It's Sarah Jakes Roberts and you are listening to the Woman Eval podcast. Listen, I'm about to tell you, like, I feel in my spirit this is going to be one of the most, I'm going to say random, but I really do feel like there's going to be oil on it.

Like, I really do feel like it's going to come full circle. So I'm going to need you to buckle your seatbelt, hold on to your wig, and go on this journey with me.

For the last few weeks, we've been talking about the women who have made history.

In particular, the history of the women who made history.

And I feel like as I was preparing for this week's episode that there is a framework that I probably should have started with.

Don't you hate when you think better after you did what you did?

You know what I mean?

Like, don't you hate how the thoughts get better after the thoughts are already outside your head.

So if I would have framed this probably, I would have said this from the beginning, but it's the last one.

And it's never too late.

So this is what I want to say to you is this. One, I want to give definition to what

it means to make history. I feel like this is really important because when I hear this

idea of making history, I honestly immediately go to fame and having a platform and maybe being influential.

And yet I realize that there are so many people who make history who don't necessarily

have platforms and weren't necessarily influential to masses but were influential to one or two.

And that is how they made history. And so when we think about the

definition of what it means to make history, I want you to hold this in your mind. To make history

is to do something that is remembered in or influences the course of history. So let's think about

your life for a minute. And the people who have left

an impact on your life, they have done something that you remember that changed the course of your

life, that changed the course of your day. I think that when we consider it this way, that it becomes even more possible for us to understand the reality that each of us have the ability to make history each and every single day.

The only issue with each of us having the ability to make history every single day is that there's another reality, is that while

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