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From Armor to Ease

Chichi Agorom

19 episodes

2 hours ago

In the final episode of Season 1, Chichi reflects on what she's learned from all the guests this season around intimacy and armor, and shares more about her journey to understanding she's an enneagram five. Season 2 with an all-new theme will return soon so follow the podcast to be notified when we return! Have a question or just want to share your response to this episode? Text Chichi or leave a voicemail at (657) 452-0051‬. Follow on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theenneagramforbl...

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In the final episode of Season 1, Chichi reflects on what she's learned from all the guests this season around intimacy and armor, and shares more about her journey to understanding she's an enneagram five. Season 2 with an all-new theme will return soon so follow the podcast to be notified when we return! Have a question or just want to share your response to this episode? Text Chichi or leave a voicemail at (657) 452-0051‬. Follow on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theenneagramforbl...

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Self-Improvement

Society & Culture,

Health & Fitness,

Episodes (19/19)

From Armor to Ease

In Conclusion with Chichi Agorom

In the final episode of Season 1, Chichi reflects on what she's learned from all the guests this season around intimacy and armor, and shares more about her journey to understanding she's an enneagram five. Season 2 with an all-new theme will return soon so follow the podcast to be notified when we return! Have a question or just want to share your response to this episode? Text Chichi or leave a voicemail at (657) 452-0051‬. Follow on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theenneagramforbl...

2 years ago

18 minutes

From Armor to Ease

On Intimacy: Helpfulness As Armor with Becca Moravec

Chichi Agorom & Becca Moravec talk about: Honesty as central to intimacyThe fear of being fully who you areThe exhaustion and loneliness that comes with always needing to be the helperThe freedom of self-directionAbout Becca: Becca Moravec is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC), a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) and a certified enneagram practitioner in Denver, with a heart for Millennial Individuals and Millennial Couples. She’s been practicing therapy for 13 years and ...

2 years ago

59 minutes

From Armor to Ease

Friendship As A Container For Intimacy with Hollis Heath

Chichi Agorom & Hollis Heath talk about: What the purpose of friendship isHow context and culture influence the understanding and expression of friendshipFriends as soulmatesAbout Hollis: Hollis Heath is an award-winning theatre artist, writer, and girl’s empowerment leader. She is co-founder of Harlem KW Project, a theatre company that produced the Audelco award-winning play, “Renaissance in the Belly of a Killer Whale.” Hollis earned her Master’s in Educational Theatre and has spent the...

2 years ago

48 minutes

From Armor to Ease

On Intimacy: Success as Armor with Amy Morrison

Chichi Agorom and Amy Morrison talk about: How the desire to be seen as successful can keep you from intimacyBreathwork as a way to reconnect to the fullness of who we areLearning how to be instead of always doing.About Amy: Amy Morrison is a Licensed Professional Counselor and Wellness Consultant who specializes in educating others about the nervous system. When Amy works with her clients she focuses on a holistic model of health and wellness that integrates breath work, mindfulness, physica...

2 years ago

58 minutes

From Armor to Ease

On Intimacy: Exceptionality As Armor with Adam Bailon

Chichi Agorom and Adam Bailon discuss: The desire to be seen and the pressure to be exceptionalGrief around not showing up fully The freedom of living a non-curated lifeAbout Adam: Adam Bailon is an Enneagram practitioner and teacher. He loves working with people using the Enneagram for the way it opens a soulful space that allows for self compassion and invites us back to the power of our own wholeness. Right now Adam is most excited about engaging at the intersection of Enneagram and ...

2 years ago

58 minutes

From Armor to Ease

bell hooks, Barriers to Love, & Becoming Human with Jessica Denise Dickson

Chichi Agorom & Jessica Denise Dickson talk about: Internal barriers to love and intimacybell hooks' definition of love and its 6 componentsConsidering how our socialization into whiteness, patriarchy, and capitalism influence our pursuit of love.About Jessica: Jessica Denise Dickson is a life empowerment coach who teaches and coaches for the reclamation of our full humanity, equity, justice, and freedom through the intersections of the Enneagram, antiracism, and embodiment. She does thi...

2 years ago

1 hour 6 minutes

From Armor to Ease

On Intimacy: Knowledge as Armor with Nikki Blak

Chichi Agorom and Nikki Blak talk about: The power of using your thoughts to shape your experienceCultivating joy as a practiceHow the desire to share knowledge can sometimes be selfishQuestioning and releasing the meaning we give to other people's requestsAbout Nikki: Nikki Blak is a writer, sociologist, and womanist, whose art interrogates social constructs and affirms Blackness. Her thought leadership and radical education work centers historically marginalized and oppressed folks. S...

2 years ago

57 minutes

From Armor to Ease

Enneagram Types & Sexual Desire with Sam E. Greenberg

In this episode, Sam E. Greenberg and Chichi Agorom talk about: The difference between arousal and desireSelf-preservation, social, and sexual instincts and how they impact our sexual desireDesire cues by enneagram typeHow to work with your repressed instinctAbout Sam: Sam E. Greenberg is a sexuality researcher and Enneagram coach specializing in sex and relationships. Her doctoral research focuses on how type and dominant instinct impact patterns of sexual desire and expression. You can find...

2 years ago

58 minutes

From Armor to Ease

On Intimacy: Vigilance as Armor with Kennesha Rodgers

In this episode, Kennesha Rodgers and Chichi Agorom talk about: How overthinking limits our ability to be present for intimacyThe importance of felt safety even while life and people remain uncertainHow vigilance is used to protect against rejectionAbout Kennesha: Kennesha Rodgers is a Project Manager and Personal development coach. In 2022 she launched her enneagram-based coaching practice, Amity Coaching. She is also pursuing a MA in Clinical Counseling, which she hopes to integrate into h...

2 years ago

59 minutes

From Armor to Ease

Pleasure & Sexual Intimacy with Kaycee Polite

In this episode, Kaycee Polite and Chichi Agorom talk about: What intimacy is and why it's different from sexHow to cultivate and own our pleasureVulnerability and communication around sexual desiresHow to deepen our experience of sexual intimacyAbout Kaycee: Kaycee Polite is a certified Sex Therapist, clinical social worker, intimacy coach, social media influencer and international speaker who values comprehensive and culturally informed sexual health education. As a clinician, Kaycee brings...

2 years ago

59 minutes

From Armor to Ease

On Intimacy: Optimism as Armor with Milton Stewart

In this episode, Milton Stewart and Chichi Agorom talk about: The impact of societal norms on men's understanding and experience of intimacy.How the armor of optimism shows up relationally How the avoidance of pain and limitations impacts intimacyExperiencing love, joy, and connection in our bodies rather than just our mindsAbout Milton: Milton Stewart, MBA, is the founder of Kaizen Careers, Coaching and Consulting LLC and loves facilitating the Enneagram in helping people feel seen, hea...

2 years ago

57 minutes

From Armor to Ease

Patriarchy, Masculinity, & Intimacy with Joel Leon

In this episode, Joel Leon and Chichi Agorom talk about: Intimacy as vulnerable closenessLiving outside of the binaries in love and identityLabels as containers that can still be fluidMasculinity and softnessAbout Joel: Joel L. Daniels, also known as Joel Leon, is a Bronx-born and raised performer, father, author, and storyteller who writes and tells stories for Black people. He is a Creative Collective NYC Creative Class alumni, winner of the BCA Bronx Recognizes Its Own Award in Poetry, and...

2 years ago

59 minutes

From Armor to Ease

On Intimacy: Strength as Armor with Satoya Foster

In this episode, Satoya Foster and Chichi Agorom talk about: How culture and society impact a Black woman’s expression of power and strengthThe vulnerability of being seen in your powerHolding your cards close for protection and safetyHow not telling the truth about our grief keeps us from getting freeAbout Satoya: Satoya Foster is an artist, trauma recovery coach, and Program Director at The Narrative Enneagram. She earned a Master of Ministry from Richmont Graduate University in the Mission...

2 years ago

1 hour

From Armor to Ease

Attachment Strategies & Micro-dosing Connection with Eli Harwood

In this episode, Eli Harwood and Chichi Agorom talk about: How filtering impacts intimacyHow to understand what attachment really isThe difference between attachment styles and attachment strategiesHow each attachment strategy shows up in intimate relationshipsAbout Eli: Eli Harwood is a licensed therapist, author, and educator who is passionate about helping people develop secure attachment relationships with their children, partners, and other chosen family. Eli is trained in EMDR and has w...

2 years ago

59 minutes

From Armor to Ease

On Intimacy: Adaptability As Armor with Jason Foster

In this episode, Jason Foster and Chichi Agorom talk about: How adaptability can make it difficult to belong to oneselfThe importance of recognizing and overcoming self-disqualification to allow oneself to experience intimacyHow Jason is learning to fight for himself and advocate for his needsAbout Jason: Jason Foster has been a professional musician in the entertainment business for over 20 years working with many successful artists. When Jason isn’t touring the world making records, playing...

2 years ago

50 minutes

From Armor to Ease

Risking Joy with Tracey Michae'l Lewis-Giggetts

In this episode, Chichi Agorom interviews Tracey Michae'l Lewis-Giggetts, author of the NAACP award-winning book "Black Joy: Stories of Resistance, Resilience, and Restoration." They discuss: Healing, identity, and Black joy.Tracey’s shift from performing for love to realizing that she is enough.The fear of losing your armor and part of your identityTracey’s definition of Black joyAbout Tracey: As a writer and thought-leader, Tracey Michae’l Lewis-Giggetts offers those who read her work...

2 years ago

58 minutes

From Armor to Ease

On Intimacy–Goodness As Armor with Micky Scottbey Jones

In this episode, Chichi Agorom and Micky Scottbey Jones discuss: How the Enneagram personality system itself can sometimes be used as a barrier to intimacyHow the belief that you always have to be good impacts Micky’s intimate relationshipsHow our desire to manage risk keeps us from loveWhat happens when you become bad, and how to remember yourself whole.About Micky: Micky Scottbey Jones is a visionary leader of spiritual accompaniment and movement chaplaincy with a MA in Intercultural Studi...

2 years ago

51 minutes

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Relationship Anarchy & Intimacy with Ashtin Berry

In this episode, Chichi Agorom and Ashtin Berry discuss: Intimacy of the mind, body, self, and spiritRelationship anarchy & how it supports intimacyRelationship Intake FormsGoodie bagsAbout Ashtin: Ashtin Berry (she/her) is a lot of things. For one, she’s someone who has made a point of it being as hard as possible to condense who they are into two small paragraphs, but here we are. Ashtin is an activist, educator, sommelier, mixologist, sociologist, beverage consultant, human being...

2 years ago

1 hour 2 minutes

From Armor to Ease

The Story vs. Me with Chichi Agorom

In this episode, Chichi Agorom introduces the show and talks about: The Enneagram as armorWhy creating space between ourselves and our armor is importantHow her own armor creates a barrier to love and intimacyWhat to expect from Season 1About Chichi: Chichi Agorom is the creator and host of the From Armor to Ease podcast. She is also a writer, a Certified Enneagram Teacher & Practitioner through the Narrative Tradition, Associate Faculty at The Narrative Enneagram and a former psychothera...

2 years ago

25 minutes