Justin Sheehan (Forging Performance at DEVGRU, Training Law Enforcement and the Importance of Community) - Episode 1114

Behind The Shield

James Geering

Health & Fitness, Mental Health, Fitness

4.9 • 667 Ratings

🗓️ 24 July 2025

⏱️ 113 minutes

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Summary

Justin Sheehan is a Michigan Native of the Whittemore-Prescott Area, and graduated High School in 2003. Following the horrific events of 9/11, he enlisted in the US Navy with ambitions of becoming a Navy SEAL. After an arduous two-year pipeline, he graduated with BUDS Class 261 and earned the right to carry that title, and wear “The Trident”.

Justin received orders upon graduation to report to SEAL Team Two, Little Creek, Virginia. While assigned there he deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan and received the Bronze Star with “Valor” for combat actions. Later, Justin screened for the elite hostage rescue team, SEAL Team SIX, where he would remain until 2017. There, he deployed several more times, conducting discrete missions around the globe as a SEAL Team SIX Operator.

During his service time he held the following qualifications: Demolition Expert Open Water Diver Static Parachutist Freefall Parachutist Combat Medic SEAL Sniper Pashtun Language Specialist Heavy Breacher CrossFit Level 1 Trainer

After working for the last several years towards becoming a physician, After returning home, he completed a Bachelors of Science from Grand Valley State University. He is now the founder of Carcajou Resilience Group LLC., a company centered around strengthening the body and mind through tactical training, firearms competency and jiujitsu.

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0:00.0	This episode is sponsored by Team Builder, yet another company that's doing great things for the first responder community.
0:07.0	As a strength and conditioning coach myself who also trains tactical athletes, dissemination of wellness information is one of the biggest challenges.
0:16.0	Now, TeamBuilder is the premier strength strength conditioning software for tactical athletes.
0:23.8	And there are several features that really impress me.
0:29.7	Firstly, there is a full exercise library so you, the personal trainer, does not have to create that within your own department.
0:32.1	Secondly, you can send out programming, but also individualize, which I love.
0:37.1	So you blanket program for everyone.
0:39.4	Now you can tweak based on someone's injury, someone's need to maybe drop some body composition,
0:45.0	rather than having to write a program for every single person on their own.
0:49.6	TeamBuilder also allows you to build custom questionnaires to collate health and wellness data. It integrates
0:55.7	with wearables. And I think one of the most important things is obviously it tracks. To me,
1:01.3	it's imperative that we as a profession start tracking our people from day one and then over the full
1:08.6	span of their career, therefore catching potential wellness issues and injuries before they happen.
1:16.0	Now, if you want to try TeamBuilder, they are offering you, the audience of the Behind the Shield podcast, a free 14-day trial to experience all of the features.
1:26.5	And if you want to take a deeper dive into Team Builder,
1:29.1	listen to episode 132 with Melissa Mercado or go to teambuilder.com. And I'll spell that to you
1:37.3	because it's not as you think. T-E-A-M-B-U-I-L-D-R.com. Welcome to the Bion and a Shield podcast. As always, my name's James Gearing, and this week it is
1:48.0	my absolute honor to welcome on the show, Naval Special Warfare Veteran and the man behind
1:54.1	Karkajju Resilience Group, Justin Sheehan.
1:58.2	Now, in this conversation, we discuss a host of topics from entering the Navy as a corpsman, his
2:04.6	journey into the SEAL teams, joining SEAL Team 6, kindness and compassion on the battlefield,
2:11.6	tactical medicine, CrossFit, Jiu-Jitsu, training law enforcement and so much more.
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