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We Can Do Hard Things

Enneagram: Why Your Worst Traits Are Also Your Best with Suzanne Stabile

We Can Do Hard Things

Treat Media and Glennon Doyle

Self-improvement, Education, Relationships, Society & Culture

4.842.7K Ratings

🗓️ 28 August 2024

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

Today, we're revisiting one of our favorites. Enneagram Godmother Suzanne Stabile guides us through: What the hell is the Enneagram and why does it matter?  -The gifts and struggles each Enneagram type faces; -Why the worst part of you is also the BEST part of you; -The core desire / fear that explains your behavior; and  -Why, if Suzanne ever needs brain surgery, she’s finding a doctor who’s an Enneagram 1 And we FINALLY answer the question: Is Amanda a 3 or a 1?   To continue with follow up episode to this one, check out: Fix Your Most Important Relationships with the Enneagram: Suzanne Stabile. About Suzanne: Suzanne Stabile is an internationally-recognized Enneagram teacher. She is the co-author of The Road Back to You, and the author of The Path Between Us and The Journey Toward Wholeness. With backgrounds in sociology and theology, Suzanne has served as a high school professor; the first women’s basketball coach at SMU after Title IX; and as the founding Director of Shared Housing, a social service agency in Dallas. Suzanne lives in Dallas with her husband Rev. Joseph Stabile. She is the mother of four children and grandmother of nine. TW: @SuzanneStabile IG: @suzannestabile

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0:00.0

Hello, Pod Squad. Today we are revisiting an episode that I don't know if we have

0:08.5

gotten more feedback than the feedback we got to this episode

0:12.6

it really changed a lot of people's thinking

0:15.2

about themselves and their people

0:17.8

and it is our exploration into the Eniagram

0:20.9

with the absolutely delightful Enigram Godmother herself Suzanne Stabil.

0:27.9

In this episode, Suzanne explains very clearly what the hell the Enagram is and why it matters and how we can use

0:36.7

it to get some better understanding into why we are the way we are, why our people are the way they are, and how to know each other better.

0:47.2

She highlights the gifts and the struggles that each type faces and why the worst part of you is often also the best part of you.

0:55.7

This conversation really stuck with Abby and led her to begin her work in therapy to examine

1:00.6

and unearth her shadow side.

1:02.2

It helped me too to try to step out of my shadow side, which is my whole side, and remember that the sun exists.

1:10.0

If you like this one, as much as we do do make sure to go find the bonus episode that

1:14.8

aired after this one episode 226 where Suzanne shows us how to use

1:20.3

Enneagram to fix our relationships. That was a doozy for me. Okay, let's jump in. Welcome to We can do hard things. We have a treat today.

1:43.0

Very excited.

1:44.0

Today we are going to learn from the best about all things,

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anyagram.

1:50.0

Today we have Suzanne Stabil, who many of you know and who is an internationally recognized

1:58.5

Enigram teacher, she is the co-author of the Road Back to You and the author of the path between us and the

2:04.8

journey toward wholeness. With backgrounds in sociology and theology,

2:09.3

Suzanne has served as a high school professor, the first women's basketball coach at SMU after Title IX,

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