October to April is a time of both magical anticipation and inevitable grief, as the holidays awaken our deepest longings for family, friends, and fellowship. Discover why it's essential to allow yourself to grieve losses while concentrating on the joy of healthy relationships, the true key to a fulfilling holiday season.

Chip and Bryan explore the timeless truth revealed in The Good Life by Robert Waldinger and Marc Schulz that genuine relationships are the foundation of health, happiness, and fulfillment. In today’s digital age, where screens and AI distract us from emotional connection, this podcast invites listeners to rediscover what it means to live fully, love deeply, and lead well.

In this episode, Chip and Bryan explore the deeper meaning of remembering, beyond simply recalling facts, to truly “re-member” ourselves by integrating emotions, experiences, and relationships. Chip shares how parents can grow emotionally and spiritually by acknowledging distance, practicing daily remembrance, and facing the impossible, creating deeper connections with their children and with God.

Drawing from The Voice of the Heart, Needs of the Heart, and Keeping Heart, this conversation emphasizes how relationships and communion restore us to live fully and love deeply. Listeners are invited into a journey of facing feelings, embracing community, and discovering the perseverance and passion that love requires.

In this episode inspired by Keeping Heart by Dr. Chip Dodd, we explore the life-changing truth of living from a Be-Do-Have posture rather than the exhausting cycle of Do-Have-Become. Rooted in the Spiritual Root System, Dr. Dodd reminds us that fulfillment comes only through honest relationship with ourselves, others, and God. This conversation invites us to live fully, love deeply, and lead well, leaving a legacy of goodness.

Twelve Movements of a Man’s Life #11: A Man Knows That He is God’s Masterpiece

Living with Heart: From Birth to Death Podcast, Episode 60: 12 Movements of a Man's Life #10: A Man Keeps No Secrets

Chip and Bryan discuss movement #9: A man seeks our appropriate authority.

Movement #6 - A man identifies himself with mercy:

He knows that but for the grace and mercy of God, he would not be “where he is.” He would not be able to identify himself with The Twelve Movements, and he would not be able to implement them. 

Because he identifies his own need for mercy, having received it himself, he tends to be merciful and gentle without being weak.

Movement #5 is a matter of the heart, like every movement of The Twelve Movements of a Man’s Life.

Join Dr. Chip Dodd and Bryan Barley as they continue their series on 12 Movements of a Man’s Life. This week’s episode is Movement #4, A Man Grows in Faith.

A Man Remembers How He is Made:

A man needs to admit every day, with deep awareness, that he is not God, and is created by God. He did not create himself. He was created.

An inspired man, versus just one who is ambitious, knows that he is in service of something greater than himself, a mission that his heart is “called” to.

A man humbly faces his need of God, and he does not attempt to take credit for what he did not create.

A man faces and struggles with being a work in progress by admitting and struggling to accept that “clumsy is as good as we are ever going to become.” 

The Twelve Movements of a Man’s Life are about a way of living with daily routines over a lifetime. They are about bringing your heart, head, hands, and habits to your relationships and life. We build a lasting legacy one day at a time and one step at a time. 

The preface to Twelve Movements of a Man’s Life is vital because the movements are not just a list of twelve things to accomplish. They are twelve movements that are about a man’s whole life. They are processes that interlock and “circles” that join and move a man into wholeness and love and legacy. 

This new podcast series, “Twelve Movements of a Man’s Life,” is not going to be exclusively for men. We want women to learn and have confidence in seeing and expecting men to be who they are created to be.

We are talking about the real meaning of resolution, what many us set our minds to focus on in the first of every year. We often fail not too long after we commit ourselves to some New Year’s resolution. There is a reason we often give up on our promises and commitments to ourselves. 

Chip & Bryan discuss the major themes and topics from their first year of Living With Heart: From Birth the Death.

In this episode of Living With Heart: From Birth to Death Podcast, Chip Dodd and Bryan Barley continue their discussion of gratitude and that life is a gift.

This is the first of two episodes on gratitude. What is gratitude and how do we experience it?  Three factors play a part in experiencing gratitude. This podcast episode details gratitude through needs and relationships.