The Navigate My Gift Podcast

Giver's Edge: Caleb’s Secrets to Faith, Family & Focus. Friends, meet Caleb, a real estate guy whose story is equal parts hustle and heart. He grew up in church, found a real, life-changing faith in his 20s, and over the last several years has learned how to lean into the gift God gave him: the giver gift. What that looks like for Caleb is intentional stewardship of time, energy, and relations...

Exhorter's Heart: From Mountaintops to Valleys. Join us on Navigate My Gift as Garrett, an exhorter, pulls back the curtain on what it really feels like to live with this gift—the electrifying highs, the gut-punch lows, and the tender heart that fuels it all. From discovering his gift in high school to how it shaped relationships, marriage, and ministry, Garrett gets candid about what energizes hi...

Joe: Teaching, Healing, and the Shepherd's Heart. Ben sits down with his dear friend Joe to unpack his path from military leader to compassionate counselor and teacher. Joe walks us through how his childhood, the structure of the military, and heading through recovery shaped a teaching gift that's equal parts theological insight and tender empathy. We dive into how scripture really lands when your...

The Hidden Power of Serving: Brian’s Journey Within the Teacher Profession as a Servant Gift. Brian talks about discovering and living out his spiritual gift of service. We trace his path from thinking he was a teacher or leader to embracing servant-hearted ministry at school, church retreats, and in family life. Expect honest stories about hospitality, hands-on serving moments, and how serving bu...

When the Fire Burns: Navigating the Prophet Gift with Sydney Join Ben and our guest Sydney as they explore what it means to carry the prophet spiritual gift—its struggles, wins, and how to tell God’s prompting apart from personal emotion. Topics include learning your gifting, praying before you speak, biblical roots for prophetic care, shepherding the church, and practical examples of discernment...

Mercy in the Mountains: Desi’s Journey from Exterminator to Soul Care. Join us in a snowy Montana morning as Ben interviews Desi about discovering his mercy charisma gift and how that calling reshaped his life—from blue‑collar jobs and sales to serving staff and leaders at Refuge. The conversation traces his early instincts to help, surprising past as an exterminator, and how everyday roles reveal...

Leadership Development across Africa; hear Pastor Jalomi’s Vision to Transform a Nation and the Continent.  In this episode of Navigate My Gift, Ben interviews Pastor Jalomi (Pastor J) from Lusaka, Zambia about his desire to unlock Africa's potential. They explore how the leadership gift is discovered and matured across multicultural contexts, the role of the Holy Spirit and character in shaping l...

From Skeptic to Servant: Jeff’s Journey with the Giver Gift. In this episode of Navigate My Gift we sit down with Jeff, a recent Navigate graduate, to explore his discovery of the Giver gift. Jeff shares how skepticism turned into clarity as the program helped him connect past choices—like volunteering with Habitat for Humanity and long-term philanthropy—to a consistent pattern of intentional serv...

Embracing the Exhorter: From Burnout to Boundary-Bold Living In this episode of Navigate My Gift, Em shares her journey from counselor burnout to discovering and stepping into her spiritual gift. Em discusses how the Exhorter gift shaped her counseling work, the challenges of relational tension and burnout, and the practical boundaries and rhythms that helped her heal. This episode is for anyone e...

From starting a business, to remembering what's in each of 250 pallets David explains how he has used his Spiritual gift of teaching as practical advantage. David helps us differentiate between the leader gift and the teacher gift, and how the distinction has brought so much freedom and clarity in how he serves God. David is a fantastic example to learn from, thank you David!

Dave The Noticer has the servant gift. If you're lookin' for good story tellin' in a thick Wisconsin accent - let Dave serve you, and your ears. He has learned many lessons about this gift through the years, and heard directly from God about how he is to use it. Thank you Dave for serving God, serving others and letting us enjoy you. Thank you for your transparency, laughs and even a bonus story o...

Stephanie openly shares how she's learning to use the prophet gift in her life. From "immature" mistakes to bringing goodness to the world around her, Stephanie shares the lessons she's learning as well as the deep passion to use her gift effectively. 

Casey had her mercy gift actively discouraged and attempted to be shut down early in her life. Today, she’s courageously embracing it by sitting with people in their deepest pain—listening without judgment, offering tears, compassion, genuine care, and the powerful extension of mercy - her presence. In this honest and vulnerable conversation, Casey shares how mercy-gifted people can move from exha...

Damian has embraced the Leader gift for decades, now leading leaders across his home state. Be prepared to not only learn about the Leader gifting, but how the Lord would use a humble leader to live a lifetime of leadership and influence.  Head to https://damianmlacroix.com/ to book coaching, speaking or workshops with Damian! 

Caleb caries attributes of a Leader gift, Teacher gift and Giver gift. Let's listen and learn from his discernment process as he eventually landed on Giver gift. He gives incredible insight on how the Giver gift can think, desires to be approached, and applies the gift personally and professionally. Fun bonus - Caleb also shares how it is to have married a Leader gifted wife and how they can work...

Exhorters can be incredibly good at helping others feel comfortable, safe to be themselves, and find hope when they are vulnerable. Yet, sometimes the exhorter doesn't get this in return, so they can close up.  Dan joins us today, pulling back the curtain of his heart to reveal what this can feel like as an exhorter. We have the utmost love for this man, his maturity, humility, and genuine joy. Th...

Matthew explains how his teacher charisma is utilized in the buisness workplace as well as biblical / spiritual contexts. He can minister to associates & clients even in the marketplace, putting his gift to use. Let Matthew help you see how the teacher gift can be used in any context, seeing every conversation as a classroom. 

Alissa has found her servant gift, paired up with a leader gift, and has found her stride. If you're looking for an example of a servant who is self-aware, growing in her gift, and finding some wins - listen to Alissa! 

Patrick and Lydia join the show giving us some insight, into their insight. Prophets are gifted to see and say. To see the spiritual state of someone/something and say something about it. Patrick describes this process - how he senses a message that needs to be said and how to say it. Lydia uncovers the real and raw experiences a prophet gift will typically go through, normalizing the challenges a...

Darcy began her Navigate journey not wanting the Mercy gift. Anything else but that one. As she leaned more and more into the Mercy descriptions, and saw the writing on the wall, she came to realize she does in fact have the Mercy gift. Since then, she's been a wonderful Navigate coach, mentor, friend and compassion-giver to countless Navigate students.  In this episode Darcy shares how she discov...

Morgan started Navigate confident she was not the leader gift. As the leader gift qualities started showing up everywhere in her life, she couldn't deny that surely this is how she has been gifted. Morgan supplies our listeners with a plentiful list of examples and qualities that come with the leader gift. Get ready to learn about the time-tested, consistent patterns that are evident in this gift....

Dustin shares how the giver gift is tough to recognize and often mistaken for the leader gift. He speaks specifically about how a giver gift and a leader gift can actually work really well together, and shares how he married an exhorter. 

Sam thought he was a leader gift. All signs seemed to be pointing that way. Upon further examination, Sam saw more Spiritual impact stemming from something else - being an exhorter.  More often than not exhorters are mistaken as leader gifts.  So, how can you tell the difference?  Turn up the volume as you let Sam help you discern the difference between a leader gift and an exhorter gift. 

From Doubt to Teaching: Tara’s Journey to Owning Her Spiritual Gift. In this episode Tara shares how the Navigate class helped her discover and embrace her teacher gift, transforming years of doubt into clarity and purpose. She describes the process of realizing her strengths—thorough research, synthesizing information, and teaching others—how that led to a new job and serving on a board, and the...

In this episode of Navigate My Gift, Ross and Laurel share their journeys to recognizing the servant gift and what it looks like in daily life—from cooking on retreats and caring for family to serving clients at work. They discuss the servant gift’s strengths and cautionary areas (humility, rest, overcommitment), offer practical advice to accept and own the gift, and highlight how servants prefer...