16: Decoded and Never Defined

In this playful and insightful episode, Jillian and Meg dive into the world of personality tests and how understanding yourself can become a powerful tool in both life and work. From CliftonStrengths to 16 Personalities, DISC, Enneagram, and even a touch of Human Design, this conversation explores how these frameworks can reflect our tendencies, illuminate our strengths, and reveal blind spots we may otherwise miss.

This episode is not about boxing anyone in. It is about awareness, permission, and stepping into the truest version of yourself.

What We Explore

CliftonStrengths

Jill shares her top strengths of connection, positivity, empathy, developer, and strategic, and how reading them felt like being deeply understood. She and Meg unpack how strengths evolve over time and how they show up differently in entrepreneurship.

Why Self Awareness Matters

Both hosts reflect on how understanding their own thinking, tendencies, and energy patterns directly impacts their confidence, teamwork, and leadership.

16 Personalities Results

Both Jill and Meg surprisingly (or not surprisingly!) score as ENFJ-A the protagonist. They explore what each trait actually means in plain language and how this profile aligns with their work on the podcast and in their careers. They discuss assertiveness, judging, empathy, and the difference between being emotional and being emotionally stable.

Human Design Insights

Both are Manifesting Generators. Jill and Meg unpack what it means to follow what lights you up, pivot quickly, and make decisions after riding an emotional wave. They explore how this framework can remove shame about how they naturally work and create.

DISC Assessment

They compare their different DISC profiles and talk candidly about what it means to embrace traits like dominance, steadiness, influence, and support. A powerful breakthrough occurs around Jill owning her assertiveness and dominance as strengths rather than liabilities.

Enneagram Preview

Meg shares how her Enneagram type shifts under stress and health and how this mirrors the concept of default patterns. Jill gets excited to dig into this more in a future episode.

Key Themes and Takeaways

Awareness creates choice

When you understand your tendencies, you can direct them instead of reacting from them.

Your strengths are not random

They show up everywhere. In how you think. How you communicate. How you lead. How you create.

Blind spots are not weaknesses

They are simply places to seek support or delegate, not parts of yourself to judge.

Your natural rhythm is valid

Whether you work in creative bursts, need simmer time to make decisions, or pivot fast, you are not broken.

Language matters

Words like dominant or bossy may carry old meaning, but they can also be powerful traits when reframed.

No one fits in a box

These tools are simply mirrors. Not definitions.

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