Anything Goes with the Bonis

It all started with the question, “How do you do everything, Miss Rica?” We run, workout, overland, join races, while completing tasks at home and for our careers, so they must be thinking we’re some kind if unicorns to achieve all these but you’d probably be surprised to know that we aren’t special at all. But what we do have is a philosophy in life that enables us to di teh things we want to do and have the kind of life we actually want to have. The best part about it is you can do these steps, too. It’s not even anything magical or hard to achieve — it only requires intentionality, coupled with discipline. So go ahead and dig into this brand new episode from The Bonis! We hope you come away empowered after listening to this! If you want to continue the conversation, make sure you’re part of our Telegram Channel and Chat Group. Join us here.

Hey all! We’re back! Before we completely turnover to 2025, in this episode we decided to stop and share our best finds for 2024. We talked about books, movies, series, podcasts, content creators, and music! If you have things to add to our list, feel free to do so in our TelegramGC. Which reminds me, if you aren’t part of it yet, then do click this link, join the rest of us and we can do post-episode discussions: https://t.me/+2PK0xsN6nYg3NjI1 As promised, too, here are some links we’d share with you about the media we mentioned: Rica’s notes on One Day Joe's Soc Med Recommends (IG): @angenay_, @iansimkins, @jacobsalguerro

In this episode we share the books we’ve opene since 2024 started. Consequently we started talking about why we read many books at once, why it isn’t exactly wrong to not finish a book, our diet when it comes to book genres, and also what made us shift from physical to digital books, including audio books! 📚 Now here is a list of all the books we discussed in this episode and we look forward to continuing the conversation on our group chat over at Telegram, here’s the link if you haven’t joined us yet. Books We Mentioned: 1. What I Talk About When I Talk About Running (Haruki Murakami) 2. Built to Move (Kelly and Juliet Starret) 3. It’s All In Her Head (Dr.Elizabath Comen MD) 4. Sonship (James Jordan) 5. The Written World (Martin Puchner) 6. A History of the World (Andrew Marr) 7. Gilead (Marylin Robinson)Trust:nowing When to Give It, When to Withhold It, How to Earn It, and How to Fix It When It Gets Broken (Dr.Henry Cloud) 8. Your Church is Too Small (John H.Armstrong) 9. Gentle and Lowly (Dane Ortlund) 10. Oathbringer (Brandon Sanderson)

Long time no episode! Life happens — as you will hear us explain in the beginning of this podcast episode BUT we couldn’t let this topic pass. Especially since so many people are claiming this must or must not be followed by whatever qualifier — because I am a family man, Christian, etc. so we might as well talk about it and talk about the claims, too, and what we feel about them saying those things about why divorce must be enforced as a law of the land. Wanna hear your take, too. So if you have time do join our telegram community and let’s chat there! Join our Telegram group here. See Joe's preaching on marriage and divorce here.

We turned ten years old as parents this year and we decided to recount things we’ve learned from being parents so far. They turned out to be ten pairs: - Father and Mother - Discipline and Grace - Time and Seasons - Dependence and Independence - Physical and Spiritual - Joy and Sacrifice - Hard or Easy - Future and Past - Nuclear and Extended - Qualified and Unqualified - Nature and Nurture This might be good for you all who are new parents, and all of you who are children. Might just make you understand the immense responsibility that comes with being a mom or dad amd how it is so easy to get it all wrong. Which in the end is the driving force behind why we were left without a choice but to ask help from God. I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well. Ps 139:14

Owning our own home did not come in an instant but it was a long process of asking people we trust to know about such things and doing our research. In this podcast we share questions we asked, and pieces of advice we were given by some of the best financial and real estate people. We were asked questions that were so helpful like the ones we mentioned above. We also recall times when we’ve visited sites that gave us a better handle of who we are and what we want for our family, and more realizations that came along the way as we were growing. This is a sponsored post by Camella homes which we also visited in the pricess of owning our first ever home as a fam. Hope this episode helps and gives us the hope that it is never too early or too late to think about it.

We were having our anniversary dinner when our friends asked about how different Joe and I were. Well, super. Haha! And that's how this episode started. We tried talking about how the there are places where commonalities fade over time and where they were crucially needed from the beginning and through and through the relationship. I hope this episode helps if you are navigating through your differences with your loved one. And if by any chance you wanna join our chat group for follow ups, go ahead and add us up in Telegram. Here is a link: https://t.me/+eO28y0wQlyQxYjk1

We’re back! And we begin the year moved like crazy because of this MMFF 2024 film!!! We’ve seen it and we’ve been moved by it so much so we ended up talking about it for more than an hour. Oh but also, we geek out on some new things like our Garmin watches and well, some video games. (Video games and interdental toothbrushes always find a way!) Happy new year everyone and do let us know if you have additional thoughts to this by joining our telegram group chat! Here is the link: https://t.me/+lLQiqaM4WAA5NTg9 And for the NHCP documentary link we recommended, here we go: https://youtu.be/iUlf9KtbqC8?si=8c7hF0yfpZM2JhCo

When we saw this on Disney+ we just knew it was something we needed to see LIVE, on stage. It finally happened. Glad to have GMG productions bring it to us here in Manila. And so we talk about the songs and themes we loved about the musicale, as well as what warrants a live a show when you could just see it on screen anyway. By the end of the podcast, we contemplate on the whole "Who lives, who dies, who tells my story?" Do we actually want our stories to be told? Listen to our answers and maybe you can tell us yours, too! If you want to comment and chat real time, please join our Telegram group over here: https://t.me/+lLQiqaM4WAA5NTg9

Might be the hardest of all topics to talk about because not only did we get questions about cheating spouses or girlfriends, boyfriends, but also children. We got kids asking what must they feel and do when one of their parents cheat? Infidelity is not a light thing to talk about and we explore why in this episode, as well as our own take on what we should do when we experience this either directly or indirectly. Hope this sheds a light. We deep dive this topic to help. And if you wanna process some more with us we are over here: https://t.me/+lLQiqaM4WAA5NTg9