The Authentic Way Podcast
Join Levi and Loren Smith on a journey of growing in self-awareness, compassion, and healing. Levi is a Certified Transformational Coach who focuses his work on integrating self-awareness tools like the Enneagram into a Jesus-centered spiritual growth path. He and Loren take the deep dive into sharing vulnerably out of their own stories, connecting their journey into wholeness with the redeeming power of finding Jesus within the midst of their authentically messy humanity. Email your thoughts or questions to [email protected] or learn more at: www.authenticwaycoaching.com
- Update frequency
- every 29 days
- Average duration
- 65 minutes
- Episodes
- 20
- Years Active
- 2021 - 2024
Coming Alive Through Doing Hard Things: A Conversation with Aaron Zint
Aaron Zint is a public speaker, author, and incredibly genuine and inspiring man. I’ve had the honor of getting to know him during my time attending The Whole Man Project, a weekly men’s meeting whic…
Talking Myers-Briggs with Caitlin Hawekotte
In this episode, we take a step away from the Enneagram to explore a different personality assessment. I'm honored to have with me Caitlin Hawekotte, a certified Clifton Strengths and MBTI (Myers-Bri…
Radical Ownership, Noticing Emotions + Living With Curiosity: A Conversation with Matthew Haverly
In this episode Levi talks with his good friend, Matthew Haverly, about ideas and growth practices from the book The 15 Commitments of Conscious Leadership by Jim Dethmer, Diana Chapman, and Kaley Wa…
Episode 17: The Transformative Gift of Spiritual Direction: A conversation with Kyle Stevens
In this episode, Levi interviews his spiritual director, Kyle Stevens. Listen in as Kyle authentically shares his story of burnout and disillusionment as a pastor and missionary and how learning new …
Episode 16: The Enneagram + Rachel Peterka's Growth Journey: Sexual 1
In this episode, Levi talks with Rachel Peterka, LPC about her journey through learning about and seeing herself in the Enneagram Type 1. Rachel is a devoted follower of Jesus, and shares openly and …
Episode 15: Facing + Healing Emotional Pain for a Healthy Faith + Spirituality: A Conversation with Tom Cole
In this first episode of season 2, Levi talks with Tom Cole, co-founder of Pure Heart Ministries, around familiar topics on the show. From emotionally healthy faith and spirituality, engaging with th…
Episode 14 Season Finale: The Enneagram Fixations + Holy Ideas
In this final episode of season 1, Levi + Loren talk through the limiting mental beliefs of their types called the fixations, and the benefit in learning to spot these sneaky type-specific thought pa…
Episode 13: We're back! Levi + Loren share about the Passion + Virtue of their types
After a long hiatus, Levi + Loren share candidly about how seeing the passion of their types and working through the painful narratives and heart-centered challenges associated with this aspect of th…
Episode 12: Introduction to the Passions + Virtues of the Enneagram
Listen in as Levi + Loren dive into the Passions. They begin with an overview of the Passions as the nine emotional patterns that produce suffering for the nine Enneagram types and describe how these…
Episode 11: Becoming Our Own Ally: Agreeing with Compassion + Embracing the God of Process
In this episode, Levi and Loren take a brief pause from discussing the different in-depth growth paths within the Enneagram and highlight how these growth paths have fueled their spiritual growth. Th…
Episode 10: The Repressed Instinct Part 2
In this second part of the discussion on the role of the repressed instinct in the Enneagram system of personality, Levi vulnerably shares his experience of seeing the sexual instinct repressed in hi…
Episode 9: The Repressed Instinct Part 1
In this first of two episodes on the repressed instinct, Levi and Loren describe the challenges and blindspots that come into play in our personalities when we repress or neglect one of the three cor…
Episode 8: The Enneagram Instincts: What They Are + How Seeing Them in Action Can Accelerate Spiritual Growth
In this podcast episode, Levi + Loren explain the three instincts (survival strategies) within the Enneagram system that combine with type to create the twenty-seven subtypes. They each share honestl…
Episode 7: Spiritual Bypass: How we put God in a box to avoid facing our pain, uncertainty, and human frailty
Listen in as we discuss the ways that we, as Christians, can unconsciously use faith and spirituality to bypass our challenging emotions, moments of uncertainty, and feelings of powerlessness. In thi…
Episode 6: The Enneagram + Levi's Growth Journey: Social 9
In this episode, Loren interviews Levi about his experience of identifying with Type 9 and how the growth path prescribed by the enneagram was consistent with the journey he already felt God leading …
Episode 5: The Enneagram + Loren's Growth Journey: Self-Preservation 3
In this episode, Levi interviews Loren about her experience in discovering her enneagram type. Loren beautifully shares about the challenges, pressures, and limiting belief systems she began to see i…
Episode 4: Jesus, Self-Awareness, and "The Chipotle Effect"
In this episode, Levi and Loren give a spiritual and faith-based context for why self-awareness is an important part of faith development. They share the ways that their journey of growing in awarene…
Episode 3: The Descent: Our Story Part 2
In this second part of Levi and Loren's story, they describe the events that brought them to a place of uncertainty, deconstruction, self-reflection, and a crisis of faith that ultimately led them to…
Episode 2: Setting the Stage: Our Story Part 1
Listen in as Loren and Levi tell Part 1 of their story: how they met, dated and got married, with some pretty cringe-y and crazy stories in the middle! Full of honesty about the imperfect and real st…
Episode 1: Who we are + why we're doing this
In this very first episode we introduce ourselves and give some background for why we wanted to start this podcast together. Hear a broad stroke overview of our journey from naive ministry interns to…