Episode Description
What if the wisest part of you isn’t your thinking mind, but the sensations already alive in your body? In this episode, executive coach and Enneagram expert Courtney Smith joins us to explore how fear quietly shapes our choices and how learning to feel what’s here now can restore agency, presence, and pleasure.
Courtney shares her path from Yale Law and McKinsey to a body first approach blending the Enneagram, conscious leadership, and somatic awareness. We unpack three core fears: loss of security, approval, and control, and how they keep us looping familiar conflicts and drama triangle roles.
We move into practice by welcoming fear, tracking it in the body, and asking, If I weren’t scared, what would I be doing? We also explore pleasure as information, not indulgence, but a compass toward aliveness and truth.
You’ll leave with tools to notice sensation, spot fear driven patterns, and choose presence over performance. If this resonated, subscribe, share, and leave a review, then ask yourself: if fear disappeared for one hour, what would you choose?
In this episode:
- 0:00 – Opening And Embodiment Mission
- 5:14 – From Head To Body-Based Presence
- 10:02 – Enneagram Beyond Typing
- 16:42 – Presence Begins With Sensation
- 23:57 – Bypassing With Self‑Knowledge
- 28:53 – Why Growth Is Uncomfortable
- 34:55 – Socialisation, Fear, And Scripts
- 41:48 – The Drama Triangle Explained
You can read the transcript here
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