This companion episode to our Enneagram Type Five teaching is a guided stillness and integration practice designed to help Type Fives gently return to presence.

When stress or failure hits, Fives often withdraw to conserve energy and protect themselves. But what feels safe can slowly turn into isolation. This episode offers a regulating pause—a space to reconnect with your body, your breath, and your capacity to re-engage without overwhelm.

This is not a teaching episode. It’s an invitation.

If you haven’t yet, listen to From Withdrawal to Wisdom: Failing Forward as an Enneagram Type Five for deeper insight into the Type Five pattern.

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Enneagram Type Fives are thoughtful, perceptive, and deeply insightful leaders. But when failure, overwhelm, or disappointment hits, their instinct is often to withdraw.

In this episode, we explore how Type Fives respond to setbacks—why retreat can feel safer than engagement, and how awareness transforms isolation into wisdom.

You’ll learn:

Failing forward isn’t about forcing yourself back into action. For Type Fives, it’s about gently re-engaging life without abandoning your wisdom or overwhelming your nervous system.

Be sure to also listen to the companion stillness practice episode for integration.

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Integrity is often praised—but rarely protected.

For Enneagram Type Ones, leading with integrity can quietly turn into over-responsibility, chronic tension, and burnout disguised as “doing the right thing.”

In this episode, we explore what it means to lead with integrity without burning out, especially for leaders who feel internally driven to fix, correct, and carry more than their share.

You’ll hear:

The difference between integrity and over-responsibility

How the inner critic keeps the body in a constant state of tension

Why rest is not a reward, but a requirement for sustainable leadership

How stillness helps Type Ones release control without losing their values

This conversation invites you to consider a different kind of leadership—one rooted in presence, nervous system regulation, and grace.

Rest is not a reward.

It’s part of righteous leadership.

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In this episode of Genesis: The Failing Forward Podcast, we take a slow, discerning walk through Galatians 4:21–31—a passage about two births, two motivations, and two outcomes.

This conversation explores the difference between birthing from pressure versus birthing from divine promise, why waiting seasons feel heavy, and how fear can quietly push us to create what God never asked us to sustain.

If you are in a season of becoming—carrying something that feels slow, hidden, or uncertain—this episode invites you to pause, listen, and discern what you are truly birthing.

Continue the reflection:

In Part 2, Lady Jaye explores what it feels like when survival ends and the ground begins to hold. This episode is about the quiet signs of readiness — calm, clarity, focus, and stability — and how to build differently when lift becomes possible. If your life feels slower or quieter, this episode will help you trust that something solid is forming.

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Sometimes nothing takes off because the ground isn’t ready to hold lift — not because you failed.

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Book 5 Types of Wealth: Sahil Bloom

Eventbrite Virtual Book Club (Starts Jan 26th, 2026 6:30 PM)

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Explore how the Enneagram can be used as a tool for growth—not a label. By focusing on awareness as the first act of leadership, this conversation reframes failure as information, not identity, and shows how self-awareness shortens the time we stay stuck.

In this episode we explore how life’s hardest seasons can become our most powerful testimonies. I share personal reflections on challenges, setbacks, and the lessons they bring, and how embracing them with faith and self-awareness can transform pain into purpose.

Learn how to shift perspective, lean into growth, and see failure as a stepping stone toward the life and story you were meant to live.

A holiday that felt “normal” revealed what my body and nervous system were really craving. Using my Enneagram Type 1 lens, I explore presence, peace, and how even chaos can teach us to fail forward and become the blueprint of who we’re meant to be.