From Reluctant to Resilient

Woman Evolve with Sarah Jakes Roberts

Woman Evolve, Inc

Society & Culture

4.8 • 6.7K Ratings

🗓️ 2 July 2025

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Let’s clear this up real quick: being a leader isn’t always about having a mic or a massive following. It’s about carrying vision. Heavy on the carrying. In this special session from The Called Conference 2025, Sarah Jakes Roberts opens up about her own leadership journey and what it looks like to lead while feeling reluctant, unsure, or unqualified. She breaks down the difference between being a visionary and being a leader, what to do when the vision feels blurry, and how to shift from striving to surrender. From team building and value alignment to navigating change and knowing when to come off autopilot, SJR reminds us that real leadership starts with sensitivity, not status. If you’ve been tying your identity to your outcomes or wondering if you’re built for what God showed you, this is your invitation to move with reverence, release the pressure, and lead like the earth is waiting on what you’re carrying because it is.

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0:00.0	Okay, as promised, I am dropping the episode from the called conference here at the
0:11.3	Woman Evolve podcast. For those of you who may be playing catch up, I spoke at my husband's
0:15.5	leadership conference in May, and it was my first time speaking from the standpoint of a leader. Even though I have
0:22.6	been leading woman Evolve for almost seven years now, I have been reluctant to speak as a leader
0:30.0	because I am constantly learning so many lessons that I'm like, when I pass the class, then I will
0:35.8	share the lesson.
0:44.9	What I am beginning to realize is that we don't get to just give our lessons once we have passed the test.
0:52.7	There are some things that God calls us to do that we have to give the lessons even while we are learning new lessons.
0:55.5	You may never fully master the thing that you've been called to do, but just because you have that mastered, it doesn't mean that you
0:59.6	don't have lessons for people who are on different levels than you are. If you have graduated
1:04.2	from any level at all of parenting, of health and fitness, of leading a business, then you have a lesson. Make sure that
1:13.2	you are sharing your lessons. I am sharing my lessons from leadership that I feel like apply to
1:18.6	anyone, especially someone who may be a little bit reluctant to be a leader because that has
1:23.5	definitely been my ministry. I like to mind my business and leave people alone, not lead people,
1:28.7	but here I am leading. And so how have I embraced this call, accepted it, and allowed myself to
1:34.2	not experience pressure while doing it? That's what's on this week's episode. Let's get into it.
1:41.9	I want to share with you a little bit about my leadership journey. The word leader makes me cringe.
1:47.3	I will be honest. I think it's because of my personality type. When I hear the word leader,
1:53.5	I hear responsibility. I hear pressure. And to be honest, I have really seen myself as more of a live and let live kind of person.
2:03.7	So when I hear leader, I always see it as synonymous with leading people.
2:08.1	And though God has allowed me to have influence and an incredible platform, I was never
2:14.7	seeking to really gather people.
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