I love personality tests. It’s always been a thing for me—I love trying to figure out what makes me tick. And if I can find any reasonable explanation for the things I do, well, all the better!

So I’m exited to share my conversation with my guest Eric Gee, who developed his own personality test—and the results are all animal personas. Which, of course, makes it even better.

And, he wrote a book about it. So of course we talked about the writing process.

Eric has administered personality-based life coaching for more than twenty years. He built a successful education company that used his personality typing method to better the lives of more than twenty thousand students, parents, and teachers. As creator of the Youtopia Project website and the Youtopia 16 assessment, he has disseminated his method to over half a million users since the website’s creation in 2016. His coaching program has been used in companies (Hulu, Disney), universities, and over forty school districts.

We covered:

• How his personality typing works

• What some of the personas signal about who we are and how we operate

• What the types mean for your writing career

• What it was like to write the book after doing all the research and developing the test

And so much more. If you’re looking to find about who you are, this episode is definitely for you.

You can take the test here: https://youtopiaproject.com/youtopia-16-assessment-2/

And I want to know—what animal are you? Please let me know - drop me a note on Instagram

@lizmugavero.

Chapters

03:49 Introduction to Personality Typing

09:52 Understanding Eric's Personality Typing Methodology

13:13 Exploring the Animal Personality Types

23:02 Application of Personality Types in Writing

26:50 The Writing Process and Publishing Journey

29:24 Marketing and Promoting the Book

38:22 Future Projects and Aspirations