Discover what truly makes a family healthy and functional - not perfect. In this podcast, Chip and Bryan explore six key principles and twelve core characteristics that nurture open communication, emotional safety, and spiritual growth in families, friendships, and marriages. Learn how humility, love, and consistency can transform your relationships into spaces of healing and connection.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

Dr. Chip Dodd and Bryan Barley discuss the importance of building a circle of security to meet emotional, spiritual, and relational needs.

In this podcast episode, Dr. Chip Dodd and Bryan Barley discuss the transformative power of embracing neediness and humility.