Ryan Bailey

The Friendship You Used to Have

By Ryan Bailey / 2026-05-22 /

The Daily CHEW™Moving God’s Love from Head to Heart for Christian Professionals You used to have a friend who knew you. Not your title, not your quarterly results, not the version of you that shows up at the leadership offsite. The real you — the one who laughed too loud at the wrong things, who…

The Question I Got Asked Twice This Week

By Ryan Bailey / 2026-05-22 /

The Daily CHEW™Moving God’s Love from Head to Heart for Christian Professionals Two different sessions this week. Two completely different arenas — one leader developing his team, one husband wanting to love his wife even better than he already does. Two men who look nothing alike on paper. And both of them, within forty-eight hours…

The Meeting You Over-Prepared For — and What It Was Really About

By Ryan Bailey / 2026-05-22 /

The Daily CHEW™Moving God’s Love from Head to Heart for Christian Professionals You were the first one in the room. Legal pad filled. Slide deck reviewed for the fourth time. Contingencies mapped for questions that would probably never come. The meeting went fine — it almost always does. But the preparation was never really about…

He Was the Rock Before You Had a Plan

By Ryan Bailey / 2026-05-16 /

The Daily CHEW™Moving God’s Love from Head to Heart for Christian Professionals Before the plan, before the strategy, before the tool you leaned on all week — He was already the ground beneath every other ground you have ever stood on. Psalm 62 reveals a God whose love has never needed your capacities to function…

What I Am Learning at 57 About Working Within the Limits God Gave Me

By Ryan Bailey / 2026-05-16 /

The Daily CHEW™Moving God’s Love from Head to Heart for Christian Professionals Last week, I watched my wife get hooded for her PhD in History. She began her Master’s after I started my PhD in Practical Theology — earned the Master’s, finished the doctorate, wrote the dissertation in under a year — and crossed the stage with…

The Wealth Manager Whose Wife’s Biggest Win Was Getting a Shower

By Ryan Bailey / 2026-05-16 /

The Daily CHEW™Moving God’s Love from Head to Heart for Christian Professionals You can build a successful firm and lose the marriage you built it for — and not realize how close you are until your wife casually mentions that getting a shower today was the biggest win on her list. A Christian wealth manager…

What 34 Years of Coaching Has Finally Taught Me About Productivity

By Ryan Bailey / 2026-05-16 /

The Daily CHEW™Moving God’s Love from Head to Heart for Christian Professionals You are sitting on a park bench on a Wednesday morning — the kind of pause you almost never give yourself — and the truth lands quietly: the reason your output feels scattered is not your calendar. It is that you said yes…

The Quiet Resentment That’s Costing You Your Best Hire

By Ryan Bailey / 2026-05-16 /

The Daily CHEW™Moving God’s Love from Head to Heart for Christian Professionals You are sitting alone in the conference room Tuesday morning, and through the glass wall you watch your senior direct report doing the thing he does effortlessly — the team gravitates to him, the room loosens when he walks in, decisions land smoother…

When You Can Feel Your Team Starting to Pull Away

By Ryan Bailey / 2026-05-16 /

The Daily CHEW™Moving God’s Love from Head to Heart for Christian Professionals You walk into the boardroom Monday morning before the team arrives, and you already know. The room has been quieter the last two weeks. Replies are coming back shorter. Two of your senior people are no longer pushing back on ideas the way…

The Tension Between Working Hard and Trusting God That Nobody Talks About

By Ryan Bailey / 2026-05-07 /

The Daily CHEW™Moving God’s Love from Head to Heart for Christian Professionals What This Could Look Like You are sitting at your desk early — before the team arrives, before the inbox takes over — and you are doing the work. Preparing the presentation. Reviewing the numbers. Mapping out the hard conversation you need to…