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Episode Highlights:
Looking at your dreams through the lens of the enneagram
Your unique vice turned to virtue
A story of an actor who left New York and found creative success on their own terms
How to use the enneagram as an acting tool
Episode Summary:
In this episode Analisa interviews Elizabeth Newcomer, Actor turned Enneagram Coach. Analisa and Liz talk in depth about each type to help you identify your own number and Liz explains the core desires of each type as well as their greatest virtues and vices. Throughout their conversation, Liz and Analisa share stories of how the enneagram has helped them follow their big dreams and navigate interacting and communicating with others. Listen to this packed episode to learn how the enneagram can be an incredibly powerful tool and how to see beyond the “box” that personality types often lead us to feel trapped in.
Time Stamps
0:00 Analisa’s Intro
3:00 Elizabeth’s journey from actor to enneagram coach
8:30 Letting your dreams be a north store to guide you
13:29 Introduction to the enneagram and how it can help us or hold us back
16:48 Overview / definition of what enneagram is
20:38 Liz’s recommendation for how to find your type, examples of 2s, 4s, and 9s
26:36 The Body Triad: 1, 8, and 9
28:14 The Head Triad: 5 (motivated by knowledge), 6 (preparedness), and 7 (options)
30:55 Taking action upon your deepest callings through the lens of your enneagram
31:40 Vice to virtue, is an action in alignment with where you want to go
32:11 How this looks for the Heart Triad: 2 (the giver)
37:20 Type 3 (the performer) Type 4 (the dreamer)
40:53 Head Triad: Type 5 (the observer) Type 6 (the questioner) Type 7 (the adventurer)
44:39 Body Triad: Type 8 (the challenger) Type 9 (the peacemaker) Type 1 (the perfectionist)
51:20 Using the enneagram as an acting tool
54:40 Using the enneagram to work through triggers and find growth
1:02:35 Wrap-up, how to find & follow Elizabeth
Take The Narrative Enneagram test HERE
Take the Riso-Hudson RHETI test HERE
Follow Elizabeth on Instagram @liz.newcomer
A Balancing Act is hosted by Analisa Leaming, Broadway actor + soulful coach. This season is designed to inspire performers and creatives to journey towards their dreams with more soul and less attachment to outcomes and society's definitions of success.
Get your free audition meditation and stay in the loop with Analisa and A Balancing Act HERE.
This week’s solo episode is an interactive inner exploration. You’re invited to be an active participant, grab a journal or sit and close your eyes. You’ll pause and check in, without judgment, how you’re currently doing and feeling. Analisa guides us on this journey & asks us deep questions to find the answers within by tapping into our inner wisdom.You’ll leave the episode feeling deeply empowered and connected to yourself, feeling inspired and lit up from within!
Time Stamps
0:00 Analisa’s Intro: An Invitation to Pause
3:43 Of Course We’re Gonna Get Knocked Out of Alignment
5:15 How Is It Feeling, Right Now?
7:17 Am I Getting Caught in Busywork?
9:20 Are You Acting From High Vibe? Milk it!
11:36 Are You Called to Just Be?
13:10 The Quality of Seeking External Validation
15:00 Let Me Give Myself Space to Say It Out Loud
17:07 I Don’t Want to Create From Here!
19:39 Mind, Can You Soften?
22:06 An Invitation Home
24:10 I Want My Body to Sing that Song
26:19 This Deep Trust
27:45 What Do I Know Now that I Didn’t Know Before?
28:57 Being Able to Receive Means Slowing Down Enough to Listen
31:00 You Really Do Have All the Answers Within
Soul Nourishment mentioned in this episode:
Wanna find out your enneagram number before next week's podcast with an enneagram coach? Here are two tests we recommend:
A Balancing Act is hosted by Analisa Leaming, Broadway actor + soulful coach. This season is designed to inspire performers and creatives to journey towards their dreams with more soul and less attachment to outcomes and society's definitions of success.
Grab a limited time 1:1 session with Analisa here.
Get your free audition meditation and stay in the loop with Analisa and A Balancing Act HERE.
Episode Highlights:
How trauma can make it hard to go after big dreams
How our big dreams can inspire healing
What is trauma?
Brain- and Body-based healing modalities
The role of feeling our feelings
The stories we tell ourselves and how to rewrite them
Neuroplasticity and the science of memory
In this episode, Analisa invites Marissa Ghavami, Iranian-American, queer artist, advocate and creator to the podcast. This is a rich and vulnerable discussion about Marissa’s experience healing from trauma, and how it has been fundamentally intertwined with their journey towards big, ambitious dreams.
Marissa and Analisa share their thoughts and experiences with “getting comfortable with the discomfort of this business,” and they engage with a wide range of questions:
How can folks healing from trauma engage with their feelings and body sensations safely–something we’re asked to do every day as actors? What’s the difference between brain-based and body-based healing modalities and practices? How does having these skills show up in our daily lives and careers?
It’s a beautiful conversation between two smart and soulful creatives—listen as they marry the ideas of trauma-informed emotional resiliency with the neuroscience behind memory and grief, and share how diving deep into these ideas is further enriched by their spiritual practices. Come back to this episode anytime you need a reminder that the stories we tell ourselves about our feelings can be rewritten!
Topic Shift Time Stamps
0:00 Analisa’s intro and invite to a 1:1 session
4:27 Welcome, Marissa!
6:19 Acknowledging the role trauma plays in taking action towards our souls’ longings
10:22 Marissa’s journey (big dreams, what got in the way, coming back to themself)
17:59 Engaging with trauma and experiencing stress as an artist
20:00 Brain- and body-based healing modalities: going beyond “just change your mindset”
25:01 Fawn responses: your “survival-brain” is a protector
28:30 “What if we allowed ourselves to feel whatever we were feeling, fully?”
33:33 Our feelings vs the stories we tell about them (and what we make them mean)
36:24 “It’s not magical thinking – it’s neuroscience!!”
38:40 Having a spiritual practice
43:51 Brain science! Memory, grief, and trauma
50:26 An example: Marissa’s current process for managing a trauma response
54:40 Post-traumatic growth – being the author of your own story
56:16 “This skill is needed for the craft of acting” - feeling deeply and creating space for healing
Soul Nourishment mentioned in this episode:
A Balancing Act is hosted by Analisa Leaming, Broadway actor + soulful coach for creatives. This season is designed to inspire performers and creatives to journey towards their dreams with more soul and less attachment to outcomes and society's definitions of success.
Sign up for a 1:1 Session with Analisa!
Episode Bullet Points
In this short solo episode Analisa helps you love on your Little Self. She also opens up the conversation to you, the listeners: is there anyone out there with the research know-how to look at these universal struggles from a social sciences perspective? Topics covered in this episode include:
The need for “Little Self” to be witnessed
The unique wounds of high performers
Letting go of the need to fix
Loving the part of yourself that wants love
Episode Summary
This week’s solo episode is a powerful exploration of an expansive question: what if your human aspects (fear, self-doubt, anxiety) aren’t a problem to be fixed? Analisa brings her wild and silliest self to guiding you through choosing to love those Little Self expressions. This episode can be used as a meditative guide to finding that love for yourself. There is also a beautiful meta thread of how Analisa chooses to share and create the podcast itself.
Topic Shift Time Stamps
0:00 Analisa’s Intro: different ways to play
2:48 Behind the curtain: two episode ideas
5:10 Analisa’s Love Bomb
7:04 Questions from Little Self & the need to control
9:09 Pause & Love the Fear
11:23 Toddlers: Before “Not Good Enough”
13:39 Enneagram Episode Sneak Peek
14:43 A Question for the High Performers
17:02 Can you feel a softening?
19:35 Love instead of fixing
20:50 Wrap Up
Soul Nourishment mentioned in this episode:
A Balancing Act is hosted by Analisa Leaming, Broadway actor + soulful coach for creatives. This season is designed to inspire performers and creatives to journey towards their dreams with more soul and less attachment to outcomes and society's definitions of success.
Get your free audition meditation and stay in the loop with Analisa and A Balancing Act HERE.