In this episode, host Misti Dian speaks with Evan Barbee. Evan is a Certified Holistic Coach and a teacher of the Narrative Enneagram.

 

They Discuss:

• Evan discusses her childhood and how living with family that had different personalities made it more difficult, which led her to where she is today.
• There are nine different orientations to difficult moments, operating systems or coping strategies.
• When you better understand your habits, things get better.
• Coaching is, when you ask open ended questions, asking pointed questions, and to help people explore their own experiences.
• Enneagram is, when you help people understand their reflexes that they don’t not have a language for.
• When you explore the nine orientations of your personality profile, you can evolve and find your strengths to share with people.
• A program named, Wild Ones Academy helps women who have experienced violence with resources and ways to self-develop.
• When people are having a hard time in life, they tend to be more motivated to self-transform.
• We have a lot of things to learn from each other. We can do this by, not taking things so personally and understanding that their point of view can be of value.
• A book that Evan recommends to everyone is, The Essential Enneagram.
• Everyone is born with a temperament which is, when you have gut instincts, or feelings on different scenarios. Sometimes this is hard to define so we need to, take in to account information, organize it, and get a meaningful answer on how to handle it.
• After you learn to handle scenarios you need to consider different factors, variances and experiences for a good outcome.
• We use coping strategies on auto pilot to handle different situations. These are called our personality styles or patterns.
• You need to have a good “sales pitch” and a productive way to look at your life from a self-development standpoint.
• Evan describes a radiant life as, self-light and an unconditional friendship with oneself.
• You are 100% responsible for the life that you create for yourself.
• “The only moment that matters is the one that’s happening.”
• Focus on the life you are currently living with mental construct.
• Evan can be reached at evanbarbee.com or [email protected]