Unbreakable Podcast With Thom Shea

4 ways to Breaking Someone’s Will Power   I would like to share a fundamental truth about winning or achievement or even doing anything to the best of your ability. There seems to be a distinct difference between what some groups profess will accomplish excellence. The difference is so dramatic, so clearly off the mark I thought it an opportunity to shed some light here.   I know that every child is born wanting to explore, wanting to learn, and wanting to survive. The built in desire to survive, although many may not thing it important, is the key factor in success throughout life. Perhaps that is the real spark that when fed causes greatness.   The spark to survive obviously takes a different shape the older the child becomes. Once the child gets the basic needs met, all children immediate explore, want more, and want to get better.   Here is when and what I would like to share with you. I would like to show you how to break someone’s will power or crush someone’s ability to succeed. This works for kids, ne

In each word and section in this book I have been tasked with telling my story so that in case I die in combat my children get a sense of their father. Actually, Stacy pleaded with me for two years to put to words “Who I am and How I am”. Therefore, this project is not simply a day to day recount of what I did, but rather a recalling of what I faced and what I learned in order to teach my children how to Be the men and the woman that lives into the possibilities they create for themselves. Unbreakable simply put is creating and finding in you that which is indestructible. Finally, this project called Unbreakable is a way to make up for being gone 220 days per year for 23 years as a Navy SEAL. This book contains no hidden secrets, rather it is a pain-staking study and practice of what makes for an effective and efficient pursuit of what is best in the human endeavor to transform the genetic traits and perform above and beyond what humans think possible. My children…when you are ready to read Unbreakable and r

Sustainability is hard at best. Longevity is rare. Yet many people set out even from a young age to win all the time, succeed at every endeavor, make more money in each year. I have sat in numerous business meetings where the marketing departments project a never ending growth curve. I have sat in more than enough college and pro football team meetings where every play scores and every game is a win. I want to pull the ole cat out of the bag for a moment. Sustainability, longevity, win all the time is a fabrication of excitement. Those concepts are manufactured sales pitches for the young and amateur minds. Maybe they are well intended to motivate and encourage during pre-game shenanigans or when companies are stale and the market is seemingly out of control. Encouragement is vital, that is a truth of human performance in every area of life. Looking on the bright side is wise, because darkness is a real event in every endeavor. Scoping out, or laying out, a series of actions that are needed to win or grow is

  By Thom Shea Author of “Unbreakable: A Navy SEAL’s Way of Life.”   Each of us is interested in balance in our lives, either in balancing relationships with work, work with fitness, or all things and spirituality. How do we balance the multiple interests we have when we cannot even excel in the small things we do each day?   Please, let me share with you reflections of 23 years as a Navy SEAL and 6 years transitioning into the nebulous business world of training leaders to lead. The simple fact that only a few people master the self-defeating idiom called “Never quit” causes most to avoid tough times and to never go beyond the point where they wanted to quit. The thing about an idiom is that the meaning of the original expression has been lost over the ages. The real meaning of “Never Quit” is to actually embrace the moments when you want to quit and push beyond them. There is no real valid reason to quit.   So few companies, so few leaders, so few parents, and so few coaches these days actually use the dyn

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I have had the honor to speak at the academy several times during both my SEAL career and as a leadership coach. This weekend was another honor to witness something quite rare: the ring weekend where the seniors are presented with their class ring. Unique in the sense that the ceremony is a celebration not of hey look at my ring but of the tradition of character. Of the long grey line of building and passing on the only true value of a leader: character. And I had the honor to see my daughter receive her ring and receive her reminder of the long grey line of the character it represents to lead the nation wherever and whenever the nation calls. And no I am not a trader, not a navy SEAL, abandoning the navy for the army. I am acknowledging the reality of the premier leadership institution in the world today. The place builds character and that is what leadership really is about. The speaker of the evening was Eric Shinseki, a graduate who spent 38 years leading and was the army chief of staff before retiring

In each word and section in this book I have been tasked with telling my story so that in case I die in combat my children get a sense of their father. Actually, Stacy pleaded with me for two years to put to words “Who I am and How I am”. Therefore, this project is not simply a day to day recount of what I did, but rather a recalling of what I faced and what I learned in order to teach my children how to Be the men and the woman that lives into the possibilities they create for themselves. The Unbreakable project simply put is creating and finding in you that which is unbreakable. Finally, this project called Unbreakable is a way to make up for being gone 220 days per year for 25 years as a Navy SEAL.  Order Unbreakable This book contains no hidden secrets, rather it is a pain-staking study and practice of what makes for an effective and efficient pursuit of what is best in the human endeavor to transform the genetic traits and perform above and beyond what humans think possible. My children…when you are read

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Killing Lazy   I have to admit Lazy is a bad word. Bad in the sense that everyone is incredibly lazy, yet few want to openly admit their first impulse, all the time, is to not get after it.     At first I made the mistake of thinking the bigger issue was work ethic. This nutty work ethic term seemed to overshadow every industry, even in the SEAL teams. From sales to marketing to operations to new hires and old hires I really thought I was looking at a work ethic problem.   Clearly the media pushes this notion that doubles as a work ethic/entitlement narrative. Good work ethic is a polar opposite to entitlement on the human level, because if I don’t have to work to survive or make a living the human won’t.   I literally have been looking at work ethic as the major cause of not only business failures or successes but also athletic and relationship ones. For gods sake few sales people want to make 50 calls a day to ask for business. Worse is the driver shortage in America, no one wants to work that hard even for

Why do you wait? Why do you wait for the right time to get healthy? Why do you wait for the right job to commit? Why do you wait for the right woman or man to get involved?   Waiting causes the worse kind of neglect. Waiting is not patience. Waiting is practiced disillusionment. Waiting causes you only to be half way committed. Waiting makes you weak mentally and physically. So why wait?   I can assure you that putting off until summer is over to starting to get in shape or putting off until next week eating healthy is futile. Every single day you wait is a day practicing not being committed. How many days have you logged practicing not being committed? That answer is frightening.   The right time and the right coach or the right training program will never arrive, and if it did you would miss it because of all the days practicing not just doing it.   Your knee pain isn’t a valid reason to wait. You being over weight isn’t a legit reason to wait to get into shape or start running. You are too old, you hate th

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The American Experiment to form a republic of states, not a democracy, where people are free to grow and have a say in Life, Liberty, and pursue happiness as long as the people can earn it.   That was the unique declaration of independence from English rule, which was simple someone else telling you what was right and wrong and their opinion didn’t have to be earned or proved effective.   Even then there was conflict in the struggle for power, the separation of that power, and the effort of the people to live up to the burden of maintaining a republic.   Some universal truths were known then and are still trying to wrestle with power and politicians seeking power for all the right reasons at the expense of the people. Leadership in a republic always struggle with power, struggle with the demands of people, and struggle with conflict with other nations. We have had every generation since independence go to war because politicians have an issue with power and people.   Families in a republic are always torn wit

Success leaves clues everywhere.  Every successful event or person in history has left a clue for your to pick up if you are brave enough to pick it up. Failure leaves a blood trail and is a paved road with bones and good intentions.  The difference is the clues if you pick them up, even if they are small, will lead you to the end and success.  The easy blood trail will cut you up and spit you out and kill your success, even if you think you can tough it out. Sign up for the challenge Unbreakable

Five traits of father hood  Signup for the 13 lessons of fatherhood Commitment to your wife. love her show affection listen and speak don’t let her get off track   Protect your house and family your job is to make a home for your family not for you show them how to be strong and not be bullied. Never allow anyone even your family to destroy the home and family you have built Show them that you and the home is always a safe place to land   Teach your kids skills how to cook and eat well how to make things with your hands how to build the body how to spend and make money how to pick friends and how to kick poisonous people out of your life   How to have resolve or emotional resolve never sugar coat things how to deal with physical pain how to deal with loss how to start over   Affection toward them kids need to be hugged and touched often by fathers(plain and simple) cry and laugh with your kids punish when needed and once complete hugging really works(maybe the lost art of fatherhood)

No way out and no back-up plans in raising warrior children and warrior adults. There is nothing new under the sun. Really, all the human issues we are experiencing today are still the same foundational issues we have faced since the first humans. Albeit, technology has been introduced our father’s and mother’s of 1,000,000 years ago could not even fathom as possible, the human condition remains the same. What remains the same is the fact that humans operate at their peak performance in all areas when they don’t have a back-up plan in their life. In the world of excellence and achievement in any area around you, I ask you to find one person who achieved success by having a back-up plan? Find one. If you do contact me I want to bring you on and have you tell us the story of how someone succeeded by having a robust back-up plan while they were trying to win with the primary plan. I have just spent the past 29 years working with high achievers from the SEAL Teams to business leaders to ultra marathon athletes a