Navy SEAL Brandon Webb on Autonomy and Radicalization in America

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Education, 694393, Daily Stoic, Society & Culture, Stoic, Stoicism, Self-improvement, Business, Stoic Philosophy, Philosophy, Ryan Holiday

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🗓️ 23 May 2021

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Today’s episode is a partial interview with combat-decorated Navy SEAL sniper Brandon Webb. Ryan and Brandon talk about his new thriller series Steel Fear which follows the US navy’s first serial killer, the idea of autonomy over making a certain amount of money or reaching a certain level of success, and the radicalization of the American nation and how it is viewed from a military perspective.

Brandon Webb is a combat–decorated Navy SEAL sniper turned entrepreneur who has built two brands (SOFREP Media and Crate Club), into an eight–figure business. As a U.S. Navy Chief he was head instructor at the Navy SEAL sniper school, which produced some of America’s most legendary snipers.

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0:00.0	Hey, prime members. You can listen to the Daily Stoic podcast early and add free on Amazon music download the app today
0:10.5	Welcome to the weekend edition of the Daily Stoic each weekday
0:14.8	We bring you a meditation inspired by the ancient Stoics
0:18.7	Something to help you live up to those four Stoic virtues of courage justice
0:23.6	Temperance and wisdom and then here on the weekend we take a deeper dive into those same topics
0:30.3	We interview Stoic philosophers. We explore at length how these Stoic ideas can be applied to our actual lives
0:40.2	And the challenging issues of our time here on the weekend when you have a little bit more space when things have slowed down
0:47.7	Be sure to take some time to think to go for a walk to sit with your journal and most importantly to prepare for what the week ahead may bring
1:01.6	Hey, it's Ryan welcome to another weekend episode of the Daily Stoic podcast
1:06.8	It's something that keeps podcasters up at night. It keeps me up at night whenever I'm interviewing someone for a book
1:12.8	You know, I've got my little recorder in front of me. You're just petrified of technical difficulties
1:17.8	And you can have backups you can double and triple check everything
1:21.5	But as the Stoics say it is inevitable that stuff will go wrong
1:26.2	I've been so far mostly spared by this but we had an episode go wrong recently
1:32.0	I was lucky enough to have the Navy seal brand in web on the podcast. He's a great veteran an entrepreneur and interesting thinker
1:41.0	I met him when I gave a talk to to to YPO
1:44.8	remotely in New York City, which he is one of the the heads of and
1:50.4	I was really excited, you know, he's a combat decorated Navy steel sniper
1:54.2	He's built two huge media brands into eight figure businesses
1:58.1	And as a US Navy chief, he was the head instructor the Navy seal sniper school
2:02.7	So, you know, he trained like Chris Kyle the American sniper for for example
2:07.2	So there was so much stuff that we wanted to talk about and we were talking right after that freak freeze
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