Team Never Quit - Chris Osman: Marine, Navy SEAL, Founder of Rhuged

Chris Osman: Marine, Navy SEAL, Founder of Rhuged

11/11/20 • 81 min

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Chris Osman has a myriad of incredible personal experiences to share in this week’s TNQ Podcast. He is a former Marine and a former Navy SEAL who participated in numerous classified operations, a husband and parent. He has experienced everything from incarceration in a Haitian jail to dealing with a rare, life-threatening disease affecting his wife. Chris currently owns and operates Rhuged, a direct-to-consumer ammunitions distributor. Listen as Chris shares some of his “Never Quit” stories. In this episode you will hear:

I learned as I failed.
I couldn’t shake the desire to be specialized. I wanted to be tested to see if I could even do it.
The most isolated and depressed I’ve ever felt was being in a Haitian jail. I had zero control – there’s nothing we could do. Bare-footed with a shirt & pants, and that’s it.
My headspace was in survival mode.
I had never been so terrified. When I finally got on that plane with my passport on a commercial airline to Miami, tears were streaming down my eyes.
One day my wife started slurring her speech, and we learned she had contracted Myasthenia Gravis, an auto-immune disease that affects the immune system from the shoulders up.
One night while in the hospital, she was looking at me, and her eyes rolled back into her head. I quickly assembled the bag mask and called for help. I’ve never been through anything like that. It was a never quit moment.
You push forward by being the positive light in someone else’s miserable experience.
You gotta be a rock for your people.
You can’t bail on people when it gets to be the hardest part of their life.
It doesn’t matter how much money you’ve got, you can’t be a Navy SEAL. You gotta put the work in.
No matter how much someone would pay me, I’d never put myself back in a position to work for someone else.
My goal in life is to never work for somebody else.

I learned as I failed.
I couldn’t shake the desire to be specialized. I wanted to be tested to see if I could even do it.
The most isolated and depressed I’ve ever felt was being in a Haitian jail. I had zero control – there’s nothing we could do. Bare-footed with a shirt & pants, and that’s it.
My headspace was in survival mode.
I had never been so terrified. When I finally got on that plane with my passport on a commercial airline to Miami, tears were streaming down my eyes.
One day my wife started slurring her speech, and we learned she had contracted Myasthenia Gravis, an auto-immune disease that affects the immune system from the shoulders up.
One night while in the hospital, she was looking at me, and her eyes rolled back into her head. I quickly assembled the bag mask and called for help. I’ve never been through anything like that. It was a never quit moment.
You push forward by being the positive light in someone else’s miserable experience.
You gotta be a rock for your people.
You can’t bail on people when it gets to be the hardest part of their life.
It doesn’t matter how much money you’ve got, you can’t be a Navy SEAL. You gotta put the work in.
No matter how much someone would pay me, I’d never put myself back in a position to work for someone else.
My goal in life is to never work for somebody else.

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Mike Rouse: Ultramarathoner, Triathlete, Endurance Athlete, Philanthropist

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If you’re looking for the definition of perseverance, endurance, and a ridiculous “Never Quit” mentality, you will find it in today’s episode with Mike Rouse. Here’s a guy who went from having it all into falling into a cocaine habit that sent him to prison. But the prison life caused him to seek life again outside the prison walls, which, in turn, caused him to start running. Since his freedom from incarceration, Mike has devoted his life to helping others and has become one of the country’s elite runners. He has run hundreds of marathons, dozens of 50-kilometer races, 31-mile races, and 50-mile races. Twenty-four-hour runs and 100-mile races are like home to him, as are Ironmans and Ultramarathons. Mike has won 2 world championships. One of his closest friends, a Navy SEAL was one of 31 soldiers killed on a mission, and every year since then, he’s been running 3.1 miles, 31 times in a row, wearing a shirt with the names and faces of those 31 men. He changes shirts upon completion of every 3.1 miles. He never met most of those men, but Mike feels like he knows them because of the research he’s done on them, the families he’s met, and his own bond with his friend, JT. In this episode you will hear:

Use your failures as your advancement
The first mile of my entire life was when I was 33 years old.
When I was incarcerated, I thought “I’ve gotta do something to get my life together.” And running was a big part of that.
The majority of ultra-runners I know have some degree of addictive behavior. It drives them to go above and beyond.
We’re driven to the next level of competition.
When I was doing [cocaine], it wasn’t enough to do a gram or two a day, it was a quarter ounce.
I thrive on pain.
If you think you are gonna run 26, 50, or 100 miles and have no pain, you have no idea what you’re doing. You’ve got to be ready for it and just embrace it.
I choose to do this [running] and I accept that pain.
[Marcus Luttrell] Pain is a matter of perspective of the person going through it.
31 men gave everything they had for this country – for this freedom.
I know I can’t give up.
If you’ve ever quit, the next time, it’s easier to quit.
I had all the positives a person could have in life, and yet I had a criminal record.
I run 31 miles a day for 31 days, for 31 heroes.
[Your son] is gonna be riding on my shoulder tomorrow and I’m gonna be listening to every word he says. When I think I’m hurting a little bit, and he says let’s go, we’ve just got 5 miles left, or 20 miles left.
It’s 2020 and those families are still hurting 9 years later.

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Meyers Leonard: Miami Heat Center, Co-Founder of Level Foods, Philanthropist

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This week, we spend some time with Meyers Leonard, an American professional basketball player of the NBA’s Miami Heat, and Co-Founder of Level Foods with his wife, Elle. Meyers’ outlook on life, hard work, and the relentless pursuit of excellence will motivate you. His never quit attitude has brought him through many personal and professional difficulties. Listen as Meyers shares his inspiring stories. In this episode you will hear:

I’m just a normal, blue-collar dude, who’s been thru the struggle, on and off the basketball floor.
2 things that help get me by - no matter what: My character and my work ethic.
How can I help my team? Selflessness.
There’s no chance I’m giving up.
I want shit to get tough, because that when the mental edge takes over.
Patriotism runs deep in my family.
I can support the military because of my connections to it, but I still understand that there are issues in America, and I can support my teammates and what they have felt in their lives.
I could’ve quit – I gave it 7 years – Then I went from getting booed to crowds chanting my name.
People think that because I’m 7 feet; I’ve got millions of dollars; I drive nice cars – everything is great, but I’m still a normal human being. Sometimes things are hard.
You are gonna get your opportunity and you better be ready.
I wanna be known as a man who did something for someone else.