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The Enneagram in a Movie

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Frequency: 1 episode/21d. Total Eps: 98

The Enneagram in a Movie Podcast is a fun and informative way to take a deep dive into understanding the Enneagram. You’ll never see movies—or the Enneagram—the same way!

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🇨🇦 Canada - visualArts
26/08/2026
#94
🇨🇦 Canada - visualArts
25/08/2026
#62
🇨🇦 Canada - visualArts
24/08/2026
#35
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21/08/2026
#81
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20/08/2026
#67
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19/08/2026
#42
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25/07/2026
#85
🇬🇧 Great Britain - visualArts
24/07/2026
#48
🇨🇦 Canada - visualArts
21/07/2026
#76
🇨🇦 Canada - visualArts
20/07/2026
#55

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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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Awareness to Action

Mario Sikora:

IG: @mariosikora

TikTok: @mariosikora

Web: mariosikora.com

Pod: Enneagram in a Movie

Pod: The Awareness to Action Enneagram

Lee Fields:

Web: enneagrammatic.com

IG: @enneagrammatic

Seth "Creek" Creekmore:

IG: @_creekmore

Pod: Fathoms | An Enneagram Podcast

Pod: Delusional Optimism

Pod: The Awareness to Action Enneagram

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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.

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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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Force as First Language | The Dark Knight Rises & Transmitting Eights

Season 6 · Episode 3

Thursday, January 29, 2026 • Duration 59:48

In this episode of The Enneagram in a Movie podcast, Mario Sikora and TJ Dawe explore the Transmitting Eight through the film, The Dark Knight Rises, starring Christian Bale, Tom Hardy and Anne Hathaway. The Transmitting Eight is probably the most aggressive of the 27 subtypes as it’s the stereotype people have in their minds when they think of Type Eight, which is Striving for Feel Powerful. Transmitters are about expression and tend to be more assertive and outgoing. They also want to have an impact in the world and reshape the world in their own image. Mario and TJ explore how they see this in Bane, played by Hardy.

“One of the other things that I see about Transmitters is that they tend to be the people who… they want to have an impact on the world. And they want to put their stamp on it and leave some sort of legacy. So these are the people that are often the world changers. The people that want to reshape the world in some way.” - Mario [07:25]

“The desire to make an impact–whether it’s on the person I’m talking to or on the world–doesn’t always come out through verbal expression, but it probably comes out in some equivalent of it, of like pay attention to me. And when a Transmitter has the microphone, you’re going to have a hard time taking it away from them. They love expressing themselves and they take relish in doing it.” - TJ [10:21]

TIMESTAMPS

[00:04] Intro

[00:30] This week’s movie

[04:33] The Transmitting Instinctual Bias

[10:03] Bane as a Transmitter

[15:43] Three people walk into a room

[18:11] Other ways of transmitting

[23:02] Bane is not actually in charge

[27:26] Selina Kyle as a Transmitter

[29:41] Transmitting in Christopher Nolan

The Problem with Being Untouchable | The Last of Us and Preserving Eights

Season 6 · Episode 2

Thursday, January 15, 2026 • Duration 48:42

In this episode of The Enneagram in a Movie podcast, Mario Sikora and TJ Dawe dive into an episode of the TV show, “The Last of Us,” starring Pedro Pascal and Bella Ramsey, This episode from the first season, “Long, Long Time,” captures the Preserving Eight as it centers around Nick Offerman’s Bill, a Doomsday prepper, and his relationship to Frank, played by Murray Barlett. Their relationship is the heart of the show as it explores some of the complexity we see in humans such as nesting and nurturing.

“And we see this kind of handiness in Bill that is often very related to preservers in general, but Preserving Eights in particular. This competence. I know what the challenges are. I know what is needed to build and protect my castle and I’m going to do it.” - Mario [16:49]

“Being able to provide this guy with a shower, being able to give him new clothes, being able to give him a good meal, and pour wine correctly in a nice glass and serve it on nice dishes, that’s very much a Preserver’s expression of love.” - TJ [35:16]

TIMESTAMPS

[00:03] Intro

[00:23] This week’s topic

[04:38] Thoughts on episode

[06:59] Type Eight in Bill

[11:46] Bill’s letter

[16:02] Nesting and nurturing

[21:31] Pleasure in preserving things

[27:18] Scarcity begets selfishiness

[30:38] The heart of the episode

[36:10] Navigating Eight vs Transmitting Eight

[38:42] Other characters

[45:27] Other Preserving Eights

[48:00] Outro

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Why Vito Succeeds Where Michael Fails | Godfather II and the Navigating Enneagram 8

Season 6 · Episode 1

Thursday, January 8, 2026 • Duration 01:05:36

Mario Sikora and TJ Dawe return with a new season of Enneagram in a Movie podcast, starting with a series on the subtypes. Every other week, they will focus on a subtype with a movie that captures it well. In this episode, they discuss The Godfather II, starring Al Pacino and Robert De Niro, to explore the Navigating Eight. The 1974 film features a lot of Type Eight–Striving to Feel Powerful–with different subtypes. Mario and TJ dissect how the parallel storyline and different subtypes between the two significant characters–Vito, played by De Niro and Michael, played by Pacino–come into play as they try to assert and maintain power.

“This guy is all about power. He is not all about detachment. He is all about power and vengeance. This whole movie is about vengeance from the very beginning until the very end. The theme is vengeance. And that is the traditional fixation of Type Eight." - Mario [13:37]

“It’s very much like a Navigating nightmare is to be exiled, to be cut off completely.” - TJ [45:38]

TIMESTAMPS

[00:03] Intro

[00:49] This week’s movie

[05:00] Which movie’s better?

[09:06] Two Type Eight characters

[10:17] Striving to Feel Powerful

[12:34] Michael: Preserving Eight

[17:17] Type Eight in Vito

[23:09] The Navigating Domain

[28:10] Vito and the landlord

[32:52] Noticing and watching

[34:29] Other examples of navigating

[39:58] It’s the game that counts

[44:41] The theme of isolation and exile

[49:29] Mafia is very hierarchical

[52:41] How this could have played differently

The Enneagram in a Movie and "The Muppet Movie"

Season 5 · Episode 17

Wednesday, April 9, 2025 • Duration 54:04

TJ and Mario take a trip down nostalgia lane to explore the 1979 classic "The Muppet Movie," filled with cameos from all of your grandparents' favorite celebrities!

"A Real Pain" and the Enneagram

Season 5 · Episode 16

Thursday, March 27, 2025 • Duration 51:31

The movie "A Real Pain" is a sensitive and touching portrayal of an Enneagram type Seven in an existential crisis and his trip to visit his beloved grandmother's home in Poland with his type Six cousin. Both Kieran Culkin and Jesse Eisenberg give pitch-perfect portrayals of these two Enneagram profiles. Mario and TJ break it all down in this video.

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A Tribute to Gene Hackman

Season 5 · Episode 15

Monday, March 10, 2025 • Duration 31:01

TJ and Mario discuss the career of Gene Hackman, focusing on some of their favorite performances.

The Enneagram in a Movie: To Live and Die in LA

Season 5 · Episode 14

Tuesday, February 25, 2025 • Duration 57:37

Celebrating the new availability (FINALLY!) of one of Mario's favorite movies from the 1980s, we talk about William Friedken's underappreciated gem, "To Live and Die in LA" from the perspective of the Enneagram. #enneagram4 #toliveanddieinla #williamfriedkin

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An Enneagram Lens on Emilia Perez

Season 5 · Episode 13

Tuesday, February 11, 2025 • Duration 53:42

TJ Dawe and Mario Sikora talk about the Oscar-nominated "Emilia Perez" through the lens of the Enneagram, paying close attention to the main characters Emilia and Rita.

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