The Blessing in Becoming ( Loren Speaks with Sarah J Roberts on Woman Evolve Podcast))

Loren LoRosa (0:00)

Let's get, let's get, let's get to it. Time to do it. I'm the homegirl that knows a little bit about everything and everybody.

Sarah Jakes Roberts (0:05)

You hear that exclusive? You know if you don't lie about that, right? You already came in hot.

Loren LoRosa (0:10)

Hey, y'all, what's up? It's Loren LoRosa, and this is another episode of The Latest with Loren LoRosa. This is your daily dig of all things pop culture, entertainment news, and all the conversations that shake the room, baby. There we go, y'all, I got it, okay? Sorry, I'm yelling, I'm excited. If you guys cannot tell, I am feeling amazing today. So let's check in behind the scenes real quick before we get into a conversation that I know is going to shake the room. I want you guys to go and listen to an interview I did. But first, I'm going to talk to you a bit here about it, about how it came about. Two of my favorite moments from the interview was about an hour long. You'll get a little bit of it here, and then I want you to go listen to the full thing. I think it'll help you all on this good old day.

Behind the scenes of The Grind today, we are packing up and heading on out. I'm currently in New York City, but we are headed down to South Carolina. We will be broadcasting live. When I say we, I mean The Breakfast Club, we'll be broadcasting live from South Carolina State University. Now, this is only for South Carolina students. This is a part of a HBCU tour that The Breakfast Club is kicking off. And we're going to be doing a lot more HBCUs as 2027 and all the things come. I'm really excited. You guys can still listen to The Breakfast Club the same way you do everywhere you listen or watch us. It'll just be us in South Carolina. So I'm excited for that. It's always a good time when we get to travel as a team. It's like one of my favorite things to do, is to like get to travel and experience different things with the crew here that I work with at The Breakfast Club, because I don't know, I feel like after we go through these experiences together and we like eat in and fellowship in and community and all the things, I don't know, we just really, it like helps to build the rapport, not even on a professional level, but like personally. And y'all know me at this point. If you've been listening to the podcast since we launched in March of 2024, you guys know me well enough to know that I'm really big on community, I'm really big on people, but I'm really vulnerable and open about connection and why it's important. So these types of trips and things are fun and it's work, but it's also good relationship building and connection between the crew, the cast. We look here like family up here. I don't know if they love to admit it or not, but we are. So that'll be going down this week. I will, any experiences and stuff like that from there that I can bring back or that makes sense to bring back into The Latest with Loren LoRosa, the podcast. You guys know I will.

There will be some special performers and things of that nature. So maybe we'll get some of that in on the podcast following this one. But let's get to the conversation now. So I had the opportunity to sit down with Pastor Sarah Jakes Roberts. Pastor Sarah Jakes Roberts is the daughter of TD Jakes. She is a pastor, she is a speaker, she is a mother, she is an educator. Motivation, she is all of the above. She is a vessel. I've been following, not even following. First of all, let's back up. When I first moved to LA in 2014, right after I got out of college when I graduated Delaware State University, I was trying to find a church in LA and everybody, all of the creatives and everybody I know was like, yo, go to one LA. That is the church. You know, it's black people there, it's good people, good fellowship, good community, but you get a good word in. Pastor Ture was the pastor there at the time. And then his wife, her name was Sarah, Pastor Sarah. She wasn't even pastoring at that time though. She would, you know, first lady of the church, but she was always fly. And I remember that about her, but their church was that church, one church in LA was my first time ever experiencing a mega church in person. Of course, you know, I'd watched them at this point. YouTube was, you know, like YouTube was around, things were moving. So I watched mega churches and things online and seeing clips, but never had been to one in real life.