156: Client Spotlight: Austin—The Powerful AND Sensitive Enneagram 8

The energy of an Enneagram 8 is big and powerful. And at our best, that power and strength is balanced with pure joy and vulnerability. <br /><br />My client Austin shares my typing, and we started working together last summer. He was unhappy in his corporate job and looking to make the shift to network marketing full time.<br /><br />And Austin had witnessed the results of my coaching firsthand through his wife, Monique. He decided that doing personal development together would support the legacy business they were building and strengthen their relationship as partners and parents.<br /><br />On this episode of The Leadership Formula, Austin shares what he learned about himself through Enneagram typing, describing his breakthrough understanding around the 8’s longing for connection and how his intensity as was showing up in his parenting.<br /><br />We explore how Austin is integrating what he learned in the transition from a corporate career to full-time entrepreneurship, explaining how he uses his wings to lean into his heart space and lead with compassion and empathy.<br /><br />Listen in for insight around the Enneagram 8’s vulnerability blind spot and learn how working with an expert can help you integrate your typing and initiate positive change in your personal and professional life!<br /> <br />What You Will Learn <br /> <br />Why it’s better to lead by example than pressure your partner into personal development<br />What Austin learned about how a desire to look strong disrupts his longing for connection<br />How Austin’s intensity as an Enneagram 8 showed up in his parenting and kept his kids from being open with him<br />Austin’s work around being effective vs. being right (and disengaging when necessary)<br />How Austin is integrating what he learned in Enneagram coaching in the transition from corporate work to full-time entrepreneurship<br />How Austin uses his wings to lean into compassion and empathy<br />How true vulnerability requires raising your hand in a moment of need and why that’s a blin