HeyJaredBeyond the Type: An Enneagram-Inspired Podcast about Being Human.
Beyond the Type is an Enneagram-inspired podcast about the beautiful mess of being human. Hosted by Sandy Swanson, Communication and Relationship Coach, this show explores how personality, communication, and self-awareness shape our relationships — with ourselves and with…
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What Was Dolly Parton's Enneagram Type? (a nerdy dive into ambition, motivation, and subtypes) (opens the original)
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Following Dolly Parton's passing, Sandy found herself stuck on a question with no clean answer: What was Dolly's Enneagram type? In this episode, Sandy dives down the Enneagram-nerd-rabbit-hole and makes the case for three possibilities: Nine, Two, and Three, and ends up landing somewhere a little more useful than just a guess. Sandy brings subtype into the conversation, explaining how this can really affect how a type presents itself, and offers the names assigned to a few of the 27 subtypes (o
How Your Enneagram Type Runs Your Life: The "Job" You Never Signed Up For (opens the original)
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Have you ever realized you're doing a job you never actually applied for? Maybe you're the one who keeps the peace, fixes what's wrong, takes care of everyone, stays prepared, or makes sure everything gets done. In this Enneagram episode, Sandy looks at the nine types as different "jobs," the patterns each of us can fall into without even realizing it. This episode explores: The invisible job each Enneagram type can take on, and what it's really trying to get, avoid, or protect us from What thes
How to Stop Feeling Overwhelmed by Everything: What happens when you stop fighting what you’re experiencing (opens the original)
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You don't have to fix everything you're feeling. You just have to stop treating it like a problem. Have you ever stood in a vet's office doing math on whether you can afford this, while somewhere in the back of your mind you're also thinking about the moving boxes, the email you've been avoiding, and the bill that showed up out of nowhere? None of it is catastrophic on its own. All of it, at once, can feel like your whole life has become something you're failing to solve. In this episode, Sandy
What Is Coaching, Really? (And Is It Right for You?) (opens the original)
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Why good coaching isn't about giving advice or fixing you. A lot of people think coaching is about getting advice, setting goals, or having someone hold you accountable. While those things can be part of the process, real coaching goes much deeper. In this episode, Sandy explains what coaching looks like from the inside. She talks about what happens during a coaching session, why she doesn't spend time telling clients what they should do, how coaching differs from therapy and from talking with a
How to Stop Overthinking (opens the original)
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Three practices to quiet your mind and build self-trust. Have you ever tried to think your way out of something that was never actually solvable? Maybe it's when a coworker is annoyed with you, or whether an email landed the way you meant it to, or how a future conversation is going to go..? In part two of this two-part series on overthinking, Sandy picks up where part one left off. The first episode was about understanding why we overthink; this one is about what to actually do about it. Using
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