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 Path

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