Mind Body Gem

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 impa...

• 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 A...

• 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 vide...

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.fi...

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...

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 th...

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...

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 sh...

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...

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...

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&nbsp...

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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. Sh...

  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 othe...

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, De...

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...

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 inte...

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...

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 cla...

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 wealt...

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. ...

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...

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 E...

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. Understandi...

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 withou...