Have you ever heard someone say "we're moving at the speed of trust".....and felt your stomach drop?

In Episode 7 of Auntea-ology: The Antidote Dialogues, hosts Sobia Ali-Faisal and Mueni Mutinda spill the tea on the most dangerous phrase in social justice. It sounds beautiful, right? Patient. Grounded. Community-centred. Until you realize it's been three years and nothing has changed. Until you're caught between the community you're building relationship with and the donor who wants a report yesterday.

In this episode:

• Mueni shares a story that will resonate with anyone who's ever been the bridge: working with BIPOC community members who have been burned before, building genuine trust, while the funder demands outputs, metrics, and proof that something is happening.
• We explore the gap between what the work requires and what the system demands - and the impossible position of the person caught in the middle.
• We ask the question that changes everything: How do you tell the difference between genuine trust-building and being stalled?
• We name the cost of being the bridge - the unseen, unpaid, unacknowledged labour of holding both sides.

Reflection Questions for You:

• Where in your life are you waiting, and how long have you been waiting?
• When does patience become a trap? How do you know which one you're in?
• What would happen if you stopped waiting and acted anyway?
• If you're the one asking others to trust you, what are you doing to earn that trust?

What You'll Walk Away With:

A way to distinguish between pace and stalling. Language for naming the tension out loud. And the recognition that trust isn't a timeline, it's a practice.

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Come waiting. Leave wiser.

Music credits:

Intro Music from #Uppbeat:
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Break Music from #Uppbeat
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Outro Music from #Uppbeat
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