Leadership & Calling

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 —…

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.…

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…

I Hate Moving — and God Used My Doom Scrolling to Prepare Me for It

By Ryan Bailey / 2026-04-25 /

The Daily CHEWâ„¢Moving God’s Love from Head to Heart for Christian Professionals If you know me, you know moving is in my top three hates. This week I am downsizing my office — the one I have worked from for seven years. My team is virtual now. Less than ten percent of clients come in…

He Built the Team Everyone Wanted to Join — and It Started with One Apology

By Ryan Bailey / 2026-04-25 /

The Daily CHEWâ„¢Moving God’s Love from Head to Heart for Christian Professionals From the outside, he looked like the leader everyone wanted to work for — polished, talented, early 30s, delivering results that drew reporters and industry recognition. But inside the one-on-ones, it was a different story. He drove his team relentlessly. He knew how…

The Conversation You’re Still Replaying From Yesterday

By Ryan Bailey / 2026-04-25 /

The Daily CHEWâ„¢Moving God’s Love from Head to Heart for Christian Professionals It is 5:35 in the morning and the exchange from yesterday is still running. Not because it was catastrophic — but because something in it landed sideways and your heart has not finished processing it. You have already mentally replayed the tone, the…

The Meeting Starts in Ten Minutes — and God Already Settled Who I Am

By Ryan Bailey / 2026-04-25 /

The Daily CHEWâ„¢Moving God’s Love from Head to Heart for Christian Professionals You are standing near the glass, notes in hand, ten minutes before the room fills. Your preparation is thorough. Your content is strong. And this Monday, instead of letting the week’s first high-stakes moment define your posture, you are doing something most leaders…