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.
Recent Episodes
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.
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.
74 - Pitfalls of Leadership: #3 People Become Things
Discover the five interconnected pitfalls that quietly unravel a leader’s purpose, passion, and relationships—starting when people become things. In this episode of Living with Heart, Dr. Chip Dodd reveals how work addiction, emotional denial, and loss of vulnerability fuel a toxic, fear-based culture. Learn how self-awareness, humility, and asking for help can restore the leader’s heart and relationships.
71 - Season 6: Pitfalls of Leadership: Slipping Into the Pitfalls
Join Chip and Bryan and discover how heart-centered leadership can transform your life and mission. Chip and Bryan explore the essential practices for avoiding burnout, embracing vulnerability, and leading with purpose. Learn the five common pitfalls of leadership and how to recover with authenticity, restoration, and faith.
29 - The Rediscovered Treasure (Part 2)
The focus of this episode is a recording of a men’s retreat that Chip did in Texas in 1993. The retreat content was edited and put on CDs. The CDs were included with the first edition copies of The Voice of the Heart published in 2001.
21 - Tell the Truth - to God and Self (Part 1)
Chip Dodd and Bryan Barley look into the essential practice of feeling emotions, embracing truth, and trusting God throughout life's challenges.
19 - Feel Your Feelings (Part 1)
Bryan Barley and Dr. Chip Dodd explore the profound impact of acknowledging and processing emotions.
5 - The Need to Feel
In this episode of the podcast, host Bryan Barley and Dr. Chip Dodd look into the topics of authenticity, emotional health, and integrity beyond the realm of academic achievements.