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Wholehearted Enneagram: A Year Through the Types | Type Four | Episode 4 of 4
What if the number you've been living inside was never really yours?
In this episode, Amy sits down with Janay Lanier, a mom of three, worship leader, and longtime friend for one of the most honest and unscripted conversations of the year. Janay spent years identifying as an Enneagram Seven. Energetic, joyful, the person who carries the room. And then motherhood, of all things, gave her fewer places to hide from who she actually was.
This is a live, unpolished, real-time conversation, and that's exactly the point.
You'll hear about:
- What it felt like to live inside the Seven story for years, and why it fit well enough to stay
- The moment in a park with a friend when a single question stopped Janay in her tracks and lit up a million lightbulbs
- Why Janay resisted the Four because it felt too messy, too unsafe, too much like everything she'd been told not to be
- How motherhood didn't turn her into someone new; it just gave her fewer places to hide from who she already was
- The childhood message of not too much, not too little, and how it shaped decades of showing up as someone slightly less than fully herself
- Sitting in the car with sleeping kids and a Fleetwood Mac song, and finally saying out loud that sounds like a Four
- The freedom of dropping the shame script and learning to sit with emotion instead of running from it
- What she told the Lord before she was willing to put on the shoes of a Four, and what shifted when He answered
You were never being fake. You just didn't have all the information yet.
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