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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

#45: Sara Pryde (SP/SX 6w7 614) - Curating Delicious Environments, Raging About Rotten Bananas, Being Accidentally Available,& Zig-Zagging as I Talk

Sara Pryde (SP/SX 6w7 614), trauma-informed massage therapist, joins us from Wyoming. We dive into the existential crisis sparked when her partner didn't finish his weekly banana quota—forcing her into making muffins...
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#44: Kate Ortega (SO/SX 7w8 793) - "Fun Negativity" vs Real Negativity, Entitled Spoiled Brattiness, the Dream of Being a Kept Woman

In this candid Enneagram interview, Kate (SO/SX 7w8 793) discusses her identity as an "entitled brat," her allergy to drudgery and limitation, and her dream (since she was young) of being a "kept woman." She also...
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#43: Anna Palumbo (SO/SP 9w8 973) — The Type 9 Mother & Type 6 Daughter Dynamic, Positive Outlook vs. Reactivity, the Challenges of Un-Enmeshing

Anna Palumbo (SO/SP 9w8 973) is a Type 9 mother who has been undergoing a profound transformation—untangling herself from patterns of enmeshment and reconnecting with her own life-force. In this episode, we focus on...
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#42: Janice (SP/SO 3w2 379) - Being an Amazon Woman at 84, Freedom from Expectation, & the Paradox of Self-Acceptance & Self-Development

Janice is a life-coach and an Enneagram 3, and at the time of this interview she is 84 years old. We explore her past relationships, the life-long inner tension between doing "what's expected of me" vs "what I want,"...
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#41: Mariona (SX/SO 9w1 973) - Flirting with Life, Crying as SX/SO "Loss of Self," Settling Compulsive Introspection

Mariona M (SX/SO 9w1 973) is a language activist in Catalonia. In the first phase of this conversation, we explore her complex relationship with crying to process emotional backlog, and how her type's pattern of...
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#40: INTRO ENNEAGRAM COURSE RELEASE

John Luckovich and I (Josh Lavine) are RELEASING OUR INTRO ENNEAGRAM COURSE. In this conversation, we talk about what it was like working together as a Social 3 and a Sexual 4. We're very proud of the course. Official...
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#39: Nicholas (SP/SO 9w1 936): Inner Envelop Functions, Dispersing Attention, & Learning to Focus

In this episode, Nicholas (SP/SO 9w1 936) talks about 9's passivity in relation to their dominant instinct and how they can "hope things just work themselves out." He also talks about how he learned to focus, take...
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#38: Somatic Experiencing® & Alexander Technique with Tracy Einstein — Opening the Brain-Body Superhighway

Tracy Einstein is a Somatic ExperiencingÂŽ practitioner and Alexander Technique teacher. We talk all about the body, how it holds and releases trauma, and how she works with clients. Tracy's Enneagram type is SPSO...
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#37: Dreams & the Enneagram — Kristen Oberly & Kaisa Jauhiainen

Kristen Oberly & Kaisa Jauhiainen -- aka The Dream Girls (minus Sammy!) -- are brilliant pioneers who have discovered the connection between their unconscious dream worlds and their instinctual drives and...
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#36: Kim (SP/SO 7w6 712) - Surviving Trauma, EMDR Therapy, Avoiding Entrapment, and Settling the Mental Froth

"I'm a manifester like nobody is.... No doesn't work for me. I don't even know what no means. No means I gotta think about it in a different way." ~ Kim Jozwiak --- WATCH THIS INTERVIEW ON YOUTUBE The Enneagram School...
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#35: How to Activate Your Sexual Instinct — John Luckovich & Alexandra Arroyo-Acevedo

Join John Luckovich and Alexandra Arroyo-Acevedo for a Summertime class on the Sexual Instinct at The Enneagram School. LinksThe Sexual Instinct Class at The Enneagram SchoolThe Enneagram School Home Page John...
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#34: Chanti (SX/SP 7w6 794) — Magically Enhancing My Environment, Having Fun, and Getting (Away With) What I Want

"I think it's my purpose in life to leave an imprint on people or places I go. Maybe it's like little seeds that I plant or pixie dust I spread around and it blooms a little bit. I just love that." Full Title: Chanti,...
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