{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"Mistyping, Subtypes, and the Long Road to Finding Your Real Number \u2014 with Beatrice Chestnut","description":"What happens when the type you've claimed for years turns out to be wrong? Today, I sit down with returning guest Beatrice Chestnut \u2014 Enneagram teacher, author, and co-founder of the Chestnut Paes Enneagram Academy \u2014 for a wide-ranging conversation on one of the most common (and most human) struggles in Enneagram work: mistyping. We dig into why mistyping happens, how to hold a hypothesis about someone's type without imposing it, and the subtype distinctions that resolve the Enneagram's trickiest lookalikes \u2014 especially Twos vs. Nines and the three very different faces of Type Four and Type Six. Beatrice also opens up about her own evolving growth path, and I share a personal story about the moment a single sentence in one of Beatrice's books changed how I understood myself. IN THIS EPISODE Why mistyping is a normal part of the self-discovery journey \u2014 not a system failure How to gently raise a hypothesis about someone's type without playing \u201cEnneagram police\u201d The key differences between Twos and Nines (emotional expression, image-consciousness, who initiates) Self-preservation, social, and sexual subtypes of Type Four \u2014 the \u201cglad,\u201d \u201csad,\u201d and \u201cmad\u201d Fours Why Sixes so often don't recognize their own fear-based motivation until they find the Enneagram Beatrice's personal reflection on growing from a Four toward Eight-like strength What it actually feels like when your type finally \u201clands\u201d ABOUT OUR GUEST Beatrice Chestnut, PhD, is the co-founder of the Chestnut Paes Enneagram Academy and author of The Complete Enneagram (new edition available next month) and The 9 Types of Leadership. Learn more at beatricechestnut.com. ","author_name":"Typology","author_url":"http:\/\/www.typologypodcast.com","html":"