SHOW NOTES
About the Guest
Renee Walker is the founder of Renee Walker Wellness, a soul-led wellness and coaching practice devoted to helping people heal their mindset, reconnect to their intuition, and deepen their spiritual connection. A former world-class gymnast, Renee brings a grounded perspective to body wisdom, inner knowing, spiritual alignment, and the practice of listening to the intelligence within.
Episode Summary
Renee Walker joins Jen Aks for a deeply grounding conversation on intuition, body wisdom, emotional presence, and reconnecting to the soul. Renee shares how her early life as a gymnast taught her to use her body as a powerful physical tool — but not yet as a source of emotional and intuitive wisdom. Through her own healing journey, spiritual awakening, and willingness to ask deeper questions, Renee began to understand that the body is constantly communicating with us.
Together, Jen and Renee explore what it means to slow down enough to listen, why intuition often speaks through the body, how fear and the subconscious mind can talk us out of our inner knowing, and why there is no truly “wrong” path when every step can become a redirection. They also unpack the idea of mindset, bodyset, and soulset — and how meditation, presence, curiosity, and self-leadership help us choose how we show up in our relationships, parenting, work, and lives.
This episode is a powerful reminder that the answers we seek are not outside of us. They are already within us — waiting for us to get quiet enough to hear them.
What You’ll Learn
• How Renee’s background as a world-class gymnast shaped her early relationship with her body
• Why using the body as a tool is not the same as listening to the body’s wisdom
• How intuition often communicates through the body as a yes, a no, a pull, a knowing, or a feeling
• Why slowing down is essential if you want to hear your inner guidance clearly
• How fear, ego, and the subconscious mind can talk us out of the very nudges we are meant to follow
• Why there is no truly “wrong” path — only lessons, redirections, and openings we could not see yet
• The power of asking, “What do you really want?” and allowing the body to answer honestly
• Why spiritual awakening can feel less like becoming someone new and more like remembering who you already are
• How mindset, bodyset, and soulset work together as a bridge between thought, body wisdom, and spiritual connection
• Why meditation is not about stopping your thoughts, but finding the space between them
• How presence changes the way we lead, parent, coach, love, and respond to life
Key Concepts Introduced
• Body Wisdom — the intelligence within the body that communicates through sensations, emotions, instincts, and subtle signals
• Intuition Through the Body — the idea that intuition is not always a thought; often, it is the body saying this feels good, this does not, this is a yes, or this is a no
• The Knowing You Can’t Explain — Renee’s description of inner guidance that arrives as a clear sense of yes, even before the mind can fully rationalize it
• Redirection — the possibility that what looks like the “wrong” step may actually be the step that opens the next door
• Remembering — Renee’s framing of the healing and spiritual journey as a return to who we already are, rather than a process of becoming someone else
• What Do You Really Want? — the simple question that froze Renee’s body and opened a much deeper inquiry into her life, desires, and truth
• Mindset, Bodyset & Soulset — the bridge between the mind, the wisdom of the body, and the spiritual connection that helps us remember who we are
• Turning Up the Volume on Intuition — learning to listen more closely to inner knowing while turning down fear, ego, external noise, and the need for certainty
• Surprise and Delight Me — Renee’s playful spiritual practice of asking the universe to bring lightness, beauty, and openness into the day
• Presence as Leadership — the idea that practices like meditation cultivate the presence we later draw on when life gets hard, messy, or activating
Quotes From This Episode
“How can you turn up the volume on your inner knowing, your intuition, your soul — and turn down the volume on the external noises?”
“When we tune into our body, oftentimes we start to feel our emotions in a whole different way.”
“Our intuition speaks to us through our bodies.”
“Sometimes what you’re being guided to is a redirection, because where you’re meant to go is here, but you can’t see that yet.”
“There’s no right or wrong. It’s a willingness of stepping into the unknowing, the imperfect way of doing life.”
“What do you really want?”
“This whole journey is really a remembering.”
“Who am I is one of the most beautiful, important meditations that we can do.”
“What if it gets to be light and playful as well?”
“You’re cultivating presence. And as you cultivate presence in your morning practice, that’s what you draw on in the afternoon at three o’clock when you’re ready to lose your shit.”
CHAPTER MARKERS
00:00 Opening: Jen Introduces Renee Walker
Jen introduces Renee Walker as the founder of Renee Walker Wellness — a soul-led wellness and coaching practice devoted to mindset healing, intuition, and reconnecting to the wisdom within.
01:15 Welcome to Wisdom From Within
Jen opens the episode with the podcast mission: where mindset meets bodyset, and where inner wisdom helps us create genuine, authentic, empowered impact.
02:00 Body Wisdom, Body Intelligence & the Big Question
Jen invites Renee into the central question of the conversation: what has it looked like to listen to body wisdom, not listen to it, and allow it to guide her life?
03:15 Grounding Into the Body
Renee reflects on the grounding practice Jen led before recording — and how coming back into the body can immediately bring emotion to the surface.
04:00 Why We Apologize for Being Emotional
Renee names how often people apologize for emotion, even though emotion can be a beautiful sign that someone is actually in their body and allowing themselves to feel.
05:17 From Gymnastics to Body Disconnection
Renee shares her background in gymnastics and competing at worlds. She could do powerful, beautiful things with her body — but later realized she had been using it as a tool rather than listening to it as a source of wisdom.
06:29 The Body as a Tool vs. the Body as Wisdom
Jen reflects on the difference between physical body awareness and deeper somatic knowing — the gut instinct, emotional intelligence, and inner guidance many of us were never taught to trust.
07:28 Intuition Speaks Through the Body
Renee explains that intuition is not always a thought. Often, it speaks through the body — through what feels good, what does not, what opens, and what contracts.
08:58 What Does Intuition Feel Like?
Jen asks Renee to make intuition concrete. Renee describes the knowing she cannot always explain — the quick yes, the gut feeling, the inner pull that helps her make decisions without overthinking.
10:57 Trusting the Path Even When You Don’t Know
Jen names the courage it takes to follow intuition when you do not know if it is “right.” Renee reflects on curiosity, surrender, and the small steps that open the next door.
12:00 Why There Is No Wrong Path
Renee shares that sometimes guidance leads us somewhere only so we can be redirected from there. What looks like a detour may be the exact doorway we needed.
14:02 Surrender, Trust & Imperfection
Jen reflects on the comfort of hearing that imperfection is not only welcome, but necessary. The lesson is part of the success.
15:16 Healing as Remembering
Renee describes her healing journey as a remembering — not becoming someone new, but returning to the self, soul, and truth that were always there.
16:00 The Life Coaching Group That Changed Everything
Renee remembers being invited into a life coaching group more than 20 years ago, not fully knowing what she was saying yes to — only that it felt like a night off and a yes.
16:45 What Do You Really Want?
A coach asks Renee one simple question: what do you really want? Her whole body freezes, and she realizes she does not have an answer.
18:35 Letting the Question Land in the Body
Jen invites listeners to pause with the same question: what do you want? Not from the mind alone, but with a hand on the heart and belly, allowing the body to respond.
20:21 Who Am I?
Renee expands the inquiry from “What do I want?” to “Who am I?” — not as a question that needs an immediate answer, but as a seed of intention and possibility.
21:48 Making the Spiritual Practical
Jen grounds the conversation for listeners who may feel unsure where to begin. Sometimes the first step is simply choosing to listen, take one small action, and follow the pull.
23:37 Turning Down Fear & Turning Up Inner Knowing
Renee explains how the subconscious mind often kicks in after the initial intuitive nudge. Fear tries to keep us safe, but we can practice listening more closely to the soul.
25:00 The Next Best Step
Instead of trying to figure out the entire vision at once, Renee encourages listeners to ask: what is the next best step that feels safe, good, and maybe a little scary?
26:07 Finding Play Inside the Mess
Jen reflects on the pain and mess of healing — and how, over time, we can begin to dance with the lessons, lighten them, and become empowered by them.
27:15 Surprise and Delight Me
Renee shares one of her favorite practices: asking the universe to surprise and delight her in beautiful ways. Healing does not always have to feel heavy.
28:16 The Titanic Gesture
Jen and Renee playfully create a gesture for opening to receive — arms wide, heart open, asking the universe to surprise and delight in beautiful ways.
29:16 Soulset Enters the Conversation
Renee uses the word soulset, and Jen realizes the natural bridge between mindset, bodyset, and soulset. The conversation opens into a new layer.
30:00 Mindset, Bodyset & Soulset
Jen explains mindset as the tools of the mind, bodyset as the wisdom of the body, and Renee’s soulset as the deeper spiritual connection that helps complete the bridge.
31:20 Mindset, Spirituality & the Body
Renee describes her work as blending mindset and spirituality, while Jen brings in the body piece — creating a beautiful triangle of mind, body, and soul.
32:00 Looking Within Instead of Outside
Renee explains that the biggest shift is moving from looking outside for answers to looking within, where the connection to universal consciousness already lives.
33:00 The Space Between Thoughts
Renee talks about meditation as a practice of connecting to the space between thoughts, where we return to our higher self and the essence of who we are.
34:30 When You Feel Disconnected
Renee shares how she recognizes disconnection in herself — comparison, overthinking, scrolling, feeling stuck — and sees it as a sign to return inward.
35:44 Wisdom From Within & Leadership From Within
Jen brings the conversation back to leadership: how listening to the body, opening to spirit, and reconnecting to self helps us become better parents, coaches, managers, teachers, CEOs, and self-leaders.
36:53 From Reactivity to Intention
Renee explains that the work shifts everything because we move from being reactive to being intentional with how we show up.
37:30 Presence in Parenting and Real Life
Renee reflects on how her children witnessed her growth. The work was never about being perfect, but about choosing how to show up in the moments that matter.
38:00 Meditation Is a Practice for Life
Renee explains that meditation is not only about the minutes spent sitting. It cultivates the presence you draw on later, when life gets hard or activating.
39:12 Where to Find Renee
Renee shares her podcast, Spiritually Wired, her Spiritually Wired membership, Instagram, and website.
40:20 Closing: Trust the Body’s Guidance
Jen closes the episode by reminding listeners that the body is one of the most trusted sources of guidance we have — even when it does not make logical sense at first.
CONNECT WITH RENEE WALKER
• Website: reneewalkerwellness.com
• Instagram: @reneewalkerwellness
• Podcast: Spiritually Wired
• Membership: Spiritually Wired Membership
If this episode moved you, share it with someone who needs to hear that the transformation period is supposed to be hard — and that asking for help is not weakness. It’s the sign.
