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00:00So I'm Karen from the Mystic Coffee Lounge, a nice little coffee shop in Cosmo High Street.

00:07Very mystical feel, nice calming atmosphere, been here a year now.

00:13Lost my mum a few weeks ago, she actually passed on Taser in the Rowan's Hospice.

00:19So we've made it a bit of a mission, because they're struggling a little bit at the moment,

00:23we've made it a mission to try and raise some money for them.

00:26So the 27th of June, 10 till 3, we're going to have a charity day for them.

00:33Raise as much money as possible, all of the profits are going to Rowan's.

00:37We've got a raffle with some local businesses that have donated some really lovely prizes.

00:43Cash prizes, we've got a tattoo, quite a few bits and pieces really, but well worth.

00:48Pounder tickets are well worth it.

00:50Okay, so pounder tickets come in and it's going to be mainly a raffle, is that right?

00:53Yeah, but all the profits from the day are also going to Rowan's as well.

00:57So we get just as much money as we can get for the money.

01:00So you've been here a year as well, maybe we could go into a little bit of what makes this cafe so unique.

01:07Well it's quite a holistic feel, I don't think there's any other, especially not in Gorsemouth,

01:12there's no one that does the taro and the coffee in the same place.

01:16All our crystals, I think it makes it a very calming atmosphere.

01:19The amount of people that come in and say they find it a very calming atmosphere, and I agree with that as well.

01:25The minute I walked in I knew this was somewhere that I wanted to be.

01:28I had three years at Costa as well, so that's where I got all my barista training from.

01:32But yeah, do really well with the food and the coffee.

01:36We get a lot of good comments about the coffee that I make.

01:39So you've been here a year, so have you made any changes yourself?

01:45Yeah, when I came in Kate had it the way that she wanted.

01:49I've kept in her parameters, but yeah, just upgraded it all really.

01:53Got a nice coffee machine, collecting my little class.

01:57I've even got customers that manage to bring those in for me as well.

02:00When they go on holiday they'll bring me back a little espresso cup, and I love that.

02:04I love getting them all in on it.

02:07Yeah, perfect, and obviously the taro side, is that quite popular as well?

02:12Definitely, that's why I ended up here, because Kate's always fully booked.

02:16She hadn't had time to do the coffee side of things, so that's when I came in.

02:21So it's freed her up a little bit as well.

02:23She's managed to do little side projects of books and taro cards, and all sorts of love.

02:28She's always on the go, that one.

02:30And do you have quite a lot of regular customers that come through?

02:33Absolutely, yes, yes we do. We have a nice little break with clients now that come in.

02:37I've got to say, mostly older people, but I don't mind that.

02:41We sit and have a chat, and put the world to right, so we're good at that.

02:45Politics, religion, it all goes around in here.

02:48I try and stay clear of those, so I don't get a little bit heated sometimes, oh my goodness.

02:52But you said as well, there's quite a bit of competition down this road as well.

02:56There is, there is. We've got the Palace, Costa itself, Greggs.

03:02There was Subway, I think that's gone now though.

03:04But yeah, quite a few, and people choose to come here, and I like that.

03:09Thank you very much.

03:11So my name's Kate Mayne, and I've been in this industry for about 15 years now, working professionally.

03:18Had the shop six years this month.

03:20Oh six years, so quite a long time then.

03:23Yes.

03:24That's gone through quite a difficult period as well, in terms of Covid and things like that.

03:27Yeah, actually we were really fortunate.

03:29So we'd been here maybe two years when it was Covid,

03:35and we were able to get a lot of the support that the government passed.

03:39So we were definitely one of the lucky ones.

03:41And because I could still do things online, I could still do readings online, the stock we could still sell.

03:48We were able to do, once a week I think we did, takeaway coffees,

03:53where people could come and collect the stock that they'd ordered.

03:56So we were definitely one of the lucky ones.

03:58And when we came back, everybody came back, and more to support us again.

04:03So that was alright, it wasn't too bad.

04:05And your focus now is on the tarot side of it.

04:08Yes.

04:09So what kind of services do you offer?

04:10So predominantly tarot, psychic medium readings.

04:13When I brought Karen in about a year ago, like she said, it was because it was just getting one of the two.

04:19I don't even like coffee, and I can't cook, so I don't know what I was thinking originally.

04:23But it seemed to work for quite a few years, to be fair.

04:25But I knew that that side of business needed someone to focus 100% on it.

04:30I knew I had good potential.

04:32And then I could concentrate on doing the tarot readings, psychic readings.

04:37And I've wrote some books about tarot cards, and obviously selling the stock.

04:41So yeah, to kind of have two separate businesses worked.

04:45How busy are you on the tarot side?

04:47Yeah, quite busy.

04:48It's a big industry.

04:50Portsmouth particularly is big in Portsmouth.

04:55And again, Touchwood, really fortunate that I've been able to do it for many, many years without really struggling for it.

05:04So yeah, I got in Touchwood.

05:07Good reputation.

05:09People seem to like me, like what I do, like I was saying.

05:12But yeah, and I think when you love doing something, it doesn't feel like a job anyway, does it?

05:16It feels really, yeah, it's alright.

05:19For those that don't know, what actually is a tarot reading?

05:21So a tarot reading, so it looks at what's going on around you.

05:24There's different spreads for different things.

05:26But predominantly, it looks at what's going on in your life now, what's coming up in the future.

05:30It gives you guidance and help around situations where there might be choices and decisions to make.

05:36And the mediumship is proving life after death.

05:39Letting people connect to their loved ones that have passed over with evidence.

05:44And bridging that gap between the two worlds.

05:48And do you just kind of pre-book that type of thing?

05:51Yes.

05:52There is odd chances of walk-ins.

05:54But most of it is booked through my website on the calendar.

05:58Is that Mystic Coffee?

06:00No, it's cakemay.co.uk.

06:02And the Coffee Lounge comes under that as well.

06:04So we used to have two websites, but running the two was too much.

06:08So I just amalgamated it into one, cakemay.co.uk, and it's all in there.

06:12That's perfect. Thank you very much.

06:18Thank you.

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