God wants to create our weaknesses, like he wants to take our weaknesses and allow them to become a strength for the kingdom of God.

Welcome to Jesus Calling Stories of Faith.

Our guest today is Sadie Robertson, Star of ABC's Dancing with the Stars, and also

Aonee's Duck Dynasty. Sadie shares her journey of finding freedom for being real and vulnerable

to God and others.

She is passionate about speaking and writing in hopes of encouraging others to embrace who they

really are.

Her latest book is entitled Live Fearless, A Call to Power, Passion, and Purpose.

I'm Sadie Robertson and I am really and truly just a follower of Jesus.

I have been able to do a lot of cool things

only because God's opened some really cool doors and I'm just walking in that and

it's been a really fun journey so far.

I grew up in West Monroe, Louisiana.

Probably never heard of it, because truthfully there really are more chickens than humans.

That is like a fact, I'm pretty sure.

My family, we actually grew up running a small business called Duck Commander

Which a lot of people know now as Doug Dynasty. It was definitely not a dynasty when we were younger

We had this business running out of our garage It was definitely not a dynasty when we were younger.

We had this business running out of our garage.

So we would make duck calls and package t-shirts

and I would answer the phone calls.

And yeah, it was a very country lifestyle in a little small town Louisiana.

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