You guyssss. I'm back at it again with some more CELEBRITY ENNEAGRAM NEWS 🗞️ 🎉

Recently, Amy Poehler (can we just call her the Enneagram Queen now?) brought up the Enneagram with guest Kerry Washington on a recent episode of Good Hang. They landed on Kerry as a Type Three, Rashida Jones as a Type Seven (with a wing 6), and Reese Witherspoon as a hard-core Type Three.

(This lines up with a story from Jim McPartlin’s The Enneagram at Work. When he was managing a hotel, Reese Witherspoon paused mid-conversation, touched his arm, and said, “Excuse me.” She turned to her kids, who were running wild, and yelled, “HEY! The two of you get down here NOW!” Then she turned back, smiled, and said, “Sorry. Mom moment.” That’s when he clocked her as a Three, and a pretty self-actualized one at that.)

And it makes me laugh because Kerry asks Amy: “Are you an astrology person?”

And Amy says, “No, that is nonsense. That makes no sense. I believe in numbers.” 😂

Which, like, yeah. The Enneagram can feel pretty woo-woo, especially depending on who’s teaching it. I think it can genuinely change lives, but I prefer a more grounded approach: use it if it helps, ignore it if it doesn’t.

Now, without further ado, here’s some Ennea-goodness to explore:

📕 Enneagram 5: Everything You Need to Know About the Seeker Type

I got something horribly wrong.

And, naturally, it was a TikTok comment that called it out:

Welp, you got me there, Amina.

Because what I misunderstood was this:

A Five’s relationship to knowledge isn’t about trying to appear smart.
​(That was my Type Three lens talking. Threes are image-focused: How am I coming across? What do people think of me?)

Fives honestly don’t care much about how they look. Their core fear is being incapable, ending up in a situation where they don’t have the internal resources to handle what’s in front of them.

That’s why knowledge matters so much. It helps them feel prepared, steady, and safe.

​​→ Read about Enneagram Type Five​​

✏️ The Key to Working with Enneagram Ones

Say you have a chaotic situation at work.

You were supposed to drop off an important document at your boss’s house… but instead you got pulled into her Upper East Side apartment, witnessed a marital dispute you definitely weren’t meant to see, and now you somehow need to obtain an unpublished Harry Potter manuscript by 3 pm tomorrow.

(Yes, I’m excited for The Devil Wears Prada 2.)

If Andy Sachs isn’t available, you give that impossible task to a One.

Because they have an incredible ability to build systems that create excellence over and over again. They’ll pinpoint what’s going wrong and build a system to fix it.

​​→ A practical guide to Type One's strengths, stress points, and the best ways to communicate at work​

I also have guides for Type Three and Type Two, if you're interested!

Happy Discovering,

Abbey