Bias Certainty and the search for signs
Send us Fan Mail Why do we trust the signs that confirm what we already believe — and ignore the ones that don't? In this episode, Matilda takes a hard look at confirmation bias — the mental shortcut that shapes everything from the readings we trust, to the news we consume, to who we vote for, to how we read our own relationships. Drawing on her background in behavioural economics, she unpacks the psychology behind the Barnum effect, cold reading, and why so much of what passes for "evidence" in the psychic and spiritual world is really just the sitter's own mind doing the work. From there, the conversation moves into how the same bias plays out in politics and media — why facts alone rarely change a belief tied to identity — and into the quieter, more personal ways it shows up in our everyday lives and relationships. But underneath all of it sits a bigger question: why do we reach for certainty in the first place? Matilda explores the psychology of our discomfort with not-knowing, and why a false certainty can feel safer than an honest question. The episode closes with a guided meditation on sitting with the unresolved — a practice in tolerating uncertainty without rushing to fill it. A more reflective, personal episode — and an honest one, including a candid look at Matilda's own field. Live Event Bendigo Are You Listening Workshop - connect with your guides Zoom Mediumship Demonstration Matilda's Website Social Media Links Patreon Support the show Support the show
July 14 · 44 min
The Identity you Built to Survive
Send us Fan Mail The self you built to stay safe was never a lie — but it has an expiry date, and its collapse isn't a breakdown. It's an invitation. Episode summary Most people who come to Matilda for a reading aren't lost — they're still performing a version of themselves built decades ago to survive. In this extended episode, Matilda unpacks where the "survival self" comes from, why it quietly costs us access to our own intuition, and why spiritual "awakening" almost always looks like loss before it looks like light. Expect a reframe of what awakening actually is, a practical discernment tool for collapse, three journal prompts to start locating who you were before the performance began — and, new for this episode, a short guided meditation to help you meet that self directly. Key takeaways The identity you built as a child to earn love and safety was adaptive, not a flaw — but it wasn't built to last forever Chronic self-abandonment often disguises itself as reliability and strength Burnout is very often self-abandonment wearing the costume of loyalty Real awakening tends to look like loss first, not clarity — the ego mistakes deconstruction for catastrophe A two-question discernment tool for telling genuine loss apart from the death of a performed identity Three journal prompts to begin locating the self underneath the survival strategy A guided meditation practice to meet that self directly, not just intellectually understand it Timestamps 00:00 — Cold open: the client who was tired of performing 04:30 — Segment 1: Why we build the survival self 16:00 — Segment 2: The cost nobody names 27:30 — Segment 3: Reframing "awakening" + the two-question discernment tool 40:00 — Segment 4: What's underneath — three journal prompts 50:00 — Segment 5: Guided meditation — meeting the self beneath the performance Live Event Bendigo Are You Listening Workshop - connect with your guides Zoom Mediumship Demonstration Matilda's Website Social Media Links Patreon Support the show YOU TUBE LICENCE LTA5NNMWIHNMEQC5 Support the show
July 7 · 46 min
Have We Made Spirituality Too Complicated?
Send us Fan Mail What if the biggest thing standing between you and your intuition... is the belief that it's difficult to access? In this week's episode, I'm challenging one of the biggest myths in the spiritual world—that intuition is something reserved for the gifted, the chosen, or those who know the right rituals, buy the right crystals, or reach a certain level of consciousness. The truth? You were born intuitive. You don't need to become someone different to connect with your guides. You don't need permission. You don't need to be "more spiritual." You simply need to remember what you've always known. In this episode, we explore: Why "woo-woo" spirituality can unintentionally keep people dependent instead of empowered. How mystifying intuition convinces people they're not ready or not enough. Why your intuition is far more practical, grounded, and accessible than you've been led to believe. The powerful 90-Second Rule and how it can help you distinguish between intuitive knowing and fearful overthinking. Why your first instinct is often your wisest one. How reconnecting with yourself is an act of remembering—not learning. This episode also includes: ✨ A guided meditation to help you reconnect with your own inner knowing and quiet the noise that has pulled you away from yourself. ✨ This week's intuitive predictions and energetic insights for the weeks ahead. If this conversation resonates with you and you're ready to go deeper, I'll also introduce my course Are You Listening?—a practical, grounded experience designed to help you stop searching outside yourself and start trusting the wisdom that's been within you all along. Because intuition isn't a gift given to a few. It's your birthright. You have always known. Sometimes, all you need is a little help remembering. Live Event Bendigo Are You Listening Workshop - connect with your guides Zoom Mediumship Demonstration Matilda's Website Social Media Links Patreon Support the show Support the show
June 30 · 1 hr
Ego Both Ways - Is it better to be there - than always right?
Send us Fan Mail Something is happening in the spiritual community right now — a wave of tarot readers and intuitive practitioners are publicly walking away from their work, finding God, going viral. In this episode, Matilda looks at what's actually underneath that: the burnout that's real and under-acknowledged, the clinical reality of spiritual psychosis that almost nobody in this space will name, and the algorithm that profits from crisis content regardless of whether the crisis is genuine. Then she brings it closer to home. Because underneath the public collapse of any identity built on being right or being the guide, there's a quieter version of the same thing happening in all of our lives — the need to be right in our relationships, the distances we've built out of pride, the people we've quietly left behind to win an argument. This episode closes with a guided meditation on meeting your own ego — where it lives in the body, what it's protecting, and who it might be costing you. It is better to be there than to be right. Sometimes that's the hardest lesson of all. 🎧 New episodes every week 💬 Join the conversation in Connected — link in bio TIMESTAMPS: 00:00 — Cold open 03:00 — The pattern: tarot readers turning to God 07:00 — Burnout in public spiritual work 11:00 — Spiritual psychosis — naming what nobody will 16:00 — The algorithm of crisis 19:00 — What it does to you, the follower 22:00 — The pivot — ego in everyday life 26:00 — Ego vs integrity: who benefits from being right? 30:00 — The cost of needing to win 34:00 — The common thread 37:00 — What evidential practice taught me about being wrong 40:00 — Guided meditation: meeting your ego 47:00 — Close Live Event Bendigo Are You Listening Workshop - connect with your guides Zoom Mediumship Demonstration Matilda's Website Social Media Links Patreon Support the show Support the show
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June 23 · 38 min
You Trained Them to Treat You This Way
Send us Fan Mail If you've ever looked at your life and wondered how you became the person who does everything for everyone — this episode is for you. In this deeply personal and unflinching episode, Matilda explores the hidden architecture of people-pleasing: how it gets installed in childhood, how it quietly transfers into our adult relationships, and why so many women in their fifties arrive at a moment of reckoning that looks like a crisis but is actually the first honest conversation they've had with themselves in decades. This isn’t a man-blaming episode, or a marriage-blaming episode. It’s an invitation to look at the model of love you were handed before you were old enough to question it — and to ask, honestly, whether you want to keep building on it. A full guided meditation — “Putting The Ledger Down” — is included at the end to help you move this from your head into your body, where it can actually do something. Live Event Bendigo Are You Listening Workshop - connect with your guides Zoom Mediumship Demonstration Matilda's Website Social Media Links Patreon Support the show Support the show
June 16 · 36 min
The Language of Spirit - Are you Listening?
Send us Fan Mail What if Spirit has been speaking to you all along, but you've been expecting it to sound different? In this deeply insightful episode of Beyond This, Medium Matilda explores the subtle and powerful language of Spirit. From intuition and synchronicities to dreams, feelings, signs, symbols, and those moments that simply cannot be explained away, Spirit is constantly communicating with us—but learning to recognise that communication is a skill. Matilda shares her own experiences as one of the world's most recognised evidential mediums and predictive psychics, explaining how Spirit communicates, why messages are often misunderstood, and how fear, doubt, and overthinking can distort what we receive. In this episode you'll discover: The difference between intuition, imagination, and Spirit communication. Why Spirit rarely communicates the way we expect. Common signs and symbols that are often overlooked. How to strengthen your connection to your guides. Why presence is the foundation of spiritual awareness. The biggest mistakes people make when trying to receive guidance. The episode concludes with a powerful guided meditation designed to help you quiet the noise of the outside world, connect with your own inner wisdom, and begin recognising the unique language through which Spirit speaks to you. Whether you're completely new to spiritual development or have been walking this path for years, this episode will help you deepen your awareness and trust the messages that may already be arriving. Sometimes Spirit isn't silent. Sometimes we're simply not listening. Are You Listening Workshop - connect with your guides Zoom Mediumship Demonstration Matilda's Website Social Media Links Patreon Support the show
S5 · E7
June 9 · 39 min
Hungry People Eat Lies - Why we settle for crumbs
Send us Fan Mail Why do intelligent, capable people stay in unhealthy relationships, ignore red flags, seek constant reassurance, or give their power away to others? In this deeply honest episode of Beyond This, Matilda explores the idea that hungry people eat lies—not because they're weak or naïve, but because emotional hunger changes what we're willing to accept. Together, we unpack the difference between love and relief, why false security can feel safer than genuine self-trust, and how unmet emotional needs can keep us repeating the same patterns in relationships, spirituality, and life. This episode explores: ✨ The difference between love and emotional relief ✨ Why we ignore red flags when we're starving for connection ✨ The hidden cost of seeking validation outside ourselves ✨ Spiritual dependency and the search for certainty ✨ Why familiar doesn't always mean safe ✨ How to stop settling for emotional crumbs ✨ Building true security from within Plus, stay until the end for a powerful guided meditation designed to help you reconnect with your own inner wisdom, reclaim your energy, and come home to yourself. Because the greatest freedom comes when you no longer need someone else to tell you who you are. All predictions and spiritual insights shared are offered without context and are intended for personal reflection and entertainment purposes only. Medium Matilda is a Psychic Medium with a Doctorate of Behavioural Economics and works with people globally connecting their loved ones in spirit, working as a teacher and spiritual guide. BOOK A READING BENDIGO VICTORIA LIVE EVENT LIVE ZOOM EVENT - CONNECTIONS WITH SPIRIT MATILDA'S PATREON Support the show
S5 · E6
June 2 · 41 min
You Were Never Too Much - stop shrinking to make other comfortable
Send us Fan Mail In this deeply personal and empowering episode of Beyond This, Medium Matilda explores the lifelong habit so many people carry of shrinking themselves to fit into the comfort, expectations, and limitations of others. From dimming your personality and questioning your worth, to making yourself smaller in relationships, friendships, workplaces, and even families — this episode is a reminder that you were never “too much.” You were simply taught to take up less space. Matilda shares honest insights into confidence, self-worth, emotional conditioning, and the subtle ways people abandon themselves to avoid rejection or judgment. This episode also includes practical tools and mindset shifts to help you stop apologising for who you are and begin stepping fully into your own power. Also in this episode: · New intuitive predictions for the coming months · Energy surrounding the USA and Donald Trump · Insights connected to the World Cup and world events · Why collective tension is continuing to rise globally · A healing guided meditation for those who have spent much of their lives feeling misunderstood, overwhelming, “too emotional,” or “too much” This is an episode about reclaiming your voice, your presence, and your right to exist fully — without guilt. Because the truth is… You were never too much. You were simply surrounded by people who benefited from you believing that you were. YOU TUBE LICENCE 3PEETRRSSQGKVENO Show Notes Contact Details JUNE ENERGY ALIGNMENT EVENT BOOK A READING BENDIGO VICTORIA LIVE EVENT LIVE ZOOM EVENT - CONNECTIONS WITH SPIRIT MATILDA'S PATREON Support the show
S5 · E5
May 26 · 42 min
Everything You've Been Wanting to Ask — You Asked, The Spirits Answered — The Questions I Get Asked the Most
Send us Fan Mail Everything You've Been Wanting to Ask This is the episode the community has been asking for. Matilda sits down solo to answer the questions that land in her inbox and DMs most — the ones about how the spirit world actually works, what mediumship really feels like from the inside, and how to begin trusting the intuition you already have. She answers honestly, including the question she gets asked more than almost any other — am I ever wrong? — and what that means for the integrity of this work. From there, Matilda leads listeners through a guided meditation designed to help them connect with their own intuition. Gentle, grounded, and accessible whether you've meditated before or never tried. The episode closes with Matilda's latest predictions — new impressions she's been sitting with and what she feels is coming. For those new to Beyond This, this is the place to start paying attention. In this episode: — The spirit world — what it is, how it communicates, and how to recognise it in your own life — How Matilda receives messages and what that experience actually feels like — The difference between a psychic and a mediumship reading — Whether everyone has intuition — and how to develop yours — How to tell the difference between intuition, fear, and wishful thinking — Am I ever wrong? — Guided meditation: Connecting With Your Intuition — Matilda's latest predictions Beyond This is hosted by Matilda — internationally renowned psychic medium, Evidential Medium, and Dr of Behavioural Economics. Show Notes Contact Details JUNE ENERGY ALIGNMENT EVENT BOOK A READING BENDIGO VICTORIA LIVE EVENT LIVE ZOOM EVENT - CONNECTIONS WITH SPIRIT MATILDA'S PATREON Support the show
S5 · E4
May 12 · 39 min
The Exhale - why it's dangerous to our future
Send us Fan Mail EPISODE DESCRIPTION This week Matilda is going somewhere unexpected — and necessary. Following on from last week’s episode on propaganda, today’s conversation zooms out to look at what propaganda is actually building toward. And why the spiritual community, of all communities, cannot afford to check out of that conversation. Australia just had a historic Labor landslide. The UK handed Labour one of its biggest majorities in decades. And in both countries, the collective exhale that followed may be the most dangerous moment of all. Because the right didn’t go away. It reorganised. It got smarter. It got funded. And it’s been quietly consolidating while everyone was busy feeling relieved. Matilda calls out something she sees happening across spiritual communities — a pattern of using high-vibe thinking, manifestation culture, and the desire to “stay above the noise” to avoid engaging with political reality. She names it for what it is: spiritual bypassing. And she makes the case that genuine spiritual awareness isn’t about rising above the messy material world — it’s about being more present to it. This episode covers the rise of One Nation to historic polling highs in Australia, Reform UK’s devastating local election results in May 2026, the neuroscience of fear and how it’s weaponised by authoritarian movements, and what it actually means to be a conscious, discerning person in this political moment. It ends with a grounding meditation designed to help you hold the weight of all of this without being crushed by it — and to find the one true thing you can do. This isn’t a political episode. It’s a consciousness episode. And it might be the most important conversation Matilda has had on this show. IN THIS EPISODE - Why the exhale after an election win is the most dangerous moment — not the election itself - One Nation’s historic polling numbers and what’s actually happening beneath Australia’s Labor majority - Reform UK’s May 2026 local election results and the pattern emerging across the English-speaking world - Spiritual bypassing — what it is, where it comes from, and how it shows up in our communities - The neuroscience of fear: what propaganda does to your prefrontal cortex and why it works - How authoritarian movements begin — not with policy, but with a manufactured enemy - Why conscious, intuitive people are not immune — and what real discernment looks like - What Matilda is actually asking of her listeners (it’s not what you think) - A grounding meditation to help you stay rooted, present, and capable of action PREDICTIONS As with every episode predictions are talked about CLOSING MEDITATION This week’s episode ends with a grounding meditation focused on roots, anchoring, and finding stillness while remaining present to the world. No music — just silence and space. The closing question to sit with: *What is one true thing I can do?* SHARE THIS EPISODE If this episode moved something in you — please share it. Especially with Australians. Especially with people who are feeling comfortable right now. Complacency is the thing worth worrying about. ----- CONNECT WITH MATILDA - Patreon: WEBSITE BOOK BENDIGO EVENT CHARTS AND CHANNELING WITH LAURIE RIVERS AND MEDIUM MATILDA YOU TUBE LICENCE SQEIPCAM3QLWAPPB *Beyond This is hosted by Matilda, evidential psychic medium, doctor of behavioural economics, and podcast host. New episodes weekly.* Support the show
S5 · E3
May 5 · 1 hr 15 min
Belief or Influence? Propaganda, Power & Trusting Yourself
Send us Fan Mail Most people think propaganda is obvious. It isn’t. It doesn’t shout. It doesn’t force. It quietly shapes what you believe… until it feels like your own truth. In this episode of Beyond This, Matilda explores how propaganda operates across religion, politics, and modern spirituality—and why even the most well-meaning belief systems can influence the way we think, learn, and trust ourselves. With insights inspired by Edward Bernays—the man who understood how to shape public perception without people realising—it becomes clear that influence is not something happening “out there”… it’s something we’re all part of. Including an interview with Rod Smith Historian surrounding Propaganda, media and political and religious influence. This episode will challenge you to ask: Where did my beliefs come from? Am I thinking—or repeating? What does truth actually feel like for me? Includes a guided meditation to help you reconnect with your own inner knowing and begin separating external influence from personal truth. This is not about what to believe. It’s about learning how to trust yourself. Rod Smith Links https://www.tiktok.com/@rodriquezsmith4thepeople Matilda's Contacts All Matilda's Information YOU TUBE LICENCE. 34Z2IL4W8OYQLYAK Support the show
April 28 · 38 min
Are You Seeking Guidance… or Avoiding Responsibility?
Send us Fan Mail Most people think they’re seeking guidance. But what if… you’re actually avoiding responsibility? In this episode of Beyond This, Matilda explores the subtle but powerful difference between being guided—and quietly handing your decision-making over to something outside of you. Because guidance isn’t here to tell you what to do. It’s here to show you what you already know. And often… that’s where the discomfort begins. If you’ve been feeling stuck, going in circles, or constantly looking for confirmation before you act—this episode will challenge the way you see guidance entirely. Inside this episode: The difference between true guidance and dependency Why you keep seeking answers you already have How growth is often misinterpreted as things “not working” Where your values may not align with the life you want And why nothing changes until you do This is a grounded, honest conversation about self-trust, alignment, and what it really means to be supported—without giving your power away. There’s also a guided meditation at the end of the episode to help you reconnect with your own inner knowing. If you’re ready to stop waiting for answers… and start responding to them, this episode is for you. Patreon Sydney In Person Readings (Deposit required to secure you space) Intimate Mediumship Group Charts and Channeling Event with Laurie Rivers MATILDA LIVE IN BENDIGO YOU TUBE CODE T407CF17A2HZZ2MF Support the show

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