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The Burn Podcast by Ben Newman
Justin Gatlin: From Olympic Gold to Coaching the Next Generation
On this episode of The Burn Podcast, I'm fired up to sit down with Justin Gatlin, Olympic gold medalist, world champion sprinter, and now a highly sought-after coach and mentor. In this powerful conversation, we dive into the world of elite athletics, exploring the mindset, dedication, and resilience required to reach the pinnacle of success. Justin shares his journey from being a young athlete with big dreams to becoming one of the most accomplished sprinters in history.
We discuss the challenges he faced along the way, including the highs and lows of his career, and how he developed the mental toughness to overcome adversity. Justin also opens up about his transition from athlete to coach, and the impact he's making on the next generation of athletes, including my own daughter, Kennedy Rose.
Throughout our conversation, Justin drops nuggets of wisdom on the importance of discipline, hard work, and living each day with intention. He shares insights from his best-selling book, "Ready, Set, Go," which is not only a memoir but also a guide to activating your mindset for success.
If you're someone who is chasing big dreams and striving for excellence in your life, then this episode is a must-listen. Get ready to be inspired, motivated, and equipped with the tools you need to ignite your own purpose and resilience. NOW. WE. GO.
GET JUSTIN'S BOOK- READY. SET. GO.
Chapters:
00:00 - Introduction
02:30 - Justin's journey to becoming an Olympic champion
10:15 - Overcoming adversity and developing mental toughness
18:45 - Transitioning from athlete to coach and mentor
25:00 - The impact of Justin's work on the next generation of athletes
32:10 - Insights from Justin's best-selling book, "Ready, Set, Go"
40:30 - The importance of discipline, hard work, and living with intention
48:00 - Igniting your purpose and resilience
54:00 - Conclusion and final thoughts
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Speaker 2:Welcome back to another episode of the Burn. I am Ben Newman and you know how we do this every single week we're going to bring you a story of an athlete, an entertainer, a celebrity, somebody from the business world who's recognized that why and purpose is not enough, who's recognized that why and purpose is not enough. There's the underlying burn that ignites your why and purpose and causes you to show up on the days you don't feel like it and especially after you win. You all already recognize that this is a repeat guest and we only bring on repeat guests when those guests have a dear place in my heart and my life and we have continued to do great things together and they have continued to do amazing things that are deserving of coming back onto the burn to show what happens when you, as an individual, stay connected to your burn. So before I bring Justin Gatlin back to the stage here on the burn, just a couple of highlights Since the first burn episode that we have done. We also did a special burn episode where some of you got to see the amazing job that Justin did from the stage at our boot camp in Las Vegas last year. We also did the Knoxville Summit. It was the first time that Justin returned back to Knoxville where he made his name his name at the University of Tennessee, becoming an All-American, getting signed by Nike, which led him to becoming a pro and the last American to win the 100-meter gold at the Olympics and led him to knocking off Usain Bolt in Usain Bolt's last ever race. So we know him as one of the fastest individuals to ever run the face of the earth.
Speaker 2:He has taken his skills as a coach now to be coaching athletes all over the world Athletes in the NFL. He and I were at the NFL Combine together last year at the same time. We both had different athletes that we were working with, which was pretty cool, and my favorite athlete that Justin now works with is the undefeated Kennedy Rose Newman. So Justin has been able to come to St Louis and to work with Kennedy to train her, and Kennedy was undefeated in the 100 meters this year. It brings tears to my eyes. I have no idea. As I tell Justin all the time, I don't know where the hell her speed came from. So you are doing something right with this girl, but it has been amazing to watch her compete and we can talk a little bit about that.
Speaker 2:But I would just say to all of you, make sure that you provide your children with every resource possible. If you are a track star and you want your kids to run track, I'm telling you go and find a different voice. It's amazing what it'll do. I was a basketball player. I find other basketball trainers to work with my kids and they're great little basketball players because the voice is just heard differently. So Justin has been an amazing blessing to our family. He's become an amazing, dear, dear friend, and today we get to highlight the last of the accomplishments which I am so, so, so, so proud of. But Justin is now a bestselling author of Ready Set Go. And so, justin Gatlin, you have been a busy man since coming on the burn. So welcome back to the Burn, and you know I love you and so so excited to have you here on the show.
Speaker 1:Well, ben, I'm feeling some type of way right now because you might be a little faster than me, man, I had your book ready right here, if I could send it to you.
Speaker 3:You already got one man.
Speaker 1:So somebody, get this man a bib or something. Put him on the start line. I think he's ready for the Olympics.
Speaker 2:Seriously Well, it's awesome to have you back on the show.
Speaker 1:It's great to be back, man. You know you helped me jump into this pool, find myself outside of athletics and it's been an amazing journey and it's still going right now and I'm happy that I'm able to bless other people with the knowledge from my book out there to be able to give knowledge to people like Kennedy, Rose and NFL guys and Olympians as well, mentally and physically, and help them become a better athlete. And that's why I'm here now. I can step away from and hang up my track spikes and kind of put my humanitarian hood on and really go out there and help and consult with these next generation athletes.
Speaker 2:And I know the book was a really big piece of that consulting and we're going to dive into the many things that you're doing in the different arenas, because it's really incredible and, you know, sometimes I think your humbleness doesn't give the spotlight, the shine that it should have on you for the extraordinary things that you're doing off the track. You know you used to run and the bright lights were there, whether you liked it or not, running in front of 100,000. But now you know I really want to highlight some of the things that you're doing. Now you know I really want to highlight some of the things that you're doing. So let's start with the book. Why was it so important for you to finally write a book and to share your story as part of your overall platform to impact?
Speaker 1:Well, you know a lot of close friends my parents, for many years. They're like you need to write a book, you need to write a book. And I was like you can't write a book until the story's done. And so now, the moment I retired, my mom tapped me on the shoulder. She says it's time to write that book. So we sat down, we thought about exactly how the book was going to be laid out and you know me, I want to be a one on one kind of guy.
Speaker 1:When you go through the book and you dive into this book, it is basically a memoir of how I have navigated my life through as a young kid, a young adult and turning into a grown man who became a champion in life and in athletics, and also, at the end of these chapters, activations. So the readers being young athletes, parents, anybody that wants to find a real mindset to be able to overcome adversity but also seize and capture how to win, you know, is going to be in the back of each chapter. So it kind of parallels to whatever I went through in that moment of my life, through the ups and downs, and it helped me get through those ups and downs and I'm sharing that same knowledge. So now you have a memoir, now you have almost like a mindset activation at the end of each chapter and I wrote a poem. I didn't find, I didn't know I was a poet. I wrote a poem at the end of the book.
Speaker 1:But I think one of the most special things for me about the book is my parents inserts At the end. They give an understanding how to recognize and raise a champion If you have a child physically gifted, but also how to strengthen them mentally and guide them. My parents wasn't athletically inclined, I actually. People were like, well, where'd you come from? Because usually, traditionally, a parent usually is the athlete and then they teach their kids how to be athletes and so forth. So for me we were learning together, son and parents, holding hands, going down this whole rabbit hole track and field, the Olympics, world championships and we kind of took notes along the way and remember the good and the bad. And then that's why we kind of like put it to words in our book as well.
Speaker 2:I love it. You know one of the things and you know I was very thankful and, you know, blessed to have the opportunity to write the forward for the book when you gave me that invitation, which, when you write the forward for the book, that means you get to read the book early, and so much of the story that I knew, so much of the story I didn't know and you know your father coming from a military background, your mom, her toughness growing up, and you know from Brooklyn and all these types of things. Your parents shaped discipline and instilled these amazing values in you and I think for the reader, what's so unique is they see that discipline shine throughout your entire life, through ups, through downs, through challenge, through adversity, through becoming a champion. Why was it so important for you to be vulnerable and transparent with adversity and challenge? With the book?
Speaker 1:I think when I was going through everything, I felt so alone. You know, through all my challenges, even through victory, you know it's what they say is lonely at the top sometimes. So I wanted you know, the readers and young athletes to know what it feels like and know that you're not alone If you're a winner. What does it feel like to be a winner? You know, because as athletes we really don't talk about certain things, we don't talk about our lows and our highs, we just kind of just stay, even keeled, across the board. And through the adversities I really felt alone. I felt like I was in a dark place.
Speaker 1:And then I realized I got a lot of love and fanfare from people saying, man, I was going through a tough time. And knowing that you were going through a tough time too, it made me want to be stronger because I saw how you was able to elevate yourself out of that darkness and still remain who you are, your integrity and your drive and your fight to still go out there and conquer life. And it's like that gave me the inspiration. And it'll be some people then who never even ran track before, they said I saw you run, I saw the intensity, I saw the dedication, the hard work. It made me want to run, you know.
Speaker 1:So I helped bring people into a whole sport that never even thought they could even do it. And they gave it a try because they became more brave, they became more disciplined and they wanted to go out there and challenge life and make a life for themselves and control their destiny. So it made me feel really good and I was like, well, how do we package this? How do we be able to say, okay, let's connect that, let's take away that buffer of an athlete at a high elevation and someone who's watching? And how do you connect? And I think this book is going to be a way for them to connect with me and know exactly what my journey was and hopefully, inspires others as well.
Speaker 2:And I think, one of the amazing things, the inspiration that comes from the book, which I highly recommend to everybody, and we're going to make it as easy as possible You'll be able to link and purchase the book right there on Amazon. The book has become a bestseller, amazon, the book has become a bestseller. Another unique thing that Justin and I have in common now is the opportunity to work with Game Changer Publishing. Chris Cauley and her team are absolutely extraordinary. They're the power and the fuel behind BNC Publishing, and so it's just been incredible to see the relationship you've now established with Chris and her bringing the book to the forefront and to the world. You know one of the unique pictures. Before I make a transition, but really stay on the topic of the impact you're having, you know Chris was able to, in Knoxville, arrange for an early release of the book and people who attended that event and how fitting for you to officially become an author in Knoxville. Everybody received initial copies of the books there, but I was able to hand you the first ever copy of that book and I'll never forget that picture. I'll never forget that moment. It was absolutely incredible for me and a picture I'll hold dear to my heart forever and just an incredible memory. You now if you think about this proverbial for those of you listening me handing a book to Justin.
Speaker 2:Justin has now gone on to handle all these amazing lessons to others through speaking at events. You know he's now speaking all over the world. His podcast has brought a platform to the world of track and field and beyond that had never been done before. I mean, you watch some of his episodes and you know it's become so popular because nobody in that community had never done anything like that from a podcast platform. So let's start there, justin, because you have a unique opportunity. This is an Olympic year. You are going back to the Olympics for the first time as a spectator to watch the 100-meter and you're going there to take your podcast, which is a one-of-a-kind podcast in true form, because you are one-of-a-kind. You are one-of-one.
Speaker 1:So tell us a little bit about your excitement to return to the Olympics interviewing athletes there and now bringing this amazing podcast back to the world of participate at the world championships. That was actually in paris at that time and I sat in that stadium and I watched my fellow teammates go out there and run and win medals and get their victory laps on the grand stage and I told myself I'm never going to sit in the stands again unless I'm ready to sit in the stands.
Speaker 1:And throughout my whole career of almost 20 years. Every time I went to a championship I was on that starting line. So now I get the opportunity to kind of go full circle and now I can say, okay, cool, I can sit in the stands now because I want to, and I can enjoy as a spectator and watch history being made in the 100 men's 100 meters and the women's 100 meters. So it's going to be amazing just to sit there and just watch the celebration, the cheers, the energy, because I'm used to being on the track and feeling the energy of the crowd. You know, now I can be able to be immersed in that energy and and see exactly what's going to happen, see history being made. So I'm excited. I leave on the get there on the second and it's going to be a whirlwind for like almost about a week for me.
Speaker 1:We're going to be on the go, moving around, vlogging, doing episodes of the podcast, talking to all walks of life that have to do with the Olympics and so the audience can get a better perspective on what it is, and we're talking about financials, contracts of athletes. We're talking about health and well-being of athletes and preparation. We're going to talk to athletes who've been to multiple Olympics. What is it like? Are all the Olympics the same? Because this, right here, is the moment where the world stops. The world comes together, no matter if it's war or whatever's going on in the world. The Olympics puts all that on pause and people cheer for the dedication of these athletes. So I wanna be right there and I've loved being a part of it, but I wanna be right there witnessing on the streets how special this is.
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Speaker 2:So let's talk about something here. I think this is amazing. You know, to return, I love the way that you just frame that like you would not sit as a spectator until you were ready to sit as a spectator. You know. It's also very unique that it's 2024. You won the gold medal in 2004. So this is the 20 year anniversary of you winning gold at the Olympics and you're the last American to win gold in the Olympics in the 100 meter. Tough question, and you may not want to answer it Will we see an American win gold in the 100 meters this year?
Speaker 1:There is a strong possibility. You have Noah Lowes, who's been going out there and dominating for the last two years. He's the current world champion in the 100 and the 200 meters, with the four by one as well, and he's that kind of athlete that he believes in manifestation. He believes in the fact of if I say I'm going to do it, I'm going to work hard, I'm going to challenge myself and not care what anybody else thinks and I'm going to go out there and seize the moment. That's a dangerous athlete to be able to compete against. If they think they can get the job done and they work hard to get the job done, most likely they're going to get the job done.
Speaker 1:But he has a new generational adversary and a guy named Keyshane Thompson from Jamaica. And when we thought that Jamaica has left the sprint world after Usain Bolt retired, another sprint sensation has risen you know what I'm saying to the challenge and he's ran one of the fastest times in the world this year and last year and it's going to be an amazing show to watch. So I'm going to sit there, I'm going to applaud either way. You know, if a Jamaican wins, amazing. If an American wins, he's the guy that got it done, but right now I am the last American who has won Olympic gold for Team USA.
Speaker 2:And if you want to know all about what it takes to win gold and to be a champion, I got to plug it one more time. I may do this many more times throughout the episode. Ready set go. The book is out. The book is amazing. The book is a bestseller. Make sure to grab a copy.
Speaker 2:Another area where you've continued to have a significant impact and it's another one of those connections that we now have is your work down in Houston.
Speaker 2:I'd love for you to tell us a little bit about the speed work that you're doing with athletes, and one of my favorite athletes that I've ever had the opportunity to work with uh and he and I have remained friends and I just have the ability to stay connected with him is naji harris, the running back for the pittsburgh steelers, and you and your organization's work this off season.
Speaker 2:I'm telling you I knew from being with Najee all those years at Alabama that he was a special, unique, one-of-one type talent. The speed in which you all have taken him to. I cannot wait for him to pound the ground this year on NFL fields across this country, but it blew me away how he's maintained his size and his strength, but the speed that you guys have brought out of him. Tell us a little bit about the unique work, because I think a lot of athletes say, oh well, I'd have to cut weight to get faster, I'd have to do this. I'm telling you he looks bigger than he's ever looked and he looks faster than he's ever looked. So tell us a little bit about the work that you're doing with the Najee Harris's, the elite performers, the NFL players, but also down to the individuals like Kennedy Rose, and how you might be able to help somebody listening or to help one of their children.
Speaker 1:So working with Najee has been an amazing experience because he's such a unique individual, right when you look at him, he's just the best way to explain it is he's just a big human. He's a big human Like he's proportionate and he's big Like he's not, you know, normal average size and stocky. He's not tall and lanky, he's just a big human. So watching him, like in his running stance and his running form and getting up and go, like it's amazing to watch because he's probably sitting at 225 and he needs to jump up, probably now 245 around there in that range so you think about someone who's like 245 pounds and they're out there still running people over and they're racing, ripping down the sideline to get to the, to the end zone that is amazing to watch. So work with him his mindset is just one of one. He does an amazing job of staying diligent and not having, you know, to lean on other teammates or individuals to like come, come on, man, get it going, get it going. Like he has his own internal clock of. This is my time, this is my grind, you know. So watching him, watching him go out and operate, and then seeing what he does by going to Mexico and other places and and kind of introducing that culture to football as well. That shows that he has an extensive career outside of just football. When he wants to retire, he's he's a guy who could be able to connect other cultures and other countries to the world of football. He just has that character. He's an amazing guy to watch.
Speaker 1:Man and other athletes that are coming along. Just sometimes you have athletes who are just amazing when it comes to physical but they don't have the mental, and I think mental is something that lacks actually in sports. We praise athletes like Michael Jordan, tom Brady, lebron, james, kobe, kaelin, clark, angel Reese, angel Reese. We praise all these amazing athletes on not only their physical talent but their mental gift that they have to be, locked in, and I think that needs to change.
Speaker 1:Now the narrative is I don't want to shoot the same shots Kalen made. You know what I mean. I don't want to throw a touchdown like Tom Brady. I want to be locked in. I want to be locked in for all four quarters. I want to be locked in for all four quarters. I want to be locked in for those two halves. I want to go out there and have my mind like a steel trap and nothing can break me. Because if your mind can do it, your body can do it. But if your mind's not ready, I don't care how hard you work your body and you are not going to get it done.
Speaker 1:So working with those that's the pipeline that we're creating in Houston. We want to work with young athletes from middle school to high school and all the way to college and professional Middle school athletes. We're teaching them how to be familiar with their body, how to be able to run correctly, how to be brave in their attempt to go out there and win. And then high school is more of like educating them how to be able to say okay, you really got three years right, because that senior year is where college is already going to be picking and looking at you. So either you can use that senior year as a dream year and say I'm already signed, people know who I am because you work so hard your freshman, sophomore and junior year to get it done, done, and now your senior year is just beauty, um.
Speaker 1:And those college athletes. Those college athletes are in that weird space where it's a transitional phase, where they're in that college system but they may have bigger dreams to turn pro. But how do you turn pro? Especially in track and field? There's no draft, you know what I mean. So it's not like the NBA or NFL where you can say, oh, this is how I can get to the next level. A lot of these kids don't know how to get to the next level. So that's where my expertise comes in. I can help mentally get them ready. But I also can consult them on how to kind of navigate themselves from a collegiate realm into a more of a professional realm and kind of make them more business mindset. And then those pros that we have, that we're working with it's the same thing getting them more consistent, making them stronger, making them faster, making them more confident when they step to that starting line or when they get on that football field.
Speaker 2:And that's one of the things that I think is so unique about your story Back to how I shared about the book and just from what you learned with your parents to discipline, to mindset, to becoming a champion this has just remained consistent your entire life, and I would just share with anybody listening in a world that can be very confusing when it comes to coaching and mental toughness, and these differences that Justin's alluding to you cannot replace what Justin Gatlin has been through, so like. Yes, he's one of one in terms of being one of the top three fastest human beings to ever run the face of the earth, but there's also a uniqueness of now coaching and doing things over a long period of time. He was coaching back in the day when he was at Tennessee as a teammate right Because he was a leader, sharpening iron with the individuals that he was training with, and so I just I strongly recommend, get down to Houston, learn more about Justin. We're going to give you all the ways to stay connected to the amazing things that he's doing. But I've literally heard from Najee himself he and I talked in the offseason just how much the work through their organization meant to him, his development and his mindset.
Speaker 2:And then back to my daughter. For Kennedy Rose, you know it was fun watching you, you know, hold her back with the parachute deal. I mean just all the training, the physical. But I'll tell you, all listening, when I would watch Justin say, okay, we're done with the physical, let's walk around the track. And the conversations that you had with my daughter to bring out this fire inside of her, it makes me so damn emotional. And to see her excitement for a track meet, like you just knew, like yeah, god's blessed her with some physical capabilities and you brought out more in her. But the conversations you had, as you alluded to the mental and the fire I see in her eyes at a meet, like daddy doesn't need to say anything, I just get to sit and enjoy her race. And so I just I'm so excited, proud to be your friend, I'm so excited for this new spotlight to be on you training NFL players to training my daughter and everything in between, because I think the impact you're going to have and the champions you're going to create, because you're so young and you're so hungry and you're so dialed in with your family, it's just such a great example.
Speaker 2:And whether it's speaking engagements, whether it's training. Please, everybody, you need to be following Justin, you need to read the book, you need to stay connected, because there aren't many individuals who retire and have had the success that he's had, that decide to go seek more impact when those lights are turned off. And so, if we could finish there, justin, because I think your example is so extraordinary for all of us, why is legacy? Why is impact? You've done it all. You've traveled the world, you've been a champion, you've been I mean just all of it. You've done it all. Why is this so important to you? Legacy and impact through others.
Speaker 1:Now, you know, being an athlete, you have a small window in your whole life to be an athlete and when you're, when you retire, you want to look back on it and say I did a, I did something amazing. I did something that's going to make me feel good or make others feel good, or make your, your children, be proud to be. That's going to make me feel good or make others feel good or make your children be proud to be. That's your father or your mother. You know, and I really feel that this is a message and a platform and a launching pad for athletes to understand don't take every day for granted. Live your life as if you want to create a legacy, even if you're 14 or 15 years old. Live your life like you want to create a legacy.
Speaker 1:Now, you may not know everything right off the bat, but that's how you become a student of the game. You learn, but as long as your direction is to create a legacy, you're never going to go wrong. You're always going to weed out the stuff that doesn't matter and you're going to stay focused on the things that do matter. And one tip that you told me that I never even defined is the fact that I always practice the unrequired things. If my teammates did 20 pushups, I did 40 pushups. If my teammates went out and did three reps of 100 meter sprints, I did six reps of 100 meter sprints, because I know that if I'm able to to go out there and respect the league Practice with some of the best in the world, I'm prepared for the rest of the world once I'm ready.
Speaker 1:I think a lot of athletes have to realize that Do the things. That's unrequired, because when you step to the line you'll have way more confidence. You'll step to the line, say you know what, wearing these guys on the line doing push-ups and sit-ups at 5 am, no, but I am, that's what I do. So you'll protect your integrity, your intent, your discipline and your fire because you know that you did extra to get to that top and you'll fight to keep that same mentality.
Speaker 2:Justin, I can't thank you enough for coming back onto the burn. I just I thank you for your friendship, I thank you for your leadership, I thank you for the continued impact that you're having in this world and, like I mentioned everybody, you better make sure that you get a copy. You need to go deeper into the Justin Gatlin story. Finally it is out. It is a bestseller. The book is extraordinary, just like Justin and the continued impact he's fighting to make in this world. I love you, brother, and I appreciate you so much.
Speaker 1:And I appreciate it. I want you all to know there's also pictures in here, pictures that are dear to my heart, my family's heart, that never really been out there. So take a look at it, get an opportunity. And, ben, thank you so much for the opportunity to come on your show once again. I always enjoy my time here. Talking to you is always amazing. I know you're busy, I become busy as well, but you making time for me has been always special and always has been a guiding light for me. So I appreciate being Laverne again, man.
Speaker 2:Well, our family.
Speaker 2:We can't wait to get down to Houston and see all the amazing things that you're building down there and we can't wait to have you back to our home in St Louis and for everybody listening, we're going to make this as easy as possible to learn everything about Justin, all the ways to stay connected For those of you that are now interested in some of that big spotlight shining on you through the amazing work he's doing off the track and Justin have an amazing time back at the Olympics as a spectator and highlighting all those amazing stories for the athletes and to every single one of you listening to the burn.
Speaker 2:When your burn is bright and you understand, you control, making sure it doesn't go out. The story that you hear of the continued impact from becoming a champion and now building champions is what happens in your life. That's why it's so important to connect to your burn, to allow it to ignite your why and purpose, so you show up on the days you don't feel like it and especially after you win. Make sure to subscribe, make sure to share this unique and special episode with the one and only the great, the last american gold medalist in the 100 meter, justin gatlin. Appreciate it, brother.
