468: Some Lessons Only Life Can Teach. With Sean Glass.

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🗓️ 11 December 2024

⏱️ 188 minutes

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Sean Glass is a former U.S. Navy SEAL officer, combat leader, and now a leadership instructor with Echelon Front. Sean spent 13 years in the SEAL Teams with three combat deployments to Afghanistan, Iraq, and Eastern Africa. He led five SEAL platoons in Iraq against Islamic State forces during some of the most dynamic and demanding environments where he saw first-hand the power of leadership on the battlefield. Sean returned from Iraq to serve as Officer-in-Charge of training for all West Coast SEAL Teams where he spearheaded the development of leadership training and personally instructed and mentored the next generation of SEAL leaders.

Sean left active duty in 2019 and became the Chief Operating Officer of a successful venture capital backed construction technology startup, where he helped scale the company’s growth and established a highly successful decentralized, team-first culture.

Sean then joined Echelon Front where he serves as a leadership instructor, bringing unique front-line perspective that blends tactical and executive leadership experience from the military and business environments to help build high performance, winning teams that thrive in ambiguous, adverse conditions

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0:00.0	This is Jocko podcast number 468 with Echo Charles and me, Jocko Willink. Good evening, Echo.
0:04.7	Good evening. Also joining us tonight, Sean Glass. What's up, Jocco? Yeah. Echo. Yeah, there you go.
0:10.5	Sean's a former SEAL officer, fought on Iraq and Afghanistan, got out of the Navy, went into a leadership position at a startup, eventually joined us to National Uffron as upfront as leadership instructor it's where he works
0:21.7	now he's worked with scores of companies in every imaginable industry he's also a husband uh father
0:28.9	has a small farm what do they call that like a hobby farm is yours the bigger than a hobby farm
0:34.9	i mean it's 60 acres i don't know if you'd call that a hobby farm. I mean, it's not, you know, it's in Virginia.
0:39.3	So if I was to say 60 acres in Montana, it's a hobby farm.
0:42.3	Yeah.
0:43.3	60 acres in Virginia, you know, it's, you know, small, but it's still decent.
0:47.3	Okay, I think I graduated from hobby to a small farm okay so he has a small farm in the shannon doha valley uh he has a little company
0:57.9	called primal beef and he's been on the podcast before he's been on episode 404 so if you want to hear
1:04.1	his origin story um go back and listen to episode 404 but we're going to talk about some of his
1:09.7	experiences and lessons learned that we didn't discuss the first time that he was on and that's
1:14.4	because we're always learning we're always reflecting and let's talk about what
1:20.0	you've learned in the past couple years you know that's a thing is when when you
1:23.9	start to work at Eshlam Front people people working there, we talk about leadership all the
1:29.5	time, and we hear stories of leadership all the time, and we're watching leadership inside
1:36.0	of companies all the time. And so we're constantly like a doc, you know, what is it when a doctor
1:41.2	thinks they have diseases, or they're constantly checking and like a doctor thinks they have diseases or they're constantly checking and
1:46.6	Like a psychologist thinks they have these crazy diseases or thinks they have these mental problems
1:51.6	So when you're working National on front you're constantly reviewing your whole life and every leadership call that you ever made and it can be humbling to look at your mistakes.
2:01.1	And you also go, oh, yeah, did that one pretty good,
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