Sovereign Storyteller.

[ Course + Cohort ]

A course & community for paradigm-shifting creators & founders to sustainably grow & share their wisdom, creative expression, & radical leadership.

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Honor your sacred knowing.
Exercise liberatory self-expression.
Get free. [And bring your people with you.]

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 to serve within gentler, more sustainable, and more dignified systems of knowing, being, & working...

Then you need to become a sovereign storyteller.

Sovereign Storytellers Say

"Visibility used to feel unsafe for me, but now, with the inner architectural shift that visibility is a form of devotion and service to my people, I no longer fear visibility as much - while still a work-in-progress, I really see myself feeling more comfortable with visibility with each passing day. "

—Jasmine Teo, Founder of Textured Life Wellness
"Sovereign Storyteller offered me a space, context and support, collaboration with peers to feel nested into an environment that is allowing me to birth my life's work. Beyond anything I could have envisioned or imagined for myself. My main intention enrolling was to keep on connecting to my story, and find more words to talk about my life, experience and work. However, what ended up happening is first a connection with my deeper purpose and mission as well as my ancestral calling. I don't even have words yet to fully describe the level of creation that is happening in my system. That's how big and alive it feels."

—Natalie Fukuda, Artist, French Teacher and Creative Healer at Image and Sound Studios
"I'm integrating what I've learned in this space by sharing more of my voice, strengthening my self-advocacy and self-trust, and believing that I can start my business again and redefine parts of my story that felt limiting. I have more tools to be able to leverage in my own story work and I have names for frameworks that have already guided me beforehand, and I can continue to share this work beyond this online classroom into my circles, future community spaces, and maybe one day, on stages! "

— Eril Morales, Founder of Honor Your Growth
"Programs like this feel essential in a world that is constantly asking for more - more output, more speed, more visibility, more consumption. What you’re offering moves in the opposite direction, and that feels not only rare, but necessary. This work creates space for depth, discernment, and integrity - things that are often lost in the “give me more, give me faster” culture. I truly hope you never stop creating and holding spaces like this. They matter more than ever. Also, your ability to hold space while also keeping us on track - and to name things directly when it mattered - is remarkable. That balance between care and clarity, safety and accountability, is rare. It’s a big part of what made this container feel grounded, trustworthy, and alive."

—Barbara Tursan Mišić
"What stands out most to me is the community coaching sessions. Joey your ability to hold any question, revelation, discomfort with so much love, wisdom and kindness blows me away. Your ability to tune into the individual in that moment and know just how to doula them through to the next stage or hold up the mirror, is done with the most incredible amount of love, skill and compassion. I am in awe of how you hold space. It is a gift to be in your presence. "

—Georgia Denny Coaching
"Dr. Joey does a phenomenal job of creating a container that gives you the experience of feeling held while simultaneously nudging you to find your own resources and strength along with a firm belief that each person has stories waiting to be uncovered."

—Sovereign Storyteller Student

[Who is this for?]

**For those courageous enough to make new things [worlds] and share their wisdom [gifts] with others, hoping to become steady & powerful enough to channel all they hold for the world.**

This is for those who care so much. Who want to do it right — right by their people, the planet, their own humanity. Who know they might have to start (or keep running) a business to do the thing they’re meant to do — because their most useful self simply doesn’t fit into traditional roles anymore.

This is for those who refuse to compromise on their values, dignity, and the agency of their people. Their body won’t let them anyways.

This is for those who know it won’t work without them being known on some level, but they need a more congruent path to visibility and revenue than what’s been offered in the capitalist mainstream.

If you’re whole body is nodding along, that’s YOU.

[ In this course you will...]

Release limiting narratives that keep you stuck
Nurture your nervous system & expand your capacity
Restore trust & confidence in your voice
Decolonize your relationship with self & 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

[ 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

[ Why this is exactly where you must start. ]

In this age of “everyone is a personal brand”, the demand for storytelling [or story-selling] is suffocating. But you, critical thinker, recognize that most of these tactics are manipulative, contribute to oppressive narratives, and amplify 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 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.

A Better Way

[ You’re here for a reason. ]

→ 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 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.

→ 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.

→ 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 feel uncharted and unconventional, demanding a level of courage that feels just out-of-reach.

[ You move with so much care. ]

And the unique combination of your moments in your life brought you to this point.

You’re outgrowing old roles & spaces. Receiving what comes next.

[ So what now?]

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.

So the world's most thoughtful people —you— stay small while less caring voices dominate the culture.

But imagine:

What happens when the world's most thoughtful people take up (take back) more space?

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.

Your story is worth sharing.

Your knowledge is necessary.

Your experiences are illumination for your people.

Sovereign Storyteller guides you to become the most powerful storyteller (knowledge + humanity sharer) that you can be.

Because when enough of us remember how to story ourselves into sovereignty, everything changes.

And there's a way to reclaim, steward, & sustain your voice, together. I'm here to help.

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.

This is an embodied homecoming. It's growing into the wholeness that your body was meant for.

Sovereign story work is a work of claiming who you want to be.

Sovereign Storytelling is you becoming a channel for your wisdom & visions, through everyday practices of self-knowing, self-determining, & self-expression.

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.

When you do, your people find you, choose you, learn from you, and stay with you long enough to shift paradigms.

When enough of us do this work, we tip the scales. We co-create sustainable change. We make our worlds better together.

Are you ready to find your way out of shrinking & stalling?

Are you ready to root your leadership into lineage?

Are you ready to voice the wisdom your community seeks?

This isn't another 'vulnerability as marketing' course.

This is how you metabolize your lessons & embody your gifts to call in your right people, channel your needed wisdom, and grow flourishing community around your vision.

I'm Ready

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[ Welcome to your sovereign learning garden. ]

**[ The Self-Paced Course. ]**

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.
This module 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.
This module 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 module guides us 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.
This module 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.
This module 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 module is sovereign choice-making, a practice that reinforces our safety and power.
This module 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 module 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.
This module 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.

[ BONUS 1 ] - Shape Your Story Workshop

This workshop gives you my five-step story-shaping process that moves from story idea to finished piece, transcending any creative freeze along the way: making intentional space, gathering your story matter, organizing structure, writing, and refining.
Each step includes somatic support for your nervous system and sovereignty at every choice point — so you move through the work at your own pace, in your own way.
The accompanying workbook guides you through the full process from blank page to story you're ready to share.
[ BONUS 2 ] Stewarding Our Money Stories

In this intimate community call, I walk you through my process of untangling long-carried money stories, illuminating the interaction between memory, belief, value, and action.
Getting curious about the process behind my first back-to-back 14k months, I demonstrate the process of sacred story inquiry (taught in the self-paced course).
Applying the inquiry tools to my sneakier money beliefs and actions, it was this sacred work of untangling my self-concept around money that helped me write better stories around my money stewardship.

Words from Sovereign Storytellers.

“Sovereign Storyteller is not just a course, it is an EXPERIENCE. You will discover things about yourself, about the world, about what is possible, that you had no idea about coming in. It will take you on a journey of self-discovery and creativity, self-love beyond your dreams and imagination.

Joey does not play when it comes to SOVEREIGNTY. She MEANS it. It is ALL OVER her program, thinking and space. You will learn about your personal power, about your soul, about your talents and gifts, about your magic.

If you are able to join the live cohort, I cannot recommend it more. It is in the community that Joey's work blooms in all its splendor as everything is created for the students to live, train in, enjoy, create, daydream, communicate, relate, bond, and even become family.

Joey's Sovereign Storyteller feels like a big family dinner table where everyone is invited and we get to show up as ourselves, just as we are, and have deep and light, challenging, confronting, inspiring and fun conversations.

Joey's work stands for liberating the individual in all its glory, magic, poetry and diversity, and you can count on her cheering you on every step of your journey.”

Natalie Fukuda

“Sovereign Storyteller has helped me see myself so much more clearly and deeply, as I excavate and tend to my stories with care. As I take better care of myself, I am in turn able to do the same for others and with others. The work that I've done in SS not just benefits me, but my web of relationships, and I can literally feel and see the change.

In my personal relationships, I have started to acknowledge and name what I desire, instead of always letting my desires 'take the back seat'. I've learnt that sharing my desire is giving others the opportunity to meet me where I would like to be met, rather than leaving it up to guesswork (and therefore perhaps setting the other party up for failure). As a therapist, SS has made me EVEN MORE attuned to the linguistic and cultural backgrounds of my clients.

Sovereign Storyteller has PERMEATED my life and BECAME part of my life, and IS a part of me. I feel a lot more confident in using my voice, and showing up as JUST ME.”

Jasmine Teo

“You might think you’re joining to learn how to tell better stories. But what you’re really entering is a space where parts of you that have been waiting - quietly, patiently - finally get the safety to speak. Sovereign Storyteller is a rare combination of depth and structure. It’s a magical space, yes - but grounded. A genuinely safe container where you’re not pushed to perform, share prematurely, or turn your story into content. If you’re someone who works with depth, truth, and integrity, this isn’t a program that teaches you how to speak. It helps you remember when, where, and why your voice belongs.”

Barbara Tursan Mišić

劉永真

Hi, I’m Joey

I'm a story teacher, curriculum designer, and educator-activist with a Ph.D. in Culture & Curriculum. For nearly two decades, I've helped people transform their lived experiences into creations and power. I believe in shaping the world with our shared their wisdom — without selling out our dignity, values, or humanity.

My work centers people from the Global Majority and those shaped by systemic oppression. Decades of teaching liberatory pedagogy to thousands of humans has equipped me with a particular capacity to help people of all backgrounds move beyond shame, disconnection, and freeze into better relationships with self, place, community, and purpose.

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 leadership & visibility.

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 most liberated, flourishing self emerge.

I teach sacred, somatic story work as an ancestral practice and tool for collective liberation. Sovereign Storyteller is the live, co-constructed expression of that work — the place where methodology becomes embodied practice, held in thriving community.

Two Pathways.

[Self-Study Course]

Lifetime access to the course 
Proven strategies and tools previously only available to 1:1 clients 
7 modules – segmented video lessons 
7 interactive workbooks 
Trauma-informed, inclusive curriculum 
Growing Somatic Practices Vault
BONUS #1: Shape Your Story Workshop
BONUS #2: Steward Your Money Stories Session
$350 USD or 2 payments of $175

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[ Course + Cohort ]

Everything included in the self-study course 
6 months access to community portal 
6 months of personalized async coaching by Joey
24 x Spotlight Coaching calls 
12 x Write & Wonder calls
15+ Adjunct Faculty & Guest Teacher Sessions
2x Do Your Work-shops guided building days
Weekly integration & publishing challenges
Exclusive pathway to Sovereignty Alumni Community
2026 BONUS #1: Claim Your Story Workshop
2026 BONUS #2: The Love Letters Course
$3330 [or 2 payment plan options]

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Become your vision with us.

[ The SS Cohort experience. ]

This is where your most powerful self-expression meets your fullest self-knowing, freeing you to be the vessel of creation you know you're meant to be.

Become the one who can bring your vision to earth. Be supported every step of the way.

SS 3.0 begins May 19th.

Apply to the sS 3.0 cohort

In the Sovereign Storyteller cohort, emergent creators, founders, & visionaries demolish whatever is holding them back and rebuild their most coherent inner architecture to sustain their truest becoming and steadiest building. This is how their best work emerges and shifts paradigms.

Whatever you’re growing — a business, a community, a body of work, a movement — a few things are required to make it happen and make it truly yours. Your voice, your vision, your artistry, your capacity, your coherence, and your desire. All of this often lies under layers of conditioning and a lifetime of self-sabotage.

To become who you know you’re meant to be and bring to life the visions you hold, your becoming journey is both a homecoming & an apprenticeship.

In Sovereign Storyteller, you root yourself in what has always been yours to hold you. And in this home space, you devote yourself to the mastery, capacity, and artistry that is calling you.

We do this work in real community. Apply now to join our next cycle.

Apply To The Cohort

“ Transformed my relationship with my voice... and made visibility so much easier, easeful.”

— Jasmine, Psychotherapist & Founder of Textured Life Wellness

The Cohort Experience At-a-Glance.

Lifetime access to the SS self-study course

7 modules, follow-along workbooks, somatic vault — a full curriculum framework to revisit, deepen, and integrate for life. This is the curriculum that shifts your whole relationship with your voice & visibility (hint: you free yourself).

Write & Wonder calls

Guided writing time (with Joey's infamous original prompts), sandwiched between somatic practice & community discussion.

[Try out last cycle’s prompts.]

Weekly Coaching Calls with Joey (2x)

Live, personalized guidance during Phase 1 and Phase 3. Two call times per week so every time zone has live access. (Past SS students have said these sessions changed their lives.)

15+ guest teacher sessions

Adjunct faculty and special guest teachers bring a depth and breadth of somatic support and collective wisdom to the cohort. Almost every week, drop into the spaces held by teachers who have changed

6 months of support

Private community space for peer connection, co-wondering, story sharing, and async coaching throughout the full program. Personalized coaching from me here, even during the integration phase. This space has fostered deep ongoing connections in past cohort.

Pathway to Sovereignty

After completing the cohort, you'll have exclusive access to the Sovereignty alumni membership to continue the work in an ongoing community with exclusive alumni coaching.

[ The Cohort Structure ]

The foundational curriculum. Move through the modules and workbooks at your own pace. The live cohort experience allows for your sovereign learning experience. Whether you skim or dive deep, the frameworks and exercises hold you in an ongoing, ever-deepening experience of cultivating your truest voice, steadiest self-knowing, and fullest self-expression.

7 modules · Growing Somatic Vault
Lifetime Access
This is where I do my most powerful work with you. I hold the cohort and coach one-by-one. Receive personalized guidance to self-inquire, reframe, and untangle your stickiest questions and experiences. Witness your fellow storytellers as they do their guided inquiry work. Space to publish, exercise your voice, refine your message, test out working theories, and create new proof of what is possible.

Phase 1 & Phase 2
May-June · August-Oct
This is our weekly conditioning class. Experience my beloved community-building practices, gentle somatic exercises, and my famous channeled prompts - always original, always timely. Our protected writing time is where you AI-proof your thinking & writing. Our small-group breakout rooms let you gather & deepen cohort relationships around shared interests, learning goals, and stories.

Phase 1 & Phase 2
May-June · August-Oct
Guided co-working spaces with access to Joey's eyes, heart, and brain. I structure a 2-hour working deep dive around powerful creation objectives. We flow between somatic support, guided thinking & writing processes, focused creative flow, space to be witnessed, and strategic feedback. You leave with something defined and shareable in your hands.
Phase 1 & Phase 2
June · September
The digital space that holds you in community the whole way. It's been described as a beautiful public park by past Sovereign Storytellers. This platform contains channels for publishing your stories, connecting with story friends, deepening our ongoing dialogue, asking your async questions & receiving personalized coaching, and jumping into pop-up lives with me. This space stays open the whole 6-month arc.
6 months access
May — Oct
Practicum work designed to integrate the learning into your muscle memory, scaffolded to expand your capacity as we go. This is where input flows to output sustainably. Each assignment is tiered — exercise your sovereignty to make each assignment meet your season and desire. I give you the accountability and accessibility to cultivate at the edge of your expansion. You do the work that roots your becoming into your greatest visions.

6-month Arc
May — Oct

[ The SS Adjunct Faculty. ]

Lily Shepard, Embodiment Coach

Movement & Presence

Body Church

A sacred space to return to your body, your breath & your knowing — without the pressure to prove a thing. Body Church is guided movement + exploration to liberate you from the thinking mind and access a deeper wisdom in a way that's fun, playful & restorative.

Jasmine Teo, Licensed Therapist

Focusing-Oriented Therapy

Flow Within

Our voice and self-expression desire flow. When we meet friction or stuck points, something within us requires attention — parts of us in conflict, making it difficult to move forward. Flow Within guides you through a process based in Focusing-Oriented Therapy (FOT), tending to those parts with compassion and genuine curiosity. You emerge with greater self-trust and the capacity to make empowered choices that honor yourself & your community.

Monica Tuy, Somatic Guide

Heart & Body

An invitation to intentionally practice looking at and embodying what is on your heart. Through teaching & sharing, meditation, light breathwork, somatic movement, and journaling, you'll build the capacity to hear your intuition. Grounded in the spirit of kapwa — the Filipino belief that your identity is woven into mine, and mine into yours — this is deeply personal work held within the quiet recognition that we belong to one another.

Heartwork

[ COHORT 3.0 BONUS # 1 ] - Claim Your Story Workshop

Lily & I guide you through our actual process — how we show up as rooted, powerful leaders drawing in our most aligned people through the stories we share.
This workshop isn't us lecturing at you about visibility and messaging. We're sharing the hands-on methods that consistently work for us .
By the end, you'll have a story post actually published out in the world — along with the somatic tools to keep it going and the self-proof that your story is meant to be seen.
[ COHORT 3.0 BONUS # 2 ] The Love Letters Course

A VERY EXCLUSIVE BONUS - get lifetime access to the comprehensive Love Letters Course when you enroll in SS Cohort 3.0.
Love Letters gives you a precise location for your body of work, a fully-seen "One" to write to in every piece of content you create, and a repeatable framework for any communication — emails, captions, bios, offers, keynotes — rooted in the understanding that sharing your work is an ancestral act and a fulfillment of responsibility to your communities. You leave with a body of drafted work, written through the love letter methodology, ready to send.