From Gangs to Men's Mental Health Coach

<p>In 2019, Jason Tyler McLean put a brand new gun in his mouth and pulled the trigger. It jammed. The odds of that happening are one in millions.</p><p>He woke up the next day, wrote himself a letter and made a promise he has kept ever since.</p><p>Long before he became a coach, Jason was just trying to make it through each day.</p><p>Drugs at 13. The streets of Winnipeg at 15. Gangs. A sales career that brought financial success, but not peace. </p><p>Then a two-year battle with depression brought everything to a breaking point.</p><p>After his attempt, he taught himself how to heal and that work became his first book, One Drop of Water.</p><p>Today he is a 3x author, runs men’s mental health retreats and coaches people out of the darkest places he once lived in.</p><p>In this episode of Careers Under Construction, Jason shares:</p><ul><li>Why he never joined a recovery program and built his own roadmap instead</li><li>How drugs at 13 and life on the streets of Winnipeg at 15 shaped who he became</li><li>The motorcycle crash that nearly killed him </li><li>Losing his dad to cancer</li><li>How writing <em>One Drop of Water</em> became part of his healing</li><li>How his biggest failures became the reason people trust and work with him today</li><li>The message he wrote to himself the morning after his suicide attempt</li><li>How he&#39;s helped people in suicidal crisis make it to the next day</li><li>What happens when men finally open up</li></ul><p>“It takes a very strong man to embrace your feelings and your emotions, and to go against the grain of society.”</p>