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
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.
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.
75 - Pitfalls of Leadership: #4 Isolation Becomes "Safety"
This powerful episode highlights the fourth pitfall of leadership—the isolation of the true self. Dr. Chip Dodd reveals how perfectionism, denial of needs, and toxic shame isolate leaders from their humanity, driving them toward burnout and counterfeit coping strategies. Learn how healing begins with admitting the need for help and embracing dependency resilience.
33 - Codependency, Parenting, & Healing
Dr. Chip Dodd and Bryan Barley discuss what codependency is and is not and how is shows up in parenting.
27 - The Four Essential Questions
Dr. Chip Dodd and Bryan Barley discuss the Four Essential Questions that allow us to remain in the life-long process of Awakening, Acquiring, and Arriving.
24 - Trust the Process (Part 2)
Bryan Barley and Dr. Chip Dodd delve deeper into the concept of trusting God's process and stepping away from the illusion of controlling the future.
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.
4 - Healthy/Unhealthy Ways to Belong and Matter (Part 2)
In this episode of the Living With Heart podcast, Dr. Chip Dodd and Bryan Barley delve into the human needs for authenticity and belonging, drawing connections between our childhood experiences and our adult quest for recognition and connection.