Understand The Motivation Behind EVERYTHING You Do - with ENNEAGRAMS! (feat. Courtney Smith)

Feb 18, 2026

Courtney Smith, an Enneagram coach who blends management consulting with somatic and pragmatic tools. She explains what the Enneagram is (and is not). Short tours of the nine types, instincts, wings, and why people-pleasing and mistyping happen. Practical talk on using the system to spot patterns, build presence, and find freedom.

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INSIGHT

Wings Add Flavor To Your Type

Each Enneagram type has adjacent 'wing' influences from neighboring numbers.
A core type plus a wing creates distinct flavor variations of the same foundation.

ADVICE

Investigate The Iceberg Under Behavior

Look below surface behaviors to the 'iceberg' of beliefs that drive you.
Use that awareness to change stories that limit how you show up.

ANECDOTE

Different Paths From The Same Type

Martin Luther King Jr. and Donald Trump can be the same Enneagram type yet express it radically differently.
Both share the same underlying motivation but pursue it through very different means.

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How Enneagrams can help YOU!

This week, JVN dives into the world of the Enneagram with coach and expert, Courtney Smith. This is the personality system that doesn’t just describe your behavior… it describes your motivation. JVN learns their type and discovers why two people who look NOTHING alike (hi history!) can actually operate from the exact same psychological blueprint.

We’re talking: What the Enneagram actually is (and what it definitely is not). The 9 types and their core fears + desires. Instincts — the part that explains your relationships, stress, and habits. Why people-pleasing and codependence show up. How mistyping happens (and why most of us do it). And yes… JVN’s official type reveal.

BIO: Courtney Smith combines her experience as a management consultant with her expertise in a variety of tools and practices (including the Enneagram) to offer coaching and consulting services tailored to the individuals and organizations she works with. She is committed to helping all of us see how we unwittingly limit our lives and how to unlock more present, intentional, and richer ways of being in this world. The best way to access her tools now is by joining her new newsletter. Courtney works with a variety of clients one-on-one to identify places in their lives where they feel stuck and would benefit from an outside perspective. Using the Enneagram, somatic practices, and other pragmatic tools, Courtney helps her clients break through their patterns and limiting beliefs, and more fully experience aliveness, connection, integrity, appreciation, effectiveness, authenticity, clarity, support, and freedom.

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Executive Producer, Chris McClure

Producer, Editor & Engineer is Nathanael McClure

Production support from Chad Hall

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