SOVEREIGN
STORYTELLER
DECOLONIZE YOUR VOICE & VISIBILITY
A 6-week course for heart-led knowledge-workers & paradigm-shifting leaders who want to sustainably expand their wisdom-sharing practices, creative expression, & radical leadership
Honor your sacred knowing.
Exercise liberatory self-expression.
Get free.
✹ If you want to speak with a steady voice & crystal-clear message...
✹ If you want your words to feel like a love letter to your people...
✹ If you want your creations to shift paradigms & liberate communities...
✹ If you want the healing & prosperity of all your generations to flow through the veins of your work...
✹ If you want to serve within gentler, more sustainable, and more dignified systems of knowing, being, & working...
Then you need to become a sovereign storyteller.
This course guides you to embody your wisdom unshakably and express it without disclaimers.
Untangle your voice from a snare of limiting narratives.
Clear the message lines of your body; speak from a knowing deep within your cells.
In this course, you will...
release limiting narratives that keep you small
nurture your nervous system & expand your capacity
restore trust & confidence in your voice
decolonize your relationship with voice & visibility
channel your wisdom & visions with courage & calm
connect to a storytelling lineage that sustains your creative service
learn to call in your learners with undiluted messaging from your heart
The Transformations
You'll go from...
Nervous to speak,
unsure of your voice
Equipped with somatic practices & practical shifts to trust your body
Overwhelmed by other
voices & narratives
Recognizing your dynamic voice & honoring your unique stories
Muting your voice,
keeping yourself small
Embodying your storytelling birthright & power
Isolated in your mission,
losing hope in your agency & impact
Rooted in practices of community & lineage to sustain your journey
Playing by the status quo, even if it feels limiting & misaligned
Having the courage & clarity to take radical, subversive, generative action
SOVEREIGN
exercising the right to self-determine, especially within the context of oppressive systems; a way of contesting an intolerable status quo
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STORYTELLER
One who makes sense of themselves & the world around them, then shares their understandings through narrative expression with others
The context...
In this age of “everyone is a personal brand”, the demand for storytelling (or story-selling) is suffocating. Your algorithm is stuffed with ads and copy-cat content telling you to “show up”, “be raw”, “get over vulnerability hang-overs”. And pay $$$$ to learn some guru’s story-selling formula when everything else doesn't work.
But you, critical thinker, recognize that most of these tactics are manipulative, contribute to oppressive narratives, and amplify imposter syndrome and freeze for anyone with an ethical compass.
So how do those of us who aren’t interested in being a boss babe or bro marketer share our important knowledge beyond traditional institutions or unpaid volunteer work?
There has to be a better path to stepping into expanded knowledge work.
A path of sounding your voice, gathering your people, and exchanging your wisdom in a way that honors your connection to wholeness, humanity, dignity, love, and collective freedom.
And here’s the thing about you...
You won’t stop looking until you find that path.
The person...
→ You’re a radical heart-led leader. You see and do things differently. Your sensitive loving heart, pattern-recognizing brain, and persistent desire to learn and grow pull you on this less-trodden path, no matter what.
→ You wish for a healthy planet for your next 7 generations. You’d dream of shifting paradigms away from this billionaire’s landfill version of society to a liberated, thriving collective future for us and our planet.
→ You’re noticing that your impact within current systems is increasingly limited. Your calm, your creativity, and your hope is waning daily. Something pulls you to do more, do differently.
→ For you, stepping into more visibility and expanded leadership, is about voicing something radically different from the mainstream. You want to plug your messages into a collective narrative that nourishes and frees us all.
→ Compassion fatigue, past traumas, and oppressive systems all add up to racing thoughts, heart palpitations, and stomach pangs – somatic sensations that contend with the creative visions incubating in your heart. You sense that the sustainability of your service is connected to the strength of your nervous system, but it often feels so delicate.
→ You have glimmers of creative visions. Maybe even a fully formed picture of your mission being carried out. But it often feels too big to breathe language into. The steps to get there feel uncharted and unconventional, demanding a level of courage that feels just out-of-reach.
→ Self-doubt sits right next to your super-sensitivity and ethical compass, collectively pushing the pause button on your action-taking. Past memories of speaking in public with sweaty palms and shaky voice erode your trust in yourself to live out your vision.
You don’t dare say a full “no” to your soul's calling, but you stall a little longer, wary of stepping forward into vulnerability and visibility.
The shift...
And yet, you care so much.
And you are making a difference. You have so many moments of making heart-led choices, swimming upstream, standing your ground:
That person you stood up for.
That project you volunteered for.
That post you made to speak against injustice.
That thing you said “no” to because it didn't align with your values.
You've followed your heart a thousand times in this lifetime already. Sometimes taking significant risks to do so. Many times with no one else seeing.
Despite the uncertainty, you’ve kept walking this less-trodden path, feeling your way into an existence that is more real, more loving, more sustainable.
Your cells hold each of your stories, choices, and moments of radical agency.
And you're here now.
The unique combination of your moments in your life brought you to this point.
That is a miracle worth celebrating.
So what now?...
Imagine:
What happens when the world's most thoughtful people take up more space? (Take back space occupied by less caring leaders?)
When their voices, experiences, knowledge, and imagination form the culture of their fields and their communities?
The answer to those questions is the vision I invite you to step into.
I want you to become the most powerful storyteller (knowledge + humanity sharer) that you can be.
I believe our collective liberation depends on it.
Your story is worth sharing.
Your knowledge is necessary.
Your experiences are illumination for your people.
And there's a way to reclaim your voice. I'm here to help.
Your power and creative expansion was obscured from you by dominant systems that fractured your connection to your self-sovereignty, ancient rituals, oral knowledge, culture, and communities.
The work of Sovereign Storytelling is a work of remembering your birthright, uncovering your voice of power within, and coming home to the lineages whose wisdom flows through you.
When enough of us do this work, we tip the scales. We co-create sustainable change. We make our worlds better together.
This story work guides you to your power and restores you in profound, recursive, and regenerating ways.
Sovereign storytelling is an embodied homecoming. It's growing into the wholeness that your body was meant for. The blueprint for this way of living, creating, and knowledge-sharing is held in the living systems & lineages you're connected to. Which means you're already a storyteller living within storied communities.
Becoming your most sovereign storyteller self doesn't require a pilgrimage, certification, or transcendental experience. Sovereign story work only requires safety (to access our memory, experience calm in our body, and share without a sense of danger) and community (to ground ourselves and our actions in reciprocity, belonging, and purpose).
Within safety & community, you do the sacred work of knowing yourself, loving yourself, and choosing which important parts of yourself, your learning, and your gifts to share with your communities.
Sovereign story work is a work of claiming who you want to be.
Your knowledge & service deserve a sustainable channel of powerful expression.
Sovereign Storytelling is you becoming this channel through everyday practices of self-knowing, self-determining, & self-expression.
It's a process of languaging our way into the liberated conditions we want to manifest in our communities.
When we do, our people find us, receive from us, and shift paradigms with us, sustainably.
Are you ready to find your way out of shrinking & stalling?
Are you ready to step into reclaimed self-expression?
Are you ready to set your voice & visions free?
The Story Work Process
CONTEXTUALIZE
Understand the contexts you exist in; do the work with self-compassion and systems awareness
RELEASE
Connect to the body; learn simple somatic practices to nurture your nervous system, move through blockages, & release constricting narratives
GATHER
Shape memory into story; practice safe & liberating self-inquiry, anchored in integrity & care, craft your moments into medicine
HONOR
Get to know your voice; learn to recognize & refine all its dynamic, shape-shifting registers, celebrating its range & depth
DETERMINE
Channel self-knowing into self-expression; activate your most congruent agency through deep self-awareness, context awareness, rejection of oppressive narratives, and discerning radical action
SUSTAIN
Grow community through story; step into an expanded role of knowledge-sharer, facilitator, and space-maker through your liberated voice & intuitive vision
The Sovereign Storyteller Course
This course is a go-to-kit of remedies,
a craft box of creative tools,
a portal into a new way of thinking
(about yourself & the world),
and an unforgettable collective journey.
You won’t be the same on the other side.
You will be miraculously & undeniably more YOU*
And YOU are exactly what the world needs.
*(you: as in the exact irreplicable amalgamation of matter, energy, impressions, choices, thoughts, causes & effects, molecules, memories, and moments that make up you AND the myriad, shape-shifting possibilities of who you are still in process of becoming & self-determining).
MODULE 1: SOVEREIGN STORYTELLING -
WHAT IS IT & WHY DO WE NEED IT?
You'll leave with...
This module gives you a clearer understanding of why other forms of storytelling haven’t been sitting right with you, an audit of the stories you consume & believe, clarity on how your best storytelling is already emerging, and guidance to dream up the storytelling you choose to be a part of now.
We'll cover...
𖧧 Our enduring need for story
𖧧 What is and isn't a story
𖧧 Healthy story systems to root into
𖧧 Systems of harm & how to break free
𖧧 Why you're here - your path to expanded leadership
𖧧 How this course walks with you on your journey
You'll practice...
𖧧 AUDITING THE STORIES YOU CONSUME, BELIEVE, & TELL
𖧧 SETTING SACRED INTENTIONS FOR YOUR STORIES
MODULE 2: YOUR SACRED STORYTELLING BIRTHRIGHT
You'll leave with...
This session will shift how you see the act of storytelling and yourself as a storyteller. You’ll gain a foundation for radically empowered choice-making in how you see, process, and share your knowledge. You’ll reconnect with your inherent truths, molecular wisdom, and interconnected storytelling lineage in a way that can’t be unseen once you’ve seen it.
We'll cover...
𖧧 Prerequisites for storytelling: Safety & Communion
𖧧 Sacred Storytelling: The map to discernment & power storage
𖧧 Seeking embodiment: Rooting into our storytelling lineages
𖧧 You are already a storyteller: Seeing your molecular wisdom
𖧧 Better practices for being human: Radical agency & a super-efficient toolbox
You'll practice...
𖧧 SILENT WRIITNG PRACTICE: I AM HELPFUL (I BE KNOWING SOME SH*T)
𖧧 COMMUNITY GALLERY WALK: OUR STORIES WEAVE US TOGETHER
MODULE 3: TRUSTING THE STORIES IN YOUR BODY
You'll leave with...
This session guides our self-inquiry deeper into the body, illuminating common fracture points so you can better understand how your voice & visibility “limps” have developed. This session is also a guided “physical therapy” session, to begin to correct those “limps” and invite our bodies, minds, and voices back into a more harmonious relationship with one another. You’ll learn practices to come back to again & again, becoming your own “story chiropractor” to release blocks & knots.
We'll cover...
𖧧 A storied body - a journey from innocence, to betrayal, to reclaimed sovereignty
𖧧 A body of power - Somatic practices to hold & heal, change & create
𖧧 The power of naming: Identifying & releasing the narratives that imprison us
𖧧 Release -Reframe - Replace: A process for self-liberation anytime, anywhere
You'll practice...
𖧧 GUIDED SOMATIC PRACTICE: TRUST YOUR CELLS
𖧧 STORY BLOCK RELEASE JOURNAL: DOCUMENT YOUR SELF-RELEASE
MODULE 4: YOUR VOICE, YOUR INSTRUMENT
You'll leave with...
This session reveals the weeds that are choking your voice’s freest growth & expression. As you weed out these invaders, you’ll be guided into nurturing practices to reacquaint yourself with your dynamic, unique voice. Through this work, you’ll learn to love your voice’s distinct qualities, range, and focus. You’ll leave with practices for continued refinement and care of your developing voice, emboldening you to share your voice with your worlds.
We'll cover...
𖧧 Your voice among others: Quiet the noise, recognize your own
𖧧 Your dynamic voice: Different contexts, different registers of voice
𖧧 Channeling your voice into expression: Spoken, written, creative, instructive, intuitive
𖧧 Your voice outside of you: Recognizing, refining, remixing
You'll practice...
𖧧 THE VOICE-FINDER WORKBOOK: I KNOW MY VOICE, I LOVE MY VOICE
𖧧 INTEGRATION EXERCISE: HEAR MY VOICE DO WHAT IT DOES
MODULE 5: MAKING WITH MEMORIES
You'll leave with...
This session invites us into gentler ways of working with memory - transmuting our experience of feeling like we’re walking in a landmine to one of painting a picture with creativity & calm. You’ll shift your relationship with your memory towards deeper trust, anchoring in your integrity and care. The throughline in this session is sovereign choice-making, a practice that reinforces our safety and power.
We'll cover...
𖧧 How a story is born: Lived experience → Memory → Story
𖧧 The thing about memory: You can be trustworthy, even when your memory isn't
𖧧 Safe memory work: Go at the pace of your nervous system, move with curiosity & compassion
𖧧 The art of noticing in memory work: become the narrative researcher of your life
𖧧 Explore your memories; make sovereign choices
You'll practice...
𖧧 GUIDED SOVEREIGN CHOICE-MAKING: I AM A WISE LEADER
𖧧 THE MEMORY EXPLORER WORKBOOK: STORY MATTER AS HOMECOMING
MODULE 6: STORY AS SELF-KNOWING FOR POWER
You'll leave with...
This session guides you into the practice of critical, yet compassionate self-inquiry– one of the most powerful tools of self-determination. By deepening our practices of making sense of our experiences in context of the systems we exist within, we invite in both radical compassion for our past stories and liberatory self-determination for the stories we have yet to write. This session teaches a powerful tool of story inquiry that guides you to ask better questions, try on multiple perspectives, develop mobilizing working-theories, and voice a clearer story of who you are, how you got here, and what happens next.
We'll cover...
𖧧 The Story Work paradox: Connect the puzzle pieces; Release the figure from the stone
𖧧 Processing your stories: Meaning-making for sovereignty
𖧧 Story Work as self-inquiry for collective liberation: A 3-step process
You'll practice...
𖧧 THE STORY INQUIRY JOURNAL: A 3-STEP PROCESS TO SELF-KNOWING
𖧧 GUIDED PROCESSING & SHARING: I AM _____, I ______.
MODULE 7: STORYTELLING TO SUSTAIN COMMUNITIES
You'll leave with...
This final session grounds your transformative story work into powerful intentions, lineage, and a storytelling community that will carry you forward on this journey. You’ll define your storyteller’s blueprint, intuitively naming your storytelling elder’s and inviting their imprint into your work. You’ll learn practices to sustain and integrate, continuing to expand your capacity as knowledge-worker & creative leader. We’ll close with community rituals that will inform and empower your future knowledge-sharing experiences.
We'll cover...
𖧧 Why are you a storyteller?
𖧧 Making space for storytelling
𖧧 Expanding your capacity to hold & channel sacred story
𖧧 Story as communion, relationship, and purpose
𖧧 Root into your storytelling lineage & circles
You'll practice...
𖧧 YOUR CHOSEN STORYTELLER’S VOICE GUIDE: A CONSTELLATION OF IMPRINTS
𖧧 COMMUNITY-MAKING RITUALS: OUR STORIES WEAVE US TOGETHER
What's included?
6 LIVE WORKSHOPS
A special opportunity to learn in real time. Process in paradigm-shifting community with other visionaries.
7 MODULES
The entire course is yours to keep for life. Go at your own pace (2x or with lots of pauses). Revisit as needed.
TOOLS & WORKBOOKS
The one-of-a-kind resources I use with my 1:1 clients that have changed lives and started my whole coaching business.
3 OFFICE HOURS
Drop-in sessions. Co-working/writing time to move through the workbooks & tools + open Q&A to receive real time support.
COMMUNITY
Stay connected through our community group even after the course is over. This journey is anything but isolated.
SOMATIC VAULT
A growing, go-to vault of easy somatic practices, including video clips, guided audio exercises, and PDFs. Make honoring your body mundane.
It's my joy to work with people who care about earth & humanity ...
I want you to take up more space. I want your vision to live in the world.
Hey, I'm Joey! 👋🏽
I'm an educator, storyteller, coach, healer, & activist...
My journey with sacred story work began in my classroom, where I witnessed how story-sharing could transform not just the storyteller, but entire communities. As a spoken word coach and creator of university-approved coursework on Oral Expressions, I learned how to create safe spaces for authentic voices to emerge. Working with historically excluded students and teachers, I saw firsthand how liberating our stories could help us reclaim our power and dignity.
This work is deeply personal for me. As someone who grew up biracial, multi-lingual, an immigrant, autistic, and a trauma survivor, I understand the complexity of sharing our stories in a world that hasn't always made space for our voices. My own healing journey, (including becoming a certified Kundalini yoga teacher & learning from Indigenous teachers about healthier, more collective ways of being), has shaped how I approach story work.
I've taken all I've learned—from my Ph.D. research on narrative traditions, my years teaching and coaching, my healing, my cultures, my deep relationship with my elders, my travels, and my practice of decolonial frameworks—and crystallized it into this sovereign story work methodology. This framework honors both the individual's healing journey and our collective liberation.
My mission is to support a community of thriving voices from the global majority who will reverberate their necessary knowledge, imagination, and ideas for the liberation of our best collective futures. I'm here to hold space for your story journey, offering both the practical tools and sacred practices that allow your authentic voice to emerge.
I'm so glad you're here. Your stories matter, and together we can create the conditions for them to be shared in ways that heal and liberate both you and your communities.
Who's this course for?
People in roles like...
educators
creatives
coaches
leaders
service-providers
ENTREPRENEURS
who care about...
humanity
earth
healing
reciprocity
decolonizing
COLLECTIVE LIBERATION
and are seeking more...
gentleness
dignity
sustainability
nuance
community
rootedness
This is for you.
The Community Stories
My teaching of this Sovereign Story Work is shaped by the stories I’ve witnessed and been a part of – personal liberation for collective freedom.
ACTUALIZE
For L, this work helped her untangle her choices from the limiting voices of her family members who didn’t see her for her true self, helping her take concrete steps to actualize her creative vision.
SPEAK
For K, this work guided him from being too nervous to speak in a group setting, to standing powerfully on stage telling his story of survival in a war-torn country & sounding the call for collective revolution.
LIBERATE
For P, this work helped her reconnect with her younger self's needs, catalyzing new boundaries and self-worth, helping her free herself from toxic relationships.
REGENERATE
For H, this work helped her cultivate calm in her anxious body, untangling threads of betrayal, abandonment, and negativity, loving herself into new bravery to start her own business
ALCHEMIZE
For S, this work helped her to alchemize a job rejection into a powerful self-designed community leadership role, granted by the same hiring panel who’d previously rejected her.
EXPAND
For M, this work helped her see herself as a teacher for the first time, weaving her story-wisdom into paradigm-shifting workshops and organically attracting her people to learn from her.
Sovereign Story Work has allowed me & my students to choose who we are becoming and what worlds we create, no matter where we come from or what happened to us in our past.
This freedom is yours too.
A little constellation of sovereign storytelling magic in my life...
Join our community of
sovereign storytellers...
THE LIVE ROUND...
MAY 16 - JUNE 27, 2025
Join me in this special opportunity to be one of the moment-makers for this course...shape the learning with your questions, insights, and heart!
6 WORKSHOP SESSIONS ~ 2 HOURS EACH
THURSDAYS 9PM EDT/FRIDAYS 11AM AET
3 OFFICE HOUR SESSIONS ~ 1 HOUR EACH
VARIOUS TIMES FOR DIFFERENT TIME ZONES, TBA
Join the special live round cohort to be “in the room” as the magic happens. You're helping me get my wisdom on film for others! Our interactive sessions blend teaching, discussion, somatic practices, writing, sharing, and reflection. This is your unique chance to co-construct the learning with me and other loving, creative, mission-driven dreamers.
All sessions will be recorded and made available for replay access. The whole course is yours to keep. Enrollment will stay open even after the live sessions have begun. This course will continue to be made available as an evergreen course with periodic office hours offered.
Choose your level of participation in our live sessions. Be a fly on the wall, engage as a chat box warrior, or participate on camera + mic’d up if the spirit moves you. You will have final say in how much of your presence is included in our replay video. This is a safe space and playground to exercise your sovereign choice-making in an aligned community.
LIVE ROUND - SESSION SCHEDULE
Access Module 1 & the pre-work instantly when you register. (Available in your portal after 4/21/2025.)
Live dates for 2025 are listed below. Replays & materials are yours forever.
SESSION 1
May 15, 6pm PST/ May 16, 11am AET
SESSION 2
May 14, 6pm PST/ May 23, 11am AET
SESSION 3
May 29, 6pm PST/ May 30, 11am AET
SESSION 4
June 5, 6pm PST/ June 6, 11am AET
SESSION 5
June 12, 6pm PST/ June 13, 11am AET
SESSION 6*
June 26, 6pm PST/ June 27, 11am AET
*We skip the week of June 19th, while I'll be travelling. This gives you a beautiful chance to do & integrate the work.
**OFFICE HOURS Dates & Times will be announced after we gather responses from the group.
Enroll now in the live round; keep the course for life.
This time only, it's yours for $450 $222.
(Or 3 monthly payments of $74).
Joey lives and works in her birthplace of Taiwan, the ancestral lands of many Indigenous peoples (including the Amis, Atayal, Bunun, Kanakanavu, Kavalan, Paiwan, Puyuma, Rukai, Saisiyat, Sakizaya, Seediq, Thao, Truku, Tsou, and Yami peoples) and in Hawaii, the ancestral lands of the Kānaka Maoli (Native Hawaiian) people.
My collaborator, Malia, lives and works on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territory of the Tongva (Gabrielino), Tataviam, and Chumash peoples, who continue to steward the Los Angeles region to this day. We acknowledge the painful histories of colonization and honor Indigenous communities who maintain their kinship with these lands.
We recognize our deep interconnection with the more-than-human world—the waters, mountains, forests, and all beings with whom we share these sacred places—and the responsibility this kinship demands of us. We commit to supporting Indigenous sovereignty and environmental stewardship through our work.
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