Hi there,

Over the years, I have had quite the journey in discovering & owning that I am gifted as an apostle. Like many other apostles, I was deeply confused…and even when I could finally see I was gifted as an apostle I had a serious barrier to overcome from the fear of people thinking I was a big narcissist–just because I said, “I am gifted as an apostle.”

I have had five pivotal A-has! that set me up to find the Gift Matrix, or more accurately to be positioned where the matrix found me.

1) While writing a first draft of a fiction fantasy novel playing the Fivefold/APEST gifts out, I was forced to think creatively about how to portray them, thus causing me to think about them in unique ways, which drove me to explore and learn the absolute essence of each gift. New angles, concise and fresh insights downloaded into my heart in this process. (That book is still in process).

2) I built a Fivefold/APEST Test (that you probably took) that has been validated time after time by people as having unusually accurate numbers and the test quickly surprised me by climbing the ranks of Google making it to #1 on page 1, to a point where people have taken it 10,000 times.

But there has been another response to the test that sparked a fire in my heart to understand and know how to help others navigate it. Namely, that people felt like their results surprised them because it revealed that they had gifts that hadn’t been emphasized or given permission yet because deep down, they knew it was true.

3) In my one-on-one coaching meetings with people about their results I have learned that the APEST gifts are often untapped or confusing. People have consistently told me that my APEST gift descriptions/summaries are “fresh” and “surprisingly accurate,” but even after people having some breakthrough revelation, I have noticed it is still often hard for people to own their APEST gifts.

Time and time again I heard people talking and acting like APEST gifts that didn’t show up having the highest results on their test. Perhaps my test was flawed? But I have good reason to think otherwise, because I have had enough validation from others to show something else was going on…

I pulled out my magnifying glass and busted out Sherlock Holmes-level-curiosity. As I began to pay closer attention patterns began to reveal themselves of what each gift looked like when it was either insecure or overconfident.

4) So I built a chart with my first observations, then I began to update and edit the chart until I had my biggest discovery…anytime we tended towards extremes, people incorrectly self-identified as another gift! Eventually, I called these gift masks.

5) I finally noticed there were other APEST gifts that we engaged that we typically use “as needed”–that complement our primary APEST gift. I call these the Gift Magnets. So, the five APEST gifts are unavoidable, when you are not engaging one, you are engaging another, because the APEST gifts represent a holistic system or engine.

There are days when you discover things when you think, “Maybe I am smoking something” or “I am on to something huge.” Well, I am not smoking anything, so I have concluded with enough validation of other people shaking their head in laughing agreement to the pattern within the matrix that–Eureka, I am on to something…huge!

I want your process of identifying your APEST gifts to be easier for you than it was for me, and hence The Gift Matrix course was born.