Sealing My Joy

Woman Evolve with Sarah Jakes Roberts

Woman Evolve, Inc

Society & Culture

4.8 • 6.7K Ratings

🗓️ 10 September 2025

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Some days you’ve got to hold your joy close, pray over it, and put a lid on it before the internet gets a vote. Today we are talking like girlfriends at the kitchen table about giving yourself permission to be human while God makes you whole. We’re choosing God over small, trading people-pleasing for purpose, and letting the Holy Spirit stretch us from tight places into broad spaces. It’s not a recap, it’s real talk.

Pull up and let’s:

Protect joy before we post it
Do enough to hear God again
Turn the other cheek without turning off our calling
Ask the Holy Spirit for bold, humble courage

If your heart’s been tender, your faith feels wobbly, or you’ve been hiding the best parts of you, this one’s a gentle nudge to show up again. Press play, breathe, and let’s seal that joy together.

Transcript

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0:00.0	This is Sarah Jakes Roberts, and you are listening to the Wominy Ball podcast.
0:10.0	I want to start this podcast by saying, I am sorry that I have been inconsistent.
0:15.1	When I started this podcast in 2018, one of the things that I prided myself on is every week. I started up Facebook
0:22.5	live. Every, I think it was, was it Tuesday? Every Tuesday, two-ish, you could count on me being on
0:30.5	Facebook live to do this podcast. And two-ish, I do mean ish, because depending on what was happening
0:35.2	in my world and in my family, it could have been like 2.30. But, you know, that's neither here nor there. I have pride it myself on consistency. And this
0:42.2	year, I just have not been able to show up in the way that I am used to showing up in this particular
0:48.5	space. And as much as I want to be down on myself about it, the first part of the year wasn't really
0:53.7	my fault. I think I could have planned better as a business leader, but there were just certain
0:59.4	things that I didn't know as it related to taking back the ownership of the podcast that
1:05.5	required legal and engineering and back-in things that I've never had to go through before.
1:12.3	But this last pause was a combination of many things that I'm going to get into.
1:17.5	But I just want to thank you for your patience.
1:20.7	And I want this to maybe serve as a reminder for some of us that the places where we have
1:26.3	shown up consistently may not be a place where we can
1:29.0	show up consistently in this season. And it is okay for you to give yourself permission to be
1:35.0	inconsistent temporarily while you recenter, re-gather, recalibrate so that you can determine
1:41.5	what consistency looks like for you going forward.
1:45.2	Inconsistency is not a permanent state that I suggest anyone be in, but I do think when we're
1:50.2	going through identity transitions, when we're going through work transitions, family
1:56.3	transitions, that giving ourselves permission to say, okay, I'm not going to be able to show up in the way
2:01.8	that I once did. I can show up in some ways, but I'm giving myself permission to be inconsistent
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