Ryan Bailey
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 discipline you can sustain is the kind that grows out of being loved, not the kind that is trying to earn it. Picture a founder at 5:15 in the morning, restarting a routine for the third time this year, strong on willpower and quietly dreading what a missed day will say about him. The…
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…