Everyday Leadership for Women
Leading with Divine Purpose
You are a leader because you are divine.
Leadership is not performance. It is not confidence, a title, or a platform. It is stewardship of presence and responsibility. It starts with knowing you are a daughter of God, not with earning your way into a role. This book is for the woman who said yes to one more thing a few weeks ago and is already dreading the deadline. For the one who's never held a title and has quietly changed people's lives anyway. For the one doing the math on decades nobody ever named. If you've ever said “I'm fine” and meant I am so tired of being the only one who notices, this book was written for you specifically.
The manuscript is finished. The book is not out yet. Here's the table of contents, and a place to leave your email so you're the first to know when that changes.
Join the listTable of contents
Twelve chapters. One thesis. A lot of honesty.
-
00
Introduction
You've been leading this whole time. Nobody bothered to tell you. Opens with a football field, four older brothers, and three women saying the same hard thing in the same meeting, each running on a different fuel.
-
01
What Is Divine Leadership?
Collapsing on the floor with a screaming infant, convinced motherhood couldn't be divine because she felt like she was failing at it. Roles crack under pressure. Identity as a daughter of God doesn't. Esther and "for such a time as this."
-
02
Your Identity Shouldn't Be a Crisis
The gap between knowing you're God's daughter and leading from it. Performance versus identity as two different fuel sources, with Jesus as the model of settled identity, and a newlywed military wife asking herself what she wants.
-
03
Receiving What God Has Given You
Your gifts aren't for self-discovery. They're for stewardship, given for other people, not to prove your worth. Discernment as the governing gift: knowing when to pour out and when to hold back.
-
04
The Home You Came From
A full, chaotic, multi-generational household, and a remarkable mother modeling faith under real pressure. Homes hand us stories. Leadership means choosing which ones to repeat and which to rewrite.
-
05
The First Place You Lead
The hardest chapter: infant loss, postpartum depression, and isolation. One dark morning, choosing to believe the night would end. Grace, not performance, as the foundation for leading your own home.
-
06
When the Glass Breaks
A ten-year-old daughter, a shattered glass, and what a mother's half-second reaction teaches about grace, safety, and trust. "Safety is not the absence of correction. It is the presence of love in correction." Identity in Action: Resilience.
-
07
Leading Beyond Your Front Door
Military spouse life in Alabama, then South Korea with a newborn and severe postpartum depression, and the ordinary women who led her without ever calling it that. Identity in Action: Service.
-
08
The Cost of Leading Well
What real influence actually costs. A trust fall, and the difference between performing okay-ness and being okay. Identity in Action: Influence.
-
09
When It Gets Heavy
Sustaining leadership under real weight, over the long haul, when nobody is applauding and the season won't end on schedule. Identity in Action: Vision.
-
10
Live and Learn: Then Repeat
The payoff of the three women from the introduction, plus a fourth. Closes with the only instruction that ever mattered: put the book down, pray for guidance, then act.
-
+
A Final Word
The fullest telling of a hospital scene in Korea: an ambulance, snow outside the window, a son named Isaac. "He did not leave me alone that night. He has not left you alone either." Signed, with so much love, Sara Jane.
From early readers
What the first women to read it are saying
I really enjoyed this book. It is easy reading on the one hand and yet full of thoughts that on further reading and rereading can encourage much deeper thinking and so is great for a quick read, but full of inspiration to encourage much deeper pondering and thinking. I definitely encourage others to get the book and read it more than once especially when life is frustrating and thoughts are scattered about your own self worth. Reminding one that she (or he) is a child of God is critical to stabilizing one’s life and is full of thoughts on how to do that.
In our role-obsessed world reading Leading with Divine Purpose expanded my view to focus on my divine identity as daughter of God. As I’ve started to lean into my divine identity, I have found more power and strength to lead in my daily life.
Chapter three (gifts) has been my favorite. I love the concept that your gifts aren’t for everyone - I heard that concept in the past few years and I think it’s such a great reminder as women.
I honestly don’t think I ever internalized until I read it that my roles aren’t who I am/my worth.
As a stay at home mom, Sara’s book was really inspiring. Leadership is found in so many different parts of our lives. Sara helped me see leadership in a whole new light. Leadership is woven throughout all aspects of our lives.
WOW...that’s all I can say!!! Your book was so inspiring....your story is so beautiful and your style is so, well, YOU.
I LOVED it! It made me cry and laugh in some places. It made me ask questions about my own situation and wonder how I can gain the firm, unshakeable foundation of knowing I am a divine daughter of God. To really know it so I can lead my daily life by that knowledge.
Buy the Book
Leading with Divine Purpose hasn't launched yet, so there's no retailer or pre-order link here. On purpose. This is exactly where that button goes the moment there's somewhere real to send you.
Want to skip the wait? Join the list and you'll get the link the day it's live.