How to Become the Most Confident Version of Yourself & Step Into Your Power

**Mel Robbins** (0:00)
Hey, it's your friend Mel, and welcome to The Mel Robbins Podcast.
I'm going to answer a question that I get asked from listeners of The Mel Robbins Podcast around the world. I get this question almost every day, and this is the question. Mel, who do you listen to? When life gets hard, when the world seems overwhelming, when you feel discouraged or beaten up by life, who do you listen to, Mel? Who's the voice that gives you hope? That opens your mind and your heart? Who's the person that you can listen to all day long? Someone who just makes you feel like everything's going to be okay. That you have the power to meet the challenges of your life and not be defeated or defined by it, but to emerge stronger, wiser, better.
That one person that I, Mel Robbins, turn to is bestselling author and pastor Sarah Jakes Roberts. So today, I'm going to share the conversation with you that I had with her. It's one of those episodes that we've recorded on The Mel Robbins Podcast that I personally turn to over and over again. I also continue to share it with anyone in my life who needs hope, motivation, optimism, and the reminder that yes, change is possible. You are so much more powerful than you know, and today, Sarah Jakes Roberts will convince you of that. And in particular, if you or someone you love is tired of beating yourself up about the past, or you're feeling like your life is just never going to get going in the right direction, I'm going to tell you something. You're listening to the exact podcast that you needed today.
So, if you're ready to stop beating yourself up, and dragging the past around, and you want to start becoming who you're meant to be, Sarah Jakes Roberts is ready to teach you how.
Hey, it's your friend Mel, and welcome to The Mel Robbins Podcast. I am so excited that you're here. It's such an honor to be together and to spend this time with you. And if you're a new listener, or you're here because someone shared this extraordinary episode with you, I just wanna take a moment and personally welcome you to The Mel Robbins Podcast family. Today, you're gonna learn how to create a brand new version of yourself with bestselling author and pastor Sarah Jakes Roberts. She is one of the most powerful and inspiring voices alive today on healing, self-forgiveness, and reinvention. Sarah is a New York Times bestselling author, a speaker, a philanthropist, an entrepreneur, and a teacher who has a rare gift. She can take the messiest parts of being human. Shame, regret, the mistakes you keep playing, the past you count outrun, and she can help you turn these experiences into wisdom and strength that propels you forward and empowers you to create a big, beautiful future. So let's jump in to the moment when Sarah Jakes Roberts first walked in to our Boston studios. Sarah Jakes Roberts, I'm so excited to get to spend some time with you.

**Sarah Jakes Roberts** (3:32)
Thank you. I'm looking forward to it.

**Mel Robbins** (3:34)
So I would love to have you start by talking directly to the person who's listening and share with them what they can expect to experience and learn from you today. Like, how might their life change if they take everything that you're about to share to heart?

**Sarah Jakes Roberts** (3:55)
I would say today you are going to learn to rest in the truth of who you are, not just your hopes and dreams, the achievements and shiny things, but the things that have been hard and challenging. Today, you're going to find a way to rest in that, embrace it, accept it, and then allow it to propel you into a big, beautiful future.
Oh, yeah.

**Mel Robbins** (4:19)
I'm ready. Yeah. I would like that.

**Sarah Jakes Roberts** (4:22)
Let's go.

**Mel Robbins** (4:22)
Let's go. And in order to go forward, I think oftentimes in life, you got to look back.

**Sarah Jakes Roberts** (4:27)
Yeah.

**Mel Robbins** (4:28)
And one of the things that I love the most about you, there's so many things that I love about you. But I love that whenever I watch you online or I tune into a sermon or I read something that you've written, I feel as though I have somebody walking by my side, not somebody speaking down from above.
And you have a story in terms of your past that I think a lot of people don't realize. And I would love for us to go back in time before we start talking about the wisdom that you have to share because there is so much that you learned from those periods in your life. So can you take us back to this moment in time?