1KHO 555: Raise The Kid In Front Of You | Ian Morgan Cron, The Road Back To You

The 1000 Hours Outside Podcast

Ginny Yurich

Parenting, Kids & Family

4.9 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 22 August 2025

⏱️ 57 minutes

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What if the key to parenting isn’t molding your child into a smaller version of you—but learning to truly see them for who they are? In this deeply moving conversation, Ian Morgan Cron, bestselling author of The Road Back To You, returns to The 1000 Hours Outside Podcast to talk about the Enneagram, emotional self-awareness, and how these insights transform the way we parent, love, and lead. Ian shares how understanding the “shadow side” of our personalities can unlock healthier relationships, save marriages, and most importantly, help us raise children with compassion rather than control. From hilarious stories about streaking in high school to powerful reflections on his mother’s larger-than-life presence, Ian’s wisdom is as entertaining as it is practical. Together we explore how to pay attention, set boundaries, and embrace the unique wiring of the kids right in front of us. This is a conversation that will leave you laughing, reflecting, and rethinking what it really means to raise emotionally healthy kids in today’s world. Get your copy of The Road Back To You here Get your copy of The Fix here Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the 1000 Hours Outside Podcast. My name is Ginny Urich and back. This is so incredible and I'm so excited about it. Back for the second time, one of my all-time favorite writers, Ian Cron. Welcome.
0:11.8	Hey, thank you. Glad to be here. I read one time that when you read and you learn new things, it helps your brain release dopamine. So I think any book I read, I'm like, I enjoy it because you're
0:21.6	learning, right? But with your books, you are such a good writer. They're funny. Like, not only are
0:28.0	you learning the things, but they're funny, they're witty. There's all these, like, great examples.
0:33.2	I just, I thoroughly, thoroughly enjoy them. I read the fix first.
0:37.7	We talked about that recently about the 12-step program and how that can help anybody and everybody because we all have addictions.
0:44.4	A wonderful book.
0:45.1	I talk about it all the time.
0:47.2	And it is my first foray into Eniagram, the road back to you.
0:53.2	I did it.
0:56.2	I took the dive. An oldie but a goody.
1:03.2	I had no idea. I had no idea that it was historical. I had no idea that there was a faith basis to it. I thought it was some weird, weird thing that people were obsessed with. And I became a zealot immediately. And I'm already
1:12.8	asking other people. People would ask me. Now I'd be like, why do they care so much about this?
1:21.2	And I mean, immediately you drew me in. I am convinced the book is called The Road Back to You
1:26.9	in Enneagram Journey to Self-Discovery, over a million copies sold. It was recommended to me by David Thomas and Sissy Gough, and I had it on my shelf for a while and was kind of like, nah, I think that's weird. And then we did the fix, and I was like, this guy is one of the best authors I've ever read. So I'm going to read the
1:44.2	enneagram book and I am sold. Well, I am honored and thrilled. What a hoot. Let's talk.
1:51.0	Let's talk about the history of it. Can you help clear up some misconceptions? So my misconceptions
1:55.6	were this is some, I'd always done Myers-Briggs. I'm like, so this is new.
2:01.3	They came out with a new one, a new Myers-Briggs.
2:04.3	But I was completely wrong.
2:05.4	There's history here.
2:07.1	Yeah.
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