Jimmy Carter, the Enneagram, and the life hat comes after striving, with Andrew Greer
What if your most meaningful work begins after you stop striving to prove yourself?
In this warm, wide-ranging conversation, I sit down with old friend, songwriter, filmmaker, and Enneagram Two Andrew Greer for a heartful exploration of loneliness, love, boundaries, creativity, and what it really means to live a good life.
Andrew opens up about the hidden sadness behind the Enneagram Two’s gift for connection—the ache that often fuels the desire to help, anticipate, and care for others. Together, we unpack how pride, control, and fear of being a burden can quietly shape relationships, and how learning to receive may be the most courageous spiritual practice of all.
We also dive into Andrew’s new book, More Than a President, and explore Jimmy Carter as a quintessential Enneagram One—principled, disciplined, justice-driven, and far more impactful after the presidency than during it.
This episode is a meditation on personality, vocation, and maturity—on shifting focus from résumé to soul, from achievement to love, from striving to rest. It’s thoughtful, funny, deeply human, and quietly challenging.
Pull up a chair. This one stays with you.
ABOUT ANDREW GREER
Author, musician, and filmmaker, Andrew Greer has published three books, released multiple chart-topping recordings, and directed the PBS documentary Plainspoken, a film inspired by the lives of Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter and their neighbors in Plains, Georgia. A Texas native, and longtime Nashvillian, Greer now makes his home in Plains.
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More Than a President: Sundays with Jimmy Carter