Have you ever felt like every time you step back into racial equity work, you're starting from scratch? Like the learning you've done before hasn't been retained because you haven't been practising it?

In this episode, I share a simple journaling practice designed to help you stay in racial equity work consistently, without feeling like you need to keep rebuilding from zero.

Drawing on the work of trauma therapist Resmaa Menakem and neuroscientist Lisa Feldman Barrett, I walk you through a three part practice you can return to again and again. One that honours what your body is telling you, invites self-reflection and helps you track your growth over time.

What you'll hear in this episode:

• Why so many values-led business owners feel like they're constantly restarting in their racial equity journey
• The three questions that form the foundation of a sustainable journaling practice
• How to bring intention to what you're consuming before you consume it
• What your body is telling you when you encounter content that brings up discomfort
• How to tell the difference between a break that's part of the practice and one that's a departure from it
• One small shift that helps this work stop feeling separate from your everyday life.

Resources mentioned in this episode:

• My Grandmother's Hands by Resmaa Menakem
• How Emotions Are Made by Lisa Feldman Barrett

How I Can Personally Support You:

If what you're realising today is that you need a way to stay connected to this work consistently, to be in community with others who are on the same journey, to have a space where the learning deepens rather than dissipates, that's exactly what we do inside REPRESENTED.

REPRESENTED is a ten week racial inclusion program for values-led online business owners. Find out more and join the waitlist👉🏾 https://anniegichuru.com/represented-waitlist/

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Most of us have been taught that being nice is a good thing. In racial equity work, it might be the very thing standing in the way.

Today, we're making a distinction that many get wrong: niceness and kindness are not the same thing. Niceness keeps the peace. Kindness pursues justice and in antiracism and DEI work, choosing one over the other has real consequences for real people.

Dr King wrote about this very issue in his Letter from Birmingham Jail in 1963. He had a name for the people who agreed with him in principle and did nothing in practice. That name still fits.

We explore what niceness looks like when it operates inside institutions and inside relationships and why, according to racial discrimination research, it is rarely as harmless as it feels. We look at examples from across the globe and draw on scholars working at the intersection of systemic racism, racial harm and what genuine inclusion actually requires.

And we make the case that kindness, real kindness is the currency that allows people, especially those with marginalised identities to keep showing up.

This episode is for you if you have ever stayed silent when something harmful happened and told yourself you were just keeping the peace. It is for you if you lead a team, run a business or show up in community spaces and want your values to match your actions.

LINKS

I'd love to invite you to dive deeper into racial inclusion work by joining the waitlist for my 10 week online program REPRESENTED. Check out all the details and join https://anniegichuru.com/represented-waitlist/

Come say hi on Instagram, let me know where you are tuning in from. I'd love to hear from you 👉🏾 https://www.instagram.com/annie.gichuru

How does the same book that says "the Spirit of the Lord is on me, because he has anointed me to set the oppressed free" get used to keep people in chains?

That is the question at the heart of this Easter Monday episode where I'm unpacking one of the most confronting intersections in history race and faith and what it means for those of us doing inclusion work today.

This episode is for you whether you have never opened a Bible or whether faith is the very foundation of your life. Because what happened when the Bible was weaponised to justify slavery, what it produced in response and the system that made it all possible, that story does not stay in history. It shows up in our businesses, our communities and our own unconscious patterns right now.

In this episode we cover:
* The deliberate distortion of the Bible to justify slavery and racial hierarchy
* The true story behind the making of the Black church
* Who the Pharisees were and why their system is alive and well today
* What the Bible actually says about liberation and the character of Jesus
* What this means for you and your inclusion work in 2026

LINKS

I'd love to invite you to dive deeper into racial inclusion work by joining the waitlist for my 10 week online program REPRESENTED. Check out all the details and join https://anniegichuru.com/represented-waitlist/

Come say hi on Instagram, let me know where you are tuning in from. I'd love to hear from you 👉🏾 https://www.instagram.com/annie.gichuru