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

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'But Also': Refusing to Be Defined by One Moment

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One of the episode's most quotable and practically useful ideas emerges here: the 'but also' framework for reclaiming identity. Sarah explains that she spent years trying to escape or disconnect from the label of teen mom, when the real work was to hold that identity alongside everything else. She isn't trying to be just her achievements or just her struggles — she wants to be the full, complex, tapestry of a girl on a journey and a woman owning her power. ^{[1] — Sarah Jakes Roberts "Sarah didn't try to erase her past as a teen mom — she added to it. 'I'm a teen mom, but also I'm an incredible person, but also I dream, b…" 14:15 Play} Mel is visibly moved, and Sarah grounds the insight with humour: after everything, she is also on the Mel Robbins Podcast, which she notes has millions of weekly listeners. The takeaway is that adding to your identity, not subtracting from it, is how you build wholeness.