Enneagram Five

About Enneagram Five

For deep thinkers who want to live fully. Go past the stereotypes and delve into what it's really like to navigate life and personal growth as an Enneagram Type 5. Join Cody Harris (5w6 SP/SX/SO) and Josiah Goff (5w4 SO/SX/SP), as well as a community of other Fives, as we explore a different aspect of life as a Five in each episode. If you're a Five who wants to better understand yourself, or you have a Five in your life that you want to get closer to, then this podcast is for you.

Publisher

Cody Harris & Josiah Goff

Category

education · education · education

Language

en

Explicit

Yes

First episode

4 May 2021

Latest episode

16 Dec 2025

Latest episodes

27 of 60 episodes have a transcript.

1. 

   16 Dec 2025

   [LIVE] Do Fives Hate the Holidays?

   The holidays are supposed to be joyful. For a lot of Fives, they’re also complicated. In this final live episode of the year, Josiah and Cody check back in after a break, reflect on what the holidays stir up for Fives, and look honestly at where they’ve grown and where they still default to comfort. From gift-giving anxiety to nostalgia, grief, creativity, and energy management, this episode is a wide-ranging, deeply Five conversation about endings, transitions, and what we want to carry forw...

2. 

   26 Nov 2025TRANSCRIPT

   Better Off Alone: Can Enneagram 5s really live with other people?

   Fives grow up believing self-reliance is safety, but what happens when that belief turns into a voice that's constantly whispering you’re better off alone? In this episode, we go deep into the tension between independence and connection, the pain of carrying unmet childhood needs into adulthood, and what happens when life forces you to confront the stories you’ve been living inside without even knowing it. Josiah opens up about one of the hardest seasons of his life: marriage struggles, ident...

3. 

   11 Nov 2025

   Is Josiah Really a Five?

   Has anyone ever told you that you’re not really a Five? In this episode, Cody stages an intervention (armed with four years of transcripts, Enneagram books, and a surprising analysis from ChatGPT) to settle an ongoing debate: Is Josiah actually a Five… or a Three in disguise? What starts as a lighthearted experiment turns into one of the most personal and revealing conversations we’ve ever had about identity, burnout, belonging, and what it really means to grow beyond your type. IN THIS EPISO...

Inside a recent episode

Better Off Alone: Can Enneagram 5s really live with other people?

Published 26 Nov 2025 · Transcript excerpt

[…] But because of that, I can think that maybe I'm better off alone. It's almost just this feeling like no one's really out there for me. So that's a lot of what I wanted to say. I know it's questions. A lot of it went by by many minutes ago. But I mean, I think that this is for sure somewhat universal. I bet it has to be because I have never not, I've never talked to a five and them not had some relational experience with that feeling of like for me, it kind of shows up as like like I'm always you know how people like to use the word other in like a like a verb verb tense other being othered. Oh, okay. […]

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

YouTube views

3,238

Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025

Apple Podcasts (US)

4.9 / 5

114 ratings

Spotify

4.9 / 5

108 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 79 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

72

Social presence

94

YouTube

74

Engagement

93

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