What's Happening At Sage Hill

Transcript of a Sage Hill Live Fully Podcast conversation with Dr. Chip Dodd. Lightly edited for readability; speaker labels omitted.

You're listening to the Sage Hill podcast with Dr. Chip Dodd. Sage Hill is a social impact organization that helps people see who they are made to be so they can do what they're made to do. Hey, Chip. Hey, Stephen. Back in the old podcast room doing some more podcasts. I mean, my radio voice, this is Stephen James with ninety two q f m. That's pretty good. Pretty good. Yeah. That's all I can do right there. Yeah. Yeah. Hey. Before we step off into a topic, I think it might be good. We got a we've had a lot going on lately. Yeah. A lot going on. Yes. And, you know, I I just wanted our podcast listeners to know about a little bit about all that we have going on. Yeah. Because there's a lot.

Yes. More than we even More than we can do. Arms around. Right. Yes. Sometimes it's because we are doing too much. We we don't even know where we're going sometimes. Mhmm. But we all we're working everything around helping people see, including ourselves, by the way. This is not about the blind Right. And those who have sight. It's like exactly. And it's about helping people see who they're made to be so they can do what they're made to do. That's what we're doing. And so we want to do it in every way we can come up with that our abilities fit with. You know? One of my favorite things we've done have been these evenings with Sage Hill with on the second Thursday of the month. Yeah. We've you're in the Nashville area or coming through the Nashville area or Yeah. We've been hosting these, talks about an hour and a half. The talks are an hour and a half. The talks are about the The whole thing's about an hour and a half. Yeah. Yeah. It's questions. Questions. Conversational, intimate, no more than 50 people. Those have been a lot those have been a lot of fun for me. Yeah. Why would you say those? I just said it funny the first time. You said it funny the second time. I'd actually hey. So Those have been a lot of fun for me. And those,

yeah. Those are those are good. We've done a talk on Euphoria River. We've done one Map of living. Map of living. Anxiety and depression. Anxiety and depression. Be doing one on Paradigm Recovery coming up. Oh, yeah. That's April 11. Thursday the eleventh. Something like that. It's April I'm looking at my calendar right now. Thursday, April 13. Yes. Yeah. Thursday the thirteenth. Because I I I was I have thought I had a conflict, and so but I wanna make I wanna make sure I'm there. I wanna be there. Also, you know, you and I just signed a contract with Revel Publishing to do Revel. Yeah. Okay. Okay. Sorry. It's okay. Yeah. The first time I said it poorly. But, yeah. Two books. Yeah. For on parenting. Two parenting books. For parents. It's a parenting book for parents who want to raise children. Yeah. It's not a parenting book for children. To become grown ups. Yeah. Yeah. The working titles of giraffes. Yeah. Giraffes on ice. So if you're looking for a big long list of things to do to make your children not like you Don't read our book. Don't read it. Well, if you want because you know what your the children are gonna be like They're gonna be like but like us. Yeah. They're they're got to be because they have to live life too. Oh. We I wanna make them into someone else. Better than me. Yes. And someone who doesn't have to feel the things we have to feel or make the same mistakes.

That comes out spring of twenty eighteen. Yes. We hope. Yeah. We hope. Yeah. Yep. Uh-huh. Also, you know what? I've been talking to people about what and and I can say this, Stephen, because you've organized this. You've structured it. You've you've really just done such a great job of implementing what's called spiritual root system training. Mhmm. It's, Thursday, afternoon, evening, Friday, all day into the evening, and Saturday, all day. And Saturday morning. And Saturday morning up till noon. And it's, like, August, November, January, and March. This year, it's yeah. End of March. November. Yeah. September. Yeah. February, March, April. But it is I think it's one of the best things that we're all doing. It really is awesome. Yes. Because I love it. We do we do teaching around the spiritual root system, in-depth, like, education. But it's it's not just educate. It's it's sort of like touching in the experience of the spiritual root system. It's not about more knowledge. It's about more awareness. And then going and practicing it personally with story groups, small process groups that are just the feedback I'm getting from the group leaders and from the people who are doing it is that it is it it is making my life better. Yeah. It's More confident, more,

competent. When we first designed it, it was really geared mostly towards, like, probably counselors or pastors. Right? But we had such a demand from other people Yeah. That we kinda reworked the curriculum to make it It's anybody who wants to Help people see who they're made the beast, they knew what they made. And and and and anybody who wants to do that or parent or lead small group or be a better We got commercial real estate guy or a physician? And commercial real estate people, physicians Yeah. Ministry people. Students. Students. College students. Yeah. It's a nurses. It's a phenomenal Yeah. And people are coming from All over the country. Kansas, Oklahoma. Oh, god. It's got a mommy. International application this week. From from England. Really? Yeah. So it's pretty pretty extreme. Yeah. Now it's

the you've got it set up so the people can pay for it, like, in quarters or something. Right? Yeah. But it's, like, 3,000, 3,300 or something? Yeah. They're bad. But that's spread out over four longs, week and periods. Spread out over a year. Yeah. Right? So it's a year from now on and ends. I I I I just I really And we tried it's over eighty hours of content. Because I really compliment you in structuring that. Because it ends up being my heart's desire. You know, it's my what I've always wanted, but I wasn't gonna I couldn't quite put it together. So so thank you for letting me have a place to pour myself, honestly. Yeah. Yeah. It's a lot of fun. And then all kinds of, Well, I'm you know, in a few weeks, I'm going to Africa

to talk about the spiritual root system with some missionaries and physicians in Africa for two weeks. Yeah. So that's, like, an international Mhmm. You know, spreading of Mhmm. Of heart. Yeah. You're you're speaking we're doing a parenting conference in Murfreesboro coming up. April 5? April April something? No. I'm doing a man's thing on April 5. What's April 5? I'm doing a thing, at a men's group thing, April 5 about what we're doing here. Like, what what we're doing here, this in this Like in life? In living this thing. Yeah. April 11 is the, parent workshop at Provident Christian Academy. Yeah. Yeah. I mean But, you know, also the keeping heart what did you call it? We're doing some ebooks. No. But when you call it you changed the title. The e would say too? No. Keeping Heart Book. Yes. The Keeping Heart ebooks. No. But what's the title of the book? I I called it I called it Keeping Heart a paragraph book, and you changed the title. It's not it's not paragraph book. But you called it some you called it Keeping Heart a

Reflections. Which I don't like the title. Yeah. But, anyway, there's a keeping heart ebook coming out. Yeah. So so there'll be people will be able to give away this ebook. They get it free for themselves. They give it away to other people. Yeah. We have four of those coming out this year. Yeah. Yeah. When's the first one? April. First one's in April. This month? Yeah. Next month? Yeah. Next few weeks. Yes. That one comes out. Oh, and these podcasts. Month. We get to do these. We're we're coming up on on podcast number 75. That's correct. Yeah. It's a lot of this this might be one of the most consistent things we've done. You and I are both creative quick start kind of things. This started over a year ago, the podcast was started. I'll tell you something I've done consistently, which it it it surprised

yeah. I mean, I'm under a a deadline with them and the artwork. I've I've heard more comp many more compliments on the artwork than I have on the blocks, but I tell you. I'm sorry. That's a heck of work. Yeah. But, I mean, people, guys, if if anybody's listening to this podcast and if you get a chance to just, you know, tap into the Technology? No. It's it's Social media? Social media of, yeah. The the the art is just so the world wide web. World wide web. Yeah. Becca Aertz, she is is our artist, the graphics person. She's she's just really good. Mhmm. She designed the cover for Needs of the Heart Mhmm. And just blew us away with her artwork. She's very, very good. And every every week, it's like I would love I would read the blog I write just because of the the photograph she chooses. Right. I mean, seriously, it makes it so attractive. More meditative. So I wanna write up to her standards as much as I can. And I'm slowly learning how to write too. So I think I think it's

one of the things that's fun for me is that is that there's all this energy that we get to pour into it and fill and and the people at Sage Hill Counseling. And there's just a lot of energy that we're all getting to pour into to help other people see they're made to be so they can do what they're made to do. Oh, plus our regular I didn't think about our regular center for or CPE Center for Professional Excellence and then yeah. But talk about CPE, you know, which is kind of the the mothership of this whole thing, where all of us created birth. Mhmm. But I I would hope that and people hearing us talk about these things is that they would also know that they are to be sanctuaries also. They are to be a a person in the place to carry peace Yeah. Courage and passion to other people. Yes.

You know? Yes. And we're giving what we've been given. Mhmm. This is not come to the mountaintop and hear what we have to say. It's Sage Hill. They This is like a low rise. Low rise if we walk up and talk and share and appreciate the, wisdom that we all gained together and also the healing balm of an urban sage. Right? Yeah. That's right. So That's right. Makes things taste better. So to anyone. Right? Yeah. Not just those who wanna climb the house. Yeah. Daily living. You know? And that's what I'm so encouraged about is that See see, you know, I'd I'd I swear, when I was younger, much younger, I'd I really did think that there was a place. If we worked hard, we could get to a place, just this place. And once we got to that place, if we achieved enough and did enough, we get to a place so that x wouldn't happen anymore. And I think stress free living, this place in which, you know, smoke curls out of the chimney and sit on the bench in the sun and and a cabin on some property where all good things occur. Mhmm. I did not know that life really is about the the capacity to struggle beautifully. I I I did not know that. Did you know that?

I did not know it. Was taught it, but I think now I'm learning it. Like, I'm really learning it. Learning it. You know, that Yeah. That it's I love the mountain top experience, like, the spiritual awakening and clarity you get and those kind of events. And I sure like a good break too. We need to therefore, we need to take them daily. Oh, momentarily. Not even daily. Yeah. But but the learning to for me to accept life on life's terms, daily living, not giving up on ambition or desire or inspiration. Right? But knowing that that's not what makes my life count. You know what? It's it's to me too, it's not giving up on ambition or inspiration, but as much as we can possibly find the wisdom to do so, living ambition and inspiration in a certain way Yes. If it requires having to get rid of our hearts or the integrity of where we're headed, if it throws us off into,

ugly sell out or compromise, we missed it. And that that's something it's not okay. What which when you said it reminded me, we're doing the Nashville Coaching Coalition Retreat with Scott Herron Yeah. Who's on the podcast week. So that's covering her with things. Mhmm. And that's about helping coaches. It's April April seventh, eighth? Yeah. Fifth, sixth, seventh, I was It's no. It's a Friday, Saturday, Sunday. Yeah. Yeah. So that's seventh, eighth. Yeah. So if you're a if you're a coach, if you're a a athletic director or volunteer baseball coach, like, and you wanna learn how to serve with with more presence and be more of a transformational presence in people's lives, that that's a retreat that Scott's putting together. Mhmm. Man, it's a lot. It is.

This is Stephen James, the executive director of Sage Hill Counseling. Thanks for listening to the Sage Hill podcast with Dr. Chip Dodd. Sometimes in life, we get stuck or blocked or reach an impasse. At times like these, an intensive short term therapy could help you overcome what's keeping you from the growth and changes you desire. At Sage Hill Counseling, we offer therapeutic intensives to help couples gain new momentum in their recovery process. If you wanna find out more, please visit sagehillcounseling.com.