Fit to Navigate

Fit to Navigate Empowering women’s freedom via Education🗣📝
Personal Growth Coaching👁🔑
Health & Wellness🥑🏋🏽‍♂️
Reform⬆️
Recidivism⬇️
Podcast🎧🎤
Project 👕

For 25 years, Personal Fitness Navigators (Wellness Center in Bexley, Ohio) has provided customized fitness and nutrition programs that nurture the mind, body, and soul. In 2016, PFN began working with women to implement a program within ORW Recreation Programming that supported them to improve their health and become health and wellness advocates. The program was life-changing for the women and the PFN team and helped PFN realize the true (social) value derived from translating a business and fitness experience into a social venture. This was the birth of Fit to Navigate (FTN). We exist to empower the human spirit for members passionate about emotional, physical, and social growth to drive community impact. We work with the body and mind using mindful movement, meditation, relationship-building via collaborative dialogue, and gratitude practices. Once interest is ignited, we provide training for participants to become nationally certificated and, in turn, teach others in their community, both inside and outside the prison. 95% of our wellbeing program participants, both in the community and inside the prison system, self-reported improved physical and mental health. Expansion beyond the prison: our participants facilitated a wellness workshop where 400 prison members donated to communities outside the prison system. When our participants re-enter society, they continue to stay in contact with us via closed groups. Our participants have added nearly $500,000 back to the Ohio economy/yearly, based on 100% employment rates/wages and 0% recidivism. We expanded our service to the disenfranchised during the pandemic, offering well-being practices to LGBTQ+ communities of color.

This Black History Month, we honor Mariame Kaba who reminds us that everything worthwhile is done with other people. Her...
02/24/2026

This Black History Month, we honor Mariame Kaba who reminds us that everything worthwhile is done with other people. Her work in transformative justice focuses on healing harm through community, not cages. A leading organizer and founder of Project NIA, she has pioneered modern transformative justice and community-based safety. She created frameworks for communities to address harm without involving the police, directly influencing how we view “restoration” today.

This Black History Month, we honor Angela Davis who taught us that justice is about presence—building the tools of care,...
02/17/2026

This Black History Month, we honor Angela Davis who taught us that justice is about presence—building the tools of care, education, and equity that allow communities to thrive. A world-renowned advocate, her experience as a political prisoner shaped her lifelong fight against the “prison-industrial complex”. She shifted the global conversation toward prison abolition, arguing that we must address root causes like poverty and education rather than relying on cages.

This Black History Month, we honor Jane Bolin became the first Black woman judge in the U.S.. For 40 years, she used her...
02/12/2026

This Black History Month, we honor Jane Bolin became the first Black woman judge in the U.S.. For 40 years, she used her seat at the table to humanize a rigid system and fight for the well-being of families. She revolutionized the New York Family Court system. She ended the practice of assigning probation officers based on race and forced private child-care agencies to accept children regardless of ethnic background.

This Black History Month, we honor the “Architect of Re-entry.” After 15 years of being impacted by the system, Susan di...
02/06/2026

This Black History Month, we honor the “Architect of Re-entry.” After 15 years of being impacted by the system, Susan didn’t just survive—she led. She founded , proving that those most impacted are the best equipped to lead the healing. A New Way of Life provides housing and legal transformation for formerly incarcerated women. She spearheaded a national “re-entry” movement that shifts the focus from punishment to stable housing and leadership.

Breaking cycles. Building community. 💜
01/30/2026

Breaking cycles. Building community. 💜

Today, we honor Dr. King’s legacy and reaffirm our commitment to justice every day through our work. At Fit to Navigate,...
01/19/2026

Today, we honor Dr. King’s legacy and reaffirm our commitment to justice every day through our work. At Fit to Navigate, justice means expanding access to wellness, education, and opportunity for communities historically excluded from them.

This year was built by women, powered by community, and rooted in resilience. Every cohort, every connection, every step...
12/30/2025

This year was built by women, powered by community, and rooted in resilience. Every cohort, every connection, every step forward proved that leadership from within truly changes everything.

The season of giving starts here 🎄
12/25/2025

The season of giving starts here 🎄

Shop with meaning this season. Use code Movewithlove10 for exclusive Black Friday deals.
11/27/2025

Shop with meaning this season. Use code Movewithlove10 for exclusive Black Friday deals.

Happy Thanksgiving 🧡Grateful for our community and the women who inspire us every day.
11/27/2025

Happy Thanksgiving 🧡

Grateful for our community and the women who inspire us every day.

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Vision& Strategy

Fit to Navigate imagines a world where health transformations and an enriched tribe are available to all who are seek it.

We intend to create that world by providing business and learning opportunities for those who wish to enter the fitness industry and receive relevant certifications both in and outside of prison.

We will implement our program through a training program inside the institution for incarcerated women. At the same time, we will instill the importance of entrepreneurship, personal growth, and relationship-building across two distinct populations.