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about dionne

Dionne C. Monsanto, Chief Joy Connector and Founder of Joyous Ocean, connects people to their joy. As a best-selling author, life transformation coach, speaker, mental health advocate, and performer, she creates the space for her clients to safely realize their goals and build better versions of themselves. 

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Dionne's belief is that we can collectively change the world if we each build a joy-filled healthy body to support the lives we want to live. In short Dionne helps people Live Life INjoy! With her support, her clients "right-size" their bodies and lives. 

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After leaving a successful financial services career, Dionne turned her passion for yoga, as well as her love of dance, into a budding six-figure business and has inspired communities and transformed clients all over the world. The “Dionne effect” has reshaped bodies and lives in 6 of the 7 continents. She is a native New Yorker but a global citizen. As such she has been on TV, radio and in print. Her most recent features were on PBS, CBS and in Time Magazine.

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She currently sits on the National Chapter Leadership Council for the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention (AFSP) and works closely with the NYC Chapter. She is a serial helper who loves cooking, music and laughter. She sees them all as moving meditations.

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"All that you touch, you change.
All that you change, changes you.
The only lasting truth is change" 

-Octavia Butler

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