Nine Lives With Jeff King: Live Your Best One

This Enneagram panel guides us into a clearer look of the often misunderstood personality structure of Type 8. The panel, consisting of Sharon Hornbeck, Jorja White and Rachel Leduc, exemplifies all the qualities Eights are known for: energy, passion, power, take-charge attitude, laughter and, the underside, being misunderstood. Believing they can do anything and everything, Enneagram Eights often...

Enneagram Fours are known for their deep introspection and creative genius. Combine these elements, and we get some of the brigthest and best expressions of the human experience and some of the darkest. In this episode Susan Kingston, Drayton Riley and George Patton create a distinguished panel of those leading with Enneagram Four. They combine wisdom, life experience and storytelling to give us a...

Season Seven features panels of each Enneagram Type, and kicking us off in grand style is our panel of Enneagram Type Seven, Sr. Anna-Camille, Jeannie Armbruster and Margarita Pelaez-King. Together this panel unpacks the motivations, beliefs and fears that alchemize to fuel and shape the Seven structure. Sevens are known for their energy, optimism and pursuit for the next best thing, but this driv...

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...

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...

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. E...

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 directio...

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 Enne...

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...

I catch up with the amazing Rachel Leduc and review her journey with the Enneagram. Rachel is a marketing manager, speaker, author and coach. She leads with Type 8. Rachel is a great example of the gifts and natural superpowers of the Eight structure. Eights are a force in the world. They get stuff done. While some may find the Eight's passion and energy intimidating, Eights are motivated by a ten...

Dr. Sam E. Greenberg unpacks her research on the intersection of sexual desire/expression and the Enneagram. She masterfully describes how Enneagram Types differ in their styles of desire, meaning and behavior in regards to sexuality and sexual expression. Dr. Sam gives particular focus on the impact that Enneagram instincts and subtypes have on sexual approaches and interaction. Dr. Sam identifie...

Cory Scheer, PhD, kicks off Season Six of Nine Lives focusing on organizational trust. Cory's extensive research on trust in organizations convincingly demonstrates that trust is THE foundational trait in determining an organization's success, including the bottom line of financial viability. His approach provides organizations a proven method to both accurately assess their existing level of trus...

Wrapping up Season 5 of Nine Lives is a discussion of Enneagram Nine. Rachel Rudeen, Cherri Rodriguez and yours truly join forces to form this panel. Enneagram Nines are known as the peacemakers and mediators. While these roles are powerful gifts that Nines contribute to the world, in their less developed stages, Nines tend to seek peace by avoiding conflict at all costs. They deny their anger, go...

Enneagram Eights are known for their outward moving energy. They have high levels of passion and determination to influence their environment, get things done and stand for justice. They also are determined to stand against what they deem unfair and unnecessary. Eights have a direct style of communicating. They call things as they see them, cut to the chase and approach situations with a move-or-g...

Kirsty Spence, Jeannie Armbruster and Michael Coupland combine forces on this panel to help us understand the personality type structure known as Enneagram Seven. While Enneagram Sevens often have the reputation as fun-seekers, the panel clarifies the real drive for the Seven: seeking to create and experience meaning and joy. The panel also demonstrates the deep wisdom and insight that Sevens brin...

This interview features panelists who identify as Counterphobic Sixes. While each Enneagram type has a "counter-type," the Counterphobic Six is perhaps the most fascinating example of this aspect of the Enneagram. Type Six teach us the universal response to fear: fight, flight and freeze.  The key element of Type Six involves the propensity to imagine and plan for the worst-case scenarios. Most Si...

Gathered for this panel of Enneagram Fives are Roger Hornbeck, Dr. Paul Fitzgerald and David Armbruster. Enneagram Five is typically pegged as the investigator, observer or analyzer. However, this panel represents another identifying characteristic: the sage. Enneagram Fives perceive their world as demanding, depleting and intrusive. They fear engagement in their world will deplete them of their r...

What happens when a group of Enneagram 4s get together? A lot of great stories, keen insights, deep feels, and an incredibly meaningful time for all. Brandon Graves, Katie Gustafson-Hill and Kareen King form our Four Panel. They pool their expertise to provide us with a deeply personal and insightful look into the Four structure. As they unpack their stories a common theme emerges--leading with Ty...

Nana Agyemang and Rhonda Magee form this panel of Enneagram Threes. Nana and Rhonda exhibit one of the key traits of the Three structure--energy. Threes' energy propels them to be industrious, efficient and goal-oriented. While sometimes stereotyped as Wall Street powerbrokers, Threes can also channel their drive toward achievement and productivity in serving others, as evidenced in Nana and Rhond...

Janice Ariza, Darla Bailey and Chris Bay join forces on this panel discussion of Enneagram Twos. While Twos are traditionally considered helpers and givers, the panel introduces a deeper dimension of the Two-structure--the gift of creating collaboration. Panelists also explore the role of anger, the need to set healthy boundaries and their vulnerability to exhaustion. True to leading with Type Two...

Rustie Dimitriadis, Ryan Vaughn and Jamie Roach form this panel of Enneagram Ones. They masterfully unpack what it's like to live from the Enneagram 1 structure. They share struggles, provide insights and identify the liberating truth that "Life doesn't have to be perfect to be wonderful." This is the first of a nine-episode series of panel discussions on each Enneagram Type. True to form, this pa...

Announcing the launch of Season Five of Nine Lives with Jeff King .  This season utilizes the teaching method of panels. Each episode features a panel interview of of 2-3 individuals who identify as leading with that episode's feature type. Panelists range from relative newcomers to the Enneagram to seasoned veterans and experts. Join us in these nine episodes of Season Five and take a deep dive i...

My dear friend Ryan Vaughn closes out Season 4 with a masterful description of the spiritual journey and formation. Ryan traces the roots of his personality structure (Enneagram 1) and how it impacts the universal struggle to hold basic trust. Applying the insights of the Enneagram and other wisdom traditions, Ryan provides us a real life model on how to navigate one's way to learn how to recogniz...

Mike King joins me in a robust discussion of spirituality and faith formation. Mike is my first cousin, and our spiritual journeys parallel each other in many ways. In this episode, Mike traces his development of understanding and applying his faith. He sums up his approach to experiencing faith in the phrase, "Presence-centered spirituality." Mike is President and CEO of Youthfront Ministries, wh...

Paul Young recounts his autobiography that serves as the backdrop of his best-selling novel,  The Shack. Paul, who thinks he most likely leads with Enneagram 9, shares his remarkable story of growing up as a missionary kid, suffering severe childhood trauma, inheriting toxic concepts of God and his painful healing journey. Through it all, Paul settles on a simple approach to wholeness, authenticit...