9: Alex Mytton: Fame, Addiction & His Spiritual Awakening

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.

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