Hello and welcome to Being Well, I'm Forest Hanson.

If you're new to the podcast, this is where we explore the practical science of lasting

well-being.

And if you've listened before, welcome back.

We all carry around this invisible backpack, filled with the beliefs we have about ourselves,

other people, and the world around us.

Those beliefs come together to form a personal narrative, a story we tell about ourselves.

That story is the lens we view the world through.

It's an incredibly powerful force in our lives.

And as we've talked about on the podcast in the past, one of the most effective ways to

change how we show up in the world is by changing that underlying story.

So today we're going to explore how we can change those stories into better narratives

through the lens of my favorite personality typing system, the NEagram, and to help us

do that, I'm joined today by a best-selling author, a therapist, and a master teacher of

the NEagram, Ian Cron.

Ian uses the NEagram personality typing system as a tool to help people cultivate self-awareness

and find happiness.

And he's the host of the wildly popular podcast typology, which has over, I think, 17 million

downloads or something crazy like that, his books included the NEagram primer, the road

back to you, the spiritual memoir, Jesus, my father, the CIA, and me, and his most recent

book, The Story of You, and NEagram Journey to Becoming Your True Self.

So Ian, thanks so much for doing this today.

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