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Ep.165 - From Redundant Teacher to World-Leading Feng Sui Expert: Kimberley Gallagher's Transformation
Have you ever felt stuck despite doing everything "right" in your manifestation practice? In this extraordinary conversation with The Worlds leading Feng Shui expert Kimberly Gallagher, we uncover the missing piece that transformed her life from redundant teacher to international TV personality and author in just a few short years.
Kimberly's journey began during lockdown when, after losing her teaching position, she stumbled upon Feng Shui through this very podcast. Initially dismissing it as "a load of rubbish," her curiosity led her to discover that many of the world's most successful people—from Richard Branson to the Beckhams—were using this ancient practice. What followed was a breathtaking transformation as she invested in having her home analyzed, completed a $10,000 certification program despite financial uncertainty, and launched a business that would soon have her appearing on This Morning in the UK and The Morning Show in Australia.
What makes this conversation truly special is Kimberly's willingness to share the uncomfortable truths behind her success. She describes the paralyzing fear of her first television appearance—so nervous she couldn't lift a glass of water without risking spilling it everywhere—and the mortifying discovery that her community website domain had previously been an adult content site. Yet through each challenge, her unwavering belief in herself and her mission propelled her forward.
Beyond her personal story, Kimberly offers fascinating insights into how our homes function energetically. She explains how homes have personalities that either support or hinder our goals, likening Feng Shui to "astrology for buildings." Her gift lies in making this 4,000-year-old wisdom accessible to modern living, stripping away the woo-woo elements while preserving the transformative power of working with your home's energy.
Whether you're struggling with relationships, finances, or simply seeking more harmony in your space, this episode provides practical wisdom for creating a home that supports your deepest intentions. Kimberly's parting advice resonates with beautiful simplicity: "If you can see it in your future, you are capable of it."
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Today, we welcome back Kimberly Gallagher, who is a friend, a feng shui expert, speaker and founder of the Feng Shui Flow. She works with clients and students worldwide to create calm, aligned and abundant spaces, blending ancient feng shui with modern living. She's the author of the upcoming book the Calm and Happy Home, out in November 2025, and has been featured on this Morning in the UK and the Morning Show in Australia. This is a woman who, in lockdown, was made redundant from her teaching job and is now leading a movement all around the world, speaking on stages globally and is featured on TV on a regular basis. Guys, this is no accident. Kimberley is a person who has believed in herself and has said yes to her dreams every step of the way, and Feng Shui has been the vehicle that has guided her home to her power. This episode is full of stories that Kimberley's probably not shared before. So much joy, humour and wisdom. So please do enjoy. Kimberley Gallagher, welcome back to the Soul Digger podcast. How are you, my love?
Speaker 2:Oh, I'm so excited, happy, ecstatic to be here. It's just amazing. It's like a real beautiful full circle moment to be back. So thank you for having me.
Speaker 1:Oh, and it's so nice to see you in your pink jumper, as I always remember you. This is not your first time on the show. Episode 127 for anyone who wants to welcome in more wealth. That was a beautiful episode that we did and, wow, what is what has happened in your life, kimberly Gallagher? Can you tell us like where you were and like where you are now in the past? Like what?
Speaker 2:four years, like how quick is it all happened for you yeah, I guess it all started in lockdown and I was a teacher. I was a teacher for 10 years of all things. I taught equine science, so all about horse biology, of all things. I've got an eclectic career, as you can imagine, now being a feng shui consultant but I was made redundant in lockdown. I then started a health and wellness business, which is where our paths crossed, and it's crossed many beautiful times in between and intertwined along the way.
Speaker 2:And I well, it was you that changed everything for me, because I heard you interview another Feng Shui consultant on your podcast and this was in lockdown and I remember cleaning I was literally vacuuming our bedroom and I was listening to it and I instantly thought what is this woman on about? Like, what a load of rubbish. Not you. I was like what a load of rubbish is feng shui? Like how on earth can you change stuff around in your home and then attract a partner into your life? Like as if? And then it just kept playing on my mind. So I did a bit of googling and it was like I'd unlocked this secret that had been hidden from me for all my life and hidden from everyone that I knew, and it was basically that all these super successful people from all around the world, from Richard Branson, the Beckhams, whoever you know, you, even Donald Trump, which I know isn't a great thing, but you know what? It's financially quite secure. So you know. And so all these people were really into Feng Shui to some degree and I thought, well, why do they know about it? Why do the more successful people know about how to be more successful and have these calm, beautiful homes? I don't. I'm at home homeschooling my daughter, who, luckily, is a beautiful girl. So you know it was okay. But it was me myself and my dog and my husband went off to work in lockdown and I was really cross. I was really cross that I didn't know about it. So I had my home analysed.
Speaker 2:I I literally you know those guttural instincts where you're like I've just got to find a way of doing this. And I did it to help me in my business, which was the health and wellness business, and I was literally banging my head against a brick wall doing it. I tried everything, did all the trainings turned up on Instagram like a lunatic dancing everything. Did all the trainings turned up on Instagram like a lunatic dancing, did all of that stuff. You know, face masks galore, all of that, and it just didn't take off. And I was like, okay, I was doing all the manifesting, writing all the numbers down, burning them in the back garden, burying them I think there's still some numbers somewhere in the garden in England and I then used feng shui, which is like the missing part of the manifestation puzzle, because it uses the energy of your home and it's a bit like trying to use I think I used this analogy when I was on the on your, on the podcast last time.
Speaker 2:But it's so, try going into the woods and making a call from your phone, like it just won't work. You've got all the tools to make the call, but the signal won't get out there. And it's the same in your home. If you are putting your intentions and manifestations out there, if it's covered in this cloud of just heavy energy, your message isn't going to get out there. And it doesn't matter how beautiful, how big, how small, how crooked your home is. Some homes have good energy. You know there's people that can manifest anything in their life. They've got good energy.
Speaker 2:Our home just didn't, and I knew it didn't because things were tricky, like we had a lovely, a lovely life. But you know, there was tension. My business it was hard, hard, like I was made redundant, just all of these things. Money flew in, flew out, as you know, as quickly as it was. Um, and all of a sudden you lift this energy from your home and it's like clearing the noise around you and this lovely energy can just begin to flow again. And you know, the communication came back. The sense of humor, the, the sense of hope, like all of that came back, as well as an email from the lady that analyzed my home to say she was running a last ever certification program. Would I be interested in doing it?
Speaker 2:But not until that point had it ever crossed my mind that this was something for me. Because when I put these intentions in the remedies into my home, I said do you know what? In any business, I just want a business. I don't care what it is, I want a business where I'm happy, I love what I do, I'm financially independent. Not only am I financially independent, but I can sell this shit by myself if I want to, because my husband's worked really hard. If we need to change that over, let's change that over. I want people to pay on time, like all of these things, and so when this email came through to me, I thought this is it, this is what it's meant to be.
Speaker 2:And it wasn't an easy decision, because it was a hell of a lot of money it was 10,000 American dollars, by the way. I was made redundant. I was trying to get a business off the ground. I did not have that money, but I just knew somehow I was going to make it work, and so I did it. I did the course.
Speaker 2:It was a year long and I started my business in November 22. November 22 and January 23, I was on this morning as their feng shui expert in. I was back on again in April. My products were featured as part of the international women's day product ranges. Then, in June 23, we moved to Australia, which was it was on the cards, and I don't want this to come across like it's like we just magicked this stuff out of nowhere. You know, we worked very hard to get here. The visa process I'm sure you'll know, kim, it's not an easy one and we worked hard to do it, but it happened and we got here, and now I have a beautiful, thriving business. I am financially independent. I've got all of the things that I asked for. I now am the morning shows feng shui expert over here in Australia and I have a book coming out in November and all of that has happened within that short space of time. So from teacher to Feng Shui expert in the blink of an eye.
Speaker 2:I know, I know wow.
Speaker 1:Well, I you know. I just want to reflect back at you that there's always signs that are revealing themselves to us in every moment, but you decided to take action on them and I'm just celebrating you for just trusting and leaping and saying yes, because a couple of things you said there, like when you first heard it, you thought this was weird and actually that was just a limiting belief that was blocking you from receiving what your soul actually was here to do, like your soul just remembered that this was its journey and its path. So then, once you got activated and was like this is it? It's like your soul remembered and then you just followed the breadcrumbs.
Speaker 1:But not only did you follow them, you lent in and like, I want to know, like what version of you did you have to bring to the table? Because to go excuse me, to go from a teacher who had been made redundant to then being on this morning and writing your own book. There's some identity shifts that have gone on there, right? So what was the inner work like? Did you have to go? What the heck is happening? Or was it like oh, this is just normal, I'm just gonna go on tv now absolutely not.
Speaker 2:I wish I wish I felt like that when I went on. Do you know? Actually, no, I don't wish I felt like that, because there's so many things that happened and I worked with you for a while as well and that really helped me gain the confidence to believe in myself, because I think the the most important thing to do is almost like categorize what is that limiting belief in that imposter syndrome and what is a physical barrier, and working out how to get over those things as individual things, because otherwise the whole thing just seems completely overwhelming. So there was the financial side of things for me. Well, how am I going to pay for it? What's that going to look like? If I want to start a business, I'm not just going to, you know, pussyfoot around this. I want it to be the world's leading Feng Shui consultancy. I don't just want to play around with this.
Speaker 1:Right. So you had that intention right. You weren't just going to do it because it was fun. You entered with that.
Speaker 2:I want to be the world's leading feng shui expert yeah, and so it was how I gained belief in myself. To do that, and even saying that out loud that I want to be the world's leading, is not something that comes easily to me. Even now I'm like, but it's true, I want to do that, and if I say it with confidence, I believe more in myself. And you know it's about taking these small steps. So I started off with being the expert in the room. Who's the expert in the room? What I am? I know more about feng shui than the 10 people in this room. I am comfortable saying that. And then how can you keep moving forward? So there were many books that were read.
Speaker 2:There were many uncomfortable situations, there were many and many moments of utter fear, and the biggest it hit me like an absolute truck when I first sat on that sofa on this morning and, funny enough, this was the cardigan that I bought to wear on it. How funny. And I was sat on the sofa and I was shaking, visibly shaking, and I knew that feeling when you have no saliva left in your mouth whatsoever, and I thought, oh no, my microphone is about what feels like two centimetres away from my mouth. If people can hear that gross sound. This is going to be awful. And I had to take a sip of water by moving my head to the glass, because I thought if I lift this glass to my face, I'm going to throw it all over myself. And I sat there and I could see these cameras which, by the way, the cameras are massive. I don't know why. I thought they were going to be like camcorder size, but there was like three cameras.
Speaker 2:I'm sat opposite Alison Hammond and Dermot O'Leary and I'm like what am I doing here? But I just had this moment, this subconscious, like higher self, chat with myself and said if you want to get to where you want to go to, you are going to have to be okay doing this. And that I was like, yeah, I have to be okay with this, I know my stuff and I have to believe in myself to do this. And I just I concentrated on the questions that were being asked. I just directed straight to them and Alison, who were absolutely hilarious and so much fun, and I learned from it and I took from it and I watched it back, which, again, is something that was really difficult to do, because you want to be so self-critical, don't you like? You want to just tear yourself down.
Speaker 2:And even when you watch you know, I used to watch in the pool whether ladies or men, and they forget to put the microphone on or something on tv, and you watch. You watch, you know, I used to watch in the poor weather ladies or men, and they forget to put the microphone on or something on tv and you watch it or you get oh, what are they wearing? Like you just want to. I don't know why, but it's this thing. Like you want to just point out the negatives and I just had to do it. But in a really constructive way.
Speaker 2:And when you have your own business, it can be really lonely sometimes, because you have to be that person that gives you yourself that feedback because nobody else is there. You haven't got your PR manager or your coach to be like oh, next time they say this, you need to do this, you need to take this on yourself. So I've learned along the way the things I do and I still get a dry mouth now. So I just take polos in my pocket, like that's literally my thing. So I'm literally sucking polo mints before I go on, and I now visualize exactly what I'm saying because it is all scripted to the T. It looks like a flowing conversation but it's very much scripted down to the word. So I use these visions of remembering what to say but also, if they go off script, which they often do not to panic like I. I know my stuff and it's having confidence in yourself. And it's okay to take a breath if somebody asks you a question you don't know the answer. Just take a breath and think about it.
Speaker 2:I've had to learn to stop saying all mm all the time, which I'm not great at, but again, pausing all of these things wearing clothes that gives me confidence. That's a huge booster. I know we joke that I'm always wearing this bright pink, but I feel like I've turned up when I wear something like this. I joke today. I'm going to call it make an effort Monday because I feel like I'm ready for the week when I have got. It sounds a bit shallow when I have got my makeup on and I'm wearing my nice clothes.
Speaker 2:So the journey to get to this stage has been immense and I'm still doing it now. I'm still reading, I've gone back to Ask and it's Given again. I think the last time I read it was when I'm still reading. I've gone back to Ask and it's Given again. I think the last time I read it was when I was working with you and it sort of made sense of the time. And now I'm reading it again.
Speaker 2:I'm like this is bigger than what I thought it was at the time and obviously you only take on what you're ready to take on at the time. So it's a constant growth and I think even the whole money mindset listening. How mad is this Like reading Denise Duffield Thomas's book Get Rich, lucky Bitch and then I had her on my podcast a couple of weeks ago Like how bonkers is that? You know that this, this woman who changed everything for my business and allows me to talk about money freely that's another huge thing. Talking about money and not shying away from it and being confident in the prices that you are charging and saying out loud to people. It wasn't something that was natural to me, but I knew I had to catch up to my vision. So it was. What work did I have to do to catch up with that vision and be that person that could take that vision even further?
Speaker 1:okay. So what I'm hearing is belief. Belief is the foundation and self-awareness, being willing to, to look at yourself and go not criticize, but constructively. Okay, I need to maybe refine this or do this and showing up as your best self, like putting your best knickers on in the morning.
Speaker 1:You know, going to the gym, like it's such a mindset shift just to like reach for the, the outfit that makes you feel good even though you might have nowhere to go, right, yeah, um, and what I love about this is on social media it's so easy to look at. Your life can look really beautiful and perfect and amazing and wonderful, and I love how you're speaking to those fears and those moments of like. Yeah, I couldn't even pick up a glass of water because I was so nervous, because I'm sure a lot of people will look at you and think, oh my gosh, kimberly has something that I don't. So what would you say to those people who think there's a gap between where they are and where you?
Speaker 2:are people who think there's a gap between where they are and where you are. If you can see it in your future, you are capable of it. That's all you need to know. And I could see myself on that sofa on this morning. I could see myself there, and if I could see myself there then I knew I could do it. It just just it keeps coming back to that belief and also surrounding yourself with people that will help you get there as well. And I didn't necessarily have that, so to speak. I was. I was very supportive. My husband is very supportive, but he's not spiritual at all. Works in construction like absolutely feng shui hasn't crossed his path at all, and neither had any of my friends where we lived in the UK. I went into lockdown on Instagram as Kimberly Gallagher and I came out of lockdown as the feng shui flow. It's like, oh, she's had a hard lockdown, like what's happened to her, and it was just belief when they said what's this? I'm a feng shui expert. I studied it over lockdown. This is what I do now, and saying it with belief is the the biggest thing. But surround yourself with people, even if it's online. There will be a community out there that will help you give yourself that confidence to do it.
Speaker 2:I didn't wake up being able to speak in public. I was, you know, probably a bit more. You know, I've got a sister. I'm more confident than my sister in terms of speaking out loud, but it wasn't a natural thing for me to do this, to write a book. I'm not a linguist, I'm not great at English at all, but I could see it, so therefore I had to learn to do it. Don't be afraid of making mistakes, mistakes. I make mistakes daily, and it's not I even hate the word mistakes, it's like learnings. What can you do that helps you learn and get better? What mistakes can you make? I've made huge mistakes, but you learn from it and don't beat yourself up about it. I think we're so easy to go well, that didn't work. It's a failure. Like, I'm not going to keep. I'm not going to keep going if you know in your gut it's going to work.
Speaker 2:Like I've started a community called so much love, and I started a community because I have a beautiful following on my Instagram. I rarely get any negative comments, which is virtually unheard of on social media, and it's beautiful and I feel that everyone is my friend on there. I don't care whether we've met in person or not, but everyone's so lovely. Now I know that you know, sue in Vancouver is going through exactly the same as Eleanor in New Zealand, and they only have me to speak to. So I wanted to bring these people together.
Speaker 2:So I had this sort of this vision about a year and a half ago and I wanted to call it so much love, because I sign off everything with so much love as soon as I start my podcast. That's how I signed it off. I sign up all my emails that way, so it's like it's just a natural thing. I'll you know so much love. So the ur.
Speaker 2:I checked on GoDaddy, which is where you buy your domain names, and it was free, but it was a lot of money, it was expensive, it was a huge investment for my business, so it was really scary. But again, I knew it was what I wanted to do and I could just I knew I didn't know what it was going to be, but I knew it was going to be something. Took me 18 months to think of what it was going to be this app where people can come together, but what I didn't do, or what you don't do before you launch your website is you don't have any history of what the domain name has been used for before, and I can see you laughing. So I very nearly had to not go ahead.
Speaker 2:I very nearly had to have a change of career into adult content this is giving me life tell me what it was before so so much love was an adult content site and had been shut down for fraudulent activity. So when I launched my website that I spent a lot of money on, I had emails or messages from people saying I can't access the website, it's coming up with errors. I don't go on the website, it's fraudulent. It's adult content. Anyone that had parental controls at home couldn't access it because it was basically a porn site. And I remember literally sitting on my desk here it's like 10 past nine at night our time we launched it like midday in the UK and I thought what am I gonna do? I've just put a porn site Like what, what am I going to do? And I thought are we just going to have to sack it off? Like I don't even know where to start with this? And most people I say most people the presumption is that people have IT teams to help them with stuff like this well, it's just me and chat GPT and my branding team like who'd built it for me going what do we do? Like we've never come across this before. So it was either we switch it all to kimberlygallaghercom, bearing in mind, I've built this app so much love with Apple and Google, like it's all on there ready to go.
Speaker 2:But if the website's not working and people can't access it, what do we do? Do we stop now or do we keep going? And I literally stood in the bathroom. You know, when you like lean across the bathroom I was like this is a really expensive funny story, like, but I'm sure at some point it's just going to be a very funny anecdote into my journey and we're all going to learn from it. And so I made that decision there and then that do you know what will be will be. I can't do anything about it. Like it's happened. I couldn't have done anything beforehand, really. And so what do we do? We work through it and we had to contact every server around the world to get it recategorized. Who knew that that was even a thing? And we're there. So it was obviously a slower launch to the business and to the app than we wanted because nobody could access it.
Speaker 1:I remember when you launched it and you said there's been a few hiccups, and yeah, I wasn't sure what it was. And now, like I wish you would have shared that with me I just bought a porn site that would have gone viral.
Speaker 2:I just yeah, I just spent 10 grand on a porn site. It's basically what, um, what it was. But I think at the time I just had to say hiccup because I knew we were going to come out of it, but I just didn't know when. And I think it's really important that I do share this stuff, because this is business, this is life, it's you know, and what feng shui does is it can't stop this rubbish stuff happening in life. Believe me, stuff happens in my life and I do share it.
Speaker 2:But what it does do is it just looks after you throughout it and it will find you the right people to help you with. It will all work out and it just helps you see the learning and the lesson quicker than perhaps you might do. And there was no anger there, there was no coulda, woulda, shoulda, there was no resentment, there was no swearing like it literally. Well, there was to start with, but then very quickly, it was like this will be a funny story one day. I'm sure it will be and it is. You made me howl, so thank you for that. So, yeah, believe in yourself. Mistakes are going to be made, but learn from them and you know just if you say what you want to do with belief, then people will listen.
Speaker 1:Oof. It's everything it really is, and I'm also just. I love noticing patterns that happen in the spiritual journey because we are spirits having a human experience right. And so you, you've made two big leaps financially. Initially, you made the ten thousand dollar leap to become a feng shui expert, and then you leaped again and invested the same in your website. And then, of course, you faced a challenge, and so I really want to speak to this normalization that, when you're about to receive more blessings, you have to go through challenging chaos, because that is the universe testing you.
Speaker 1:You know, can you hold the faith? And so you know, wouldn't it be easy if you just invested that in the website and it all worked out perfectly, you made like a million dollar month straight away. Wouldn't that be a great story? Um, but this is just normal, and I want everyone to hear this, because, no matter what level of investment whether it's time or money you're going to make in yourself, when you say yes to a new level, there's an old version of you that has to die, and so I'm curious what version of you did you have to let go of when that happened?
Speaker 2:Well, it's funny because there's also another stage that that happened as well, and that was with the book. So I had probably 25 at least no's from different publishers before we had the yes, and so it's almost like what I had to work through was people not believing in my idea, and I then use that as an opportunity to keep reframing it, because I know that what I've got is the answer to so many things, know that what I've got is the answer to so many things, but it's finding the language that people will go, ah, okay, so that's what it is. The book now is a very different book to what was first pitched right at the beginning, because it's been tweet and tweet and tweet until we found the right way of expressing what feng shui is, and so the learnings along the whole way. Is this like rejection?
Speaker 2:I'm very much a people pleaser. I want people to like me. I struggle when people don't like me and maybe aren't friendly towards me, because I'm like, well, I'm giving you my energy. Like what have I done for you to not give me your energy? And this is something had to really work on, and it's made me a much happier person knowing that not everybody has to agree with what I'm talking about. They don't have to like me because, let's face it, I don't like 100% of the world out there either. Also, maybe people aren't ready to hear what I have to say, and that's fine. So I, when people ask me what I do, I have a very quick, like 30 second overview of what I do, and if they want to know more then they can ask me. And it's not, I don't feel rejected if they don't ask me more questions.
Speaker 2:You know, at the start I was so excited and I wanted everyone to know everything and I wanted everybody to be in such disbelief like I was, that why doesn't everyone know about Feng Shui? And so it's made me shout louder in a more succinct way, like we've spoken to huge brands recently about Feng Shui and it's been a no all the time. We've got one person at the minute who is. They get it and it will just see. We'll know September, october, whether something comes off it. But again, even that rejection, I learn every time and I see it as it's not a no forever. It's just that they don't realise how good it can be and that it takes a brave move for a high street brand to go. We're going to be the first people to do a Feng Shui range and when they do, then I know that those doors are going to open for Feng Shui in everybody's houses. But it's about being okay with. Rejection is the biggest thing that I've had to work through.
Speaker 1:Wow, yeah, and obviously you're. I mean, to me it's normal energy feng shui, of course, but we're also here to expand the world, right? So, as you're leading this new way, that's not actually new when how it's been like 4,000 years old.
Speaker 1:So, yeah, right, okay, 4,000 years old. Like seriously, it's crazy. Um, as you're leading this new way, you've almost kind of gotta accept that that's gonna happen. Yeah, and also, it's not easy when there is that rejection, because you've got to have firm belief to have 25 people say no to your book, say no to feng shui, and your vision has to be so strong. And so if anyone's listening to this and you, just you just have that belief in something and you know it's uh, it's supposed to be out in the world and you're the person to deliver it, just don't give up. Like what would you say to someone who just knows that there is something that they're here to share with the world? Knowing what you've been on, journey-wise?
Speaker 2:I think there's two ways of looking at it. The first one is that belief in yourself, but also from a business point of view as well. But also from a business point of view as well, I thought very long and hard about excuse me, about who my clients are and how I have to communicate what I do to them in a way that makes sense. Because to me I got it. I just got the whole energy thing. Not that I was brought up in that world at all, but I got it. And so when I started my business, one of the other investments that I made was in my website, my branding, and again, a scary investment, because I was like I'm having a photo shoot and a website and I've not even made a penny yet, like how is this going to work out? But I knew that by starting something that was a little bit woo in a non-woo world, that it had to look normal whatever normal is world, that it had to look normal whatever normal is, but it had to look like a normal, regular website that people would view on a daily basis. And so my instructions, like working with the branding team, was I want it to be like the John Lewis of Feng Shui, and I think I said that last time I was on here, because it's a new world for people to step into, and so they had to trust me. They had to trust that they could tell me stuff about what's going on in their lives, but the language that I used resonated with them. So if you have something that you know the world needs to hear and maybe it is a bit sort of more on the holistic side of things and more spiritual side of things is your market, people that haven't entered that world before most of the people in my community are just dipping the toe. Like me, I was like there's something out there and there's something in energy. I don't quite know what it is yet, but I'm also not into meditating with a crystal on my head. So is it like how do I find that balance? So really put that business head on, because it's not that you've got one shot, but don't do it half-hearted and not strategically thinking about what you're going to do, and then when it fails, you have regret If my business didn't take off, if it all failed tomorrow.
Speaker 2:I have done absolutely everything that I could do. Many weeks are 70 hour weeks. I work hard, like hard work goes into it and I know on Instagram it's like you know, I'm walking all the time. I'm always out in the sunshine and I try and do that for my mental health to get out there. But I'm not going to lie about the hard work that I put in. But I love what I do. It's not difficult, but the hours need to go in. So just think about how, strategically, how are you going to put your message out there in what is quite a busy world, on maybe Instagram and social media, and just have a plan in place. And it doesn't a messy plan. A plan is a plan. It doesn't have to be perfect, but it's just making that first step in the world. But go into it thinking I'm gonna give it everything, because you don't ever want to have regrets with it.
Speaker 1:I love that, yeah, and it's finding that one thing isn't it you know what would you say to someone who maybe loves to do multiple different things like how did, how did feng shui really resonate with you? What was it about it?
Speaker 2:you thought, this is it well, hello to all the manifesting generators out there. From a fellow manifesting generator where I want to do a million things and I I do struggle sticking with one thing and I always have struggled sticking with one thing until I found Feng Shui and I was like this is it? This is the only this, but this answers everything. So all of those things out there like this is it? Concentrate on the one thing and then, when you've nailed that, then you can go outside of that and spread yourself thinner because, honestly, the more projects you have going, you've only got 100% to give. So if you've got two projects, it's 50% on both, and I know that, with so much love and with the feng shui flow, even just having two Instagram accounts is blowing my mind at the moment. Like my creative soul is like oh, how do I do this? And so to have like another thing going, you've got to look after yourself if you don't have that energy to give to it, so try and refine it down, even if you're like, okay, well, I love doing this, I love doing this, I love doing this.
Speaker 2:It's probably solving one core problem. Like what issue is it that you're solving? Go with that issue, offer that one thing that really is at your heart and then you can move out from there. And I know, I know it's so hard because you know, I remember hearing about human design. I was like I'm going to learn that. I learned about Barzee readings. I was like I'm going to do that. I can do all of these things, I know. Just stick to the one thing and be good, like that expert in that one thing, and then you can expand from there.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I agree, I think, mastery and yeah, just fully leaning in, and that's how you overcome the challenges and you don't get distracted, because we live in a world there's there's so much distraction, so many reasons to be distracted. Yeah, so you you talk about feng shui could be the answer. Tell me more about that, like why, what is it about feng shui? And is there one thing that you learned in feng shui that changed everything for you?
Speaker 2:so the thing that I've learned, the the longer that I've practiced feng shui, the more homes that. So I practice remotely. I don't go into people's homes because I actually find it really energetically draining, like it's very big, going into somebody else's home. I do it one-off. But one of the biggest things that I've learned is that, almost like how I felt at the beginning, people don't know that this is the answer to the challenges that are happening in their lives or in their homes. And I get it because, I mean, people don't even know how to pronounce Feng Shui. I don't even pronounce it technically correctly for two reasons. From where I am in England, we able to pronounce our vowels, so the e comes out very strong. It should be pronounced feng shui. But also from a business point of view. So this goes back to getting your business out there and thinking strategically. If I was called the feng shui flow, the Western world wouldn't be able to find me because they would type F-U-N-G. So even thinking about that, and actually I'm going to go with the feng because from a business point of view, and that's how I like to say it anyway, that makes sense. But people don't know how to pronounce it. So then they go. Well, how is that for me if I don't even know how to pronounce it? That's just you know that for me, if I don't even know how to pronounce it, that's just you know, that's not for me.
Speaker 2:Also, I think when you say feng shui, you think right, white furniture, minimalistic, no mess anywhere, no fun, I think, is probably what would come to mind in in my mind absolutely no fun in that house whatsoever. And our house isn't that. You know, we want to have fun. Not everything is perfect in our house from a feng shui point of view at all, and so my job is to almost bridge this gap between this ancient practice and modern day living. Not everybody's going to want a lucky cat in their lounge I don't. It just won't go with our decor. But there's ways around it. You can still get that energy from other things, and it's whatever resonates with you. So for me, what I'm most excited about is almost like unlocking this secret that Feng Shui could be the answer to so many things going on in your life, whether it's wanting a new job, relationship, fertility, arguments in the home. So many things, wealth, like so many things going on.
Speaker 2:And again, thinking strategically the front cover of the book. There is no mention of Feng Shui on there at all. It's literally called the Calm and Happy Home, and when you dive in we go deeper into that. But I didn't want a book that was like this feng shui tutorial. I didn't want that. They're out there already and I've read them and even I was confused and I know what I'm sort of talking about. So it's answering problems that people don't know. That this is the answer to and that's what I'm really excited about when I learn about.
Speaker 2:So just going to your second question, when I learn about feng shui and energy in the home, it's almost like I'd learned this new language, like I could almost see how energy travels around a home. It's not just a lounge that I'm looking at. I'm looking at where the energy is coming in, how is it escaping, how is it getting refreshed. Looking at a floor plan, thinking, well, this is a really long, thin house, that poor person at the end bedroom over there. They're going to be drained because no energy is getting to them.
Speaker 2:So I'm looking at things in such a different light. You might see a beautiful home. You know, we live on the water here on the Gold Coast and one of my favorite things to do is just being super nosy and going out on the water and looking at houses and you see them and it's almost like the bigger the house, the less it has no soul, like there's no communication in that house. And it was just this, this thing, that actually your home has a personality. If you said and this is one of the opening lines in the book if, if I asked you to describe your home's personality, how would you describe it? Is it stubborn, stuck in its ways, a bit grumpy that was our house or is it lighthearted, sense of humour, bringing new opportunities? You know that sort of house, and so for me it was like I'd learnt this whole new way of being, this whole new language, and it was really exciting, and it still excites me now.
Speaker 1:And so why is that then? Why what makes a home an inviting home for opportunity and what makes it a chaotic, closed house with no communication?
Speaker 2:It's not something necessarily that you'd spot straight away. So we're looking for a house at the moment and we I'd never do like a feng shui analysis on it. Before I moved in, before we moved in here, I didn't. I didn't go with what the feng shui said, but I went with my gut because I've learned my gut, I've learned to listen to my gut instinct again. Because feng shui said but I went with my gut because I've learned my gut, I've learned to listen to my gut instinct again, because feng shui takes all the noise away. So when you hear your gut screaming or not even like even just whispering at you, you listen because you haven't got this noise around you. So you go and stand in a house and your gut instinct says, yeah, I love it. You know all the places that you've ever rented, bought, whatever. You go with a feel, you go with how it makes you feel. You go this feels good or no, I don't like this place because I don't know what it is, but it just doesn't feel right.
Speaker 2:So we get, we understand this energy, because that's how often we make the decision about moving to a place, but after that we never really make that connection anymore. We just see it as a space to live, and that's the lounge, that's the kitchen, that's the bedroom, that's where we sleep, that's where we eat, that's where we work, that's where we watch tv. It's no longer this space of of feeling, and I think what happens is the energy in the home really comes to fruition and it will create its own environment. And so a home that is lighthearted and light will create an environment for a family in there that is lighthearted and has a good sense of humor and doesn't have this sort of heavy energy on them, has a good sense of humor and doesn't have this sort of heavy energy on them. But a house that is energetically chaotic will create that, because like attracts like. So a house that's chaotic energetically will attract the person that is also quite chaotic and therefore all of the stuff in the house as well.
Speaker 2:There's some things that you can look at and again, it's common sense. Can the energy come in like? Is there a nice open front door, nice open windows? Can the energy actually get into the house and can it leave? Again, are the rooms random shapes or are they, you know, nice equal shapes around the house, like the person with the little room? You know nobody wants to be in there because there isn't much space around you. So common sense prevails with feng shui, but I think the biggest thing is when you move into a house is finding out what's historically happened. So have the last three people in that house got divorced and moved on? That's going to tell you what sort of home it is energetically. Or the last people struggled with money and therefore it's a repossession, or they had to sell it and then they had to keep reducing the price on it because nobody was interested in it.
Speaker 1:So actually sort of it shows you what's happening in that home yeah, I remember I listened to a podcast once and this lady was gonna buy this new apartment and the woman who owned it said oh, be careful, you might end up getting engaged, because the people who owned it before just got engaged.
Speaker 1:And she was like oh yeah, no, that's not me. I'm not looking for a partner. Um, and within six months, she was engaged to someone that she just met. That is brilliant, amazing. What about a new home that's just been built, then, if no one's lived there before?
Speaker 2:so when a home is built, it's almost like it's got its own star sign, like when we're built, like when, when I came on here, you're like what's your date of birth? This is what's happening. It's the same in a house. So, when it was built and where it like just like our location of birth, where it is facing geographically and because in Feng Shui we like to make things uber confusing we don't just have north, south, east and west, we have like over 20 different compass points that your house could be facing and each one has like a number allocated to it and it's like this giant game of sudoku and I love it, like my inner geek just loves it and it's called flying stars feng shui, and each of these numbers is called a star and we move these stars around.
Speaker 2:So that's why it's called flying stars feng shui, and so we take the these numbers as to when the house was built and where it sits geographically. That then gives us a number combination and from that we can then tell you what energy that home has. So it's almost like a home has a blueprint of energy that's going on, and then the people living there will then start to experience that. So it's when the home will always have that energy, but over years, if it's an older house, then each of those people will be adding to that energy as they've lived there, but it will always be given. That sort of astrological chart, like feng shui, is just astrology for buildings. We look at the way the stars move and the energy at the time and that's what energy the building has, just like with people I love how you simplify it.
Speaker 1:You know, just just makes so much sense to the mind. And what you said about taking the noise away you know, taking the noise away and allow the space to feel it makes so much sense. Yeah, I'm, I feel like I'm always like cleaning my room because I need it to be clean and the space to feel good, because I understand how important it is to feel good in space I know what it's like to not feel good in a space.
Speaker 1:Um. So yeah, thank you for making the weird and woo woo more accessible, because that's your mission, isn't it? Yeah, to help people to embody this ancient wisdom, which is 4 000 years old I know mad right, and everyone's like, oh, there's no scientific proof.
Speaker 2:And I'm like, well, it's been going 4000 years, so who am I to question whether this is right or wrong? It wouldn't still be around now if there wasn't some truth in it. And I think you know, as you always say, like we was really sad but I wasn't going to be teaching anymore because I'd learned so much and it gave me the most satisfaction of teaching, if you think, equine science to 16 to 18 year olds. He didn't really enjoy school. My job was to take this really complicated stuff and make it enjoyable for them.
Speaker 2:I remember taking a maths lesson for them once and we were learning about the area of stuff and it was like, so you times this by this, this square, and they're all like, oh, I don't get it, like it's boring. I was like, right, everybody out. So we went into the hay barn. I was like, right, how many bales of hay can you fit in this barn? And they're like, right, well, you can get 10 across and you can get 15 down and seven high. So that's. I was like you've just done the area of the hay barn. Like you can do it out here, you can do it in the classroom and that's what I I love doing, and so I feel that it's something in me that I can take this stuff and just sit with it for a minute and then be able to explain it in a way that hopefully everybody nearly everybody, not everybody, most people can understand and resonate with, and that's what the book was about.
Speaker 2:And even that, like I got frustrated writing the book because I thought it was going to be so easy. I was like, well, I'm just going to sit here and type out all the things that I know. I was like, actually this is hard. I'm taking something that's 4,000 years old and I need to put it down in a way that now fits a modern home. Whether you're renting, whether it's an apartment, whether it's a house, no matter what life stage you're at, like it has to resonate with everybody, and that that was tricky. But that's why I'm really proud of it, because I think I know I've yeah, I've done it, and I think that's where that teaching has come around to help me, and it's amazing.
Speaker 1:I'm so glad that you're proud of yourself, because I'm so proud of you and thank you and your family and your clients and the people who've seen you flourish on this journey. I could talk to you for hours and hours and hours. Honestly, you're just a, you're just a wealth of knowledge and I I do think Feng Shui is something you've learned. I think it's something you've remembered from many lives that you've lived, which is is why it's yeah, it's just a part of who you are, you know and how you walk in the world. So, thank you for following the calling of your soul, thank you for leaning in and leaping and for sharing those stories that are going to resonate with so many people.
Speaker 1:You know, I think it's important to yeah, to share like the journey of, like how you became who you are, to then have the reality meet you. You know your reality is now meeting your inner world, not the other way around, and that's just a testament to who you are and the work that you've done. So, kimberly Gallagher, thank you so much for coming on the show again. I have loved this so much. I can't wait to get my hands on the book and please tell us all about your community so much. I can't wait to get my hands on the book and please tell us all about your community. So much love. I mean, that's got a whole different vibe to it.
Speaker 2:now it's not adult content. Well, you know.
Speaker 1:Damn it. How can people be in your world? Because all my listeners want to be.
Speaker 2:Thank you, but just thank you, kim, for having me back, like you're such a special part of my journey and I'll always, always come back and help you out wherever, and just come and have a chat, because it's such a joy, and thank you and just for supporting everything that I've done and so I have. I said earlier about not splitting yourself between two things or three things, but that's exactly what I've done. So you can find me at thefengshuaflowcom thefengshuaflow on Instagram. I dabbled with TikTok for a bit and realized it's not a space really for me. It's a bit dark and I think I'm too old for it. So that's that.
Speaker 2:I also have an online community, called so well, you can find us on somuchlovecom and it's the kind, the kind space of the internet where you're met with lovely people who are fully supportive in all aspects of your life. And then I don't know if I mentioned it, but the Calm and Happy Home is the book that I've just written and it's available to pre-order now and it's out. Can you believe this? The publishers had no idea it comes out on the 11th of the 11th, the 11th of November, and they had no idea it comes out on the 11th of the 11th, the 11th of November, and they had no idea that that was such a profound day.
Speaker 1:Hilarious, of course it's the 11 11 and it couldn't have been anything else, could it?
Speaker 2:no, I know I was laughing. I was like you do know that's quite a big day and they're like why?
Speaker 1:well, this is the thing as well. Like people, people don't realize, but they do subconsciously. Their soul knows, but consciously they don't.
Speaker 2:And so this is what you're doing, is you're waking up what they already know, that actually this is, this is magical yeah, and just having a view of you know what's the worst that can happen, like give it a go, like nothing, or if it doesn't work, it doesn't work. That's literally the worst thing that can happen.
Speaker 1:But you never know, it might change something quite magical in your life and you are evidence of that, my love, oh, thank you well, when I buy my villa in bali, I am gonna get my blueprint done and make sure that it is facing the right direction to bring in some husband energy, all that good stuff you know, I can help you with that. Thank you, my love, kimberly gallagher. I'll make sure I put all of your links and where to find you in the show notes and thank you, thank you, thank you. I really appreciate you. Thank you, love you.