Your Ni Dom

in this reflection I become conscious of my personal growth as relating to personal worth. I also talk about my intentions for the new year. Typology: Enneagram 8; Te; Fi

In this reflection I confront a continued reality about scapegoating (particularly around the next generation). Supporting themes: Dominance; Creativity; Self discovery; Family power dynamics; Self gaslighting; Exclusion; Harm; Family values. Typology: Enneagram Type Eight- Social/ Self- Preservation.

In the second half of this reflection I talk about the ways Beyonce inspires me spiritually as a fellow Enneagram 8. However, the first half finds me talking about podcasting... technical challenges and new possibilities. Supporting themes: Cell phones; Budgeting; Speaking; Listeners; Blackbird; Tanner Adell, Reyna Roberts, Brittney Spencer and Tiera Kennedy; Christmas halftime show; White and Bla...

In this reflection I explore my creativity as an essential and spiritual part of me. Supporting themes: Perspectives; SMART Goals, resolutions and intentions; The pandemic; Extroversion and introversion; Respect; Credibility; Credit score and the credit game; Employment and entrepreneurship; Vulnerability and dominance. Typology: Ni and Te; INTJ; ENTP

Special note: There are a few technical challenges. The episode abruptly ends around Minute 41. **** In this reflection I explore "perspectives" as a theme as I discuss "loss" and "discovery." Supporting themes: Space and Voyager 1; Beyoncé, half-time performance, Blackbird and justice; Leadership; Student discipline; Calibrating Ground Zero; Analyzing emotions; Interviewing; Faith and Spiritualit...

In this episode I contend with two areas of unexpected growth: liking myself and trusting myself. Supporting themes: Parents and our sense of self; Parents and our sense of love; Loyalty; Guilt; the Death of my person; Broken love narratives and intimacy; Therapy; Employment and entrepreneurship; Yournidom and being in community. Special note: Three sources were referenced in this reflection: Soci...

In this reflection I calibrate my vision of me-the-individual and me-the-institution. Supporting themes: Employment and entrepreneurship; Executive leadership; Goal setting and strategizing; Structural security; Social- friends and social- romance; Choices and divine intervention. Typology; INTJ and Enneagram Eight

In this reflection I start connecting the dots of my journey with authenticity, likeability, vulnerability and intimacy. Supporting themes: Therapy; Co- worker; Red Hat (and the Six Thinking Hats); Intellectual honesty; Passion; Patterns and meaning making; Social power and the matrix. Typology; INTJ8; NiTe; Healthy and unhealthy eight; Healthy and two.

In this reflection I explore the intimate me as relating to my judging functions. I called this episode "Breathing" because I'm learning how to relax in the process of growing. Supporting themes: Personality Hacker; Content engagement; Therapy; Race; Thanksgiving; Family; Six Thinking Hats; Introversion and intimacy. Typology: INTJ; TeFi Axis;

In this reflection I consider two events as two sides of the same coin. In a hurried ending (because I ran out of time), I consider attachment as the unifying factor. Supporting themes: Therapy; Family; Employment; Entrepreneurship; College; Thinking; Integrity. Older episode reference: "The Abyss" (June 20, 2022). Typology: Ni

In this reflection I explore different areas in my life in which I'm ambivalent. Supporting themes: NPR; Leadership; Power; Questioning and authority; Dating; Intimacy; Gender and Race; Ethnicity and nationality; Theories; Election2024; MAGA Republicans; Donald Trump; Kamala Harris; America and Black women; Foresight; Confidence and dominance. Typology: INTP/ENTP; Enneagram 8; INTJ; Te/Fi conflict

In this reflection I discover that my authenticity is tied to my strength (and my courage to be honest).   Supporting themes: Employment: Therapy; Family; Romance; Friendship; Entrepreneurship; Leadership; Conflict; Bodily freedom.    Typology: INTJ; Te and Fi.

In this reflection I finally accept the end of an era. Supporting themes: Logical- mathematical intelligence; Being a thinker woman; Autism and Neurodivergency; Therapy; Pathologizing; Thinking and feeling; Directness, strategy and impact; Intellectual foreplay and compatibility. Typology: INTJ and INFJ; Te vs. Fe; Ni.

In this reflection I discover cognition as being a key feature of my ability to be intimate and vulnerable. Supporting themes: Thinking and analysis; Deep learning; Therapy; Facing; Work; Trust; Respect; Power; Harm; Maternal energy; White supremacy culture; Race; Hip Hop and Black suffering; Performing country music; Sex. Typology: INTJ; Enneagram 8; Ni; Te; Fi.

In this reflection I consider the intersectional nature of giftedness, ni-domness, trauma, and education/ training. Supporting Themes: Domestic Violence; Friendship; Work; Family; and Being social. Typology: INTJ8 Note: This reflection was influenced in part by Howard Gardner ("The Theory of Multiple Intelligence.")

In this reflection I question this thing called life as a possible distortion of something else (an illusion).

In this reflection I explore the self as situational (not stable) and consider where I want to land as the full me. Supporting themes:Dr. Dario Nardi (64 subtypes); Dominance; Creativity; Normalizing; Harmonizing; Housing; Business; Masterminding; Safety and Control. Typology: INTJ8

In this reflection I consider love and power. Supporting themes: Existential integration (relating to self actualization and this project); Sex; Trauma; Going no contact or low contact; Rebellion and revenge; Masculine and feminine energy; Family dynamics. Supporting note: This reflection was influenced in part by Patrick Teahan and his community (adults recovering from childhood trauma). Typology...

In this reflection I try to understand my personality in intimate spaces. Supporting themes: Trauma; Sex; Gender; Work; Friendship; Masculinity and Femininity. Typology: INTJ; INFP; INTP; Enneagram Types 8,5,3, 2 and 1.

In this reflection I consider dominance and vulnerability. Supporting themes: Self Preservation; Structural survival; Financial and medical wellness; Friendships; Family; Energy levels; Domestic violence; Entrepreneurship and employment. Typology: Ni; Fi; Te; Enneagram Type 8.

In this reflection I consider my construction of love and being loveable within context. Supporting themes: Survival; Prosperity; Being solo; Aging solo; Romance; Finance; Business; Home and hearth; Childhood and family trauma; Sisterhood; Donald Trump; Kamala Harris and her late mother. Other episodes referenced: "Likeability;" and "The Spiral." Typology: Enneagram Type 8; INTJ

In this reflection I use spiral curriculum principles to confront a major life decision. Supporting themes: Location; Bloom's Taxonomy; teaching and learning; housing; employment; resignation; dating and romance; friends and social; leadership; survival; prosperity; low income learners; family divorce; self actualization. This reflection was inspired in part by Alan Ornstein and Francis Hunkins ("...

In this reflection I contend with likeability as relating to friendliness, agreeableness and gender. Supporting themes: Gender penalty; support groups; therapy; Intergenerational and childhood trauma. This reflection was influenced in part by 1) Beatrice Chestnut ("The Complete Enneagram"); and 2) Leadership Mindset (Are you agreeable and likeable?"). Special note: There is a short segment of sile...