Ryan Bailey
The Daily CHEW™ Chew on God’s Love. Live Transformed. Multiply Hope. Focusing on God’s love not only heals, but actually produces superior discipline and sustained behavioral change—because His love restructures motivation and ability at the deepest, practical level. Moment of Honest Striving Here’s how it looks in real life: Driven by a desire to make…
The Daily CHEW™ Chew on God’s Love. Live Transformed. Multiply Hope. Last Friday, after a particularly intense strategy session with a client’s leadership team, where the two managing partners who’ve run the company for 37 years started bickering like an angry old couple and just wouldn’t stop, someone asked how I was doing. My instinctive…
The Daily CHEW™ Chew on God’s Love. Live Transformed. Multiply Hope. You sign in early for your next CHEW Group session on Zoom—a circle of trusted men, each in his own space, coffee or water in hand. The mood is expectant but relaxed: here, you know you don’t have to impress or hide. Across screens,…
The Daily CHEW™ Chew on God’s Love. Live Transformed. Multiply Hope. It’s early at my Northlake office, the kind of quiet that encourages reflection before the day’s pace picks up. In these moments, I often think back to the breakthroughs I’ve witnessed—both in my own life and with clients—when someone courageously shares their story. Not…
The Daily CHEW™ Chew on God’s Love. Live Transformed. Multiply Hope. I get to my Northlake office super early, and before my first client arrives, I sit with my coffee and start replaying a session from the previous day. I search for the deeper meaning in a phrase a client repeated several times—sometimes, it stands…
The Daily CHEW™ Moving God’s Love From Head to Heart for Christian Professionals. It’s Saturday morning in Smoke Rise. The house is slow to wake; slower salsa rhythms play softly in the background as I sit at the kitchen table, letting the sunlight and silence settle me before the day gets rolling. Marc Anthony’s voice…
The Daily CHEW™ Chew on God’s Love. Live Transformed. Multiply Hope. It’s 4am in Smoke Rise—I rarely sleep past that hour. Our home sits in this quiet community so close to Stone Mountain that, when our kids were younger, we’d regularly climb to the top together and treat ourselves to snacks from the cafĂ©, soaking…
The Daily CHEW™ Chew on God’s Love. Live Transformed. Multiply Hope. Last Saturday afternoon, my wife and I took one of our midday drives through Stone Mountain. She was animated, filled with stories and insights from her work on Anti-German sentiment during World War I in Australia and New Zealand—her dissertation has her so engaged,…
The Daily CHEW™ Chew on God’s Love. Live Transformed. Multiply Hope. Last Saturday, my wife and I took a drive not long after breakfast, early as always since I’m a super early-to-bed, early-to-rise guy. By 8pm most days I’m already drifting to sleep, so our adventures together happen while the sun’s up. The road was…
The Daily CHEW™ Chew on God’s Love. Live Transformed. Multiply Hope. At my most self-reliant, I tell myself I should be able to handle my faith, my growth, and my struggles on my own. But the Gospel story, and my story, tell me something better: honest change happens in community. Even as a driven, responsible…