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My dear friend, Jorja White, concludes this season with a transparent conversation about her journey of healing and her desire to bring healing to the world.
Jorja leads with Enneagram Type Eight. Eights often have the rap of being angry and insensitive. But Eights that do their work prove to be incredible change agents. They are able to combine their tenderness with their energy to bring justice to the world.
Jorja masterfully describes the difference between necessary, or real, suffering and unnecessary suffering. 
Find Jorja on Instagram @jorjawhitecoaching. On LinkedIn, it's Jorja White. Her website is www.findingrokovoko.com. 
A gentle heads up. Jorja discusses her experience with psychedilics in this episode. I recognize that not everyone will share her opinions about this topic. But I want to provide a safe platform for my guests to freely share their story.

Author, coach and spiritual director Ben DeLong explores the ongoing journey of spiritual formation and personal development. He courageously tackles the tasks of resolving trauma, pursuing emotional health and coming home to himself.
Ben leads with Enneagram Type 4. He is the author of There's a God in My Closet, Becoming Home, and The Path to Self-Acceptance (offered as a free ebook). He's a man of many talents, but his greatest passion is forging meaningful relationships with his family--a pursuit that inolves its share of disappointment and pain.
Ben models the pursuit of authenticity and depth of meaning that earmarks the Enneagram Four structure. He serves as a trusted guide in this ongoing journey.
Find more about Ben at www.bdelong.com.
 

Shawn Bay joins me in an enlightening conversation about her process of accurately identifying her leading Enneagram Type.
The Enneagram is a complex system integrating emotions, thoughts, beliefs, motives and behavior. The system is rooted in psychology, spirituality and somatics.
The Enneagram also emphasizes the complexity of each individual. The Enneagram is not a one-size-fits-all approach. Each individual expresses their dominant Type in their unique way.
It should not be a surprise that for some, gaining clarity of their leading Type may prove challenging. 
Shawn unpacks her journey of reconsidering her initial belief of leading as a Type 6, and discovering her home in Type 4. A factor in Shawn's experience has been the impact of trauma in her formative years.
Shawn provides a guiding light of hope for discerning type structure. Staying with the process opens the way for us to come home to ourselves.
 

My dear friend from across the pond, Alan Hogetts, and I sit down for a vulnerable and emotionally impactful conversation about moving into our elder years, facing death and bringing healing to our world.
Alan, who leads as an Enneagram 4, is a retired Anglican priest. Much of his vocational  ministry focused on being a prison chaplain. Currently Alan offers "Enneagram informed" spiritual direction. He leads a parish program called "Nine Ways to See the World." 
Alan slips several gems of wisdom in the course of our conversation. He emphasizes that while we cannot change how we are wired, we can learn to relax our wiring. He believes that love is our chemotherapy we offer the world. And he identifies the impact of those who tend to the work of self-awareness.
"When we are with someone who has done their work and are continuing to do their work, we want to get quiet, listen and absorb."
May we follow Alan's footsteps. Cheers, my brother.

Author, speaker, coach and professional cyclist Abi Robins reveals their unexpected discovery how bicycling creates an opportunity for deep spiritual work. Abi leads as an Enneagram 8, and discloses how they're learning to embrace the vulnerability that cycling elicits.
Abi is the author of The Conscious Enneagram, an incredibly useful and practical handbook for leveraging the wisdom of the Enneagram to create personal and collective transformation. They are discovering that the transformative work of the Enneagram shows up in unexpected places like bike riding.
Abi reminds us that Enneagram Eights are not the only Type that avoids vulnerability. Each Type seeks to avoid vulnerability in their own way. Abi clarifies the Eight's motivation as avoiding weakness.  
Find Abi at www.consciousenneagram.com. Follow them on social media by hashtagging the domain name. Subscribe to their podcast Conscious Construction. Look for announcements of Abi's upcoming book on the spiritual practice of riding a bike.

Ali Glaser catches us up on her year of milestones. Ali is an excutive coach and models how to live life with passion and intention, or, as she puts it, "BE ALL IN!."
Ali is professionally trained in the Enneagram and Positive Intelligence. While she leads as an Enneagram 4, her presentation of the Four structure often takes others by suprise. 
Enneagram Fours strive to be unique and create their own brand. Ali certainly accomplishes both as she exhibits her unique way of being unique. Ali reminds us that core motivations and patterns of thinking outweigh behavioral traits when it comes to understsanding the Enneagram system.
Find out more about Ali's work at www.aliglaser.com. Her Facebook page is Ali Glaser Executive Perfomance.