83: The Enneagram, integrity, and coaching, with Courtney Baker (enneagram 5)

How the Enneagram and coaching can help you live with integrity

This episode is a very special episode because this week’s guest is someone who worked with me, helped change my life as much as I helped lead her change, and our souls connected the very night we met. Courtney Baker is a business coach and online marketing sales strategist, and this episode is all about our journey together, how we met, how my coaching helped her make the shift in her life that she needed, and how the Enneagram helped every step along the way.

Listen to this episode to hear how my coaching and techniques helped change one woman’s life, how she impacted mine, and the road we went down together to find fulfillment, compassion, and joy.

Initially connected

I start this episode discussing how I had found Courtney on social media, admired her work, sent her referrals, and eventually how we first met over dinner. We both discuss how we initially knew our souls were connected, how everything else melted away, and how she knew her life was about to change forever.

Using the Enneagram as a roadmap back to herself

We dig into how she was unhappy, how she had lost the joy and fulfillment of helping and coaching other people, and how she thought she was ‘broken’ after years of therapy and not knowing what was wrong. We talk about our journey working together, the different methods that helped,

She shares how she initially mistyped herself on the Enneagram, and how everything changed once I typed her correctly—even though she was resistant to hearing it. We talk about what it means to live in integrity, and how my coaching ensured she was doing so in every aspect of her life.

Courtney Baker

Courtney is a Business Coach for Coaches, Entrepreneurs and Personal Brands. She is an expert in online marketing and sales strategies helping her clients reach six and seven figures. Courtney has been in the coaching industry for over a decade and currently serves as a Forbes Business Coach.

From her start working on the marketing teams that supported high level coaches with six and seven figure incomes to creating her own coaching business that scaled from zero to over $200,000 in just a year, Courtney Baker is a strategy wiz. She is the founder of the Business School for Coaches, host of The Business of Coaching Podcast and specializes in helping women learn marketing strategies that bring massive success.

Quotes:
11:27 (Courtney)
Once I made enough money that I wasn't struggling or I could basically do anything I wanted, the drive to run a business kind of left me.

15:45
There is a dark side to all of this, especially when we are taking people to the next level, we have to do a gut check.

16:48
We don't have to grow in the drama or in the chaos. We don’t have to blow sh*t up to grow.

19:14 (Courtney)
It wasn't that there was never enough money, but money would never be enough.

24:14
I couldn't comprehend that you could have joy and be experiencing grief and pain in the same day.

31:43
You become more in integrity and a better f**king coach when you are in your work AND leading people.

37:26 (Courtney)
Most of the time I could be my own clients’ ideal client.

41: 51 (Courtney)
The journey is gonna continue for me, and I'll have more to learn always.

46:48 (Courtney)
If we are not careful with the sabotage cycle or have enough self awareness that's when we start to dip down.

56:45 (Courtney)
If there's any purpose of life, in my opinion, it is to do the best that we can while we’re here.