Kelly's Favorite Conversations: Facing Your Enneagram Number’s Core Fear with Katie Gustafson (The Velvet)
Velvet's Edge with Kelly Henderson
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🗓️ 24 September 2025
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
Kelly welcomes back Enneagram informed therapist, Katie Gustafson to discuss each enneagram number’s core fear. In the often not discussed shadow side of the enneagram, Katie describes how each numbers core fear is a massive part of what drives their day to day life and decisions. The women give examples of the fears playing out in each number’s lives and Katie gives tools to work with and overcome the fears to live a happy and fulfilling life.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an IHeart podcast. |
| 0:15.5 | Katie Gus is here. |
| 0:17.7 | She is the Enneagram informed therapist and coach. |
| 0:20.7 | It's been on the podcast a couple of times |
| 0:22.1 | hi katie thank you for being back with us today oh thanks for having me i always love coming to talk to |
| 0:28.6 | you such a true we love having you on i'm the best with the enneagram and i know so many of my listeners |
| 0:34.5 | are as well and i initially reached out to you because it kind of |
| 0:38.8 | dawned on me when we were going through our topic for this month, which is cobwebs about, |
| 0:44.6 | oh my gosh, there are so many parts of the Enneagram that we don't dive into. And that includes the |
| 0:51.8 | core fears. And so when I was thinking about cobwebs and just the |
| 0:55.7 | enneagram popped into my head because of some stuff that I was going through. And I thought, |
| 0:59.5 | this is such an interesting take, like looking at the core fears of each number and how much that |
| 1:04.7 | actually is driving our behavior, whether it's conscious or unconscious. So I had texted |
| 1:10.3 | you because, you know, I've talked a little bit |
| 1:12.9 | about this on the podcast, but I've been going through some somatic therapy, which is life-changing |
| 1:17.1 | and just crazy and such an interesting experience. But I went through a bunch of traumatic events |
| 1:23.0 | all at the same time. And so it feels kind of crazy when you're like four years later just being able to |
| 1:28.2 | talk about things and work on certain things. But that's where I am. And some of it has to do with |
| 1:35.0 | this public embarrassment that I had on a reality TV show that I was on. And for listeners that are |
| 1:41.3 | new, they might be like, what, I didn't even know this about her. And you've even said, like, I know you're so separate from that that it doesn't even |
| 1:46.7 | dawn on me. |
| 1:48.0 | But that was a part of my story. |
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