{"podcast":{"title":"Around the Circle | An Enneagram Podcast","slug":"around-the-circle-an-enneagram-channel-86508","podcast_index_feed_id":86508,"rss_url":"https://feeds.captivate.fm/aroundthecircle/","website_url":"https://www.aroundthecircle.org/episodes/","image_url":"https://artwork.captivate.fm/a43f1443-610f-4ec4-b4c3-253d9ada0975/AN-ENNEAGRAM-PODCAST-63.jpg","author":"Jeff Cook and T.J. Wilson","episode_count":400,"summary":"The Enneagram is a map of the human personality. It’s a tool for navigating relationships. It creates language for what motivates us and helps us look at the way we look at everything else. Most importantly the enneagram is a mirror; because sometimes you need help seeing yourself.","last_synced_at":"2026-09-22T02:21:11.609301+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/around-the-circle-an-enneagram-channel-86508"},"episode":{"title":"Empathy and Compassion | \"Atlas of the Heart\" | Chapter 7","slug":"empathy-and-compassion-atlas-of-the-heart-chapter-7","published_at":"2026-08-03T14:45:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/around-the-circle-an-enneagram-channel-86508/empathy-and-compassion-atlas-of-the-heart-chapter-7","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/around-the-circle-an-enneagram-channel-86508","url":"https://www.aroundthecircle.org/episodes/","audio_url":"https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/998484e9-d3a8-483e-9c67-8060db036dac.mp3","summary":"Join us on Tuesdays : HERE Empathy is harder than we think. In this episode of Reading Room, Jeff continues through Chapter 7 of Brené Brown's Atlas of the Heart , exploring the emotional landscape of compassion, empathy, pity, sympathy, boundaries, and comparative suffering. Along the way, Jeff connects Brown's research with Aristotle, Wittgenstein, Buddhist thought, and the Enneagram, asking what it actually means to accompany another person in pain without trying to fix, rescue, or distance ourselves from them. The conversation explores why empathy is a skill rather than an instinct, why compassion requires both courage and restraint, how pity and sympathy quietly undermine connection, and why healthy boundaries are an essential part of loving others well. Jeff also reflects personally on how these themes challenge him as an Enneagram One and considers whether genuine maturity requires moving from individual achievement toward shared human experience. Join us for the live Reading Room discussion each Tuesday at AroundtheCircle.org #AtlasOfTheHeart #BreneBrown #Empathy #Compassion #Enneagram","meta_description":"Join us on Tuesdays : HERE Empathy is harder than we think. In this episode of Reading Room, Jeff continues through Chapter 7 of Brené Brown's Atlas of th…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2254,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/around-the-circle-an-enneagram-channel-86508/episodes/empathy-and-compassion-atlas-of-the-heart-chapter-7/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/around-the-circle-an-enneagram-channel-86508/empathy-and-compassion-atlas-of-the-heart-chapter-7.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}