Unbreakable Podcast With Thom Shea

Navy SEAL Hell Week has never been described so effectively. Success has never seemed so difficult. Six days in Hell define every SEAL that moves past their mind's point-of-no-return. This real life story is about the men of BUD/S Class 81. Robert Adams, MD brings the experiences of his class into view with real, bone chilling, difficult to believe, experiences.  This is described, in frightening detail, by the men that lived through the frigid cold, filthy muddy days, and body destroying events of a winter Hell Week. Eleven of seventy men went on to serve over 40 years in almost every SEAL or UDT team, with honor. Read their real time stories and (most importantly) learn why these eleven men succeeded when so many others failed.  These lessons on success and failure are now yours to learn from and enjoy! The brass bell on the cover lives in every SEAL's heart. It is rung three times by each man that leaves SEAL training, or once in celebration, at graduation! It follows the trainees around during Hell Week

Every generation will see war. Every mom and dad since 1776 wonders if their child will go to war or be killed by an enemy. History doesn’t lie nor do smart people forget this fact. Maybe the idea of memorial day is the remember. We tend to only look at the grave and recall the dead. And I agree we must never forget the sacrifices of our brothers and sisters. Yet there is a deeper forgetting that is happening that scares me. I walked up and down the streets of your country and the average person has forgotten our collective past. The books in school have no factual reflection on the past of the Unites States. Opinion and politics have rewritten the part of history that needs to be ingrained in every American. There is and always will be darkness and an enemy. There hasn’t been a gap more than 3 years since 1775 that we have not been in a conflict or battle. Right or wrong, believe it or not, war happens. So prepare yourself and your family and stop listening to the media or people who deny the realities. Here

Over the past 30 years I have seen people do some extra-ordinary things. And I am not drawn to ordinary and average because average seems to drain the life and happiness and future out of people I see striving for it. So as a young man growing up I sought out the extra, the hard road, and the “that cannot be done” achievers. And that remains the biggest attraction to this day. I highly recommend pushing yourself and your team and even your children to next levels, for this one reason: Because when anyone pushes life beyond the comfortable average a whole new possibility arises.   For the sake of clarity let’s break down extra ordinary into five areas of life. The first area is capacity to learn, the second is physical ability, the third is being compensated for delivering value or wealth building, the forth in the ability to join up with someone else and form a team or relationships, and the final one is the capacity to connect the dots or spiritual capacity. Those five distinctions that must never be average

Resilience is a very misunderstood aspect lately and is truly misrepresented in leadership. The going trend is to look at resilience after the breaking down of either combat soldiers and sailors or businesses which have fallen to constant strain. Odd that we look at the ones who didn’t weather the storm instead of the ones who do. Hey listen, success leaves tracks leading toward success. Losing leaves scars that cause dysfunctions. Is often funny to witness growth and leadership through the lens of Resilience. Growth always is exciting up front. And, there never seems to be cause to practice resilience in the beginning. Growth initially pushes away the fog, allows for new insights and new paths through the darkness. And during planning in the light no one wants to consider what will happen during dark times. Growth then becomes dirty, as you have to cut down branches and pick up rocks on the trail that impede progress. If you were one who had weathered many storms you would have practiced the resilience side

Based on an incredible true story, a highly decorated Marine fights the hardest battle of his life, thirty-eight years after he returns from the Vietnam War. As doctors rush to save his life, his unbelievable journey in the abyss of Vietnam unfolds, giving you a front row seat to the intense action, courage, sacrifice, and survival he and other Marines endured. You will experience the ferocity and scars of battle; the deep bonds of brotherhood; and the stinging, delirious cold sweat of fear that hangs persistently over the jungle canopy. Be with him in a foxhole while a “Broken Arrow” goes into effect as the enemy sappers overtake their position and they have to fight the enemy hand to hand. Order the book here

Leaving your Comfort Zone has been a life-changing, transformational book in the lives of many US women as well as international clients. Though written for professional women, men have enjoyed reading and share being powerfully impacted by the 6 Power Zone Principles™  included. Also, this has become a powerful tool for Rene' Johnson's clients with several businesses investing in the entire team to read and leave their comfort zones!  In this book, the author René Johnson shares her passion for helping professional women lead their lives from their Power Zones. The Power Zone is where transformation happens, courage is found, inspiration is fired up, passion and confidence combine and taking risks to grow and fulfilling your dreams looks achievable. René strongly feels that when women explore the boundaries of their comfort zone, they can become an empowered leader in all areas of their life, creating a ripple effect to all they influence. As a result, their lives, businesses, and communities they serve are

  Some how, some where the reality of high performance; the shock of achievement; and the “wait what” of success completely got off track. Everyone seems to not realize that being successful is hard, you have to get dirty rather often, and the process is completely exhausting.   Whether you are an athlete trying to get better, or a student trying to learn a subject, or boss trying to scale or grow a company, or a parent trying to parent, or a pastor trying to preach the process to achieve will break you. You will actually feel broken rather often, you will feel pain that doesn’t whisper it screams, you will often not know if you will make another dollar, and you will most surely want to get divorced, and I can tell you from the mouth of many pastors they question it all rather often. The notion that success doesn’t break you is what we have been sold by the current social media and news outlets. Because they show you the end point of the rare people who stick it out and sort of neglect to even show you the 10

By the way, the odds are never in your favor. The odds of success are always tipped away from your idea working out. In any athletic endeavor there are and will always be chances of loss. And you see that year end and year out that even in a pro football game a team can be down 3 touchdowns and everyone is betting on the team losing and they pull it out. There is no way they could have and they do it. In business the odds of making a profit are low and the odds of amazon and uber or facebook making billions is very low in the beginning. Most start ups fall to the pressure of everything stacked against them. In the SEAL teams the odds are very much against even making it through training. If I were an investor, and I always wonder why Vegas doesn’t have a line on seal training, I would beat heavily on 70% of the class not making it. Surviving the type of combat the SEAL teams encounter is so heavily against the SEAL, I would bet on getting shot more than I would bet on not getting hit. And by the way most SEAL

Each of us has inside an indomitable spirit. This spirit has the capacity to endure tough times. This spirit has the ability to build us up from the ashes of failure. This spirit will love so deeply it will amaze you. This spirit however does not live on the surface of our lives. It must be acquired through diving into rough times and only surfaces right before you drown. That is the way of it. There are no short cuts to toughness. Every year 2 to 4 times a year my team puts on a 24 hour challenge to allow participants the experience of coming face to face with their own toughness. And trust me it takes 20 hours before the spirit shows up, then it takes 4 hours for each of us to learn that our own spirit will see us through. The 24 hour is, for me, one of the most predictable ways to have anyone come face to face with their indomitable spirit. Like must challenges of any merit, you have to show up to win. Maybe that is the first point of toughness … willingness to challenge yourself. To date, we have done 23

How big should your leadership team be? For the past 28 years my experience in team driven missions has been with small, highly selective, very highly training individuals who team up for the sole purpose of execution of a mission. Little did I know how every maneuverable, effective, and decentralized this type of team is when compared to the big, highly political, and less training and more emotionally organized team that is competitively organized to maintain market share.   One is offensive and the other defensive. I suppose both have their place in the world. I see more of the defensive, emotionally and politically organized team structure than I do the on point mission focused team. The misconception of the defensive, huge organization is that the top leader should have command and control of every aspect of the workings of the company. The misconception may stem for the ill-fated organization of the team, or rather political, emotional, and lack of intensive training per position. Or maybe the misconcep

  Culture is the hot topic of the day. Whether it be political, economical, business, at the gym, or even at home, culture is the new topic. It is a rather old idea that is newly recycled with a nice catchy word like culture. Learn a Skill that matters I have just returned from a week long trip to West Point and was reading an article on the state of our economy and the solution was culture. What do any of us know about the economy and how to measure it or even how to impact it. The economy as discussed seems to encompass everything and is an ominous thing, and culture as described is a nebulous smoke filled room of people and thoughts and activities. But again how to measure both. The Economy is: Work force Money spent and made and saved Manufacturing, service, even government employment is a job (I find that odd) that someone would measure the economic engine on jobs that come from taxing and restraining the very engine. Many other factors no one even can understand how to move any of them. War moves the ec

The difference between the ones at the top of their field and the other people isn’t genetics, isn’t where they went to school, isn’t family upbringing, isn’t luck.  Follow Us The difference is that the top people actually are trying to do something they cannot do. They are doing epic things when everyone else is trying to just survive. Can you imagine what your life would actually be like if you learned to do epic things, if you learned to commit to doing things you currently aren’t doing at all. Running an ultra marathon or doing any physical event that lasts more than 12 hours is epic. Building a business or making a new technology or turning around a failing business is epic. Learning to do something with your other hand, or learning a new skill is epic. Currently marrying your equal and raising a family of warriors is epic. Purpose The first factor that differentiates the top for all others is clarity of vision and mission focus. The few at the top have a clarity of vision that separates them from all ot

Honoring the Brotherhood of the SEAL Teams. Marty Strong and I discuss the Teams and how to survive retirement. Get into the mind of the author of numerous warrior stories with a true Navy SEAL brother and warrior.  Pre-order Death before Dawn In the post 9/11 world of special operations the Navy SEALs establish a reputation for excellence, courage, and fortitude. But for Lieutenant Matthew Barrett, he finds that becoming an officer worthy of respect in this elite band of brothers, he'll have to measure up to men individually selected for their prowess in combat and their poise under unimaginable stress. Death Before Dawn is the first in an exciting series of novels, authored by M. L. Strong, a decorated SEAL officer and combat veteran, tracing the trials and tribulations of young Matthew Barrett and the SEALs he leads into harm's way.

Founded by former US Navy SEALs, O2X’s comprehensive curriculum targets the specific issues facing tactical populations including high rates of injury, elevated cancer and cardiac health risks, and behavioral health issues commonly associated with high-stress work environments. Buy Now What you’ll find in the book: Our science-backed EAT SWEAT THRIVE methodology The role of nutrition in optimizing performance The principles of movement, injury prevention, and conditioning The physiological impact of stress and how to build resilience The importance of sleep for performance Concrete ways to get one percent better every day Real-world stories from tactical athletes and human performance experts All the science you would find in a text book presented in the same digestible way we teach our signature workshops As a tactical athlete, you have no off-season. This book gives you the tools you need to get better every day so you can finish your career as strong as you started.

It has been 10 years now, since I lead SEALs into combat. Ten years since utter clarity. Yes you did hear that correctly. Combat to great leaders is simple and clear. Taking SEALs into combat was for me a brilliant culmination of 20 years in the SEAL teams. Combat leadership as I reflect on it had five elements to it. They will not be what you expect to hear. The movies and politicians and people who have never been there simple don’t know. Often I do realize there are soldiers and sailors and marines and Airman who never got in alignment with the five elements. In movies, and I can hardly even watch combat movies because they are not accurate at all, comparing movies to real combat is like comparing Apples to Dogs. And, the people who have never seen real combat simply live in another world of confusion and excitement mixed with questions that have no answers. Leading SEALs in combat is now and even was than an honor I can hardly describe. SEALs are the last homogenous group left. Homogenous in the fact they

A Measurable Life   Bottom Line Up Front (BLUF): the Design of Human Performance  The Training Starts Now There are Five Measurable factors in your life. We call these aspects “The Five Pyramids of Human Performance.” Our notion is that Human Performance ultimately is a measure of achieving results in the Five Pyramids of Human Performance®. To achieve these five results we find it necessary to access five “tools”: Intentionality, Emotional Mastery, Modeling Failure, Inspired Mentorship, and Disruption. Our Human performance training is a step-by-step methodology of linear progression ... there is no other way to grow. While linear progression is needed, the underlying cause of greatness in every human being anywhere is to first master the two keys to human performance:   Honoring your word Never giving up on honoring your word   Without the two keys being deeply mastered and constantly applied the climb toward a Measurable Life is doomed. We will test these two aspects of human performance upfront and teac

Can a book actually help you close more sales? Yes it can! Sales Success is the book that shapes sales careers. While reading this sales fable, learn sales strategies used and recommended by members of the sales hall of fame including Zig Ziglar, Tom Hopkins and Scott McKain. In Sales Success, you will discover why sales success happens for the earnest student…and why it doesn’t for the rest. Buy Sales Success here Come along with master storyteller, Mark Bowser, as he takes you on a journey of discovering ultimate sales success. In Sales Success, you will meet Digger Jones, the mentor we all wished we had. Follow along as Digger teaches, motivates, and inspires his young protégé from failure to the heights of sales achievement...and how you can apply these lessons to your own sales journey.

The greatest challenge in life is to maintain momentum.  That is to say, maintaining momentum in health, learning, wealth, relationships, and spiritual growth.  Yet, as in all things successful that you do in life, the basics are the key. Buy The Book Unbreakable Sleep and rest are basic skills and few manage to control this skill set.  Eating and drinking properly is a basic skill and fewer have any real access or ability in this area. Listening is a necessity to communication and few people practice this skill even on a weekly basis. Focused exercise for one hour a day is without question the premise of health and even endurance yet, again, a small minority of people have this skill set. Paying your self for the doing of the basic skill is the root of wealth creation, and the battle for people to put tangible money in their pocket on a daily basis is like pulling teeth from a bear. Spending 30 minutes a day with your loved ones would seem practical to keep a relationship from imploding, but I have noticed

The Greatest gift you can give to the world is to be brave enough to write your story.  Kathlyn Heim shares the lessons she has learned in her life in the book Rule of Nines. The real credit always goes to the one's of us who risk it all and share what they have learned.  The Rule of Nines provides a 9-step simple plan to guide people towards success in the evocation of behavioral changes necessary to succeed in personal goal achievement.  This book takes a unique approach towards goal identification, and provides the reader with the “tools” necessary for success.  Although there are books on the market geared towards goal achievement, there has yet to have been written a book that includes the depth of self-reflection necessary to achieve permanent success.  Unlike the other books on the market, this book has an associated 365-day journal that requires self-reflection and awareness.  It is not based on a physical reward system, but on a personal reward system. The Rule of Nines takes the reader on a personal

We embarked three weeks ago on a project to show our clients a simple method to start up a new effort and ensure the foundation is set. Buy Unbreakable I have spent 35 years applying this time-honored way of achieving success. During those years the method of using the 21 day grind cycle to establish a baseline has proven effective every time. The 21 day challenge is a simple but not easy process. The simple aspect is you must have a goal you are wanting to achieve. The not easy process is actually doing three basic things every single day for 21 days. In podcast 102 I discuss the 21 day method and the value of it. And as many of you are not aware we had a private Facebook community doing the 21 day as a team effort to post and support each other through the first 7 days. It takes a team of committed people to get through the first 7 days of anything new. I am always surprised people don’t realize how vital support and team efforts are in life in general but specifically I am dumb founded how people try to do