Oct 24, 2018
One of the gifts of the Enneagram -- the wisdom that we can gain from it -- is self-knowledge. No matter your Enneagram type, self-knowledge can help you dis-identify with those aspects of your personality that put you in an unhealthy place of habitual reactivity. And once you start to observe those unhealthy aspects, and dive into your work, you'll no longer be ruled by your personality.
Our guest this week, John Mark McMillan, is a brilliant singer-songwriter, artist. He's a platinum-selling songwriter, and as an Enneagram Four, he joins Ian to discuss his deep connection to his feelings, touches on the Four’s defense mechanism of introjection, and shares a checklist of ways he counteracts when he’s feeling down.
About John Mark McMillan
John Mark McMillan is something of an anomaly: an
artist and Platinum-selling songwriter bending genres and defying
categorization by carving out his own unique and independent path.
With an ear for melody and a poet’s eye for metaphor, no topic has
been off-limits. While each of his albums over the past decade have
continued to explore new territory, it’s McMillan’s ability to give
lyric and language to the human experience that many consider his
greatest gift.
McMillan, who has made a career of rejecting easy categorization
and challenging expectations, co-founded the independent record
label Lionhawk Records with his manager Josh Lujan Loveless in
2015. Mercury & Lightning was
the third release from the label followed up in 2018
with The Mercury
Sessions and The Lightning Sessions - alternative
takes of the records with special guests including Joy Williams and
Josh Garrels. McMillan recently remastered and
re-released his beloved album The Medicine (10th Anniversary
Deluxe Edition) available digitally and
vinyl. His first-ever Christmas record Smile
In The Mystery comes out Nov. 23.