The Enneagram in a Movie - Details, episodes &amp; analysis

Mario Sikora:

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Book: How to Think Well, and Why: The Awareness to Action Guide to Clear Thinking

TJ Dawe:

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TJ Ingrassia:

YouTube: @TypeCast

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Why Boyhood is Misunderstood | Boyhood and the Navigating Four

Episode 16

Thursday, July 30, 2026 • Duration 01:03:09

In this episode of The Enneagram in a Movie podcast, Mario Sikora, TJ Dawe and TJ Ingrassia discuss the Navigating Four through Richard Linklater’s film, Boyhood, which was filmed over 12 years with the same cast. It captures the Navigating Four’s ability to fit into different worlds without losing who you are. Mason works through observation instead of dramatic self-expression. The navigation is constant – new towns, stepfathers, friend groups, conservative grandparents, – yet his core stays intact. The hosts also trace how Linklater's entire filmography (Slackers, the Before trilogy) keeps returning to this Navigating Four blend of introspection, observation, and adaptive fluency.

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Book: How to Think Well, and Why: The Awareness to Action Guide to Clear Thinking

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Suffering Out Loud | Frida and the Transmitting Four

Episode 15

Thursday, July 16, 2026 • Duration 01:04:14

In this episode of The Enneagram in a Movie podcast, Mario Sikora, TJ Dawe and TJ Ingrassia discuss the Transmitting Four through Julie Taymor's Frida, starring Salma Hayek.

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Mario Sikora:

TikTok: @mariosikora

Book: How to Think Well, and Why: The Awareness to Action Guide to Clear Thinking

TJ Dawe:

Web: tjdawe.ca

TJ Ingrassia:

YouTube: @TypeCast

When the Gifted Feel Broken | Green Book and the Preserving Four

Season 6 · Episode 14

Thursday, July 2, 2026 • Duration 01:00:58

In this episode of The Enneagram in a Movie podcast, Mario Sikora, TJ Dawe and TJ Ingrassia talk about Green Book through Dr. Donald Shirley, the concert pianist played by Mahershala Ali. Dr. Shirley is a Preserving Four that uses refinement as a barrier, not a bridge. They discuss how a Preserving Four can build such an elegant prison that even when someone offers them a way out, they hesitate to leave.

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Book: How to Think Well, and Why: The Awareness to Action Guide to Clear Thinking

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The Rules Beneath the Rules | The Diplomat and the Navigating One

Season 6 · Episode 13

Thursday, June 18, 2026 • Duration 01:20:58

In this episode of The Enneagram in a Movie podcast, Mario Sikora, TJ Dawe and TJ Ingrassia talk about The Diplomat's Kate Wyler (Keri Russell) as a masterclass in the Navigating One subtype. They explore how Kate's relentless drive to identify problems and fix them operates within a highly navigating world of protocols, unspoken rules, and relational chess moves. Kate appears controlled and confident, but underneath sits self-doubt rooted in her sky-high standards. She cancels galas, refuses pomp, and dresses only in black to minimize distractions from what matters: reading people, systems, and the gaps between what's said and what's meant. The hosts examine how she differs from preserving and transmitting Ones, her complex marriage to Hal (likely a navigating Seven or conflicted Three), and why the entire diplomatic world is essentially a Navigating One ecosystem.

Chapters

0:00:00 The Diplomat Arrives

0:04:11 Navigating Type One Defined

0:09:00 Kate's One-ish Core

0:23:23 Protocol as Navigation

0:42:43 Integrity vs. Shape-Shifting

1:08:44 Navigating One vs. Other Subtypes

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Welcome to Thinking Well & Why - Thinking Well & Why

Wednesday, June 10, 2026 • Duration 00:53

Thinking Well & Why, a new podcast on the Awareness to Action network hosted by Mario Sikora, Lee Fields and Seth “Creek” Creekmore, will tackle critical thinking, reasoning, and intellectual honesty – not as abstract disciplines, but as practical tools for making sense of life. Your biggest obstacle to being right is trying not to be wrong. The same cognitive biases that shape every area of life show up in your Enneagram work. The hosts promise no guarantees, but will offer sharp, direct conversation about the thinking skills worth defending.

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Lee Fields:

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Seth "Creek" Creekmore:

IG: @_creekmore

A 14-Year-Old's Burden | True Grit and the Transmitting One

Season 6 · Episode 12

Thursday, June 4, 2026 • Duration 01:11:21

Mario, TJ Dawe, and TJ Ingrassia (a transmitting One himself) dive into the 2010 Coen brothers remake of True Grit, exploring 14-year-old Matty Ross as a textbook example of the One subtype's core wound and superpower. The episode traces how Matty's need to correct, improve, and take responsibility—whether her mother is "a dummy" or her brother "a child"—drives her relentless pursuit of Tom Chaney across the frontier. They examine the transmitting One's intensity, perfectionism, and inner certainty, contrast her with a Type Nine (Rooster Cogburn's grizzled pragmatism), and unpack what it means when a child shoulders burdens no child should carry. Hailee Steinfeld's performance reveals the One's beautiful and dangerous edges: moral clarity that can calcify into judgment, and duty that can become obsession.

CHAPTER MARKERS

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0:00:00 Why True Grit, Why Now

0:11:53 The One's Core Drive

0:23:46 Responsibility She Invented

0:35:39 Hermione in the Old West

0:47:32 Rooster's Quiet Respect

0:59:26 Eight Rules for the Girl with Grit

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Repression and Rebellion | Witness and the Preserving One

Season 6 · Episode 11

Thursday, May 21, 2026 • Duration 01:17:14

In this episode of The Enneagram in a Movie podcast, Mario Sikora, TJ Ingrassia and TJ Dawe explore the 1985 film, Witness, starring Harrison Ford and Kelly McGillis, through the lens of the Preserving One subtype. They examine how John Book, played by Ford, embodies the deep tension between duty and desire. The three hosts dissect the film's themes of repression, moral rigidity and the carefully controlled outlets ones use to manage internal conflict. They also deep dive into how restraint becomes both a strength and a prison.

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Mario Sikora:

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Book: How to Think Well, and Why: The Awareness to Action Guide to Clear Thinking

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A Sweet Escape | Marie Antoinette and the Preserving Seven

Season 6 · Episode 10

Thursday, May 7, 2026 • Duration 01:07:06

In this episode of The Enneagram in a Movie podcast, Mario Sikora, TJ Ingrassia and TJ Dawe explore Sofia Coppola's Marie Antoinette as a portrait of the Preserving Seven subtype. Rather than a straightforward period piece, Coppola combines gilded excess with modern punk aesthetics to mirror Marie's internal world of distraction and avoidance. Compared to other Seven films, Marie Antoinette reveals how a Preserving Seven can become trapped within accumulated stimulation and numb herself through pleasure, fashion, and social engagement.

“And you see these moments in her when she does kind of feel the terror and feel the fear, but she bounces back really well. And this is a gift that Sevens have. They can get knocked down, and they can bounce back up and look for the bright side of things. And I think we see this throughout with Marie Antoinette.” - Mario [15:31]

“In the first 10-ish or so minutes of this film, she says virtually nothing. We’re just watching her as she’s experiencing these things that are happening to her. If you watch the first 10 minutes of Birds of Prey, Harley Quinn says more words in the first ten minutes than Marie Antoinette says in the entire film. And I think there’s something in there in terms of the Transmitting versus the Preserving difference.” - TJ Ingrassia [23:24]

“The note that I wrote down is she’s trapped in a golden prison. There is this sense that she’s enjoying these things, but it’s like she’s oppressed almost by this castle that she’s stuck in.” - TJ Dawe [34:17]

TIMESTAMPS

[00:03] Intro

[02:28] About this week’s movie

[04:13] Sofia Coppola's filmmaking style

[06:36] More thoughts on the film

[11:22] What's Seven-ish about Marie Antoinette

[17:55] The most Seven-ish scene

Fantabulous Freedom | Birds of Prey and the Transmitting Seven

Season 6 · Episode 9

Thursday, April 23, 2026 • Duration 01:04:53

In this episode of The Enneagram in a Movie podcast, Mario Sikora, TJ Ingrassia and TJ Dawe discuss the Transmitting Seven through the 2020 film Birds of Prey. They analyze Harley Quinn, played by Margot Robbie, and how Harley's breakup from the Joker functions as complete emancipation, unleashing a character that embodies the Seven's relationship with freedom, pleasure and constraint.

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