Episode 6: Enneagram 8 Melissa Greene, The Velvet Hammer
Typology
Ian Morgan Cron
4.7 • 3.2K Ratings
🗓️ 10 August 2017
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
Enneagram Eights (The Challengers) are hard driving, tough, decisive, innovative, and resourceful people who make things happen. They're larger than life presence and boundless energy instills confidence in others, and people follow them. As long as they're a man, that is.
Our culture reveres male Eights. People admire men who "kick ass and take names." Sadly, we all know the word folks use to describe a woman who takes charge, stands up for what she believes, refuses to take crap from people and gets the job done. I don't need to spell it out for you, right? All to say, emale Eights are arguably the most misunderstood and unfairly treated number on the Enneagram.
On today's episode of Typology, I talk with pastor, activist, musical artist, and Enneagram Eight, Melissa Greene. Affectionately called the 'The Velvet Hammer' by her friends and fans, Melissa is true to her type. In our conversation, Melissa shares her challenging but often humorous journey as a female ight who grew up and still lives in the American South--a culture in which women are expected to be sweet and gentee...ot made of steel.
You can find more of Melissa's current work through Hope Curator for Timothy's Gift (http://timothysgift.com/) hich curates concert tours with other artists designed to entertain and uplift those in maximum security prisons. Melissa is also the Cofounder of Imaginarium (www.imaginarium.life)—a fresh expression of a spiritual community in Nashville.
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| 0:00.0 | Who are we? |
| 0:10.2 | How do we see and experience the world? |
| 0:13.5 | What are the hidden forces that drive us? |
| 0:16.4 | Why do we act, think and feel the way we do? |
| 0:19.6 | And how can we become our best, most authentic selves? |
| 0:24.6 | Welcome to Typeology, a series of freewheeling conversations in which we use the any |
| 0:29.7 | gram typing system to explore the mystery of the human personality. |
| 0:34.4 | I'm Ian Cron. |
| 0:36.7 | Hey everybody, welcome to Typeology. |
| 0:43.8 | I'm here at Weld, the community workspace that is for hipsters and cool people who live |
| 0:48.8 | in Nashville, Tennessee. |
| 0:51.1 | You know, again, as I've said before, I feel so out of place here. |
| 0:55.4 | I'm such a geek compared to all the cool kids who are here working. |
| 0:59.0 | We didn't ride your longboard in today. |
| 1:00.7 | I'm disappointed. |
| 1:01.7 | I know. |
| 1:02.7 | Oh, I'm here with my good friend, my producer, Chad Michael Snavely, who is a cross from |
| 1:10.5 | me, providing editorial. |
| 1:12.1 | Have you seen superwoman yet? |
| 1:14.2 | You know I haven't, but I've heard some incredible things about it. |
| 1:17.0 | Do you know that superwoman first appeared on the pages of DC Comics 75 years ago? |
| 1:23.6 | Wow. |
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