29 juli 2026
64 min
In this episode, Matt & Corisande sit down with Dr Nina Bal, the facial aesthetics specialist behind one of the UK's most in-demand clinics, to unpack the story most people never hear: a stutter she couldn't speak through, a basement job paying £17 for three hours, and a seven-year-old in an Italian mountain village who somehow already knew she'd be financially free. They get into the strange gap between Nina's two selves, someone with zero fear building a business from nothing, and someone who still second-guesses her own worth at home, and what that split reveals about the difference between fear and intuition.
Dr Nina Bal explains:
How a childhood stutter shaped the woman who now built a career on making people feel seen
Why Nina knew, long before she had the language for manifestation, that she'd have financial independence and marry a foreigner
The £17-per-three-hours basement job that came right before everything changed
Why Nina feels zero fear in her business but constant self-doubt in her personal life, and what that duality actually means
The moment she rented an empty room with not one single appointment booked, and knew it would work anyway
Why she's stopped chasing awards for herself and started building her team and other women up instead
Chapters
00:00:00:00 Trailer
00:01:22:08 Intro to Dr Nina Bal
00:03:44:08 Nina On Balancing Motherhood, Purpose and Productivity
00:08:51:05 How Nina Knew She Was Going To Be Successful
00:15:13:19 How Nina's Stutter Shaped Her Path
00:19:14:13 Nina's Journey From Dentistry To Facial Sculpting
00:20:41:04 Join the Beyond Community
00:21:47:12 Nina's Journey From Dentistry To Facial Sculpting
00:28:48:16 Nina On Forging Her Own Path In Facial Aesthetics
00:32:16:00 Nina On Fear And Taking Risks
00:37:28:15 Overcoming The Ego And Finding Satisfaction
00:41:44:17 What Does 'Beyond' Mean To Nina?
00:43:51:05 Nina's Ambition To Empower Those Around Her
00:48:14:14 Nina On Protecting Your Energy
00:50:54:18 Finding Work-Life Balance
00:53:05:06 What Does Being Present Look Like To Nina?
00:56:43:06 Nina On Harbouring A Support System Around You
00:59:14:11 What The Future Looks Like For Nina
01:00:42:01 Nina On Being A Professional Skier And The Importance Of Sport For Children
About Dr Nina Bal
Dr Nina Bal is a dental surgeon turned facial aesthetics specialist, known as "the facial sculptor," with a client base of over 7,500 built over 15 years. Featured in Forbes and Tatler, she runs her own clinic in Chelsea and has become one of the most recognised names in non-surgical facial aesthetics in the UK.
Learn more about Facial Sculpting: https://www.facialsculpting.co.uk/
Follow Dr Nina on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/drninafacialsculpting
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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