Emotional Intelligence

The Sentence She Could Tell a Client but Not Her Husband

By Ryan Bailey / 2026-05-27 /

The Daily CHEWâ„¢Moving God’s Love from Head to Heart for Christian Professionals You are sitting at the kitchen island Tuesday morning, replaying a moment from a week ago when your spouse, your colleague, or your friend asked for your honest take — and you had one. You felt it the second they finished the sentence.…

What Happened When a VP Stopped Leading Like His Father

By Ryan Bailey / 2026-05-22 /

The Daily CHEWâ„¢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 résumé 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 Friendship You Used to Have

By Ryan Bailey / 2026-05-22 /

The Daily CHEWâ„¢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 Question I Got Asked Twice This Week

By Ryan Bailey / 2026-05-22 /

The Daily CHEWâ„¢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 Meeting You Over-Prepared For — and What It Was Really About

By Ryan Bailey / 2026-05-22 /

The Daily CHEWâ„¢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 Quiet Resentment That’s Costing You Your Best Hire

By Ryan Bailey / 2026-05-16 /

The Daily CHEWâ„¢Moving God’s Love from Head to Heart for Christian Professionals You are sitting alone in the conference room Tuesday morning, and through the glass wall you watch your senior direct report doing the thing he does effortlessly — the team gravitates to him, the room loosens when he walks in, decisions land smoother…

Why Losing Control Feels Like Losing Everything — and What God Is Actually Doing

By Ryan Bailey / 2026-05-06 /

The Daily CHEWâ„¢Moving God’s Love from Head to Heart for Christian Professionals What This Could Look Like You are standing at the edge of a season you cannot fully map. Maybe it is a leadership transition at work. Maybe it is a family shift you did not see coming. Maybe the business model that carried…

What Your Anger Is Trying to Tell You — A Gospel Guide to Feeling Everything and Losing Nothing

By Ryan Bailey / 2026-04-17 /

The Daily CHEWâ„¢Moving God’s Love from Head to Heart for Christian Professionals You Know the Feeling — You Just Don’t Know What to Do With It You are standing at the glass wall of your office and your chest is tight. Something happened — a betrayal, a dismissal, an injustice that landed harder than you…

Venting Feels Productive — but It’s Costing You More Than You Think

By Ryan Bailey / 2026-04-17 /

The Daily CHEWâ„¢Moving God’s Love from Head to Heart for Christian Professionals It feels like processing. You pull a peer aside, replay what happened, lay out your case, and for a few minutes the validation hits — yes, you were wronged, yes that was unfair. But here is what venting actually does: it rehearses the offense, recruits…

The Anger Was Real — What She Did With It Changed Everything

By Ryan Bailey / 2026-04-17 /

The Daily CHEWâ„¢Moving God’s Love from Head to Heart for Christian Professionals She poured into a direct report — mentored her, championed her, gave her everything she had because she knew developing leaders underneath her was the path forward. What she did not know was that the person she was building up was working to…