This podcast covers topics pertaining to living our best life, from how to negotiate change and transition, personal development, spiritual formation and relationship skills. Nine Lives refers to the many restarts and reconstructions that we face in the course of our lifetime. Nine Lives is rooted in learning and applying the Enneagram in overcoming the traps the 9 personality structures lay for us.
Nine Lives With Jeff King: Live Your Best One
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Podcast Overview
This podcast covers topics pertaining to living our best life, from how to negotiate change and transition, personal development, spiritual formation and relationship skills. Nine Lives refers to the many restarts and reconstructions that we face in the course of our lifetime. Nine Lives is rooted in learning and applying the Enneagram in overcoming the traps the 9 personality structures lay for us.
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May 10, 2026
Centers of Intelligence: If I Don't Know, I Can't Prepare: Living in the Head Center
<p class= "font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]"> In this final episode of Season 9, we journey into the Head Center, home to Types 5, 6, and 7, and the center that perhaps more than any other knows what it is to live in a mind that simply will not be still.</p> <p class= "font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]"> Panelists Gerry Gebhart (Type 5), Joy Wray (Type 6), and Marnie Thomson (Type 7) engage in an honest and sometimes disarming conversation about what it's like to think for a living — not as a choice, but as a way of being in the world. Together they explore the particular kind of restlessness that hums beneath the surface of all three types: a mind in constant motion, scanning, sorting, preparing, anticipating.</p> <p class= "font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]"> "If I don't know, I can't prepare." "My mind is constant activity." These statements reveal what goes on inside the mind of this Center of Intelligence. And what's going on, it turns out, is a deep and largely unconscious negotiation with fear. Not the dramatic fear of crisis, but the low-grade, ever-present anxiety of not knowing whether you'll have enough — enough knowledge, enough certainty, enough options — when the moment of need arrives.</p> <p class= "font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]"> Richard Rohr reminds us that the Head Center's great longing is for inner guidance: the capacity to trust what arises from within rather than perpetually scanning what lies ahead. This episode doesn't resolve that tension so much as honor it — and in honoring it, perhaps loosens its grip just a little.</p> <p class= "font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]"> It's fascinating to observe the professional lives of our panelist. Gerry is a retired pharmacist. Joy is a nurse and adjunct instructor. Marnie is a Professor of Anthropology. Seems fitting for Head Center types!</p>
May 3, 2026
Centers of Intelligence: The Heart of the Matter
<p class="MsoNormal">What does it mean to lead — or love, or live — from the heart? Not sentiment, not emotion management, but the deep, often aching intelligence of the Heart Center.</p> <p class="MsoNormal">This episode features panelists who know this terrain from the inside: Bill Reed (Type 2), Leslie Quilico (Type 3), and George Patton (Type 4). Together, they represent the Enneagram's Heart Triad — three distinct responses to the same fundamental questions: Am I worthy of love as I am? Who am I?</p> <p class="MsoNormal">Twos give to belong. Threes perform to be seen. Fours long for what feels perpetually just out of reach. And underneath all three patterns we find the same quiet ache: the fear that who they actually are might not be quite enough.</p> <p class="MsoNormal">The Heart Center is also a map of extraordinary capacity. Empathy, attunement, depth of feeling, the ability to move people — these are the gifts that emerge when the Heart types inhabit their own lives rather than the stories they've been telling about themselves.</p> <p class="MsoNormal">This is a rich, honest conversation about image and identity, shame and authenticity, and what it looks like to stop performing your life and start living it.</p> <p class="MsoNormal">This episode is an invitation into the deeper country of the heart.</p> <p class="MsoNormal">You can find Bill at <a href= "https://www.enneagramchicago.com">https://www.enneagramchicago.com</a></p>
April 17, 2026
Centers of Intelligence: Gut Check--Living from the Body's Intelligence
<p class= "font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]"> What does it mean to know something in your gut? The Body Center — home to Enneagram Types 8, 9 and 1 — carries a wisdom that lives below the neck. These three types share a gut-level intelligence rooted in instinct, presence, and an instinctive relationship with anger. But each one navigates that anger in a strikingly different way.</p> <p class= "font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]"> This episode features a panel with Joanne Flowers (Type 8), Jack Killen (Type 9), and Trime Persinger (Type 1). Together we dive into an honest, grounded conversation about what it's like to live from the body's intelligence — the drive for right action, the ache for autonomy, and the longing for a peace that doesn't require you to disappear.</p> <p class= "font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]"> Whether your own center of intelligence is Head, Heart, or Body, this panel will invite you deeper into the embodied wisdom your soul has been carrying all along.</p> <p class= "font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]"> Jack is a featured author in Personality and Wholeness in Therapy. Trime is the author of Crossing the Bridge: Heal Your Relationships with Courageous Communication. Find out more about Trime at <a href= "https://www.trimepersinger.com">https://www.trimepersinger.com</a></p>
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