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The Productive Move That Quietly Costs You Money

By Ryan Bailey / 2026-06-06 /

The Daily CHEWâ„¢Moving God’s Love from Head to Heart for Christian Professionals You are at the coffee shop Wednesday morning with a planner open, a calculator nearby, and the realization landing slow: the most productive move on your calendar this week is the one quietly costing you money. The third dinner of the week with…

The Money Conversation You and Your Spouse Keep Not Having

By Ryan Bailey / 2026-06-06 /

The Daily CHEWâ„¢Moving God’s Love from Head to Heart for Christian Professionals You are seated at the kitchen island Tuesday evening with your spouse, the dishes cleared, and the conversation you actually need to have is still not happening. One of you carries the numbers. One of you carries the worry. Neither of you has…

The Tension Between Working Hard and Trusting God That Nobody Talks About

By Ryan Bailey / 2026-05-07 /

The Daily CHEWâ„¢Moving God’s Love from Head to Heart for Christian Professionals What This Could Look Like You are sitting at your desk early — before the team arrives, before the inbox takes over — and you are doing the work. Preparing the presentation. Reviewing the numbers. Mapping out the hard conversation you need to…

Five Versions of Love That Are Quietly Running Your Leadership

By Ryan Bailey / 2026-05-03 /

The Daily CHEWâ„¢Moving God’s Love from Head to Heart for Christian Professionals When Love Means Something Different Than You Think You use the word love every week — in prayer, in leadership, in marriage, in parenting, in how you describe what God means to you. And yet if someone asked you to define it —…

“Hope Is Not a Strategy” — and the Five Words That Got Me Back to the Gym

By Ryan Bailey / 2026-05-03 /

The Daily CHEWâ„¢Moving God’s Love from Head to Heart for Christian Professionals My coach and I had a great session on Monday. He helped me wrestle through things that will impact my practice for years. Then mid-week he texted me a question I was not expecting: “What is one thing you can do next week…

His Oldest Daughter Was Polite, Respectful — and a Stranger to Him

By Ryan Bailey / 2026-05-02 /

The Daily CHEWâ„¢Moving God’s Love from Head to Heart for Christian Professionals He was a professor — brilliant, respected, deeply committed to his faith. Seven children. A wife who loved him. From the outside, the family looked strong. But one day he said something out loud that he had been carrying quietly for months: “I…

The Leader Everyone Trusts — and the Seven Practices That Built It

By Ryan Bailey / 2026-04-25 /

The Daily CHEWâ„¢Moving God’s Love from Head to Heart for Christian Professionals When Competence Is Not Enough You are competent. Your team knows it. Your clients know it. Your résumé proves it. And yet — if you are honest — there are rooms where your competence is respected but your person is not fully trusted.…

I Gave Away Seven Years of Furniture — and Discovered a Kind of Generosity I Had Been Missing

By Ryan Bailey / 2026-04-25 /

The Daily CHEWâ„¢Moving God’s Love from Head to Heart for Christian Professionals The move is complete. I downsized my office this week, and because the new space does not need a waiting room, a second office, or a food area tucked into a storage closet, I had furniture, books, and supplies to give away —…

The Argument That Almost Split the C-Suite — and the Story That Saved It

By Ryan Bailey / 2026-04-25 /

The Daily CHEWâ„¢Moving God’s Love from Head to Heart for Christian Professionals I was being flown in to a mid-sized logistics company in the Midwest to train the C-suite on how Myers-Briggs could set them and their direct reports up for success. I had put significant work into this training — the Chief Sales Officer…

Living and Leading from a Loved Heart: A Framework for the Week You’re Walking Into

By Ryan Bailey / 2026-04-25 /

The Daily CHEWâ„¢Moving God’s Love from Head to Heart for Christian Professionals When Performance Outpaces Receiving Picture a Saturday evening in Atlanta. The kitchen is warm, the butcher-block island is set, and a family of four is laughing — genuinely laughing — over dinner. No phones face-up. No one rushing to finish. The kids are…