From Gangs to Men's Mental Health Coach

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