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I am honored to have Kim Anderson on the show! I met Kim at the Moms with Impact Retreat in 2024, where she co-hosted the retreat with Kari Kampakis. What started off as a weekend in Nashville, ended in connecting with other Christian moms who had similar interests and family values. Fast forward a few months and the same moms that I had met and quickly became good friends enrolled group parenting coaching with Kim Anderson. The ladies and Kim have been a bright light to my day, personal, and parenting journey.
Now, I am bringing Kim to the show so you can learn from her too! One of my favorite if not most favorite part of the two-day retreat was diving into the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) that we took before the retreat. I am sure it is no surprise to you that I am an extrovert. But what I did not know was how my Myers-Briggs personality type impacted my parenting style nor how I could use my daughter’s types to better respond and parent her. Enjoy our conversation – my prayer is that this comes to you at a time you most need it!
Meet Kim Anderson
Kim Anderson is a licensed therapist (LPC-MHSP), certified professional life coach (CPLC), speaker, writer, mother of two young adults, and a veteran military spouse. Her journey began in education, but she transitioned to counseling and coaching when she realized she wanted to help solve family problems at their source. She is also the founder of Elevate Moms, a collective of therapists, coaches, and community groups that help moms thrive. She believes that when moms take care of themselves, they are loving their families well.
In her therapy practice, she focuses on trauma recovery, anxiety, depression, and relational challenges using EMDR, CBT, and solution-focused approaches. As a coach, she helps clients gain clarity about what they truly want based on their values, passions, and strengths—then walks alongside them as they pursue those goals.
Her greatest passion is helping women live the lives they were created to live. She partners with clients to envision their best future, set meaningful goals, and overcome obstacles that stand in their way.
Consider her your dedicated cheerleader, thoughtful sounding board, and gentle dream-stretcher as you discover all you were meant to be.
Kim believes we all possess unique, God-given gifts that sometimes get hidden beneath life’s challenges. Sometimes we lose our way and trade our brilliance for ordinary. Her role is to help you rediscover those gifts, put them to use, and watch you soar beyond what you thought possible.
When she’s not working with clients, Kim cherishes travel, reading, nurturing her faith, enjoying fellowship, having meaningful conversations with friends, and especially date nights with her husband in their hometown of Franklin, Tennessee.
What You Will Learn
- What is the Myers-Briggs?
- The four ares of MBTI: Extraversion/Introversion, Sensing/Intuition, Thinking/Feeling, and Judging/Perceiving
- Learn how to better know yourself so you can show up better for your child
- How you can use the Myers-Briggs to parent your child
MBTI – The Personality Types
The Myers-Briggs® system consists of four preference pairs that reflect different aspects of your personality—opposite ways to direct and receive energy through Extraversion (E) or Introversion (I), take in information with Sensing (S) or Intuition (N), come to conclusions using Thinking (T) or Feeling (F), and approach the outside world through Judging (J) or Perceiving (P).
As provided by the Myers-Briggs Foundation, the 16 types are:
- ISTJ: “Quiet, serious, earn success by being thorough and dependable. Practical, matter-of-fact, realistic, and responsible. Decide logically what should be done and work toward it steadily, regardless of distractions. Take pleasure in making everything orderly and organized—their work, their home, their life. Value traditions and loyalty.”
- ISFJ: “Quiet, friendly, responsible, and conscientious. Committed and steady in meeting their obligations. Thorough, painstaking, and accurate. Loyal, considerate, notice and remember specifics about people who are important to them, concerned with how others feel. Strive to create an orderly and harmonious environment at work and at home.”
- INFJ: “Seek meaning and connection in ideas, relationships, and material possessions. Want to understand what motivates people and are insightful about others. Conscientious and committed to their firm values. Develop a clear vision about how best to serve the common good. Organized and decisive in implementing their vision.”
- INTJ: “Have original minds and great drive for implementing their ideas and achieving their goals. Quickly see patterns in external events and develop long-range explanatory perspectives. When committed, organize a job and carry it through. Skeptical and independent, have high standards of competence and performance—for themselves and others.”
- ISTP: “Tolerant and flexible, quiet observers until a problem appears, then act quickly to find workable solutions. Analyze what makes things work and readily get through large amounts of data to isolate the core of practical problems. Interested in cause and effect, organize facts using logical principles, value efficiency.”
- ISFP: “Quiet, friendly, sensitive, and kind. Enjoy the present moment, what’s going on around them. Like to have their own space and to work within their own time frame. Loyal and committed to their values and to people who are important to them. Dislike disagreements and conflicts; don’t force their opinions or values on others.”
- INFP: “Idealistic, loyal to their values and to people who are important to them. Want to live a life that is congruent with their values. Curious, quick to see possibilities, can be catalysts for implementing ideas. Seek to understand people and to help them fulfill their potential. Adaptable, flexible, and accepting unless a value is threatened.”
- INTP: “Seek to develop logical explanations for everything that interests them. Theoretical and abstract, interested more in ideas than in social interaction. Quiet, contained, flexible, and adaptable. Have unusual ability to focus in depth to solve problems in their area of interest. Skeptical, sometimes critical, always analytical.”
- ESTP: “Flexible and tolerant, take a pragmatic approach focused on immediate results. Bored by theories and conceptual explanations; want to act energetically to solve the problem. Focus on the here and now, spontaneous, enjoy each moment they can be active with others. Enjoy material comforts and style. Learn best through doing.”
- ESFP: “Outgoing, friendly, and accepting. Exuberant lovers of life, people, and material comforts. Enjoy working with others to make things happen. Bring common sense and a realistic approach to their work and make work fun. Flexible and spontaneous, adapt readily to new people and environments. Learn best by trying a new skill with other people.”
- ENFP: “Warmly enthusiastic and imaginative. See life as full of possibilities. Make connections between events and information very quickly, and confidently proceed based on the patterns they see. Want a lot of affirmation from others, and readily give appreciation and support. Spontaneous and flexible, often rely on their ability to improvise and their verbal fluency.”
- ENTP: “Quick, ingenious, stimulating, alert, and outspoken. Resourceful in solving new and challenging problems. Adept at generating conceptual possibilities and then analyzing them strategically. Good at reading other people. Bored by routine, will seldom do the same thing the same way, apt to turn to one new interest after another.”
- ESTJ: “Practical, realistic, matter-of-fact. Decisive, quickly move to implement decisions. Organize projects and people to get things done, focus on getting results in the most efficient way possible. Take care of routine details. Have a clear set of logical standards, systematically follow them and want others to also. Forceful in implementing their plans.:”
- ESFJ: “Warmhearted, conscientious, and cooperative. Want harmony in their environment, work with determination to establish it. Like to work with others to complete tasks accurately and on time. Loyal, follow through even in small matters. Notice what others need in their day-to-day lives and try to provide it. Want to be appreciated for who they are and for what they contribute.”
- ENFJ: “Warm, empathetic, responsive, and responsible. Highly attuned to the emotions, needs, and motivations of others. Find potential in everyone, want to help others fulfill their potential. May act as catalysts for individual and group growth. Loyal, responsive to praise and criticism. Sociable, facilitate others in a group, and provide inspiring leadership.”
- ENTJ: “Frank, decisive, assume leadership readily. Quickly see illogical and inefficient procedures and policies, develop and implement comprehensive systems to solve organizational problems. Enjoy long-term planning and goal setting. Usually well informed, well read, enjoy expanding their knowledge and passing it on to others. Forceful in presenting their ideas.”
If you want to dig in more to your specific MBTI and parenting, here is a great article that breaks down each of the 16 MBTI types and aligns it with how you parent.
That’s it for today’s episode! I hope this episode was helpful, if it was please share the episode with another mom who needs to hear this. And if you’re loving the podcast, I’d be so grateful if you left a review on Apple Podcasts.
MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE
- Moms with Impact Retreat
- Elevate Moms Website
- Kim Anderson Website
- 16 Personalities Website
- Episode 130: Understanding Your Child’s Dyslexia Workshop
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