Inside Story | With Kristin Messegee

What does the real work of the Enneagram look like for Type Twos? In this episode of Inside Story , Kristin sits down with coach Candice Michelle for a rich conversation about shame, pride, anxiety, and the lifelong practice of self-awareness. Along the way, they explore why Twos often struggle to receive help, how TV characters can illuminate our personality patterns, and why doing "the work" isn...

Dani Cooper is a Certified Enneagram Teacher, Coach, and your biggest cheerleader on the road to self-discovery. She helps individuals, couples, and teams identify the patterns keeping them stuck — and grow beyond them into who they were always meant to be. She’s the author of The Enneagram for Christian Couples (2022), and her life’s work is simple: helping people know themselves, love themselves...

In this episode of Inside Story , Kristen sits down with Joe, a Type Nine whose journey through recovery, Enneagram work, marriage, parenting, and leadership offers a thoughtful look at what growth can look like for Nines. Together they explore the relationship between the Enneagram and 12-step recovery, the challenge of recognizing and expressing anger, passive-aggression, conflict, self-forgetti...

As we close out Season One of Inside Story , Kristin Messegee and Jeff Cook reflect on what they’ve learned—and where the Enneagram needs to go next. This conversation moves beyond theory into practice. What actually changes us? Why do we avoid our core emotions—anger, shame, and fear—and what does it take to face them? Across the triads, patterns emerge: image types struggle to access shame, body...

In this exchange, Kristin and Joey explore how differently the types move through the world—especially around communication, authority, affirmation, and intensity. They also examine crisis strengths, autonomy, vulnerability, and the common mistyping of bold people. The discussion broadens into themes of parenting, growth, and self-awareness. Joey reflects on raising children with an understanding...

Coaching for Enneagram Sixes with Kristin : HERE Pick up Joey Schewee's new book : HERE ___ On this episode of Inside Story, host Kristin Messegee sits down with Enneagram teacher and workplace consultant Joey Schewee for a candid, surprisingly personal conversation about what it’s actually like to live inside Type Eight. Joey opens with her upcoming book, When Working Together Doesn’t Work —a gui...

Kristin Messegee sits down with Lindsey Davis for a Type Seven installment of Inside Story —and what starts as a “get to know you” quickly becomes a rich, surprisingly tender exploration of how Sevens actually experience their inner world. Lindsey shares the personal upheaval of 2025 (divorce, re-finding herself, and realizing she’d been mistyped as a Two for nearly a decade), and the two of them...

Kristin Messegee flips the script on Inside Story and lets herself be the Six, handing the interviewer role to Jeff Cook. They dig into how Sixes read strength, why reliability feels magnetic, and what “pushing against” someone really means when you need the ground to hold. We talk about triggers, control, and the specific places anxiety shows up—her husband’s health, her kids, her work, and a div...

You can find all of Saleh Callander's books : HERE In this episode of Inside Story , host Kristin Messegee sits down with Saleh Vallander—Sweden-based doctor, meditation teacher, and Enneagram author—for a rich, spacious conversation on Enneagram Type Five from the inside out. Saleh shares how he discovered the Enneagram on a meditation retreat in 2017, why a spiritual frame matters to him, and ho...

Connect with Monique Here : Monique@empathyarchitects.com In this far-reaching Type Four conversation, Kristin Messegee sits down with Enneagram coach  Monique Lacoste to explore the inner landscape of one of the most mythologized and misunderstood Enneagram types. Together they trace what it means to carry intensity, to read truth on every level, and to live with the emotional realness of th...

Kristin interviews Kelly Langley Cook: Enneagram Three, career educator, and the person who quietly shapes most future social studies teachers in Greeley, Colorado. Kelly spent two decades teaching high school before moving into higher ed, where she now focuses on LGBTQ+ U.S. history and teacher training at UNC. She also happens to share a life (and last name) with Jeff Cook, which means she’s liv...

In this episode of Inside Story, host Kristin Messegee ( @enneagram_6_coach ) sits down with Enneagram coach Jackie Contessa ( @tablefor9co ). Jackie talks about Twoness and pulling back the curtain on pride, need, the fear of lovelessness, the desire to be chosen, and the quiet grief Twos carry when they disconnect from themselves. Together, they explore what it means to...

Become a Member of Around the Circle : HERE From our new podcast feed, Kristin Messegee sits down with ATC host Jeff Cook to learn Type One from the inside out. They start with the inner critic—“like being tumbled by a six-foot wave”—and why Ones wish for an edit button in real life. Jeff shares how verbal processing helps his intuition lock in, what agency feels like in the body (“gliding on glas...

On this Episode, We’re kicking off Our New Podcast " Inside Story"  by turning the mic toward Around the Circle co-host  T.J. Wilson (Type Nine) . This is a spacious, honest conversation about Nine life from inside —how “gut knowing” actually shows up, why autonomy matters so much to body types, and what conflict feels like when it lands in the body. T.J. names the costs of keeping...

We are launching Inside Story with Kristin Messegee. Kristin is a coach, interviewer, and longtime student of the Enneagram. Drawing on deep work with Sixes and trauma-informed coaching, she will be inviting highly informed guests to talk about their type, to name their motives, fear, shame, anger, desire, and the “prickly parts” others feel.