Map Of Resilience with Colin Owensby

A broken back at 15. A week in a coma. Months in a hospital bed, then a wheelchair, then a walker, then the long grind of learning to move like yourself again. Colin Owensby doesn’t tell that story for shock value, he tells it to show what resilience looks like in real life: small wins, clear choices, and a mindset that treats hardship like a problem to solve. Colin later becomes a two-time Ironman, tackles a 100-mile ultra marathon, and turns his hard-earned lessons into a practical framework he calls the “map of resilience.” 

We also talk about the moment that deepens everything, the loss of Colin’s older brother just months after the accident. That grief sharpens his urgency to live fully and helps explain why so many people who’ve faced trauma chase hard things, not to punish themselves, but to feel what living feels like. Along the way, Colin’s modeling career takes him across the world and expands his view of what’s possible when you change your environment and your expectations. His line sticks with me: the cage door is not locked. 

If you’re interested in mindset coaching, performance optimization, nutrition basics, and fitness habits that actually hold up under stress, this conversation delivers. Colin breaks down why fear is the most common blocker, how to build a healthier relationship with food, and why nature, movement, gratitude, and community can work like a reset button. Subscribe to Healthy Living Podcast, share this with a friend who needs a push, and leave a review so more people can find these stories.

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SPEAKER_00 0:13

Well, hello and welcome to the Healthy Living Podcast. I'm your host, Joe Grumbine, and today we've got a very special guest. His name is Colin Owensby. And Colin's got quite an incredible

Welcome And Colin’s Background

SPEAKER_00 0:23

story. He's a two times Iron Man, and he's heading into his third. He's done a hundred-mile ultra marathon, former NCAA swimmer. And he ran into a little complication in his life at one point. And he's going to tell us all about this. He's got what he's built known as a map of resilience. And anybody who knows me and my story, it's real important to be resilient. Colin, welcome to the show. How are you doing today?

SPEAKER_01 0:51

Hey, thanks so much, Joe.

SPEAKER_00 0:53

Thanks for having me. I'm doing great. How are you? I am fantastic. I'm above ground breathing and I don't have cancer anymore.

SPEAKER_01 0:58

There you go. That's the best.

SPEAKER_00 1:01

Nice. Tell me about you and your story. It sounds like you've got quite an interesting uh background here.

SPEAKER_01 1:08

Thank you, sir. Yeah. So as you mentioned in the intro, I I've done a couple of Ironmans. I've done a ton of other distance triathlons, and I even did a hundred-mile ultra marathon, which was definitely the hardest challenge physically of my life, for sure. If anybody, if anybody listens, they they know how hard those are. But yeah, it was really cool. I'm a mindset and performance optimization fanatic. I, as you mentioned as well, I was a collegiate athlete. And and to your point, I had a pretty devastating period of my life at about 15 years old. And all of these big accolades basically have come on the backside of that tragic event. And so what I do is I talk about this map of resilience that I've come up with, and I talk to groups of people, I mentor people, and happy to get into it with you.

SPEAKER_00 1:55

Yeah, so so I guess I didn't know about the timing of the accident. So you've done all these accomplishments since the accident.

SPEAKER_01 2:04

Yes, sir.

SPEAKER_00 2:05

Yep. Beautiful, beautiful. Well, yeah, I definitely would like to hear about that. And we've had a lot of guests come on that have overcome obstacles such as a disease or an accident or something like that. And there's something about that journey that is, I think, kind of the meat and potatoes of all of this. Probably what you crafted your map of resilience from is while you were going through this. There's there's times where you have to make choices. And I think everything uh regarding health at one point comes down to just that making some making some tough choices. Absolutely.

SPEAKER_01 2:47

I think, I mean, all to your point about people who have who have overcome a hardship, tend to go and do these hard things. I think that there's something that it ignites in you that that makes you want to go live for today and and see how what what what's a human capacity? We don't know. Well, we're gonna keep we're gonna we're gonna figure it out because I got through that and I want to see what life feels like. I want to see what living feels like. Um and so we and so we chase down these kind of seemingly wild pursuits. And and yeah, I I think that's I think it's magic. I think there's something in there that it's it's it's so cool. And I don't think that you have to have gone through something traumatic to want to go do these things, but it's there's there's definitely a lot of people at these big events where you're like, okay, you are overcame cancer, or you had uh this happen, or you had that that happen to you. I mean, if you if you took a poll at every marathon or or Iron Man, I would say a giant percentage are have overcome something or are currently enduring something.

SPEAKER_00 3:53

Sure. But you know, that's why we do this show, so that not everybody has to go through this, and you can still get the benefit from those who have, you know, like I I think that there's magic, like you said, in taking something horrific and turning it into something beautiful. But maybe the more beautiful thing is is to take from somebody else who did something horrific and create something beautiful without having to go through the horrors.

SPEAKER_01 4:23

Absolutely. That's the goal, right?

SPEAKER_00 4:25

Right, right. We don't have to suffer to grow. So that's the beauty of all of this. And so I'm I'm curious, like in my walk and in so many of my guests' walk, there's there's sort of a point. So you're in this horrible accident. I'm assuming you've got broken bones, you're you're in the hospital, you're maybe hard, unable to walk, or whatever it is, you're you're in a really difficult spot. Yeah, and at one point you said, you know what, I'm gonna get through this. You started your rehab, whatever it was that you were doing. There's a place from one to the first conquest or first accomplishment that you did. Tell me a little bit about a moment from there.

SPEAKER_01 5:11

Yeah, so yes, I did I did break my. I was in a car accident when I was 15. I was a passenger in a really bad car accident. Okay. I broke my back, I had a ton of internal organ damage, I tore

Surviving The Crash And Learning To Walk

SPEAKER_01 5:21

abdomen. I I was I was in a coma for about a week. Wow. They were doing the internal organ assessment and repair. And then on on the back side of my stomach and organs healing, then they did my back spinal surgery, and I fused my lumbar spine, and and I had to learn how to walk again. So I was in a in a hospital bed for months. I had to, then I was wheelchair bound, then I was using a walker and canes, and I I eventually got up to the point where I could be fully physically capable again. 15, 16 years old. Yeah, I was 15 years old, and and prior to that I was an athlete. So the athletic pursuit and the the drive, the internal drive was already in me from being a competitive athlete. And so I to answer your question, I didn't have this moment of I wonder if I can get through this. It was there's no there's no doubt in my mind I'm getting through this. Um how am I getting through this? And what will be my capabilities or what will I not be able to do on the other side of this? There was never a mindset of doubt ever, not an inkling ever. Yeah, so I I it was it was in me. I'm getting I'm okay. What are my limitations? Okay, you're not gonna let me play football anymore. The doctors told me pretty much right out of the gate. You're probably not a good idea. Fair. I understand that. What can I do? What am I what will I be cleared to do? Because I'm gonna work towards that. Right. It's it's problem solving. At the end of the day, I was in my mindset, I was problem solving. Okay, here's the task at hand. We're gonna uh we're gonna do our best every day until we accomplish the task.

SPEAKER_00 6:58

Well, that's pretty incredible for a 15-year-old to have that kind of a of a mindset. I know when I was 15, I didn't make a whole lot of good choices. Yeah. Wasn't thinking all too clearly looking back on it. Yeah. So what was the first? I mean, obviously, walking would have been your first major accomplishment without any aid, I would imagine, that you're just like, yeah, now I'm I'm I'm on my way.

SPEAKER_01 7:24

Well, prior to that, it was, I mean, even being able to move, because I I was I was hung up in a in a hospital bed, and so they would attach resistance bands to various things on the hospital bed so that I could start retraining my muscles. Because I so I'm uh six six foot two, I'm about 180 pounds now, and I'm pretty slender at that. I got down to 125 pounds, so I was really, really emaciated. I was a skeleton with skin on the outside, and so after all of that atrophy of the muscles just completely atrophied, I I had to basically retrain all of my muscles how to function. Yeah. So the first win was being able to move in certain ways. The second win was getting up and moving down the the corridor or the hallway of the hospital with assistance and things like that. And once once I had that, I knew I knew everything was possible. So I I was yeah, that I I basically said, what will be the sport that I can do first? And they said I can get back into swimming.

SPEAKER_00 8:22

Okay, all right, yeah. Because there's yeah, there's a lot of friction involved and things and impact and all of that.

SPEAKER_01 8:29

Exactly, exactly. So I I worked my butt off with rehab and fit all the physical therapy, and I eventually got cleared to go into a swimming pool in March of that following year. The car accident was at the beginning of October of my sophomore year of high school. By March, I was back in a pool. Wow. And and able to sort of start building up from there. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 8:49

Nice. So so you you you're swimming now. I suppose you're probably in the pool quite a lot with your, I mean, with the one thing you can do right now. Yep. And it works all the muscles, so you can really go at it.

SPEAKER_01 9:02

And I really I think that swimming is something that everybody should be doing because, like you said, there's zero impact. Yeah, you get a full muscle, full body workout. It's a great cardio workout.

SPEAKER_00 9:13

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 9:13

And and and it's something that you can do as long as you can move your joints, you can do it. I mean, I see I go to the pool three times a week now, and I see guys in their 90s, literally in their 90s at the pantomime.

SPEAKER_00 9:24

Agreed, agreed. Something special about water, too. So yeah, that's all that's that's fantastic. So you're in there training, you're you're getting stronger again, you're you're probably you know feeding the dopamine on the regular now. Every time you accomplish one more new thing, you're like, Yeah, I got another one, you know. When did you go from there to I'm I'm ready to compete?

SPEAKER_01 9:49

It was that season. I I'm that my my high school was awesome because they allowed me to still be on the team that season. So I got the camaraderie from the teammates, even though I wasn't winning anything in that that year. Oh, right. You were there. I was there, I was a participant, and that was huge for me. And so I was able to technically compete that season. Oh, nice. That following summer, I was on a summer team and I did compete that summer. And because things had coming back. You know, I'm 15 years old. You could heal, you're you're still growing. So all of my things, you know, everything healed as well as it could have. But thankfully, it happened at that time. Now, the thing that changed my mindset shift that that that was

Returning To Swimming And Competing Again

SPEAKER_01 10:29

the performance, that was a body thing to come over. I was a passenger in that car accident. My brother was driving, and and three months after that car accident, he actually suffered a really bad heart issue and and and died. So he was my older brother. I was I watched him die. We were at on a basketball court, he was an athlete as well. And so that that that incident combined with the incident of me now having a new lease on my body, those two things really solidified my outlook on the future and the outlook on wanting to go live every day to the absolute fullest and and achieve everything I can.

SPEAKER_00 12:01

So, how old are you now? I'll be 42 in like two weeks. Okay, so this is all a few years back. That's fantastic. So there's a whole lot of things that happen between one and the next. You get through high school, obviously, you're competing in college, as as your bio says. Yeah. Um and then what what did you do after college?

SPEAKER_01 12:22

Like what was your whole point of so I I didn't know what I wanted to do for work. I've never been one of those kind of guys that just knew exactly what they wanted to do for their career.

SPEAKER_00 12:31

I'm right there with you.

SPEAKER_01 12:34

Yeah, right. So when I was I was actually scouted by a modeling agency on a pool deck, and and uh it was never something that I was looking to go get into. My uncle actually was a model in like the 80s and 90s, so I knew about the job of it, I knew what it could be, but I had no ambition to do that. But I did get scouted. They I my first job was for a department store in San Francisco, and then from there it turned into a pretty regular job for me. So I ended up leaving college early to go do that full time. Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 13:08

It's kind of like a a dream job because you get a work out so that you're able to take these pictures, you get to do what you like to do and get paid for it at the same time.

SPEAKER_01 13:17

And the the travel on top of it is incredible. I got to go to places that I probably never would have gone to had it not been for that job. And so for a job for somebody in their 20s who who doesn't know what the career is, it's actually kind of a wild career to be in because it gives you I'm I'm in touch with the marketing heads, the brand heads of every big company that I'm working with. I'm in touch with the designers, the photographers, all the creative side. So my creative bucket was completely full. The job of it, and like you said, the performance of staying fit was my job. Staying the same size.

SPEAKER_00 13:48

Look in that way, and we'll keep taking pictures.

SPEAKER_01 13:51

Exactly. Stay the same size, you're good. You got a job, you know. So, yeah, so I tried, I lived in Milan, I lived in Paris, Germany, all over Indonesia, had shoots in the Maldives, like kind of it took me all over the world, nice, which was so cool. Opened my eyes up to okay, there's a giant world out here. Yeah and and the cage door of my town that I grew up in is not locked, and you in fact can leave. Um and and so that was really, really cool for me to also experience that time on the on the psych the psychology side of it, not just for the paycheck.

SPEAKER_00 14:26

The paycheck was cool too, but you're right, right, absolutely kind of a dream, dream life there, especially in your 20s. Yeah, I don't know, I don't know how you do better than that when it comes down to that point of in your life, and and clearly you're

Grief After His Brother’s Death

SPEAKER_00 14:39

you're in my opinion, fully recovered by that point, and you're you're at it. So, when did the concept of your map of resilience come about?

SPEAKER_01 14:52

It's interesting. So, I I never thought that my life was unique and that my life path was unique. It just was I just thought kind of everybody experiences a full life, and it is, you know, everybody's on there on there.

SPEAKER_00 15:05

Exactly like that one though.

SPEAKER_01 15:07

You know, and so but I I casually talk about it with friends and and family members. And my my wife's mom, when I first met her about six years ago, she was like, You have a really unique story, and I think that people should probably hear it. Yeah, I think it might help some folks that are going through hard times know that the whole world is out there and that you know today can be better, tomorrow can be better, and you can build a fulfilling life on the backside of tragedy or or without the tragedy. And so I I didn't it it took me a while to figure out okay, well, what what was it that that that really what were the tools that I used at 15 to then have that perspective to just go and be positive and seek a fulfilling life every day? Because I guess that's also not you not common for 15-year-olds to want to go to want to go live and experience the whole world.

SPEAKER_00 16:02

Yeah, people with misery.

SPEAKER_01 16:04

I spent a lot of time pondering and and just thinking about what were those tools, and I and I came up with the exact sort of toolkit that I had prior to all that stuff happening, and it was something that my parents, it was the way that my parents raised me with various flavor, you know, spice and seasonings throughout my my my life and the the the people they surrounded us with and the activities they put us in as kids. And so when I was going through the deepest, darkest stuff of my life, I had in me, I already know that I enjoy doing these things. These things make me feel good, these things make me feel productive and positive. So I went back to those things in in in naturally, I went in a naturally way back to these things that made me feel right. And so that is the toolbox that I talk about with the map of resilience. And it really is it's you can do these things one a day, or you can do all of them every day, and you're you're you're ultimately figuring out what it is inside of you that makes you tick, and what it is inside of you that makes you feel good, and what it is inside of you that pushes you forward to go want more in a healthy way. Right, right. Yeah, yeah. And so I have that that map is on my website. The link to my website's on my Instagram bio, and I'm I'm happy to share all of it or or a piece of it today here with you. Yeah, absolutely. Um but the whole thing is laid out on on online for for anybody who wants to take a look at it.

SPEAKER_00 17:31

Fantastic. So so at one point you just decided to sort of dissect your your own existence to see how you got where you did, and you you identified these, like you say, these tools and and and you mapped it out, which is fantastic. I a lot of times I figure out what went wrong that way. Yeah. How did I get here? Oh, okay, you did that wrong and that wrong. So don't do those things anymore.

SPEAKER_01 18:01

I mean, I definitely have obstacles that come up all the time in life, as anybody else does, but it's my perspective with this toolbox that it can allow me to navigate the obstacles and still stay on my path.

SPEAKER_00 18:12

A hundred percent. And I I do want to jump into a little bit to the details of that, but I'm trying to follow along your story here. So you've got this at what point? So you're still modeling.

SPEAKER_01 18:24

I'm actually still modeling. I I still have that as my as a as I'm I'm in my 40s now, so the jobs are look a lot different than they did when I was 21. Sure. You know, it's more like hotels and golf companies and things like that now, which is great. Happy to do it. I love I'll take that job, that job any day. Heck yeah, you know, but yeah, so I still have that as a part-time thing, and and uh it's it's how did you though how did you take the step into coaching and helping other people?

SPEAKER_00 18:54

Like when was when was that first move? Like you're you're going along traveling and and doing this sort of dream life, and then at one point something, maybe somebody asked you, uh probably a lot of people ask you questions and and whatnot. But at one point you're like, Wow, I'm maybe I can I can do this in a in a different capacity on another level.

SPEAKER_01 19:17

Yeah, exactly that. So I I I get asked, I have always gotten asked from people who want to be in shape or better shape or want to learn a skill that I'm doing, like swimming, for example. And and I I genuinely love helping people on their path uh of improvement. I think it's so fun, and especially when they hit those milestones that they're looking for when they when they meet me, when they hit those milestones and then pass those milestones. I think it's just it's so rewarding for them and I and for me to see the reward on their face. I love it. I I found that bug of that coaching desire when I was in high school. I coached the youth program of the Special Olympics swim team. So there's all these kids with various abilities, and and maybe some of them are even afraid to even touch the water on day one, and then some of them are non-verbal. And so for me, it was it was how can I help these kids swim and swim quickly? And so there was it for me, I had to think, I had to really break down my knowledge of what is swimming, you know? Well, how do I behave in water? And then and then and then go from there and then build them up to learning strokes and eventually swimming laps. And and so my I I caught the bug for coaching when I was in high school, and I did that in line with me actually competing in swimming as well. So for me, I was basically living at the pool when I was 16, 17, you know. And and when I got into modeling, I did fall away. I I did, I, I, I, I was traveling all the time, working long days on sets in different countries. I couldn't, I didn't really have that. But when I was back in Los Angeles, I had moved back about 24, 25 years old. And people were asking me about fitness and what should I do? I want to lose 15 pounds. What should I do? And so I would start talking to them individually and not really more of like a mentor, not really thinking about charging them money for the info. Right. And then I actually got hired by a fitness company that I was that I was I was I was going to this gym for for classes. I I enjoyed going to this particular class. Okay, and so they they they actually asked me if I was interested in coaching there. Nice. So I started part-time coaching there when I could, and I actually still work for that company part-time as well. So I teach a Saturday morning class that fills my cup. I I love it. I love it, and and it's not a full-time job for me, but it's something that I would like to do with

Modeling Career And Seeing The World

SPEAKER_01 21:49

them specifically, as long as they'll let me be there.

SPEAKER_00 21:54

That's fantastic.

SPEAKER_01 21:55

Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 21:57

Um your program. We've had various guests with various programs that are in some way similar, you know, a way, ways to overcome, ways to find your best you, whatever, whatever that is, and yeah, mental, spiritual, physical, all of those things. They generally have you know some basic pillars that are kind of foundational. What what what does your toolkit look like in that way?

SPEAKER_01 22:25

So when I when I first take on a personal training client, I I definitely utilize my map of resilience with them in line with the nutritional foundation, the movement foundation, all those pieces combined. So I do personal training clients in person, but I also can coach people online and and I can I send a full program to people and have them check in almost like a diary, sort of a checklist of all what things you're doing, check in with me. And I like to have like I'm on a texting basis with everybody that I work with. I think it's cool. And they can text me anytime that's you know reasonable. I'll answer if I'm awake. Right. And and then with the classes, it's pretty much just like fitness and motivation. Okay. When I'm in the group setting. But yeah, I I I definitely have both pillars going. And so when you're aligning the the spiritual side of your life or the the not spiritual and like the religion way, but like you're filling your whole body with your mind. And then you're also working on the nutrition and the health component, you you can't not progress.

SPEAKER_00 23:27

Right. Agreed.

SPEAKER_01 23:29

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 23:29

Agreed. I I I think that where your mind is, where your thoughts are is where you're going.

SPEAKER_01 23:37

Absolutely. You know, so and that's even just with the with the nutrition factor of that. I mean, like, like what you're putting in your body is literally fueling all of your cells to do the next thing.

SPEAKER_00 23:48

100%.

SPEAKER_01 23:49

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 23:49

And then you watch people, you know, swing by the fast food joint. Right. It's convenient and they're late and they're hungry and they just throw something in their mouth. I'm like, chemicals. What are you doing?

unknown 23:59

You know?

SPEAKER_00 24:00

Yeah. Yeah. Just as easy to eat an apple, you know, but whatever it is. When you're when you're dealing with people, you got people coming at you from all different ways, probably all different places in life. Is there a most common obstacle that most people are facing when they come to you? Like is there a one thing back that you're like, ah, I see that all you know?

SPEAKER_01 24:30

I think that the obstacle that most people, and if I'm gonna boil it down to one simple word, it's fear. Um, I think there's fear in and and that's the obstacle. Because every m motivation, every action is either rooted in fear or rooted out of love.

SPEAKER_00 24:46

And so you can't live in the same house at the same time.

SPEAKER_01 24:49

No. So I think I mean if I had to boil it down to one, I haven't been asked that question before, but I think it would be that it'd be fear. That's that's the obstacle. And then what are we how are we gonna sort of process, acknowledge that fear? You're not crazy for having that fear, but but we can approach whatever that blockage is with a different perspective. Maybe we have to learn more about that topic, you know, or or whatever it is to then be overcome that fear and and push forward and be your strongest.

SPEAKER_00 25:19

I love that. Yeah, I suspect that of all the people that you've helped, it seems that it's kind of in your nature, you know. I I get the kind of the same joy anytime I get an opportunity to help somebody take a step forward, I follow almost like I did it myself, you know.

SPEAKER_01 25:34

Yeah, yeah, absolutely. It's amazing. It's hard for me to separate myself from them in my head, because I I want this so badly from them.

SPEAKER_00 25:45

Yeah. The frustrating thing is when they don't want it bad enough, and you're like, I can't want this more than you do.

SPEAKER_01 25:51

Yeah, I I find that I often do. And so it's that's that's the that's the that's it's a challenge for me as a coach.

SPEAKER_00 25:57

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 25:58

To to to go at

Creating The Map Of Resilience

SPEAKER_01 25:59

their pace, but also maybe faster than the pace because their pace might have gotten them to where they are. Right. Right. You know.

SPEAKER_00 26:06

No, I love that. Is is there a story? I'm sure you have many of them, but why don't you share one anecdote of a particular client that you think was one of the most impactful from when they came to you till maybe to this day or to a certain point?

SPEAKER_01 26:22

I have a lot of clients that will come to me basically there a lot, it's really common across all personal training is people want to lose excess body fat and gain muscle. Like that's like kind of like the number one thing. If you're like if you quiz anybody who's looking for coaching, I want to lose body fat, I want to gain muscle.

SPEAKER_00 26:41

Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 26:42

So so you get varying degrees of that, and and and there's hormonal things and there's there's things that you have to work around and with, but a lot a lot of times I get younger men who come to me and they have only ever their their their relationship with food is not beneficial to their life. And so we have to talk about, you know, they're there, they'll be like, well, my family always cooks this, so I eat this. Right. Okay, well, now we're gonna have to learn how to be an independent guy. Okay, so we're gonna have to like, and maybe you can influence your family to start eating this way. And then while we're working with you, okay, a lot of guys, especially younger guys in this generation that's younger now, they they are in touch with their emotions. They don't know how to, they don't know what to do with them, but they're in touch with them, and then they're they're a lot less outside activity. So I try to get people outside moving first regularly. I I have a sort of a prescription of go be outside, go get in nature. And if you can do it with people, even better because you now you have a but a group of buddies that are just all outside moving. Love that, and that's better than sitting on the couch playing a video game. And video games might have their place. I don't play them, I've never played them, but they might have their place in your life. But but the outside movement with friends is way more beneficial to your brain and your body. So that's that's kind of like where I start with people, and then we can assess from their, you know, their creative outlets, their relationship with their family or not, or with a with a religion or not, or you know, getting getting them to understand what they're should be grateful for and how to how to acknowledge gratitude. Yeah, I think that's huge for people. So I sort of work down, I I I approach every every person and group differently based on you know how they how they arrive, but they sort of want to integrate all these different things into their life, and maybe they can also teach me some things too, you know. I'm I'm always open-minded and open-eyed. I want to, I'm curious all the time.

SPEAKER_00 28:44

Yeah, that's fantastic. Is there one story though, in particular, that you'd like to share?

SPEAKER_01 28:50

About that. Well, I mean, one one guy who was coming to my group fitness classes regularly, he was never losing weight. He was coming and and working out and moving and and and working hard in classes, and he was always at least probably 50, 60 pounds overweight. And so he came to me and asked me, you know, I I I want to lose this excess weight. What can I do? And so he did, he was one of those scenarios of he he lived with his family, and his family ate a certain way. So I I taught him how to cook. And then I and then I was one, I wanted to dig deeper and find out his motivations for wanting to move in a certain path. And so once I had his motivation, I assessed how how motivated he was. And then using that motivation, we we we tackled sort of all the I don't want to call them negative forces, but not positive forces in his life. And and and we got him to be an independent man, and he ended up losing like 25% of his body weight. Wow. And strong. And then that that confidence that comes from that win pours over into your career, it pours

Coaching Others And The Role Of Fear

SPEAKER_01 30:02

over into relationships with people. It's gonna affect your life in a great way.

SPEAKER_00 30:07

Absolutely. Yeah, I love that. And and you know, you've you've already got some published materials on your website, and we're gonna talk about that. But is there a book in your future? It sounds like you seem to work.

SPEAKER_01 30:19

I would love to do that. I I'm I'm working on that now. I don't have one yet, but I there's so many little vignette stories that I have, like my life in Hollywood and and doing the modeling stuff and the travel stuff and relationships that were good but didn't work, or relationships that were terrible, like you know, all these different things that come into your life and decision making and how you can pivot and navigate them. I would love to write that book. I think it'd be really fun and a good piece of material for people who you know have a need a place to start.

SPEAKER_00 30:48

Fantastic. Well, we're coming to that sort of bewitching moment here. Is there one thought? If you had one thought to leave with the audience, what would that look like?

SPEAKER_01 30:59

I mentioned it earlier, but there's the cage door is not locked. I say that all the time to people. Like people think that they can't change because of the situation that they're in. And and you can. You can't. You you can you can change your environment and changes your thought process, it changes your change your activities, and you can absolutely live the life that you dream of. We're all made up of the same chemicals and cells and material. And anybody that you see that you desire what they have, you you can have it. You can do it. You can live it. Yeah, you can't. You literally can. I think I want to leave that with everybody. I think that's great. And if anybody wants to connect with me further, I'm on all the social media platforms. It's my name is it's Colin with one L Owensby. So I'm at the Colin Owensby on everything. And then my website is also the ColinOwensby.com.

SPEAKER_00 31:51

Fantastic. Well, Colin, I appreciate this. It's a fascinating story. I I admire greatly your work and your life, and you've you've you've done well for yourself. I I I love that. Keep doing it. Thanks so much, Joe. You're part of the bright side of humanity.

SPEAKER_01 32:09

Thanks so much, Joe. You as well.

SPEAKER_00 32:11

You bet. All right. Well, this has been another episode of the Healthy Living Podcast. I'm your host, Joe Grumbine. I want to thank all of our listeners for making this show possible, and we will see you next time.