Sarah Jakes Roberts
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803 appearances
3 recordings
3 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard 12 May
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What we need to be saying instead is that I need enough power to finally get out of this pattern of thinking that has kept me stuck that has kept me feeling defeated, and that is a stronger belief. And I believe that anyone who's going to introduce a stronger belief has to be able to say, I am this and that. Like I may be a teen mom, but I'm still a girl who has dreams.
I may have come from a broken home, but I still want to pursue this. I do not want these statistics to end up defining who I am for the rest of my life. And so just because I'm this doesn't mean that I won't be that either. And so being able to live in this duality so that fear doesn't convince us that who we were yesterday defines who we're going to be tomorrow.
This thing has real power. It has enough power to keep me from moving, enough power to keep me from growing. Now that I have identified that it actually has power, I want to talk about how I want to extract the power, reclaim the power that fear has, that shame has and pointed in a direction that will allow me to experience wholeness and joy and peace and confidence.
Power Moves is all about really reclaiming power from fear, from our shame, from our past and recognizing that power moves. Just because it had enough power to stop you in your past doesn't mean that it gets to keep that power. When you reclaim it, you can begin moving in the direction of transformation
from the inside out, not just because I want to get a new job or I want to build something on the outside. When power moves in you, then power can move through you.
I love that you asked this because then we need to study how does this show up in my life? So I on in my intimate relationships, I would never speak up. So if someone projected something onto me and said, oh, you know, Sarah doesn't want to do this or hey, we're going to do this. I would never use my voice, even if I disagreed. I would just go with the flow. I didn't want to be a disruptor.
I didn't want to detract from anyone, even if it was a major decision. And so I recognized that the power of fear was showing up in keeping me from actually using my voice. And so I have identified it. Now I've seen how it shows up in my life to go to the end of the day and to reconcile. How did the power of fear, the power of shame show up? It didn't. determine what I put on.
It determined whether or not I spoke up in the meeting. It made me shut down. I got angry. Like, how did this show up in my life? And what do I wish I would have done instead? What would have been the power move that I did instead? And the beautiful thing about this is when you're reconciling it within yourself, you can say whatever you want to say to yourself.
Like, you may not, this may not be what I would have said in the meeting. Like, I wish I'd have told her to shut up. It's like, that may not be what you say in the meeting, but start practicing
what it feels like to use your voice, to show up in power, to do the opposite of what fear and anxiety and doubt, do the opposite of that, even if you're only doing it within yourself, because you have to exercise using your own power within, because the next time there's a moment like this, you get to capture and say, wait a minute, this is a moment where I get to choose to have faith or I get to choose to have fear.
And because I've already practiced how I want to show up in this space, this may be the moment where I dip my toe in the water and begin to show up.
Right, right.
Yeah, let me think about that. Yeah.
Exactly.
So at the end of each chapter, we literally have this like marinate, activate prayer. So it's like these three sections was like, let's marinate on how you would have wanted to do something differently. And then let's activate it. The next time you're doing X, Y, and Z, try and show up in a way that allows power to move through you. And then a prayer to help you in those moments.
Because it does create... Change is not always easy, even when we know it needs to be implemented.
It's just not.
Marinating.
I am still probably really, you know, because we are on a podcast where people hear things. I am needing to be more intentional about owning my voice as an entrepreneur.
It's hard to say that I'm not being authentic because I don't fully... I don't know that I have fully owned the fact that there are a lot of things that I have like stumbled into. And then there are many things that I had to really be strategic about, you know, making specific hiring choices, making sure that our brand has a certain feel, touch and consistency. And I've done that with intention.
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