Living with Heart: From Birth to Death

A Podcast from Dr. Chip Dodd and Bryan Barley

Dr. Chip Dodd’s ”The Voice of the Heart” is one of the seminal and most practically impactful books of the last several decades in the counseling, coaching, and mentorship space. In ”Living with Heart,” Dr. Dodd joins co-host, Bryan Barley, to discuss with greater depth, detail, and practicality how to live with heart through the entire journey of life - from birth to death.

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91 - Parenting with Heart: Parenting in the Digital Age

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.

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88 - Parenting with Heart: Parenting and the Four Realities

In this episode of Living with Heart, Chip and Bryan explore 4 unchangeable realities of life: our imperfection, struggle, dependence, and the need for humility. Learn how embracing struggle can deepen connection, reduce stress, and build resilience in both parents and children.

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Season 8: Episode 85 - Parenting with Heart: The Four Responsibilities of a Parent

Parenting with heart is about being present, relatable, and faithful, not about striving for perfection. Children don’t need flawless parents—they long for emotionally connected, values-driven moms and dads who guide them with love, faith, and resilience. By embracing struggles, modeling truth, and supporting their child’s God-given identity, parents build lasting relationships rooted in trust and grace.

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84- Keeping Heart: The Equation for the Gifts of Feelings

In this episode of Living with Heart: From Birth to Death, discover the powerful Equation for the Gifts of Feelings—Willingness + Patience + Work + Time = Gifts. This life-changing process shows how emotions like sadness, anger, loneliness, and even shame can transform into healing, hope, joy, and deeper connection with God and others. Learn how practicing the Equation empowers you to live fully, love deeply, and lead well.

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82 - Keeping Heart: Love's Demand

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.

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81 - Keeping Heart: Be, Do, Have

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.

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80 - Keeping Heart: The Spiritual Root System (Part 2)

This episode of Living with Heart explores Dr. Chip Dodd's book, Keeping Heart, and how The Spiritual Root System offers biblical wisdom on nurturing feelings, needs, desire, longings, and hope to live fully, love deeply, and leave a lasting legacy.

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Season 7: Episode 79 - Keeping Heart: The Spiritual Root System (Part 1)

In this new season of the podcast Living with Heart: From Birth to Death, discover how Keeping Heart by Dr. Chip Dodd guides readers to live fully, love deeply, and lead well through short, reflective sections. Rooted in The Spiritual Root System™, this resource explores how feelings, needs, desires, longings, and hope shape a meaningful life in relationship with self, others, and God.

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77 - Out of the Pit: Returning to Being Human and Productive

In this episode of Living with Heart, discover how leaders can break free from the Five Pitfalls—performance-based identity, disconnection from self, and hidden shame—by embracing the truth of their emotional and spiritual design. This powerful episode offers hopeful steps toward freedom, healing, and full-hearted living through vulnerability, confession, and relational recovery.

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76 - Pitfalls of Leadership: #5 Secrets Sap Passion and Purpose

Discover the five interconnected pitfalls that can trap leaders in cycles of performance, isolation, and secrecy. Learn how secrets sap purpose and passion, leading to burnout and addiction—until hope and healing interrupt the descent. This episode highlights how leaders can return to authenticity, connection, and true leadership through vulnerability and recovery.

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