A Conversation with Suzanne Stabile (Best of)

The Next Right Thing

Emily P. Freeman

Society & Culture, Personal Journals, Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.8 • 5.3K Ratings

🗓️ 5 August 2025

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

This summer, I'm re-airing some of my favorite decision making episodes. This one originally aired on November 15, 2022.

Today I'm glad to welcome our favorite Enneagram teacher, author Suzanne Stabile, to talk about the three centers of intelligence and how our stances inform our decisions.

Suzanne is a highly sought-after speaker and teacher, known for her personal vulnerability and creative approach to Enneagram instruction. After 25 years of studying the enneagram, learning from people’s stories, cultivating relationships, and learning under Father Richard Rohr, she has become a bestselling author and world-class teacher of the enneagram.

Her most recent enneagram book is called The Journey Toward Wholeness: Enneagram Wisdom for Stress, Balance and Transformation and if you ask me, it's her best one yet. Listen in.

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0:00.0	I'm Emily P. Freeman and welcome to the next right thing. You're listening to Episode 253.
0:07.5	This is a podcast about making decisions, but also about making a life. If you struggle with
0:13.8	decision fatigue, chronic hesitation, or if you just need a few minutes away from the constant
0:19.1	stream of information and the sometimes
0:20.9	delightful, but also distracting hum of entertainment, you're in the right place for discerning
0:26.4	your next right thing.
0:28.2	Today, I'm glad to welcome our favorite Enneagram teacher.
0:32.4	It's author Suzanne Stabil, who is a highly sought-after speaker and teacher known for her personal vulnerability
0:38.9	and creative approach to enneagram instruction. After 25 years of studying the enneagram,
0:44.9	learning from people's stories, cultivating relationships, and learning under Father Richard
0:49.5	Roar, she has become a best-selling author and world-class teacher of the Enneagram.
0:55.4	Her most recent Enneagram book is called The Journey Toward Wholeness, Enneagram Wisdom for Stress, Balance, and Transformation.
1:02.2	And if you ask me, it's her best one yet.
1:04.7	I'm especially drawn to resources that help us to not just know something in our heads, but actually find ways to transform our lives.
1:12.7	And this book in particular fits that description.
1:16.3	As a bonus for listening, Suzanne's publisher, Ivy Press, is offering a promo code for 30% off the journey toward wholeness.
1:24.9	It's going to expire December 5th, 2022, so go ahead and visit
1:29.3	IVpress.com and simply use NRT for next right thing, NRT at checkout. You'll get 30% off today.
1:38.3	Now on to today's episode, listen in.
1:52.5	Suzanne, welcome to the next right thing.
1:54.1	Thank you, Emily.
2:00.4	I love your work and I, too, try to do life, doing the next right thing.
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