About ME
I’m Owen Dockham—a husband, father, business owner, strength-training educator, and amateur pianist. I grew up in the Sierra foothills, many miles down a dirt road in an off-grid home—before people called them “off-grid homes.” I played piano and spent most of my childhood barefoot and outside.
Over the past decade, I’ve built Live Oak Str
I’m Owen Dockham—a husband, father, business owner, strength-training educator, and amateur pianist. I grew up in the Sierra foothills, many miles down a dirt road in an off-grid home—before people called them “off-grid homes.” I played piano and spent most of my childhood barefoot and outside.
Over the past decade, I’ve built Live Oak Strength from an idea into a million-dollar business and a well-respected strength-training facility. More importantly, it has become a special community—a place where real people make meaningful changes in their lives. I love the team we’ve built, and the relationships I have with our clients mean more to me than I can easily express.
Along the way, my wife and I became parents to a daughter whose unexpected medical complexity changed nearly everything about our lives. We later welcomed our son and began learning how to raise two very different children side by side. We are still learning.
This site is where I write about the subjects that have shaped me: physical strength, music, family, learning new skills, pain, mental health, business, and the strange ways they continually overlap.