63. Understanding The Enneagram with Dr. Sasha Shillcutt

Jun 30

Understanding your Enneagram type can help you identify your core values and how you can apply them to your life. Dr. Sasha Shillcutt joins me to talk about the Enneagram, describing the different types, and explaining how knowing how your type applies to your life can be revolutionary.

What Your Enneagram Type Can Show You

Understanding your strengths and weaknesses
Understanding other people
How you act and feel at your best
How you act and feel when you’re under stress
Increase your self-awareness

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About Dr. Sasha Shillcutt

Sasha K. Shillcutt, MD, MS, FASE is a tenured and endowed Professor and the Vice-Chair of Strategy in the Department of Anesthesiology at the University of Nebraska Medical Center (UNMC). Sasha is the CEO & Founder of Brave Enough, a well-published researcher in cardiac anesthesiology and gender equity, author, and international speaker.

Sasha’s greatest passion is empowering and encouraging others to achieve well-being in their professional and personal lives. She speaks frequently to executives and leaders on the topics of professional resilience and gender equity. Her TEDx talk titled Resilience: The Art of Failing Forward has been viewed by thousands of people. Her writing has been published in both the New England Journal of Medicine and JAMA.

She leads conferences and retreats for professional women through her organization, Brave Enough. Her first book, Between Grit and Grace: How to be Feminine and Formidable, was released in February 2020.

What is the Enneagram?

In our final episode of the trilogy with Dr. Sasha Shillcutt, she gives us some really valuable insight into the power of the Enneagram. Ever heard of it before? The Enneagram test consists of 9 different personality types and wings that help you gain more self-awareness.

Sasha breaks down briefly what each of the 9 Enneagram types' core values is. This knowledge can help you understand yourself and others more. It’s not just a personality test - understanding and applying the deeper values can completely change your life.

Sasha does warn against trying to type anyone other than yourself. The test pulls out your deepest thoughts and beliefs, many of which you won’t know about someone else, to get to their core values. This is something so personal that only an individual can figure out for themselves.

Learn About Your Enneagram Type

We talk about our own Enneagram types. I’m a 6w7 and Sasha is an 8w7. Getting into our types really helps me understand myself more. It also helps me understand Sasha on a deeper level.

It’s fascinating that we both have the same 7 wing but it manifests differently in us. The wings represent what other Enneagram type you’re influenced by.

Hire Dr. Sasha Shillcutt to teach your team, group, or family to be more productive, more efficient, and have more joy - through the Enneagram! Your group will learn to work through conflict better together because they will gain a deeper understanding of themselves. Find out more about Understanding You: The Brave Enough Enneagram Course.

Homework for Women Physicians

Do you know your Enneagram number? If you do, how do you relate it to your life? Let me know in the comments on the episode page!

In This Episode

What the Enneagram test and number measures [1:45]
How understanding your Enneagram type can change your life [3:45]
Why you can only type yourself, not other people [5:00]
How knowing your Enneagram can help you realize more about yourself [11:00]
What the Enneagram wings represent [15:00]

Quotes

“I taught a group of scientists the Enneagram. It’s so funny. Once you understand yourself, you also start to understand other people.” [4:53]

“Enneagram 8s don’t actually care about leading other people as much as leading ourselves and feeling independent. We have this huge fear of being controlled. Our biggest fear is that someone will be in control of us. Once I learned that about myself, I realized it explained so much of the conflict I’ve had in my life. I don’t like being controlled but I don’t need or want to control other people.” [10:33]

“A 7 is The Entertainer. Their core motivation is to have every day be extraordinary, cool, and unique. Their biggest fear is emotional or physical pain. They will do whatever it takes to have fun and entertain and not have pain. Every day is a new day for a new experience.” [15:50]