Taming Your Money Monster: How Your Enneagram Type Shapes Your Financial Life with Doug Lynam

In this episode of Everyone’s Talkin’ Money, I sit down with Doug Lynam — Marine Corps officer turned monk turned financial advisor — to explore how your Enneagram type influences your financial habits. Doug unpacks how your core personality patterns, fears, and emotional wiring shape everything from your earning style to your giving habits. You’ll walk away learning: Why your Enneagram type can help you stop self-sabotaging your financial goals How money wounds form — and why they show up in your daily spending, saving, and earning choices What “money monsters” are and how to spot yours before they take the wheel How to use wealth as a force for good and break generational cycles of money trauma Doug also shares powerful insights from his upcoming book Taming Your Money Monster: 9 Paths to Money Mastery with the Enneagram, including practical ways to identify your type and create a plan for ethical wealth building. Pre-order now for July 2025. Get Doug’s first book From Monk to Money Manager: A Former Monk’s Financial Guide to Becoming a Little Bit Wealthy-and Why That’s Okay Stay in the know with everything ETM by following us on Instagram @everyonestalkinmoney Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices