The Five Versions of You (And the Sixth One You Need) w/ Dr. Kelly Flanagan

Five versions of you are already running your marriage. The work is building the sixth.

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Dr. Kelly Flanagan says we each carry five versions of ourselves: the lover, the loner, the hider, the fighter, and the ruler. They formed early, they never go away, and they surface uninvited in exactly the moments that matter most.

You cannot uncreate them. What you can do is build a sixth version, the one he calls the welcomer, that greets those parts and guides them instead of being run by them.

Recorded live at one of our online summits, this one moves from framework into three real stories, and the last one is the reason to stay to the end.

IN THIS EPISODE

• The five versions: the lover, the loner, the hider, the fighter, the ruler
• Why the lover is the original self, the one you arrived with
• Why you can't uncreate the selves you've created, and what to do instead
• The sixth version, the welcomer, and how you actually build it
• Will Smith, Chris Rock, and the twelve-year-old boy who finally got his chance
• The pastor who invited his six-year-old self up to preach, and gave the best sermon of his life
• The car charger fight, and the moment he realized the shaken little girl wasn't his daughter

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