Ryan Bailey
The Daily CHEW™Moving God’s Love from Head to Heart for Christian Professionals His American direct reports kept walking out of his meetings confused — and he kept thinking they should have understood him. A CEO I worked with came from a culture where indirect communication is the norm. He was brilliant: visionary, strategic, the kind…
The Daily CHEW™Moving God’s Love from Head to Heart for Christian Professionals You are sitting at your home office desk early on a Monday morning, coffee in hand, and the same email is at the top of your inbox that has been at the top of your inbox for six days. You open it. You…
The Daily CHEW™Moving God’s Love from Head to Heart for Christian Professionals His name is Jealous. Not as a metaphor. Not as a mood. As an identity. Exodus 34:14 does not say God sometimes feels jealous. It says the LORD, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God. That word — jealous — may be…
The Daily CHEW™Moving God’s Love from Head to Heart for Christian Professionals My business is going through a transition. Nothing changes for clients — the work stays the same, the depth stays the same, the confidentiality stays the same. But behind the scenes, I have been wrestling with something that every leader eventually faces: the…
The Daily CHEW™Moving God’s Love from Head to Heart for Christian Professionals He was a Vice President at a major corporation — Oxford-educated, Stanford MBA, the kind of rĂ©sumĂ© that opens every door. He had built a career on self-reliance, strategic intensity, and fourteen-hour days. He expected everyone around him to operate the same way.…
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 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 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…
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…
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…