132. Choose Your Second Act By Being Who You’ve Always Been

About this episode

In this episode, Jay Ramsden interviews life coach Eric Gee about understanding personality types and the balance between safety and excitement in life choices.

Send Jay comments via text Ever wonder why those you love make baffling choices, like craving roller coasters while you seek calm? In this episode, we sit down with educator and life coach Eric Gee, author of The Power of Personality and The Utopia Project, to explore a values-first system that clarifies the tension between safety and excitement, and structure and freedom. Eric introduces his 16 animal types, grouped into four core “packs,” revealing why we act the way we do. We discuss his j...

People in this episode

Host: Jay Ramsden

Guest: Eric Gee

Topics covered

• values-first system
• personality types
• safety vs excitement
• structure vs freedom
• life coaching

Keywords

• personality types
• life coaching
• values
• safety
• excitement
• animal types
• self-discovery

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: The Power of Personality, The Utopia Project

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