This is Sarah Jakes Roberts and you are listening to the Woman Evolve podcast.

It is Women's History Month and I am excited to bring you a very special series of conversations about women who made history, but most importantly, the history of the women who made history and how that applies to our own

history and the ways that we may need to go rogue and evolve in order for us to step into

the intentional transformation that is assigned to our lives.

And by transformation assigned to our lives, I certainly mean our own personal transformation, but I also believe that we are here to transform the world and the spaces that we live in. Part of what keeps us from doing that, though, is that we get stuck. We get trapped within ourselves. And when we get trapped within ourselves,

it's hard to see. I'm actually working. First of all, if you know me, which some of you do,

some of you don't, let me tell you something. You know, even though you're listening to me on a podcast,

speaking is not really my thing. I love words. I love writing so much and I only write when I feel

like I have something that is worth as it relates to books. I only write books that I feel like are

worth me going through the system of putting a book out. Because I love writing so much, I never wanted it to become

something that was like systematized. And, you know, there's a process of editing and publishing

and marketing and producing a book that if you aren't writing something that you feel the world needs

or something that you are absolutely in love with and want to share with other people,

it can drain the love out of it.

And so I have to love a concept so much that I am willing to go through the process

of getting a book into the world.

And I feel like I have an idea that kind of speaks to what I'm

going to share in today's episode, which is ultimately about us getting free from the limits

and the, I'm going to say voices that tell us to shrink, that tell us to be small. Sometimes those voices are internal.

Sometimes they are external.

But for today, I want to talk about women who made history by using their voice

and how you can become one of those women who learn how to use their voice.

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