Welcome to the Awesome Marriage Podcast, a place for honest conversations about marriage and how to have the relationship that God has designed for you.

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So welcome to the Awesome Marriage podcast today.

We're so honored to have our special guest, Kelly Flanagan. Kelly's a clinical psychologist.

He's an author. He's a speaker. We're going to talk about his new book, Lovable, and how by embracing what is true about you, you can embrace a full life. Kelly, welcome to Awesome Marriage Podcast today. Thank you for having me.

It's an honor to be here. That's great. So let's let people kind of get to know you a little bit.

Tell about your story. When you begin writing, the journey is the writer. What all that look like for you?

Yeah, yeah. Well, so I'm a psychologist by trade. So that's how I got my start. It's still a big part of what I do. But I'd say,

you know, I guess it's true that probably my writing journey began with a client in sometime

about mid-2011. And at that time, I was working with a client who was, you know, a successful business person,

entrepreneur, and we were working on issues related to his self-esteem, self-confidence,

and these kinds of things.

And it was helping.

And he came in one day, and he said, you know, if you could figure out a way to get your message

to more people, you could really make a lot more money.

And I sort of laughed and I affirmed to his business sensibilities and said, you know, appreciate that.

But he came in several more weeks in a row and said the same thing.

And each time I sort of laughed.

And then finally one week he came in and he looked at me and said sort of a

twinkle in his eye and he said, you know, you could help a lot more people if you found a way to

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