The Work of You
This is a podcast about the leadership that matters most — the kind that starts from within.
Hosted by certified behavioral coach and Enneagram expert Jen Ostrich, The Work of You is for high-achieving humans ready to stop repeating patterns and start leading themselves differently.
Through insights from coaching, the Enneagram, and her own personal inner overhaul, Jen brings honesty, humor, and sharp emotional clarity to the table. With real talk, self-awareness tools, and a healthy dose of tough love, she helps you uncover what’s driving you, shift what’s no longer serving you, and ultimately do the work of you — one honest episode at a time.
This isn’t about fixing yourself. It’s about finally understanding yourself — so your choices, relationships, and leadership can actually align with who you truly are.
The Work of You
Navigating Stress + Growth Through The Enneagram - Part 1
What if you knew how to travel along the Enneagram map to manage your stress and to integrate new ways of being?
Today is about looking at the Enneagram map and learning how to leverage both your Wings and your Lines for growth and stress management. Your main type is only a prison if you choose not to grow and leverage the pathways of the map. The entire model is designed to help you grow and integrate beyond what your core motivation wants you to do so you are managing your motivation and it's not managing you. This episode is a Part 1 where you'll learn how the Enneagram map works and then we'll look closely at the Heart types (2,3,4) in stress and growth and in Part 2 [Episode 16] we'll cover the Head (5,6,7) and Body (8,9,1) types.
Episode topics:
- Wings: development access points; nothing you test into they are simply the neighboring types to your main type [EX: Type 1 has a Wing of 9 and 2]
- Lines: two lines pointing from your main type; opposite your type in some way.
- Development pathways and types to help us release strain; AND we also travel these lines under stress
- See resources below for images of the Enneagram model to grasp the lines / wings
- Lines as Arrows: in the CP Enneagram model the lines are arrows and the thinking is to work the arrow going "against" your type then work the arrow moving away from your type [EX: Type 2 work the arrow against at 4 then work the arrow toward 8]
- Growth or Release of Strain: Leveraging the "high side" of a line type – accessible when we feel secure, safe, confident -- the most productive qualities or ways of being that allow for growth and personal integration
- Stress and Strain: Defaulting to patterns showing up as the "low side" of a line type – shows up when we feel insecure, unsafe, or under stress, the less productive qualities or patterns of a type, disintegration
Coaching Prompts:
- When you’re under pressure, which 'low side' behaviors do you recognize
- What might it look like to move to the high side of your alternative line and see how that changes up the stress cycle.
Resources | Links:
Integrative9: Lines and Integration
CP Enneagram: Types and Lines/Arrows
Episode 5: Why The Enneagram is a Leadership Superpower (overview of the model).
Episode 10: The 3 Instincts That Shape Your Enneagram Type
