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Actress, Founder of the Honest Company, and Mother Jessica Alba acknowledges the impactful initiatives and results of 3-2-1 Empower
With a desire to give back for all the blessings in her life 3-2-1 Empower founder Ramona Braganza began her charity. Reaching out to her celebrity clients to build awareness, Zoe Saldana was the first to lend her support by appearing in the Hollywood Reporter with her trainer. Click here to read the whole article.
Wellness Training: A Path to Empower (Podcast with Dr. Sandra Morgan)
Dr. Sandie Morgan and Dave Stachowiak are joined by Ramona Braganza, celebrity trainer and global fitness expert. Ramona shares her 30-year journey of wellness, and how she is using her passions and expertise to contribute to the fight against human trafficking. She shares her goal of providing real-world education and skills training in the health and wellness sector to young female survivors caught in the vicious cycle of India’s Sexual exploitation and trafficking business through a North American based non-profit organization she established, 3-2-1 Empower.
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POPSUGAR
Celeb trainer Ramona Braganza has spent almost the entirety of her adult life serving other people and putting her clients before herself — and as such, has made some sacrifices in her personal life. Thanks to dedication to her career and clients like Jessica Alba, Halle Berry, Kate Beckinsale, Anne Hathaway, Dakota Johnson, Scarlett Johansson, Zac Efron, and Ryan Reynolds, “I don’t have a family,” Braganza told POPSUGAR. “I was on the road with Jessica Alba for 12 years.”
But she wants to leave a legacy — and as the selfless person she is, she wants to continue to share her gifts of service with the world. During a trip to Mumbai, India, the opportunity to do that came into focus.
“I reached a certain point where I was really grateful for all the things that had happened to me, and I wanted to do something to give back,” said Braganza. “I contacted a woman at Catholic Relief Services in India who took me to this part of town, kind of like the red light district, and met a woman who runs an ‘in-between place.'”
Yahoo! News
Falkland Road, Mumbai, India’s notorious red light district that dates back to British colonial times, has for decades both fascinated and horrified journalists, photographers, writers, travelers, and citizens. But no amount of prior knowledge could have prepared celebrity fitness trainer Ramona Braganza for the harsh reality of the crowded, narrow street, lined with wooden cages teeming with prostitutes of all ages, many of them mere girls.
Braganza, a former cheerleader for the Oakland Raiders, who has also trained scores of celebrities — including Dakota Johnson, Jessica Alba, Ashlee Simpson-Ross, and Halle Berry — is of Indian descent, and when she turned 50 in 2013, she was looking for a way to “give back” through what comes most naturally to her: fitness.
Ramona Braganza, the visionary behind 3-2-1 Empower, is harnessing the transformative power of fitness to empower survivors of human trafficking in India. With an illustrious career as a celebrity trainer to stars like Jessica Alba, Dakota Johnson, Halle Berry, and Jaime Dornan, Ramona has embraced a higher calling, venturing beyond the glitz and glamour of Hollywood to empower young, underprivileged women in India. Drawing from her own journey as a fitness trainer and entrepreneur, Ramona is inspiring these women to become fitness trainers themselves, paving the way for a brighter future and self-sufficiency.