The Enneagram: What Drives Your Choices? | 051

Kelly Travis, performance and team-dynamics expert, shares how we can use the Enneagram assessment and other tools to understand our fundamental mindsets and beliefs to change behaviors that keep us stuck.   

She takes us inside her own journey from collegiate athlete struggling with an eating disorder, to the pivotal “bathroom floor” moment during her pregnancy, to professed “mental health ninja” coaching individuals and teams to success and fulfillment.  

Kelly is all about achieving success that energizes you rather than leaving you depleted. She helps clients see that it’s not just about getting what you want, but about wanting what you get.   

We discuss the critical importance of knowing your core beliefs and motivations and what drives your choices. Kelly explains that while these things don’t change, understanding them better helps us break free of behavior patterns to be adaptive with our responses. This way of being helps us see multiple paths to achieving our goals.  

Taking this to the practical level, Kelly shares tools for redirecting negative self-talk to avoid mental spiraling that holds us back. Then, she helps us improve our relationship and communication dynamics for better interaction and conflict resolution.    

Tune in for a crash course in upgrading your self-awareness and taking charge of your choices. 

TESS’S TAKEAWAYS: 

• If you’re operating on autopilot, get curious about your thoughts and actions.  
• The Enneagram assessment offers insights into core motivations and behaviors. 
• There is not one way of being or doing. We can respond along an adaptive continuum. 
• Visual cues are prompts to check in and redirect negative thought patterns.  
• Projecting into the future causes unnecessary stress.  
• To combat fear, take action to prove yourself wrong.  
• Adaptive behavior creates more opportunities.  
• Understanding different communication styles is crucial for better conflict resolution. 

ABOUT KELLY TRAVIS 

Coach, Enneagram practitioner, and team-dynamics expert, Kelly Travis helps individuals and teams understand core beliefs and behaviors to break free from patterns that get in the way of success.  

Combining her experience in mental health, publishing, marketing, and communications, Kelly has built a coaching system drawing together cognitive-based and solution-focused modalities. She is all about unbridled honesty to achieve radical self-awareness and growth.  

Through her Ascend mastermind program, Kelly helps women leaders achieve success and fulfillment. 

She shares her approach on the Ready When You Are podcast.   

CONNECT WITH KELLY 

Website: https://www.kellytravis.net/ 

Ready When You Are Podcast: https://www.kellytravis.net/podcast 

Ascend Mastermind: https://www.kellytravis.net/ascend 

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/withkellytravis 

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/withkellytravis/ 

Meet Tess Masters:  

Tess Masters is an actor, presenter, health coach, cook, and author of The Blender Girl, The Blender Girl Smoothies, and The Perfect Blend, published by Penguin Random House. She is also the creator of the Skinny60® health programs.     

Health tips and recipes by Tess have been featured in the LA Times, Washington Post, InStyle, Prevention, Shape, Glamour, Real Simple, Yoga Journal, Yahoo Health, Hallmark Channel, The Today Show, and many others.   

Tess’s magnetic personality, infectious enthusiasm, and down-to-earth approach have made her a go-to personality for people of all dietary stripes who share her conviction that healthy living can be easy and fun. Get delicious recipes at TheBlenderGirl.com.  

Connect With Tess: 

Website: https://tessmasters.com/  

Podcast: https://ithastobeme.com/   

Health Programs: https://www.skinny60.com/

Recipes: https://www.theblendergirl.com/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/theblendergirl/  

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theblendergirl/  

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/theblendergirl  

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tessmasters/  

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