S2 Episode 23 – Rising Connected: Awakening our Feminine Truth, Power and Wisdom with Joey Walters

This week’s episode is one that so many listeners have been waiting for. After receiving multiple requests from our Alive & Loving It community, Karen and Dr. Rosy welcome the extraordinary Joey Walters, founder of Rising Connected — a woman whose teachings have profoundly shaped Karen’s personal and professional path. In this powerful, intimate conversation, Joey shares her journey from burnout in a high-pressure leadership career, to a decade of deep apprenticeship with Earth Wisdom teachers, to the emergence of her global work: Rising Connected, a community framework dedicated to awakening feminine truth, power and wisdom. Together, the three women explore the transformative healing of circle work, the need for safe connection in a disconnected world, and the foundational framework of Rising Connected’s 8 Agreements, principles that help women return to authenticity, embodied presence, choice, integrity, awareness, heartmind, and relatedness. This episode invites listeners into thesacred feminine paradigm: one that honours slowness, nervous-system regulation, emotional truth, and leadership rooted not in perfection, but in soul-led humanity.  References Rising Connected: www.risingconnected.com (Join Joey’s community & updates) Earth Wisdom Teachings Awakening Feminine Leaders (Joey’s earlier community) Women’s Fires (Joey’s free online online gatherings) Karen’s Women’s Circles (based on The 8 Agreements) https://afreshidea.org/womens-circles/ Takeaways The ‘8 Agreements’ are a living framework for awakening. Circle work restores what the modern world has forgotten. Burnout can be a sacred threshold. Co-regulation is powerful medicine. Slowing down is a feminine superpower. Wintering is part of leadership. We are in a collective feminine awakening. Chapters 00:00 – Welcome & Listener Requests 01:20 – Introducing Joey Walters 02:00 – Burnout & the Birth of Rising Connected 04:00 – Earth Wisdom Apprenticeship 07:40 – The Healing Power of Circle 13:00 – Masks, Speed & Feminine Suppression 18:00 – Feeling the Full Emotional Spectrum 20:00 – Distorted Power vs. True Power 24:00 – The Myth of Perfection Falls Away 29:00 – Rising Connected’s 8 Agreements 37:00 – Wintering & Inner Leadership 41:00 – How to Join Circles & Work with the Agreements 48:00 – Final Blessings on the Feminine PathWe’re proud to be sponsored by Cytoplan, a UK-based, practitioner-led supplement company offering ethically and sustainably sourced products to support your health and wellbeing.✨ Enjoy an exclusive 15% discount for our Alive and Loving It community with the code ALIVEPOD-15 at checkout. Discover more at cytoplan.co.ukJoin our Alive and Loving it Community find the loving support that you need to change, grow and healThis is more than a podcast, it’s a movement. A space to reignite your energy, find kindred spirits, align with your purpose, and step into a future of love, vitality, and limitless possibility.🌟 Your kindred spirits are here! Visit www.aliveandlovingit.org for more resources, and follow us on Instagram