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"Situation screwed. Still survivable."
James Owen learned that mantra the hard way. At 16, sailing back from Mexico in 60+ mph winds, his father walked away from the helm mid-storm — and James realized no one was coming to save him. He got the boat to harbor, moved out at 16, and years later walked into the Long Beach Fire Academy feeling like the least confident man in the room.
In episode 5 of The Confidence Question, the retired fire captain and author of The Last Patient lays it all out — in his words: recovering alcoholic, child abuse survivor, divorced dad. He takes Tyler through the microwave fire that made a fifth-grader want the job, the line-of-duty loss of his closest friend and being force-hired into his seat two weeks later, and the years of trying to outrun pain that no amount of anything could medicate — until a voice on a run along the LA River cracked him open: save the last patient.
Plus his reframe of FEAR (fix everything and rise), a round of Armor or Skin — because confidence isn't armor, it's letting yourself be seen — and why he says men don't break: they get bent, and bent things can be realigned.
If this one hits close to home, The Last Patient was written as a permission slip. It's masculine to ask for help.
CONNECT
Dr. Tyler Hales is a cosmetic dentist in Newport Beach, CA and the founder of Hales Aesthetic.
Website: https://halesaesthetic.com
Tyler Hales Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/drtylerhales
GUEST
James Owen — retired Long Beach Fire Department captain, speaker, and author of The Last Patient
Website: https://captainjamesowen.com
The Last Patient (hardcover): https://captainjamesowen.com/book.html
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/captainjamesowen/
