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A Healthy Thought:
“Developing a healthy lifestyle transforms not just your body, but your mind.”
Bethany Bishop
Mortgage servicer
A Healthy Thought: “Developing a healthy lifestyle transforms not just your body, but your mind.” Bethany Bishop Mortgage servicer

After experiencing an unexpected life event, Bethany Bishop strove to see a new person in the mirror.
As she embarked on her journey, one of her biggest supporters was her employer, Navigant Credit Union.
As a result of regularly using an on-site gym, taking fitness classes, and participating in seminars on healthy eating and stress management offered through Navigant, she’s dropped 30 pounds and has a vastly improved outlook.
“Developing a healthy lifestyle transforms not just your body, but your mind to [be] a better you – the best you,” said Bishop, a mortgage servicer with Navigant.
In the spring of 2012, with the formation of a wellness committee, Smithfield-headquartered Navigant made a purposeful effort to help improve the health of its employees.
In addition to having access to a dedicated gym and personal trainers at reduced rates, the nonprofit’s 250 employees can participate in an annual Navigant Wellness Day, free yoga, cardio and Zumba classes, healthy cooking demonstrations, as well as classes related to women’s health, nutrition, stress management and healthy communication.
Enthusiasm has been high, according to Terri Brophy, assistant vice president of human resources.
Nearly half of all employees participated in the ShapeUp RI challenge this year – member fees were paid by Navigant – and the nonprofit plans to continue that tradition in 2015, as “the competitive spirit is definitely here.”
As Brophy explained, all programs come about from employee suggestions and feedback.
“Our main goal is to let them know that we hear them,” she said.

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