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The Work of You
This is a podcast about the leadership that matters most — the kind that starts from within.
Hosted by certified behavioral coach and Enneagram expert Jen Ostrich, The Work of You is for high-achieving humans ready to stop repeating patterns and start leading themselves differently.
Through insights from coaching, the Enneagram, and her own personal inner overhaul, Jen brings honesty, humor, and sharp emotional clarity to the table. With real talk, self-awareness tools, and a healthy dose of tough love, she helps you uncover what’s driving you, shift what’s no longer serving you, and ultimately do the work of you — one honest episode at a time.
This isn’t about fixing yourself. It’s about finally understanding yourself — so your choices, relationships, and leadership can actually align with who you truly are.
The Work of You
The Work of Showing Up — with Brannan Sirratt [S2 Ep14]
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In this episode, Jen sits down with Brannan Sirratt — book developer, coach, and owner of DevelopYourBook.com — for a conversation that starts with manuscripts and ends somewhere much deeper. Brannan spent two decades helping authors find the real book underneath the one they thought they were writing, and it turns out that process has a lot to teach the rest of us about self-awareness, creative courage, and what it actually means to show up.
Brannan and Jen geek out over Enneagram types, swap notes on ADHD and neurodivergence, and dig into why writing — or any form of honest communication — might be one of the most underrated tools for personal growth. Brannan's closing challenge to listeners is simple and quietly profound: don't write yourself off. Just show up and see what happens.
In this episode, we explore:
- How Brannan's late ADHD and autism-adjacent diagnoses became the missing puzzle piece in her own self-understanding
- The Enneagram Type 5 with a social instinct — and what that looks like in a career built on helping others tell their stories
- The two questions that unlock any writing project (and any LinkedIn post)
- How showing up fully to your creative work opens you up in ways no personal growth framework can replicate
The Work of You via Brannan Sirratt
Brannan's closing invitation was to just show up — fully, imperfectly, and without waiting until you feel ready. Here are a few questions to sit with:
- Where in your life are you waiting to feel ready before you show up?
- Is there a form of creative expression — writing, speaking, making something — you've written yourself off from? What would it look like to try anyway?
- What do you want to communicate right now, and who is it really for?
About the Guest:
Brannan Sirratt is a book developer who makes sure both the author and the book have what they need to reach their most impacted reader. She's spent two decades working with hundreds of authors and collaborators across all levels of content creation. That's long enough to know that not all ideas take the same shape—and she believes that's a good thing. Her book development work begins with the Clarity Spectrum, an intention-first genre framework (that's been called "the Enneagram for Books"), then expands as needed to carry deep thinkers and changemakers through their own unique process—until both the author and their book have emerged.
Resources | Links:
Develop Your Book — Brannan's new site including the two-question quiz
GET YOUR ENNEAGRAM TYPE for $60 -- Use this link and Jen will have access to work with you on your behind the scenes data should you choose.
