Sarah Jakes Roberts

So I see myself as someone who understands the vision of what it's supposed to be, how it's supposed to show up, but the actual execution of it, I don't necessarily have the gifts and talents to do that in some arenas.

Well, thank you.

I want to create space for the best to be the best.

Mm-hmm.

And so my goal is to attract the type of environment and culture that makes it easy for people who have a gift and a talent to come in and to be able to really expand it and magnify it in a way that is ultimately meaningful for the women we get to serve.

For sure.

I think when I first started, I would just take whatever came my way and whatever people said I should do.

And I was finding myself like overwhelmed and not really being clear about my message, my brand, my desire to show up in the world.

as directed by what I believe my sense of calling is.

And now I feel more agency, more of a sense of ownership to say what I will do, what I won't do.

And I think one of the greatest things that I've learned as a leader is to not apologize for what I don't know.

I think that there's this temptation when you're finished, like accepting whatever comes your way, that now I'm going to overcompensate and know everything and do everything.

And I feel like I have found the way to balance like this.

I'm really strong in.

I know this for sure.

I know that for sure.

And the things that I don't know, I don't mind not knowing because it doesn't change who I am in the equation of things.

And I don't have to know something that I don't know.

My father taught me, he's like, you only don't know once.

So if you're ever in a room and someone's talking about something you don't know or something you don't understand, if you ask, you only don't know once.