Mind Body Gem

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 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. 

• Keeping a soft heart and strong bounders. 

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

• The power of choice.  

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. 

• Nothing leads to something. 

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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