Family Personalities

About Family Personalities

A podcast that brings personality type models into parenting! Sandra is a Family Type Practitioner, certified in Myers-Briggs personality type for both adults and children. Em is a mom, lawyer, "accidental politician" and personality type enthusiast. Together, they explore how MBTI, Enneagram and other personality type models can help you parent more peacefully and compassionately. If you are wondering why your kids, teens, your spouse and your parenting partner do the things they do and how you can understand them on a deeper level, then this is the podcast for you. This podcast takes it beyond generic personality type quizzes and assessments and will help you figure out your child’s or teenager’s personality type and everyone in your family. Knowing your kids’ personality type can help you better communicate with them, understand how they are best motivated and really help you change the way your see your family. Sandra and Em are not only into personality type models but also believe in gentle, empathetic and positive discipline approaches with their own children, and find that personality type helps them accomplish a healthy attachment style for their kids. Join us to discuss Introversion, Extraversion, Sensing, Intuition, Thinking, Feeling, Judging and Perceiving and all of the cognitive functions in Myers-Briggs. The podcast will sometimes mix in other models like love languages, the Kolbe Index, DISC, true colors and HSP, to name a few! Anything that can help us better understand our kids and our whole family is welcome. If you’re looking for self growth, self understanding and a way to improve your parenting - come join the family! Personality type is especially great for homeschoolers because it helps you understand how your homeschool child best learns. It’s great for unschoolers because unschooling parents understand that true learning comes from intrinsic motivation and they want their kids to build a life that really honors their individuality instead of trying to fit them into the traditional school box. It’s great for stay home moms and dads and working moms and dads alike. The show also helps you in your adult relationships, whether it’s your marriage you’re looking to improve or the relationship with your co-parent. You can understand how to best communicate with one another and understand whether the other person is coming from, leading to a more cooperative and peaceful partnership. This show is a great fit for: introverts, extraverts, INTJ ENTJ INFJ ENFJ INTP ENTP INFP ENFP ISTJ ESTJ ISFJ ESFJ ISTP ESTP ISFP ISTP And of course for Enneagram type 1, Enneagram type 2, Enneagram type 3, Enneagram type 4, Enneagram type 5, Enneagram type 6, Enneagram type 7, Enneagram type 8, Enneagram type 9 Come join The Family!

Publisher

Sandra Etherington & Em Levy

Category

education · health & fitness · kids & family

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

10 Apr 2020

Latest episode

8 Jun 2026

Latest episodes

1 of 114 episodes have a transcript.

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   8 Jun 2026TRANSCRIPT

   106 I'M BACK - Neurodivergence

   Host [Host Name] shares personal updates and explores how neurodivergence reshapes self-perception and family dynamics.

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   5 Aug 2024

   Sandra's Chronic Illnesses - POTS IIH EDS

   Sandra shares her personal journey navigating POTS, IIH, and EDS, offering insights into living with chronic illness.

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   8 Feb 2024

   104 ISFP Child Lilly - Introverted Feeling - Extraverted Sensing - MBTI in Kids

   Host Sandra interviews her 8-year-old daughter Lilly about her ISFP personality preferences, offering insights into childhood introversion and sensing.

Inside a recent episode

106 I'M BACK - Neurodivergence

Published 8 Jun 2026 · Transcript excerpt

[…] Now, one child now has their diagnoses. The other child is not interested. And Eric and I are starting our own diagnostic process, which is very interesting to go through. So how have we been using these lenses to kind of change how we look at ourselves and how we look at our family? This is such a huge... I just asked that question like I was going to answer it for you, but I just realized that's probably like 10 episodes worth of information. But the short of it is it's completely changed. It's completely changed everything. The way that we approach our kids has completely changed. The way that I have moved through life myself has completely changed. […]

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• Lilly
• Kate Mason
• Em
• Harumi Gondo
• Sue Blair

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Apple Podcasts (US)

4.9 / 5

24 ratings

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