This week on the Team Never Quit Podcast, Marcus and Melanie sit down with Justin Roethlingshoefer—human performance expert, data-driven health strategist, and founder of OWN IT Coaching—to explore how rock-bottom moments can fuel world-class breakthroughs.
With over two decades of experience optimizing performance for NCAA and NHL athletes, Justin shares how a life-threatening health scare forced him to apply his elite strategies to himself—uncovering a deeper, more universal truth: everyone deserves access to the systems that help the best perform at their best.
Now a bestselling author, speaker, and host of The OWN IT Show, Justin helps leaders, executives, and athletes take ownership of their health so they can fully live out their God-given mission. His journey is a powerful reminder that faith, discipline, and purpose-driven living are essential for real transformation.
Whether you’re a high achiever, a health seeker, or someone navigating personal adversity, Justin’s story will challenge you to stop surviving—and start owning your life, mind, body, and mission.
In This Episode You Will Hear:
• I still remember at 7, 8, 9, 10,11, 12 years old, playing outside on the outdoor rinks for 3, 4, 5 hours a night in -10, -15, -20 degree weather. (6:27)
• At 8 years old, I knew what my mission was – what my God-given calling was which was to be part of the redemption story of the health of America. (7:07)
• I was raised with a deep conviction and relationship with the Lord, and just a love for people. (7:45)
• As men we think that we can grab little issues and dump them in a bucket, and we handle them like it’s nothing, but little do we know they’re stacking up. (11:35)
• There are 4 types of heats: An addictive heart, a hardened heart, a performance heart, and a bruised heart. (13:43).
• What are our habits? What are our behaviors? How do we live? How does that show the stewardship and honor for what we’ve been given to carry out His calling? (15:36)
• If you know who’s you are, and who’s call you’re executing, at the end of the day, the results don’t matter, it’s the journey you’re waiting on. (18:13)
• Isaiah 40 – Those who are willing to wait on the Lord will rise up on wings like eagles, will run and not grow weary, will walk and not grow faint. (18:51)
• The younger generation is learning in a new way. They want to have evidence. (19:41)
• We could be pulled off-purpose. And the moment you get distracted is the moment you get disconnected. (21:58)
• I always ask 3 questions: What’s your name? How’s your heart? How can I help? (30:35)
• Try to be a reflection of love every single place you go. Try to speak life into people. (32:49)
• You have a choice: Do you want your compromise to be compounding in your life? Or do you want your commitment to be compounding in your life? (33:37)
• I grew up a fat kid: Was teased, made fun of, ADHD, OCD. (35:41)
• Success without fulfillment is the ultimate failure. (42:48)
• How we live is our true and proper worship. (44:17)
• I’m learning that I’m perfectly imperfectly wired. (54:23)
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