Ryan Bailey
The Daily CHEW™Chew on God’s Love. Live Transformed. Multiply Hope. I love my work—that’s not the problem. What weighs on me is the knowledge that I haven’t finished everything on my plate, more is coming, and I’m already not sleeping enough. Hiring more people seems like a massive undertaking right now, though it’s exactly what…
The Daily CHEW™Chew on God’s Love. Live Transformed. Multiply Hope. My wife found me this morning, exhausted and checking an incoming text while one of our kids was sharing something meaningful with me, and I saw that look—not anger, but sadness. I missed the moment. Maybe you know this collision too. You’re not trying to…
The Daily CHEW™Chew on God’s Love. Live Transformed. Multiply Hope. It’s quietly humming under my skin today—the pressure to make a call. My mind runs circles around the decision: Should I say yes to one more big project, should my wife and I go to Castine, Maine without the kids next year since they’re just…
The Daily CHEW™ Chew on God’s Love. Live Transformed. Multiply Hope. I’ve always joked that I was born part-old soul. Even on our honeymoon, my wife discovered I might actually be a 93-year-old in disguise: out by 8pm, lights out like clockwork. Deep down, there’s a kind of exhaustion that comes from a day lived…
The Daily CHEW™Chew on God’s Love. Live Transformed. Multiply Hope. Monday didn’t start with a crisis, but it sure ended like one: halfway through a Zoom call, something I said was inappropriately challenged by a senior executive. Instantly, I felt dismissed, minimized—not just personally, but like my ability to deliver, to secure things for my…
The Daily CHEW™ Chew on God’s Love. Live Transformed. Multiply Hope. Yesterday, at 3:10 AM, I woke up with a familiar question swirling: “Will today actually have impact?”Most days, I want my work, words, and care to matter—and when it feels like the needle isn’t moving, disappointment stings. Maybe you wake up with your own…
The Daily CHEW™Chew on God’s Love. Live Transformed. Multiply Hope. I remember the first time I was truly challenged to slow down and “C.H.E.W.” on God’s love, not just fly past it as a doctrine. I was driven, measured my progress by what I accomplished, and often saw God as that stern coach in the…
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,…