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What It's Like To Be You

What It's Like To Be You

Hosted by: Josh Lavine

Intimate, high resolution interviews with all Enneagram types and inner work practitioners. Produced by The Enneagram School & hosted by Josh Lavine. Watch on YouTube @TheEnneagramSchool.

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Episodes

#19: Czan (SO/SP 9w1 953) – Twice an Immigrant, Toggling "Existing" On/Off, & Owl Medicine

Czan [SO/SP 9w1 953] is a software engineer for a gaming company and currently lives in the US. He's an original Enneagram thinker, and "Attachment to Disconnect" is his profound insight into how Attachment types...
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#18: Nancy Walter (SP/SO 3w4 369) — Being Good at Things, Identity Experiments, and Choosing to Live

TRIGGER WARNING: sensitive content. Nancy Walter (SP/SO 3w4 369) is a co-host on the Big Hormone Enneagram podcast and is currently navigating graduate school in genetics. In this extremely candid interview, we talk...
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#17: Charles (SO/SP 9w8 963) — Resensitizing After 20 Numb Years, the Goldilocks Zone, Being “Cool” Not Meticulous

Charles is a 42 year old father of four that's been married for more than half his life. He’s started multiple businesses and currently runs a small internet marketing and web agency. He self-describes as a “body type...
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#16: Kier (SO/SP 3w2 358) — Hiddenness and Secrecy, Avoiding Introspection Through Constant Activity, and Not Giving Up on the Heart

Kier  [SO/SP 3w2 358(267)] is a trial lawyer, dad, and frequent commenter on Enneagram discussion boards like the Enneagrammer Universe Facebook group. This is our second conversation — we didn’t publish the first one...
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#15: Emma Scott (SO/SP 6w7 612) — Resentful Accommodation, Making Things a Bigger Problem Than They Need To Be, and Getting Present in the Mental Center

Emma is an Enneagram coach and mom, and she has her own podcast called There Are No Tangents. In this conversation, you get to see Emma model presence in the mental center as she incorporates a new insight about...
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#14: Jamie Eichar (SP/SO 9w1 963) — Being a Comforting Presence, Making Space For Yourself in Conversations, Rebelling Against Pressure

Jamie (SP/SO 9w1 963) is an gifted cinematographer, an aspiring therapist, and a good friend that I met in my first Enneagram class. He has committed to his inner work in extremely courageous ways and has great...
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#13: Kaisa Jauhiainen (SX/SO 9w8 935) — Hooked or Catatonic, Erotic Releases of Anger, Seeking Essential Harmony through the SX Instinct

UPDATE: Kaisa's Heart Fix has been updated from 3w4 to 3w2. Kaisa is a psychology and neuroscience graduate student and Enneagram enthusiast with an exceptional ability to articulate her experience of being a Sexual...
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#12: Gray Cietek (SO/SP 3w4 368) — Socially Tracking Others, Truly "Seeing" Others, and the Heart's Silent Communication Underneath Words

Gray and I have similar typing, and in this episode we explore what social 3 is "really wanting," underneath the stereotypical social 3's polish and comportment. This conversation gets to the heart of the Social 3 in...
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#11: Sam Leuenberger (SP/SO 7w6 712) — The (Avoidant) "Fun" of Talk Therapy; Vulnerability as an Attraction Strategy; & Going Back to Feelings School

Sam is an essayist and poet who recently discovered he is a 7, having mistyped as a 4 for years. Before this interview, Sam sent me his beautifully articulated thoughts on being a 7 -- a link to which is below. This...
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#10: Joseph Stalteri (SO/SX 4w3 461) — Frustration in the Heart Center, the Resting Attitude of Disdain, & Seeking Refined Social Intimacy

Joseph Salteri is a Type 4 (SO/SX 4w3 461) and is part of the team that runs Enneagrammer.com. He wrote all of the (excellent) content on the Enneagrammer website, including the written typing test, and he is one of...
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#9: Ikraam Ali (SO/SX 7w6 793) — Procrastinating Darkness, Frustration with Negativity AS Negativity, and Giving an "Honest Try" at Positivity

Ikraam Ali is a Type 7 (SO/SX 7w6 793) who works in local politics. She also has her own YouTube channel focused on Objective Personality System (OPS). This conversation challenged the stereotype of 7s as “positive”...
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#8: Dr. Mary Bates (SP/SO 6w7 692) — Core Sense of Responsibility, the Practice of Making Deliberate Mistakes, and How to Know When to Stop Brushing the Dog

Dr. Mary Bates is a Type 6 (SP/SO 6w7 692) primary care doctor, writer, and mother of 2. Mary discovered she is a 6 with the help of the Enneagrammer typing team after having mistyped as a 2 and a 9, the other two...
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