Doing What Matters Podcast

Pull up a chair, bring your notebook and get ready for some loving and powerful wisdom from my friend and mentor Kim Avery. For several years now, I have been soaking in the wisdom and words of my amazing type two friend and I can’t wait to share this episode with you.

In this...

How could your Enneagram type benefit from going on retreat?

Each Enneagram type has a way of "seeing" the world and therefore approaches experiences, like retreat, in a unique way! 

Often, our authentic self gets overtaken by our adaptive behaviors. It happens slowly and we wonder why we...

Culture teaches us to push, push, push! While productivity and work are important parts of our whole REALIFE, if we don't learn to come away for a while we end up living a very reactionary life with our hair on fire! 

Author Dallas Willard says, "If you don't come apart for a while,...

Words are powerful! For the past four years, I've chosen a Word for the Year.

Choosing ONE WORD to focus on every day, all year long takes intentionality and commitment. The word may sum up who you want to be or how you want to live–and beyond shaping your year, it can truly help to shape...

This episode marks the One Year Anniversary of the Enneagram in Your REALIFE Podcast! 

Through REALIFE stories, interviews, and practical application we continue to invite you to consider how the tool of the Enneagram can apply in your life and work. 

We are so grateful for you as...

Happy New Year! As you move into 2020, have you considered how you will create space to care for your self and your soul? 

This week's guest on the podcast, Kelly Skinner, is an entrepreneur and the visionary behind Soul Care, a new retreat center in Urbana, IL that offers learning,...

Merry Christmas! As you're unwrapping presents and celebrating this week, there's one last gift just for you...

This edition of the Enneagram in Your REALIFE is a special one with a story and a song.

As a Type 3 on the Enneagram, I connect with the 3-6-9 Harmony Triad. I also have a very strong...

It's a "WONDER-FULL" Life!  

As a wife, mom of four young adult daughters (including a set of twins), and the Founder and CEO of a residential construction firm, Victoria Mininger, definitely leads a full and abundant life!   

Victoria is a beautiful Type 2 on the...

Navigating the holidays as a single parent brings unique challenges and when you're labeled as the "Clark Griswold" of your family the expectations are well, let's just say...a little over the top!  

Besides being a Christmas loving Type 2 on the Enneagram, Rob Henson is a dad and a...

When it comes to the holidays, the pressure to create moments of wonder, buy the right gifts, show up at all the parties, family celebrations and more can be exhausting!

While it’s supposed to be the "most wonderful time of the year,” sometimes the holiday season can feel like...