S5 Ep131: Enneagram Deep Dive with Beth McCord
Live Well Anyway
MacKenzie Koppa
4.6 • 605 Ratings
🗓️ 28 August 2019
⏱️ 100 minutes
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Summary
On this week’s episode of Cultivating the Lovely, host MacKenzie Koppa Talks with Beth McCord of YourEnneagramCoach.com. Beth and her husband Jeff live outside of Nashville, Tennessee and have two grown children. She has been teaching people about the enneagram personality type tool for 17 years. You can now pre-order Beth and Jeff’s book Becoming Us: Using the Enneagram to Create a Thriving, Gospel-Centered Marriage. Beth and MacKenzie are taking a deep dive into all things enneagram today, including:
- Beth's journey toward learning about the enneagram and eventually teaching others
- Patterns in certain types gravitating to each other
- Alignment and misalignment with the Gospel
- Understanding your true identity in Christ and finding our security in that truth
- Using the Enneagram as a tool to identify when you go off course and realign with the truth
- The differences in types preferred in various environments and cultures
- Letting God in to work on us as we find out about our weaknesses
- Embracing who we are and finding our value and purpose in Christ, not comparisons
- Using the enneagram to develop compassion for others and live in the Gospel’s grace
- How knowing others’ types can help us communicate better
- A little about the 9 types, wings and tritypes and how they interact with each other
- MacKenzie and Beth’s reactions to the Sleeping At Last podcast enneagram songs
- Trusting the work of Christ as our foundation, no matter where we are on our journey
- Sneak peak into upcoming books and courses from Your Enneagram Coach
- A typical day in Beth’s life
Beth: being intentional about creating margin, enjoying sitting by the fire outside in the evenings
MacKenzie: reading a fun novel just for fun and finding that really refreshing
Resources Mentioned-Your Enneagram Coach free type test
Kyra Hinton Type 4 Art Music Video
Books: Podcasts: Movies: Find Beth-You can find Beth McCord on her website, yourenneagramcoach.com. You can also follow Beth across social media on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter.
Find MacKenzie-You can find MacKenzie Koppa on Instagram, Facebook, and the CTL Facebook Group, of course! You can also listen to her family podcast The Same Page!
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| 0:00.0 | The more we try to fix it ourselves, when we bring shame and self-condemnation, all those things, |
| 0:05.6 | the more we actually will derail and we'll find ourselves in a total out of alignment, |
| 0:10.9 | that whole orphan mindset where I've got to do thisating the Lovely. I'm your host, Mackenzie Kappa. And around here, we know that life is hard and we have to do everything we can to just make it a little bit more lovely. So it's my mission to bring you great |
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| 0:52.1 | or by connecting with me on Instagram which is one of my favorite |
| 0:55.0 | places to interact with all of you you can find me at mackenzie kappa thanks so much for joining me today |
| 1:00.3 | well what better way to kick off our first official guest of season five of cultivating the |
| 1:07.7 | lovely the podcast then started out with the enneagram. You guys know I'm obsessed |
| 1:13.2 | with the Eniogram and I particularly love this lady's website and all of her resources. It's Beth |
| 1:19.6 | McCord from your Enneagram coach. I know this is going to be a hot episode because I have a feeling |
| 1:25.1 | that a lot of you are just as interested in this topic |
| 1:28.4 | as I am. And I have to say, just from life experience of putting the enneagram to use |
| 1:34.2 | in my own personal relationships with my family and friends, I have seen such an amazing |
| 1:40.3 | difference of just being able to extend more grace to people or have more understanding |
| 1:44.6 | of where they're coming from. It has become very common vernacular between me and my friends |
| 1:50.1 | as we are talking about things. I tend to let my family know, your six is showing or those |
| 1:56.7 | kinds of things because it's just become such a part of who we are and our understanding of one |
| 2:03.1 | another. And so I'm so excited to bring this episode because I get a lot of questions from you |
| 2:07.8 | guys asking about the anagram, how to figure out your type. And really, in this episode, |
| 2:12.9 | because a lot of people have already figured their types out, we take it a step deeper and |
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