Who Am I Without the Role?

Who Am I Without the Role?

Finding Our Footing When the Roles That Define Us Change

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Careers end. Relationships change. Children grow up. Beliefs evolve. Recovery changes us. Sometimes the roles that once gave our lives structure no longer fit, leaving us with a surprisingly difficult question: Who am I now?

Drawing from his own transitions through ministry, career change, recovery, retirement, and personal reinvention, Don explores the difference between having meaningful roles and asking those roles to carry the full weight of our identity.

Audiences will explore how to recognize when a role has become intertwined with personal identity; navigate transitions without treating change as a loss of worth; and develop a more flexible sense of identity grounded in who we are, not simply what we do.

Don Phelps — Motivational Speaker

Don Phelps

Identity, recovery, and moving from performance to presence

Don Phelps is a keynote speaker, author, and Certified Recovery Support Specialist who brings lived experience and honest storytelling to conversations about recovery, identity, and change. His programs help audiences explore what happens when familiar roles, identities, and ways of coping stop working, and how we begin building something more honest in their place. Personal, conversational, and grounded in lived experience, Don speaks to behavioral health, recovery, nonprofit, higher education, and broader audiences navigating change and transition.

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