REPRESENTED with Annie Gichuru
Welcome to REPRESENTED, the podcast.
This is your weekly dose of inspiration that’ll support you to build a racially inclusive online business without letting the fear of getting it wrong get in the way. These episodes will provide insights, strategies, and discussions that break down barriers and empower you to navigate the racial equity landscape.
I’m Annie Gichuru, your host as well as a Racial Equity Coach who supports online business owners such as coaches, course creators, membership owners and group program facilitators. It’s my calling in nature and ability to break-down complex and often uncomfortable conversations around race that has seen me teach over 100 online business owners to be more racially inclusive through my online program REPRESENTED.
Be sure to subscribe, rate and review so this podcast can reach more online business owners and begin to not only normalise racial inclusion in the online coaching space but see us actively shift our perspectives.
REPRESENTED with Annie Gichuru
65. Faith, Identity & The Pressure to Perform
Can faith and performance exist in the same breath?
As we build on from the past two episodes in this heart to heart to women of colour, I’m reflecting on how my Christian faith, the very thing that’s sustained me for over 20 years in Australia, also got tangled up in performance culture.
I share how I misunderstood humility as playing small, how colonial Christianity made whiteness the standard of purity, and how so many women of colour have taken on the silent burden of being the “good Christian woman” by self-sacrificing, people pleasing, and endlessly giving.
We explore:
🎙 The pressure to perform in faith and identity
🎙 Misunderstood teachings that keep women of colour shrinking
🎙 Why obedience isn’t silence and humility isn’t invisibility
🎙 What it means to walk in relationship with God, not performance
Plus, a very special invitation if this episode resonates with you to join the waitlist for a Christian-based community I’m dreaming up 👉🏾 https://anniegichuru.com/refresh/
This episode is for you if you’ve ever wrestled with your identity in faith spaces, felt like you had to hide parts of yourself to be accepted, or just need a reminder that God delights in all of who you are.
LINKS:
I'd love to invite you to dive deeper into racial inclusion work by joining me for the next round of my 10 week online program REPRESENTED. Check out all the details and join the waitlist 👉🏾 https://anniegichuru.com/represented
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