By Rokki
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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 adversity, including her battle with stage four cancer. She highlights the importance of support systems and seeking help when needed. Julie provides insights on how to cultivate peace and balance in life, including practices such as breathwork and mindfulness. She also shares her contact information and offers free resources for those interested in learning more about her work.
Takeaways
Mediumship is the ability to connect with the spirit world and receive messages from the other side
Maintaining balance in life is crucial for physical and emotional well-being.
Epigenetics plays a role in inherited traits and can influence our health and behavior.
Overcoming adversity requires a strong support system and the willingness to seek help.
Cultivating peace and balance involves practices such as breathwork and mindfulness.
Chapters
00:00 Introduction and Background
01:46 Understanding Mediumship
06:35 The Importance of Balance
09:02 Epigenetics and Inherited Traits
11:33 Embracing One's Abilities
23:47 Overcoming Adversity
32:59 The Importance of Sleep and Hydration
37:40 Navigating the Soul's Path
39:09 Support Systems and Seeking Help
47:57 Cultivating Peace and Balance
56:00 Managing Emotions
01:03:47 Contact Information and Free Resources
01:05:30 Legacy and Closing Remarks
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• 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, they appreciated nature, reconnected, and were reminded of their capability to achieve goals.
• They finally got the call from Echoing Green with the news that they made it through the application process.
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• 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 process.
•Renee received positive and negative attention after losing weight, including harmful comments about her past weight. She continues to struggle with body dysmorphia but has support from her husband.
•Renee wants to become a trainer to help others through their journeys. She believes in a mind, body, and gem approach to health.
•Renee's first sessions with her trainer, Rokki, focused on walking, stretching, and talking. Rokki provides a listening ear and helps clients purge emotions.
•Rokki believes training is about the whole person, not just the physical. Moving the body can help move negative thoughts out like waste.
•Rokki went through her journey with an autoimmune disease and realized the importance of health over aesthetics. She previously did bodybuilding but now focuses on what is healthy for her.
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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.
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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.
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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.
that Asegedech and Rokki share their backgrounds, where they come from, and how they ended up on this wellness journey. Asegedech shares how going by her name has become her way of reclaiming her identity and culture. Asegedech shares that she is done making things easier for other people. Rokki shares how her name has nothing to do with fighting, but for this life, she’s lived and is grateful that she’s had to fight for it.
Rokki shares that you think you can have a soft heart, which means you allow people to do things, run over you, and take advantage of you. The learned lesson of life is that you have to have boundaries, which is a vital form of self-care. Rokki shares in her younger life that, though she had to assimilate and bow to obligatory relationships, she now sees her uniqueness and God-given talents bestowed upon her through God.
“I'm here to self actualize, self-realization, but also to heal so I can heal my lineage”=Rokki
Asegedech shares that the power of choice is like taking care of yourself, working out, and doing things that manifest well in this world. How the power of choice led the cofounder to start Fit To Navigate and begin to care for their health. While then, I met you with someone in the professionals caring for your health. At the same time, incorporating mindfulness, the meditation aligned with like-minded women who happened to be in prison.
Rokki shares how she didn’t have a plan and didn’t know what would come from going to prison. How providing programming for people serving longer time wasn’t done before. She accredits the woman who is still teaching inside to grow the work. Asegedech shared a stat around the growing recidivism rate for why they decided to stay focused on women. Today Fit to Navigate women have 0% Recidivism and 100% employment rates.
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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. Alicia has physically, emotionally, and mentally moved leaps and bounds and is thriving as the owner of a kennel for specialized breeds of dogs.
After being diagnosed with cancer, Alicia re-evaluated her life and, with the support of her son, Jackson, and her longtime love, moved to Oklahoma and to open a dog breeding business, Tornado Alley Kennels.
Armed with the tools she learned as a Fit to Navigate graduate, Alicia understands the importance of being not just an entrepreneur but a relationship entrepreneur! As someone who has been justice-involved, Alicia believes it’s important to commit to new things that keep you busy, accept what’s happened, and accept life on life’s terms.
Alicia is focused on more than being a breeder. She researches each dog and ensures that her customers get quality and best-in-breed from her dogs. This sets her apart - she loves and cares for the dogs from conception to their forever home.
It’s not just about fitness; for Alicia, she stays true to what she learned in the Fit to Navigate program and ensures her whole well-being is the focus. Mental health maintenance is essential, along with enjoying the small things: a beautiful sunset or the beauty of the stars.
Follow Alicia’s work: Instagram @tornadoalleykennelz; Facebook Tornado Alley Kennels; TikTok #tornadoalley580
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keywords: impact, life, social impact, motivation, rokki, Alicia, Tornado Alley Kennels, Tornadoalley580, Cane Corso, Presa Canario, learning, people, personal growth, family, health, opportunity, wisdom, plan, incarcerated, dog breeding, cancer
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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 of service to the many people who make up the diaspora of the city is of vital importance.
Valencia stays committed to the people she is serving - those are her people right there, every day. She doesn’t do charity work, rather she creates models of self-determination and restores hope. Her goal is not to serve people. Her goal is to provide resources for people so they can serve themselves and then serve others around them. She brings the tools and they serve themselves!
Val’s goal: When people walk away from an interaction with her, they don’t feel guilt. She understands the importance of self-determination in overcoming obstacles. Valencia believes that codependency is not healthy, and that's what many charities do, create codependency so that the people you serve become dependent on a system. It is critical to create a system that teaches people to stand on their own.
Valencia surrounds herself with mentors. She takes advantage of the opportunities to sit next to them and watch them work. Valencia has learned that mentors are not a panacea, instead, she takes the good pieces from them that fit, leaves the rest on the table, and goes on to her next challenge.
A guiding principle for Valencia, is don't be afraid of your vision - do what it takes to get it done. When Smile Trust began, Val was of service every month, even if her resources were low. She understands the importance of being there consistently. No matter how big you grow, always stand in service to others. Today Val has teams, both in Atlanta and Miami. Regardless, you can still see her on a Sunday scooping out rice and working with the Smile Trust team. It’s humbling for her to get behind the table and help out. Never forget.
Valencia believes strongly in the tenet - listen to the people you serve. Don’t build something for yourself, build it for the community you serve and the greater community you live in. No one should feel “less than”. Valencia is all ears any time an unsheltered person wants to have a conversation with her.
Valencia’s legacy is for communities to become self-determined around food - the organization is on its way; last year, Smile Trust touched 200,000 families with food across 4 countries.
Follow Valencia’s work on: https://thesmiletrust.org
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keywords: impact, life, social impact, motivation, rokki, Valencia, Smile Trust, learning, people, personal growth, family, health, opportunity, wisdom, plan, unsheltered, homeless, food insecurity, incarcerated
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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 sisterhood, which now turned into an opportunity to develop the Fit to Navigate social enterprise mission.
Anna shares how early in her career, her focus was on access to health care and health policy and creating an impact. Anna was passionate about the possibility of creating access to free health care within the Clinton administration. When National Health Care didn’t see a possibility, Anna shared about going back to business school and working for a large pharmaceutical company Pfizer.
Anna talks about moving to Columbus as not being something she planned or imagined for herself. Anna shares that she moved to Columbus to be with her now husband, Bob. Moving to Columbus for Anna meant “starting from scratch” because she didn’t feel she had a connection to the people living here. Says, “Columbus is all about who you know.”
Anna shares how she built relationships in Columbus by attending network events and taking people out to develop her professional network. She would find temporary work that allowed her to be part of an online business and manage a business transition.
Anna says, unlike most women, she was “lucky” that she could decide that she was going to redshift her career to spend more time with her children. Growing up with a single mother, Anna had to go to many places with her mother, so it felt normal to have her children with her everywhere she had to be. Anna talked about the importance of also having time for herself.
Anna shares that she joined the team Fit To Navigate because of her inspiration and relationship with cofounder Rokki. Anna talks about the excitement and passion of the work and being part of growing the Fit To Navigate team. Anna shares that the work Fit To Navigate does has the ability to be part of the change in how Society views restorative justice. Anna shares how she has developed her self-care practices and what that means to her.
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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 personal connection to the war in Ukraine.
Natalie shares that her husband is from Ukraine. Natalie shares how her husband’s family escaped their homes due to the war. Natalie has never experienced racism in Ukraine, but as a black woman, she feels emotional about racism.
Natalie jokes that the only commonality between her mother and father’s culture of Honduran and Haitian parents is the cooking. As a child of immigrants, Natalie’s parents took pride in their culture while also wanting more for their children. Natalie shares how her parents worked hard to create access opportunities and access for her which links to Natalie’s core values.
Natalie shares her experience of learning and growing up with ADHA. Natalie redefines ADHA as her ability to hold multiple ideas and things simultaneously. Natalie thought she would never have the ability to learn Russian as an adult didn’t seem possible. Natalie noticed that she could learn different languages once she had the interest and excitement. Natalie says she still works on releasing her self-judgment.
Natalie accredited her ability to take in multiple interests to her transition into finance. Natalie was looking for a way to use her experience to align with her personal values, which is when the opportunity to go to Ukraine presented itself. Ukraine was the odd choice for Natlie, making it the ideal choice for her.
Natalie is kept up at night, but this belief is that social impact work is never-ending work. Natalie feels until we can change the narrative, people’s attention. When so many problems seem to come at once, it can feel like a lack of attention. Natalie shares how fitness and health and how to navigate her well-being. Connecting Natalie’s body and mind is how she learns. Natlie shares having sickle cell disease and how she uses fitness to care for her health.
Follow Natalie’s work on: https://www.natalielegrand.com/about
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The podcast currently has 37 episodes available.