The Own It Show

Episodes

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  Your Symptoms Are Messages: What Sleep Apnea, Weight Gain, and Inflammation Are Telling You 19.10.2026 18m

  Sleep apnea isn't always a genetics story. Often it's the last chapter of a lifestyle story that nobody bothered to read from the beginning. A man came to Justin Roethlingshoefer a month after his sleep study, sure the diagnosis was inherited because his dad had it too. Then they walked through his days: 90 pounds to lose, 15 years without real training, no evening routine, a pace his body couldn't keep up with, and nights that ended with the TV still on. The diagnosis wasn't where his story...
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  The Cellular Health Framework: Heal Your Cells With VO2 Max, Deep Sleep & HRV 12.10.2026 16m

  What is cellular health, really? Search it and almost every top result has a price tag attached. No major medical institution has put a clear definition on it, and the supplement industry has happily filled that gap. NAD might boost mitochondrial function in a lab, but in a real life with short nights, constant stress, and no training, a $147 bottle has very little to work with. That's why so many people fix one thing and find themselves chasing the next problem a year and a half later. In ...
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  How Entrepreneurs Build Capacity and Beat Burnout (4 Daily Habits) 05.10.2026 13m

  Entrepreneur burnout isn't a stress problem. It's a capacity problem. And almost no one is telling you the difference. In one week, Justin Roethlingshoefer hit two USA Today bestseller lists, made the Inc. 5000 for the second year, and spoke on seven stages in nine days. It was also the week a six month deal collapsed, a canceled flight turned into a 3am hotel arrival before an 8am talk, and his team walked through real loss. The best week and the worst week, the same seven days. That's the ...
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  What Blue Light Really Does to Your Body: Sleep, Hormones, and Mitochondria (A Scientist Explains) 28.09.2026 48m

  Blue light at night might be the real reason you cannot fall asleep, stay asleep, or wake up feeling rested. And it has almost nothing to do with blue light being "bad." Here is the part most people miss: blue light is not the enemy. During the day it is a nutrient your body actually needs. The problem is blue light at the wrong time, the "second sun" pouring out of your phone, your TV, and the LEDs overhead long after the real sun has set. Your brain reads that glow as midday, at midnight. ...
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  The Real Reason You're Upset About Thorne (And Why It Has Nothing To Do With Thorne) 21.09.2026 17m

  Thorne just got acquired by Procter & Gamble. Purely Elizabeth sold too. Everyone's furious, and almost no one is asking the right question. Every time a trusted health brand gets bought by Big Food, the reaction is the same: betrayal, another sellout, another good company gone. Thorne. Purely Elizabeth. Garden of Life before them. The names change, the pattern never does. But the acquisition was never the real problem. It's the mirror. What these companies are really buying isn't a sup...
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  Stop Trying to Lower Your Cortisol (You've Been Fighting the Wrong Hormone.) 14.09.2026 13m

  Everyone's telling you to lower your cortisol. Almost no one is telling you the truth. Cortisol has become the internet's favorite villain: the hormone to detox, suppress, and blame for your belly fat and your burnout. But your body floods you with it, the second light hits your eyes each morning for a reason. Not because something's broken. Because something is working exactly as designed. If you're a high performer doing everything right and you still feel wired, exhausted, and quietly fa...
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  Why You Feel Awful When Every Doctor Says You're "Perfectly Healthy" 11.09.2026 9m

  Everyone told Justin he was the picture of health: six-pack abs, triathlons, coaching pro athletes, perfect bloodwork. Inside, he felt like he was dying. Bloated every day, foggy, exhausted no matter how much he slept and every doctor said the same thing: "Your labs look great." It took a precancerous diagnosis and one question in a parked car to see the truth: we've confused normal with healthy. A normal lab doesn't mean you're thriving, it means you don't yet have a disease that one test w...
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  This is why You're Still Tired After 8 Hours of Sleep (It's Recovery, Not Sleep) 07.09.2026 10m

  You slept 8 hours. So why do you still feel exhausted? Here's what nobody told you: sleep and recovery are not the same thing. You can lie there unconscious all night and still wake up foggy, inflamed, and running on empty, because the real restoration happens in the deep stages of sleep most high-performers never reach. That's when your brain finally switches on its overnight cleanup crew and clears out everything the day left behind. In this episode, Justin Roethlingshoefer unpacks the sc...
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  How Success Made Me a Toxic Leader: My Team Secretly Called Me "The Devil"with Brad Lomenick 31.08.2026 50m

  Brad Lomenick spent more than a decade leading Catalyst, one of the biggest leadership movements in the Christian world, selling out arenas, hitting every number, building something huge. And somewhere in the middle of all that winning, he quietly fell apart. Sixty pounds overweight. Running on stress. Leading his team so poorly they secretly nicknamed him "the devil." None of it showed up on the scoreboard. In this conversation on The Own It Show, Justin Roethlingshoefer and Brad dig into h...
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  "You've Ruined Your Health for Good" Is a Lie: The science of how your body forgives you every day 24.08.2026 29m

  If you've quietly decided you've done too much damage to ever feel healthy again, this one is going to hit different. There's a reason you can neglect your health for a decade and still wake up breathing: you were built to heal, relentlessly, and on repeat. Justin Roethlingshoefer connects what the science shows, your cells replace themselves constantly, rebuilding you into a biologically new person every 5–7 years, with what Scripture said long before the microscope: restoration isn't a rew...
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  Why You Keep Praying for Healing but Nothing Ever Changes, with Alex Seeley 17.08.2026 52m

  Everyone thinks healing is something that happens to you. Alex Seeley says the real question is whether you actually want it, because most people are asking God to heal the very things they refuse to change. Justin Roethlingshoefer sits down with Alex, pastor of The Belonging Co in Nashville, for a raw Holy Health conversation about identity, deception, and why getting well can feel scarier than staying sick. This episode isn't anti-therapy or anti-medicine. Alex credits the nutritionist wh...
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  Counting Macros Is NOT Discipleship: The real reason you're still sick, foggy, inflamed, and stuck 10.08.2026 24m

  Everyone thinks counting macros is discipline. Almost no one tells you it might be the exact thing keeping you sick, tired, and stuck. Justin Roethlingshoefer breaks down why tracking every calorie was never discipleship, it's obsession dressed up as obedience, and what it actually looks like to steward your nutrition the way God designed. This episode isn't anti-nutrition or anti-education. Counting calories for a week to learn what's on your plate is a tool. But the moment tracking ...
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  Marketing Science vs. Real Science: How to Know Which Health Experts to Trust 03.08.2026 41m

  Everyone's got a health expert they follow. But almost no one tells you how to know if that person is actually worth trusting, or just really good at selling. Justin Roethlingshoefer breaks down the difference between marketing science and real science: how to evaluate any health claim, the red flags of someone optimizing for reach over results, and the questions that expose who's in it for your transformation versus who's in it for the check. This episode isn't anti-influencer or anti-sup...
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  Ozempic Is Quietly Eating Your Muscle — 8 Risks Nobody Warns You About 27.07.2026 34m

  Everyone's talking about Ozempic. But almost no one tells you what it's quietly doing to your body, or how to use it without paying for it later. Justin Roethlingshoefer breaks down the long-term side effects of GLP-1 drugs like Ozempic, Wegovy, Mounjaro, and Zepbound (semaglutide and tirzepatide): the muscle and bone you lose, why people quit, what happens when you stop, and the protocol to do it right. This episode isn't anti-GLP-1. For type 2 diabetes, severe obesity, or high cardiovascu...
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  Biblical Health Guide: What God Actually Says About Food, Healing, and Your Body with Jordan Rubin 20.07.2026 1h 2m

  Jordan Rubin joins Justin Roethlingshoefer on The OWN IT Show for a powerful faith and health conversation on biblical nutrition, healing, and what the Bible actually says about food — including the foods, herbs, and lifestyle habits Scripture points to for healing, longevity, and living the way God designed. This is a biblical process for healing that actually works — not another passing diet trend. Jordan's story is extraordinary: a healthy teenager diagnosed with Crohn's colitis at 19, who...
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  What Makes a Good Marriage? Practical Habits to Restore Intimacy & Connection with Belah Rose 13.07.2026 1h 2m

  Belah Rose joins Justin Roethlingshoefer on The OWN IT Show for a powerful Christian marriage conversation on what makes a good marriage, how to build a healthy Christian marriage, how to restore intimacy in marriage, and how husbands and wives can rebuild trust, connection, communication, forgiveness, and emotional closeness. If you are married, in a struggling marriage, trying to improve your marriage relationship, wondering how to save your marriage, or asking what the role of husband and...
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  Perimenopause Power: How to Take Back Your Energy & Hormones with Stefanie Billette 06.07.2026 52m

  Stefanie Billette joins Justin Roethlingshoefer on The OWN IT Show for a powerful women’s health conversation on perimenopause, hormone changes, hot flashes, weight gain, low energy, thyroid health, sleep, nutrition, strength training, and why women need a better strategy for this transition. Perimenopause can feel like your body is working against you. Energy drops, sleep changes, hot flashes start, weight gain shows up, and workouts stop working the way they used to. But this does not mean...
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  Your Body Is Not the Enemy: A Biblical Path to Health and Wholeness with Danielle Strickland 29.06.2026 56m

  Danielle Strickland joins Justin Roethlingshoefer on The OWN IT Show for a Holy Health conversation on embodied faith, the relationship between Christian faith and physical health, and why so many believers have been taught to silence, punish, or disconnect from their bodies—instead of seeing them as a good gift designed to carry their calling. In a world that turns discipline, intensity, and physical performance into the goal, Danielle shares the moment she realized she had never intentiona...
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  Your Body Isn’t Failing You: What Women Need to Know About Hormones with OWN IT Health Coaches 22.06.2026 50m

  If you’re a woman feeling exhausted, hormonal, overwhelmed, burned out, disconnected from your body, or like your body isn’t yours anymore, this episode is for you. In this powerful women’s health conversation, OWN IT Coaches Emily Rusch, Emily Mitchell, and Stefanie Billette join Justin Roethlingshoefer on The OWN IT Show to talk about hormones, perimenopause, postpartum health, fertility, motherhood, strength training, sleep, energy, autoimmune health, burnout, body image, and what it mean...
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  The Christian Health Trap: Neglect vs Idolatry, with Levi Lusko 15.06.2026 1h 1m

  Pastor Levi Lusko joins Justin Roethlingshoefer on The OWN IT Show for a Holy Health conversation on health as worship (not performance), why the Church keeps falling into two extremes (neglect vs idolatry), and how “holy health” is ultimately surrendered health —built to carry your calling. In a world that turns “discipline” into the goal, Justin and Levi call out what most people don’t see: you can quote Scripture, lead well, and still quietly run your body into the ground—until your peace...