myPlace Podcast: Recent Episodes
Mary McSwain
The myPLACE podcast desires to help you know yourself in how God has created you. Along with understanding insights about yourself you will glean insights about others and why they think, act and do what they do. What makes myPLACE different from many other tools like personality assessments is myPLACE helps you look at yourself holistically through the lens of personality, spiritual gifts, abilities, passion, and life experiences and see how they work together in helping you be the person God designed in having healthy relationships, impactful ministry endeavors, and successful careers.
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In today’s episode Mary and Jay start a new series in looking at how the D I S C personalities interact with each of the 16 spiritual gifts. You can have the same spiritual gift as another person with a different personality type and how the spiritual gift looks in action can be totally different based on personality. Paul exhorts us in I Corinthians 12:1 to not be uninformed about our spiritual gifts. So, join us in the coming weeks to be informed about your spiritual gifts and how they interact with your personality.
The spiritual gifts assessment is free in our app provided above. We encourage you to upgrade to be able to take both the spiritual gifts assessment combined with the D I S C personality assessment and see how your specific gifts interact with your personality. Also, in the upgrade there is video teaching on what is a spiritual gifts based on teachings in the Bible. And there is video on how 8 biblical principles to discovering your spiritual gifts beyond the spiritual gifts assessment.
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In today’s episode Mary and Jay finish their series on how each D I S C personality affects certain areas of your make-up or identity. Today’s episode is one we suspect everyone can benefit immensely from as each of us at times are offended by others.
Jay and Mary point out the need to walk in the Spirit as Paul commands us in Galatians 5:16 and the difficulty to do this when we are offended. Also, you are reminded that walking in the Spirit involves incorporating the Fruit of the Spirit (love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control) yes even when offended.
As usual you are encouraged to purchase the upgrade in the app to receive a wealth of information on how your personalty is affected in areas like how you act when offended.
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In today’s episode Mary and Jay continue their series on how each D I S C personality affects certain areas of your make-up or identity. This episode focuses on how your personality affects your communication style.
There are similar styles like the D and C who tend to not be as soft in how they communicate while the I and S tend to be very talkative. But, the I personality just says what they are thinking in their communication while the S in much more cautious in their communication style. And yes there are differences in how each communication style acts, reacts and interacts in their communication. As usual you are encouraged to purchase the upgrade in in the app to receive a wealth of information how how your personality is affected through areas like your communication style.
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In today’s episode Mary and Jay continue their series on how each D I S C personality affects certain areas of your make-up or identity. Today’s podcast focuses on how your personality affects your leadership roles.
It is amazing how different leadership looks in and through different personalities. There is no right or wrong leadership style, but there are certainly different leadership styles as you will hear Jay and Mary talk about through the D I S C personalities. As usual you are encouraged to purchase the upgrade to receive a wealth of information on how your personality is affected through areas like your leadership roles.
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In today’s episode Mary and Jay continue their series on how each D I S C personality affects certain areas of your make-up or identity. Today’s podcast focuses on how your personality affects how you relate to other people. Jay goes back in this episode and gives the definition of personality and points out that often how we relate and are seen outwardly is not always how we feel and respond inwardly. Mary points out that her personality relates to others with high expectations and can get disappointed when others don’t live up to her high expectations. As usual you are encouraged to purchase the upgrade to receive a wealth of information on how your personality is affected through areas like how you relate to other people and understanding how other people relate to you.
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In today’s episode Mary and Jay continue their series on how each D I S C personality affects certain areas of your make-up. Today’s podcast focuses on how your personality affects your will and your self-discipline. Mary and Jay both use Biblical examples from the lives of Paul (D personality) and Peter (I personality) along with personal examples from their lives to show how personality affects your will and self-discipline. An interesting insight Mary points out through the I personality and the descriptions in the supplemental material they cover is how a strength in a personality type can also be a weakness. As usual you are encouraged to purchase the upgrade to receive a wealth of information on how your personality is affected through areas like your will and self-discipline.
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In today’s episode, Mary and Jay continue their series on how each D I S C personality affects certain areas of your make-up. Today’s podcast focuses on how your personality affects your emotions and how you control them. Both Jay and Mary continue to give examples of how their own personalities are lived out through an area like their emotions and give insights into how the other personality types are affected by their emotions. Again, you are encouraged to purchase the upgrade to receive a wealth of information on how your personality is affected through areas like your emotions.
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In today’s episode, Mary and Jay launch into a series of podcasts on “How does my personality affect my…”. Mary and Jay continue to look at each of the D I S C personalities and in this podcast how each D I S C personality affects your thinking. For the next 7 podcasts that follow this theme you are encouraged to purchase the upgrade on the personality app. There is a wealth of information provided in the upgrade that points out in practical ways how D I S C personalities affect your thinking, emotions and how you control them, will and self-discipline, how you relate to other people, leadership roles, communication style and how you act when offended.
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In today’s episode, Mary and Jay talk about what God might say to each D I S C personality. Jay reminds listeners that the word “personality” is not found in the Bible, but God through the Holy Spirit in the Bible gives incredible insights into how God might help each personality type walk in the Spirit through their unique personalities. Mary gives a great challenge to walk in the Spirit and how the Spirit and Scripture work hand in hand through our personalities.
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In today’s episode, Mary and Jay cover the most important insight a person needs when looking at any personality assessment and what it says about you. They cover five cautions that rarely are covered in supplemental information describing each personality type. Jay asks Mary an obvious question: “What happens when the five cautions covered are incorporated in understanding your personality?” Tune in to listen to Mary’s response.
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In today’s episode, Mary and Jay talk about something that frankly most personality assessments don’t cover, the score of each D I S C personality type and how to understand who you are based on your score. The terms that describe the spiker and flat-liner personalities will be explained and you will be able to understand why you might relate to some descriptions in the personality descriptions and why other words or phrases don’t describe you, again based on your score. For the spiker personality Jay will introduce you to the most important person you may ever be introduced to.
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In today’s episode, Mary and Jay talk about traits that are positive, negative and somewhat neutral for each DISC personality type. One of the most interesting thoughts within the podcast are when Mary and Jay have a discussion regarding why traits can be neutral, positive or negative. You might not agree with how Mary and Jay categorize traits as positive, negative or neutral. Toward the end of the podcast Mary asks Jay what is the value in knowing these positive, negative and possibly neutral traits of your personality and the personality of others.
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In today’s episode, Mary and Jay focus on helping you realize that personality assessments as good as they may be don’t reveal the real you. What is so powerful as the PLACE assessments is they allow you to look at yourself holistically through the five P L A C E elements. Jay and Mary show how one element like the Abilities section of PLACE can balance, temper, and even conflict with an element like personality.
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Also, Jay and Mary hope you are encouraged as they discuss whether you know your long-term purpose now or do not what God would have you to do after college.
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In today’s episode, Mary and Jay pick up from a previous podcast. Two weeks ago they discussed what a spiritual gift is not. This episode will focus on what is a description of a spiritual gift in the Bible. You will hear Jay talk about the Bible not giving a definition for a spiritual gift but by putting various Scriptures together we can get a good idea of what a description is of a spiritual gift. Also, Mary and Jay discuss Paul’s encouragement to Timothy in I Timothy 4:14-15 to not neglect his spiritual gifts and to practice using them. The same can be said for you today!
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In today’s episode, Mary and Jay recorded it on Father’s Day. They spoke together at the church Jay serves as Pastor of Discipleship on Father’s Day. Jay asks Mary to speak on this episode to two questions they discussed at Jay’s church. 1. How have you seen your dad teach you to serve others through using your spiritual gifts? 2. How has your dad encouraged you to discover your spiritual gifts and use them in serving others?
Our hope and desire is that this episode will encourage you to not be uninformed about your spiritual gifts and begin to fan into flame your spiritual gifts.
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In today’s episode, Mary and Jay discuss what a spiritual gift is not. Jay provides 3 points in discussing what spiritual gifts are not that are often confused for a spiritual gift. Mary provides some great Scriptures that Jay expounds on in showing what spiritual gifts are not. Mary encourages everyone to listen next week as they will discuss what a spiritual gift is from looking at various verses from the New Testament.
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In this episode, Mary has a special guest, Ginger McSwain, her mother who is the co-founder of PLACE Ministries with Jay. Mary and Ginger cover so many topics from the birthing of PLACE to an idea to how Ginger has found her PLACE in life and ministry through the principles found in the PLACE tool and principles. Mary and Ginger dive into the power of PLACE when it is used in a coaching session in which Ginger has coached many individuals through the years in finding their PLACE. They end the episode by discussing how knowing your PLACE can be used in church, but just as importantly wherever you are doing life from your college campus to even restaurants. Ginger who is wired so different than Mary and Jay brings an enlightening perspective to finding your PLACE in life and ministry.
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In this episode, Mary and Jay discuss when a gift becomes a spiritual gift. Jay points out that his answer to the statement when a gift becomes a spiritual gift is his opinion and not backed up by chapter and verse in the Bible. However, he has thought through this and believes God will affirm him on his answer to the statement. And if God doesn’t Jay will be okay. Mary gives two practical insights for those listening in using their own spiritual gifts and encouraging others to use their gifts as spiritual gifts.
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In this episode, Mary and Jay along with Jamie Parler, who is a counselor on staff at Northside Baptist Church in Greenwood, South Carolina discuss personality and how different personalities come across when communicating. Mary, Jay, and Jamie discuss the strengths and weaknesses of how each DISC personality communicates and how each personality comes across. The podcast ends with a great discussion on how each DISC personality communicates in relationships where there is conflict and how they are perceived in their communication.
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In this episode, Mary and Jay interview Patrick Friedline, who is the Associate Dean of Career Development at Moody Bible Institute in Chicago. Pat has served at Moody for over 30 years. Pat provides some great advice on pursuing careers and finding your ideal calling for a career. Also, Mary and Jay ask Pat what are the pros and cons in using assessments like personality and gifts in pursuing and looking for a career and job. And Pat concluded with why he likes the PLACE assessments as a tool in the tool box in guiding students in their career and job search. If you follow Pat’s suggestions in this podcast they can be a part of guiding you down the career path God has designed for you.
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In this episode, Mary and Jay will explain the 16 spiritual gifts from the spiritual gift assessment in simple and practical ways to understand what they look like in life and ministry situations. There is much disagreement and confusion about many spiritual gifts like prophecy, discernment and knowledge. If you listen to the entire podcast you will walk away with a much clearer understanding of how some spiritual gifts are similar and where they are different in often accomplishing the same purpose within the Body of Christ. And you will be more informed as I Corinthians 12:1 says in how to use your spiritual gifts within the Body of Christ.
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In this episode, Mary and Jay discuss when spiritual gifts assessments are useless and detrimental, but also when used correctly how they can be extremely helpful in discovering your spiritual gifts. Mary gives the Biblical mandate from I Corinthians 12:1 that we are not to be uninformed about our spiritual gifts. From there Jay gives 8 biblical principles where he and Mary give practical examples on how to discover your spiritual gifts beyond a spiritual gift assessment. Again, spiritual gift assessments are valuable, if used properly and in the beginning of the discovery process.
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In this episode, Mary and Jay talk with Hannah Payton, a first year student at Liberty University. Hannah shares how her life experiences entering college and during her first year at college have shaped her for a ministry position(Shepherd assistant in her dorm)she will have as a sophomore at Liberty. Hannah also discusses how her personality and spiritual gifts and understanding them will allow her to shepherd and minister to those in her ministry position as a Shepherd assistant at Liberty next year. Mary and Jay point out that from Ephesians 2:10 that God created Hannah to do good works that only she can fulfill based on how God has created her and where he has placed her. And yes, the same is true for you in how and why He created you to minister to others.
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In this episode, Mary and Jay look at four Biblical giants (Paul, Peter, Barnabas, and Moses) from their DISC personality type. They share strengths and yes even weaknesses (growth areas) of each Biblical personality. As always Mary and Jay set the podcast in the context of Scripture and the role the Spirit of God plays in our personalities. As you listen ask yourself what biblical personality you relate to based on your strengths and weaknesses. And take the DISC personality that is provided in the links above in either the Apple store or the Google Play store.
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Many people who claim to believe the Bible struggle with believing what God says in Psalm 139:14. God says we are “fearfully and wonderfully made.” When it comes to our personality tendencies many people struggle with believing they are fearfully and wonderfully made.
In this episode, Mary and Jay talk with Paul Kelley, a junior at Samford University about the potential conflict that can arise when you have personality tendencies that can conflict inside you. Paul describes some situations where his personality tendencies conflict in living on campus at Samford. Jay asks Paul when two personality types that have opposite qualities conflict how he decides which one to go with in his mind and actions. At the end of the podcast Mary points out how Paul uses what could be conflicting personality types in a positive way to live out how God created him to be fearfully and wonderfully made.
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There are many good personality assessments available from the DISC personality assessment that Jay McSwain has developed to Meyers Briggs to Enneagram which is very popular among college students. However, RARELY do personality assessments account for the role of the Holy Spirit in a believers’ life-shaping and molding personality tendencies. In this episode Mary and Jay caution against not accounting for the Holy Spirit living IN a believer to mold and shape your personality. Also, you are encouraged to take the free myPersonality assessment in both the Apple and Google Play apps. Remember, personalities are not bad or good, it is what you do with them and Who (God or you) that is in control of them that makes the difference.
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Some people have chameleon personalities. Is it good or bad to be a chameleon personality? In this episode, Taylor Ryzeck who is a freshman at Samford University discusses with Mary and Jay her personality which some may see as a chameleon. The podcast discusses why some people like Taylor might be a chameleon and when it is positive and when it can be a negative quality to be a chameleon personality.
myPLACE podcast launches with Mary McSwain and Jay McSwain discussing what myPLACE podcast will cover in the future. myPLACE will focus on helping you discover how God has uniquely created you through your personality, spiritual gifts, abilities, passions and life experiences. And beyond discovery how to incorporate how you are in having healthy relationships, successful careers, and impactful ministry endeavors. And beyond discovery how you can have healthy relationships, successful careers, and impactful ministry endeavors by knowing you are in Christ.