Ryan Bailey
THE DAILY CHEW™ Chew on God’s Love. Live Transformed. Multiply Hope. Uptown Needs, Uptown Answers From a young age in Washington Heights, I heard a hundred voices telling me how to fill the emptiness—hustle harder, fit in, become “somebody,” never show weakness. I tried most of the world’s answers. Eventually, even doing everything right didn’t…
THE DAILY CHEW™ Chew on God’s Love. Live Transformed. Multiply Hope. Uptown Blues: When Longing Turns Sideways In the Heights, even the loudest laughter could hide a deep ache. Looking back, I see it in all of us—turning our core longings into silent agreements or cover-up moves when things got rough. For me, that meant…
How Do I Discern the SALVES Driver in Others? Seeing and Serving at the Level of What Really Matters
THE DAILY CHEW™ Chew on God’s Love. Live Transformed. Multiply Hope. Family, Teams, and Tension in Upper Manhattan Growing up in Washington Heights, family gatherings could feel like jazz—everybody playing their part, sometimes in harmony, sometimes in chaos. I wished early on that I could “read the room”—to know what people really needed, not just…
THE DAILY CHEW™ Chew on God’s Love. Live Transformed. Multiply Hope. Washington Heights, Wounds, and What Drives Us In Washington Heights, I learned quickly that everyone’s got a “why”—a core longing that shapes what feels like winning or losing. Some chased respect on the block, some clung tight to family, others just wanted to belong.…
THE DAILY CHEW™ Chew on God’s Love. Live Transformed. Multiply Hope. Real Life: Coffee, Core Longings, and Core Stories Growing up in Washington Heights, it was normal to see family members fighting hard to be “somebody”—whether by making a name in the neighborhood, keeping us safe in little ways, or making sure we were never…
The Daily CHEW™Chew on God’s Love. Live Transformed. Multiply Hope. Yesterday, after a long strategy session, I sat in my car in the parking lot, scrolling my phone and replaying a recent disagreement with a close friend. Even as someone who coaches others for a living, I felt the ache of distance—the heaviness of words…
The Daily CHEW™Chew on God’s Love. Live Transformed. Multiply Hope. Some mornings, my mind wakes up before my spirit does. Last week, returning from a long client call, my head was buzzing—racing with “what ifs” and mistakes to fix. As a dad and consultant prone to overanalyzing, I downshift into “problem-solver mode” instead of prayer,…
The Daily CHEW™Chew on God’s Love. Live Transformed. Multiply Hope. Not long ago, I sat across from a client—an accomplished Christian leader wrestling with a familiar question that rarely gets said aloud in boardrooms or Bible studies: “Am I enough?” The surface issue was a high-stakes transition, but underneath, he confessed, “No matter what I…
The Daily CHEW™Chew on God’s Love. Live Transformed. Multiply Hope. Sundays always stir a strange mix of satisfaction and restlessness for me. I usually wake up early, do the last minute preps for the Adult Sunday School I teach. My wife and I drive in. She loves to drive so she almost always drives us…
The Daily CHEW™ Chew on God’s Love. Live Transformed. Multiply Hope. This morning as I walked through Midtown Atlanta, bag slung over my shoulder, I could feel that tug toward “orphan mode.” I wanted to wow the other Christian business founders I’d be meeting—not out of security in God’s love, but from that old insecurity…