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Mind Body Gem

41 episodes - English - Latest episode: 3 months ago - ★★★★★ - 6 ratings

Mind Body Gem, and that's GEM, is a conversational podcast where we believe cultivating the mind, movement of the body, and showing more love and compassion, especially for ourselves, aligns us with our purpose. We become the GEM we are designed to be. It all started with a framework of how fitness saved my life.

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Episodes

Bonus: Mediumship

January 09, 2024 11:18 - 1 hour - 30.7 MB

Summary In this episode, Julie North shares her journey of self-discovery and embracing her abilities as a medium. She explains the concept of mediumship and how it allows her to connect with the spirit world. Julie emphasizes the importance of balance in life and how imbalances can lead to physical and emotional dis-ease. She also discusses the role of epigenetics in inherited traits and the impact of past experiences on our present lives. Julie shares her personal experience of overcoming...

Mind Body Ge: EG Fellow

October 11, 2023 11:07 - 28 minutes - 32 MB

• Rokki and Asegedech shared their journey of applying and being accepted into Echoing Green. • Applying for the fellowship was a long process that challenged both of them mentally and emotionally. • Rokki had to tell her story authentically, which caused a shift in the way she saw herself and why they began this work. • The two took a break after the application process to volunteer with Reform Alliance in Philadelphia and went to New York and New Hampshire. • While in New Hampshire, th...

Mind Body Gem: LMGML

October 04, 2023 11:07 - 36 minutes - 42 MB

• In this episode of Let Me Get My Life, creative producer Renee Dion discussed her journey of weight loss. •Renee Dion struggled with her weight her whole life and saw herself as always being heavy. •In 2020, Renee decided to focus on herself and her mental health during the pandemic. She started going on daily 45-minute walks to release emotions. •Renee started incorporating at-home workout videos and buying weights to continue her progress. She lost over 80 pounds through this gradual...

Mind Body Gem

September 27, 2023 10:18 - 36 minutes - 42.1 MB

Mind, Body, Gem – Season 6, Episode 2 Part 2  Dancing With Each Other Demons: Cohost: Rokki and Asegedech are joined by creative Producer Renee Dion continues to share about their relationship. Make sure to check out part one.  Unconditional Love: "We can’t afford Not to record" Renee join the conversation:  Newly single Rokki: Put a bug in your ear:  Follow this work at www.fittonavigate.com. Connect with Mind, Body, Gem guests and upcoming workshops on IG: @Fit_to_navigate keywords...

Mind Body Gem : DWD

September 20, 2023 11:07 - 31 minutes - 36.2 MB

Mind, Body, Gem – Season 6, Episode 2 Dancing With Each Other Demons: Cohost: Rokki and Asegedech are joined by creative procedure Renee Dion sharing insight about the beginning of Rokki and Asegedech’s relationship. In this episode, we get in-depth about relationships.  What does it mean to Dance with Each other Demons: As Rokki and Asegedech share in relationships, often pain shows up, and past hurt shows up, and how you deal with that is the dance of demons. Rokki shares the importance ...

Mind Body Gem

September 13, 2023 10:18 - 34 minutes - 39.2 MB

Mind, Body, Gem – Season 6, Episode 1 Asegedech & Rokki - Who are we again? Cohost: Rokki and Asegedech take a moment to share their back story and why they started this podcast.  Asegedech and Rokki Bonner discuss their journey from being professional health and wellness professionals to finding themselves inside a women’s prions leading wellness programming.  People want to know that Asegedech and Rokki share their backgrounds, where they come from, and how they ended up on this wellne...

Mind Body Gem: Alicia Sparks

September 28, 2022 09:20 - 31 minutes - 36.6 MB

Episode Notes Mind, Body, Gem – Season 5, Episode 5 Alicia Spark - A Fit to Navigate graduate and change warrior  Special guest: Alicia Spark – A true champion for change, Alicia has embraced the tenets of the Fit to Navigate and is the embodiment of the FTN goal of developing and inspiring relationship entrepreneurs. In this podcast, Alicia Spark and Rokki Bonner have their second Mind Body Gem discussion, where we learn more about the journey Alicia has taken since graduating from FTN....

Valencia Gundar: The Art of Service

August 31, 2022 13:38 - 35 minutes - 40.4 MB

Episode Notes Valencia Gundar - The Art of Service  Special guest: Valencia Gundar – A champion for service that creates self-determination, she founded Smile Trust, an organization committed to serving unsheltered people in Miami, Atlanta and around the world. Valencia Gundar and Rokki Bonner discuss Valencia’s motivation for the creation of Smile Trust and how her life experiences helped shape her approach to service. Valencia’s hometown, Miami, is integral to what motivates her - being...

Anna Gsanger: Meet Our Tactical Navigator

August 02, 2022 09:30 - 46 minutes - 53.6 MB

Episode Notes Mind, Body, Gem – Season 5, Episode 3 Anna Gsanger -  Meet our Tactical Navigator.    Special guest: Anna Gsanger  – She is a mother and professional with over ten years of public and private sector experience as a Marketing and communications strategy expert. She is now Fit to Navigate tactical navigator. Learn more about Fit to Navigate at Fittonavigate.com  Anna Gsanger and Rokki Bonner discuss Anna share their journey as their friendship grew and evolved into a sister...

Mind Body Gem: Natalie Legrand - Being a Global Citizen

July 19, 2022 09:35 - 46 minutes - 52.7 MB

Episode Notes Mind, Body, Gem – Season 5, Episode 2 Natalie Legrand - Being a Global Citizen  Special guest: Natalie Legrand  – She is a multilingual professional with over 10 years of public and private sector experience in various positions.  Natalie Legrand and Rokki Bonner discuss Natalie's core values and how they are linked to her upbringing. Natalie shares intimate memories of her earlier life growing up with her as a Honduran and Haitian grandmother. Natalie also shares her perso...

Trevor: Understanding and Increasing Performance

June 08, 2022 07:00 - 31 minutes - 72.3 MB

Special guest: Trevor Torrance – former basketball player, founder of 'BMore'   Trevor and Rokki Bonner discuss Trevor's journey from being a professional sportsman to becoming a founder of BMore, an organization specialized in performance development. Being at his highs and lows during his athlete career, Trevor came up with handy methods to break blocks and self-made limits in order to achieve more and perform better overall.   -      Dream of becoming famous Born and raised in Perth,...

Season 5 Trailer: What's Up!

June 07, 2022 20:27 - 2 minutes - 5.99 MB

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Sylvia Mosley: God is Everywhere

January 06, 2022 05:00 - 35 minutes - 34 MB

So many flowers in God’s garden Sylvia remembers her brother went to prison when she was young. She shares that when a person goes to prison, the whole family goes to prison. After that, she lost her husband when their child was only six months old, soon after two sisters and two brothers. Consequently, she started doing drugs and alcohol, coming to the point where she almost saw herself dying. She decided to go to the hospital and start serious rehab treatment. Starting a clean life Aft...

Letha Pugh: Adrenalin for the Win

December 23, 2021 05:00 - 46 minutes - 44.6 MB

  Different life Letha was born to a 15-year-old mother in Omaha, Nebraska. She was only a child but already helping her mother a lot and doing many household chores. After college, she realized she wanted to have a different life than her mother. Her strong will to help people grew further through nursing. From that experience, she claims she gained some true qualities like love and care for others and the discipline she still has today. Starting a home care agency She opened a home car...

Deja Redman: Evolved Self-Love

December 07, 2021 05:00 - 34 minutes - 33.2 MB

Looking at the past Deja is a mother of five children. She reveals she was not always in harmony with her self-care. What’s more, she neglected her needs for a long time, being in abusive relationships, having sex at a young age, etc. Thankfully, she saw the end of that period when she realized she needed to work on self-care. Love is in the air, everywhere. Together with her mother and sister, Deja opened a spa center to benefit both professionally and personally. The professional benef...

Life Is a Marathon, Not a Sprint

November 25, 2021 05:00 - 24 minutes - 23.8 MB

Steps into the independence Born in Beijing, China, Hoy remembers her early childhood not being so much fun. At the age of 13, she left her family for the first time, going to Singapore. After that, she arrived in Ohio to begin studying Computer Science Engineering at the University of Toledo. Language barriers starting domino effect barriers Hoy explains exactly how difficult it was to blend into a new environment without knowing the language. One example that vividly describes this pro...

Hoy Zhang: Life Is a Marathon, Not a Sprint

November 25, 2021 05:00 - 24 minutes - 23.8 MB

Steps into the independence Born in Beijing, China, Hoy remembers her early childhood not being so much fun. At the age of 13, she left her family for the first time, going to Singapore. After that, she arrived in Ohio to begin studying Computer Science Engineering at the University of Toledo. Language barriers starting domino effect barriers Hoy explains exactly how difficult it was to blend into a new environment without knowing the language. One example that vividly describes this pro...

If Everybody Isn’t Good, Nobody’s Good

November 11, 2021 05:00 - 48 minutes - 45.5 MB

Born with art As a daughter of a high school music teacher, Sheri finds that art influenced her life path, as she has always been searching for the good in people and their work. When she grew up, she moved to Columbus, where she tried to connect with the community. She did it successfully thanks to taking part in a bowling club, and Chicago line dancing where she met many people with similar interests. She also took part in poetry nights, and she traveled a lot, feeling that her new life ...

Sheri Neale: If Everybody Isn’t Good, Nobody’s Good

November 11, 2021 05:00 - 47 minutes - 45.5 MB

Born with art As a daughter of a high school music teacher, Sheri finds that art influenced her life path, as she has always been searching for the good in people and their work. When she grew up, she moved to Columbus, where she tried to connect with the community. She did it successfully thanks to taking part in a bowling club, and Chicago line dancing where she met many people with similar interests. She also took part in poetry nights, and she traveled a lot, feeling that her new life ...

Pastor Julius Lancaster: I am Church

December 16, 2020 05:00 - 36 minutes - 35.1 MB

Ending up at the bottom – three times Julius remembers ending up imprisoned after getting caught for drug dealing. He did not seem to follow signs for getting back on the right track, so he got imprisoned two more times, now considering his acts ridiculous. Having been jailed for four years, he claims he was not one of the men who were reading the Bible as a hobby to pass the time, throwing it in the trash after getting out. It changed his way of living, spreading his horizons, and underst...

Jessica Burke: Believe in Your Dreams

November 04, 2020 05:00 - 51 minutes - 47 MB

Back in prison Jessica remembers ending up imprisoned for the second time. That was the time she realized that she didn’t want to make the same mistake twice. The second time she got out of prison was going to be her starting point toward improving her life habits and professional skills – the beginning of her new life. ‘I want to be like you.’ One event made a big difference. During Jessica’s class, she was amazed by her instructor’s shape and life habits, so Jessica said that she wante...

Desiree Riley: Goal-Oriented Mindset

October 28, 2020 04:00 - 23 minutes - 21.2 MB

Before vs. after pandemic Dezi thinks motherhood is always a full-time activity, which is not changing due to pandemic. The only difference is that people, not just mothers, need to learn how to live indoors, without a lot of outdoor activities, and make their time spend indoors more creative. She thinks that now is the great time to (re)connect with our loved ones. It's all about health and wealth Dezi is grateful for her family being healthy and she explains why health starts from her ...

Kysten Palmore: If Everyone Does A Little, No One Has To Do A Lot

October 21, 2020 04:00 - 37 minutes - 34.4 MB

Starting in Criminal Justice field Kysten remembers choosing Criminal Justice major at her university, not being completely sure if it was going to be her field of interest. After getting a master’s degree in Public Policies, she didn’t want to wait for the job, so she started volunteering. She found volunteering as the perfect starting point from where she could develop her skills in the field.  Jail vs. prison If you convict a crime and you get sentenced for less than 1 year, you will ...

Asegedech: Tea Time with Asegedech

October 14, 2020 04:00 - 20 minutes - 19.3 MB

Starting Fit to Navigate journey Asegedech remembers her partner won the opportunity to travel to the Hague, the Netherlands, for a very important summit about entrepreneurship. This gave Asegedech the chance to develop her career and turned out to be extremely important. She quit her corporate job, having nothing but dreams at the moment. Hearing no as potential yes Rokki and Asegedech talk about starting their project from scratch, acquiring their knowledge about the business world, an...

Erin Cullums: Bigger than Speed Bumps

October 07, 2020 04:00 - 23 minutes - 21.7 MB

Best job so far Erin remembers the time when she had $22 a month (‘while banana was $1’), happily comparing it to the present and her current job, the best she has ever had. Thanks to her full-time job and getting paid for overtime work, she now has the possibility to save money for her new home, where she plans to spend time with her fiancé and son. Mother-son relationship While in last episode Erin was talking about difficulties of building trust in the relationship with her son, now s...

Janet Lucas: Health and Happiness – Inside and Outside

September 30, 2020 04:00 - 1 hour - 55.8 MB

Education as the foundation of a good life Janet explains her interests in taking care of people since her childhood. Starting from a stuffed animal hospital in her bedroom, she later became even more interested in becoming a doctor. Although this was not an easy feat, she succeeded through a strong commitment to her studies, and years and years of helping people in her amazing career. Understanding women as human beings facing unenviable decisions Janet brings up the topic of how young ...

Erin Hawkins: From Addiction to “Better things in life”

September 23, 2020 04:00 - 26 minutes - 24 MB

Erin and Rokki Bonner discuss Erin’s getting back on the right path and dealing with a family crisis after prison, successfully putting it behind and starting it right from scratch with happiness and health as priorities. Losing mother-son balance and fighting to win it back After getting out of the prison, Erin finds it surprisingly challenging to reconnect with her son, who was growing up without her, only seeing her every so often. Erin describes different phases of establishing strong ...

Desiree Riley: From Corporate and Unhealthy to Fitness and Happy

September 16, 2020 04:00 - 24 minutes - 24.3 MB

Special guest: Desiree Riley –COO and first Fellow of Fit to Navigate, single mother, mommapreneur, and certified fitness coach. Dezi and Rokki Bonner discuss Dezi’s incarceration, the sacrifices people make to fit social norms, Dezi's decision to find her own path in the world of fitness, and the importance of being true to oneself. Cruel justice system with a ray of hope. Dezi talks about having been arrested for possession and distribution of marijuana and facing a long prison sentence...

Alicia Faulkner: Getting on the Good Foot

August 09, 2019 16:00 - 33 minutes - 31 MB

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Rhonda Spero: Dancing her way into community Impact!

August 09, 2019 16:00 - 34 minutes - 31.9 MB

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Rokki Bonner: Be the Entrepreneur

August 09, 2019 16:00 - 4 minutes - 4.36 MB

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Rokki Bonner: Be the Entrepreneur

August 09, 2019 16:00 - 4 minutes - 4.36 MB

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Tea Time with Asegedech! She flips the Script

August 09, 2019 16:00 - 16 minutes - 14.7 MB

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Chanelle Redman: The Power of Forgiveness

August 09, 2019 16:00 - 20 minutes - 19 MB

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Rhonda Spero: Dancing her way into community Impact!

August 09, 2019 16:00 - 34 minutes - 31.9 MB

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Mind Body Gem W/ Stephanie Freedom Yoga

February 18, 2019 13:00 - 20 minutes - 18.5 MB

Mind, Body, Gem: Episode 2 Stephanie's Freedom Special Guest: Stephanie Saunders, a graduate of the Fit to Navigate Program, certified personal trainer and yoga instructor. Stephanie has a conversation with Rokki Bonner about her first years of incarceration and how turning to fitness saved her life, helping her integrate back into society and reconnect with her community and family. How the World Changed After 20 Years of Incarceration - Stephanie adjusts to new technology, social media a...

Mind Body Gem: Tea Time w/ Asegedech, Life in Balance and Success

February 18, 2019 13:00 - 14 minutes - 13.2 MB

Tea Time w/ Asegedech, Life in Balance and Success Hosted by Rokki Bonner, Certified Personal Trainer/Nutritionist and Owner of Personal Fitness Navigator, Columbus, Ohio with Special Guest Asegedech, Nutrition and Health and Wellness Coach Rokki spills the tea with her life partner Asegedech and how their relationship contributes to their individual success. Through meditation, nutrition, fitness, goal setting and a shared vision, their different perspectives have helped each other evolve ...

Mind Body Gem W/ Rokki's Detox and Randomness

February 18, 2019 13:00 - 4 minutes - 4.68 MB

Rokki randomness and the process of trying to remain healthy. Toronto Love! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Mind Body Gem W/ My Journey to Health

February 18, 2019 13:00 - 11 minutes - 10.7 MB

How Fitness Saved My Life, My Journey to Health Hosted by: Rokki Bonner, Certified Personal Trainer and Nutritionist, Owner of Personal Fitness Navigators in Columbus, Ohio Follow us on IG: @Fit_to_Navigate, Mind, Body, Gem weekly podcast time Rokki takes listeners to the beginning of her health challenges with dental work as a small child and being on the verge of a heart attack at nine years old. Rokki recalls the series of medications and hospital visits through most of her life after b...

Mind Body Gem W/ Renee Dion

February 13, 2019 12:00 - 28 minutes - 26.4 MB

Our conversation today is with singer, songwriter, producer *Renee Dion. Renee will share how she takes care of her Mind and Body, that allows her GEM (purpose) to shine. Hear how she handles the real-life struggles of being on the road as an artist for a tour of over 74 shows in 2 months. How did she make it happen? Also, what did she learn from reading someone else's story? Who story did she share besides her own and what Gems can assist you on your journey IG: @ReneeDionMusic Hosted o...

Mind Body Gem Trailer

February 12, 2019 16:00 - 1 minute - 651 KB

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