Weightless in Mind, Body & Spirit - Season 8 Episode 8_Knitting Together the Body of The Community as Health and Wellness_Dr. Carol Penn hosts Rev. Zemoria & Gilda
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For more information or to Register for Dr. Carol's 90-Day Wildfit Program...send an email to info@drcarolpenn.com with "WildFit" in the subject line. Contact this episode's Super-friends, Gilda Rogers & Rev. Zemoria Brandon. If you want to connect with Gilda Rogers, visit https://www.franktalkmultimedia.com/.
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Hosted by Dr. Carol Penn, DO, & Diem Jones this exciting 10-part Series, now in Season 8, is presented by Penn Global Visions and Dr. Carol's team of Super-friends as we explore the worlds of: weight loss; weight loss maintenance; aging in reverse; heart health; optimizing health and well being.
Weightless in Mind Body and Spirit, is designed to assist each participant in the journey of outrageous self-care and how to prioritize themselves on behalf of achieving their best and highest self. Over the course of our show you will learn how to balance your Sympathetic and Parasympathetic nervous system. Tune in to this episode as we discuss "Knitting Together the Body of The Community as Health and Wellness" with Super-friends, Gilda Rogers & Rev. Zemoria Brandon.
Produced by: Kenya Pope, http://goddess.kenyapope.com
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Featured Guest:
Gilda Rogers
Gilda Rogers is a Journalist, Author & Playwright, Producer, Director, Historian, & Educator. She started her art career as a visual artist, window dresser and fashion coordinator for several national retail chains. Her passion to tell stories and to be the voice for the voiceless led her to journalism and to write books, produce documentaries and videos.
Gilda is now the Executive Director for T. Thomas Fortune Foundation & Cultural Center, in Red Bank, NJ.
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Rev. Zemoria Brandon
Reverend Zemoria Brandon is the administrator/social worker for the SickleCell Disease Association of America, Philadelphia/Delaware Valley Chapter(SCDAA/PDVC), a community-based organization, established in 1982 to provide supportive and referral services across the lifespan to meet the needs of children, adolescents, adults and families living with sickle cell disease and sickle cell trait. She was married for 25 years to the late Rev. Walter E. Brandon, Co-Founder, SCDAA/PDVC who passed away from complications of sickle cell disease in April, 1998 at the age of 59 years old.
Rev. Brandon received a Bachelor in Social Work(BSW) degree from Temple University, School of Social Administration in 2001. In 2002, she was inducted into the Temple University, Alumni Gallery of Success and into theSchool of Social Administration’s Gallery of Success in 2008.
In 2011, she was ordained as anInterfaithMinister from the New Seminary for Interfaith Studies in New York. Since 2019, Rev. Brandon has served as Chair/Co-Chair of the“Shine the Light on Sickle Cell”initiative in recognition of World Sickle Cell AwarenessDay on June 19, through SiNERGe(Sickle Cell improvement across theNortheast Region),a project under the umbrella of the Sickle CellTreatment Demonstration Program(TDP).
She is also a member of the Pennsylvania Sickle Cell Providers Network,(PASCPN) a statewide collaborative comprised of community-based organizations and sickle cell healthcare providers.In addition, she is a certified single gene Hemoglobinopathy Counselor/Educator through the University of Southern Alabama and theSickle Cell Disease Association ofAmerica Chapter in Mobile, Alabama.
Rev. Brandon currently serves asChair,Board of Directors and Co-Chair,Legal andImmigration Committee for AFRICOM- Philly, an organization providing supportive services to the African and Caribbean immigrant communities. In addition, she isa member of theCity of Philadelphia,Mayor’s Commission onAfrican and CaribbeanImmigrant Affairs and former Co-Chair, Legal and Immigration Committee.
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