Sean Glass (Navy SEAL Leadership, Sleep and Performance, and Regenerative Farming) - Episode 1206
Behind The Shield
James Geering
4.9 • 695 Ratings
🗓️ 25 February 2026
⏱️ 125 minutes
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Summary
Sean Glass is a former SEAL Officer. His tours include combat deployments to Afghanistan, Iraq and Eastern Africa. Sean was the Officer in Charge of the final phase of the initial SEAL selection pipeline where he helped select, train and mentor future SEALs. His last tour in the Navy he served as the Officer in Charge of all wartime training for the West Coast SEAL teams.
He is a leadership instructor for Echelon Front and is the founder of Primal Beef. A Virginia based, all-natural, all-American, farm-raised beef company.
He is a husband and father of five. He lives with his family on a regenerative cattle farm in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Pine and Shield podcast. As always, my name's James Gearing, and this week is my absolute |
| 0:04.4 | honor to welcome on the show, Navy SEAL veteran, Echelon Front Leadership Instructor, and the founder of |
| 0:12.5 | Primal Beef, Sean Glass. Now, in this conversation, we discuss a host of topics from his unique |
| 0:19.7 | journey into the military, notable deployments, |
| 0:23.6 | the Afghanistan withdrawal, the industrial military complex, sleep and performance, |
| 0:31.1 | regenerative farming, and so much more. Now before we get to this incredible conversation, |
| 0:36.8 | as I say every week, |
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| 1:12.5 | So, with that being said, I introduce to you, Sean Glass. |
| 1:18.5 | Enjoy. Well, Sean, I want to start by saying two things. |
| 1:41.1 | Firstly, thank you to Jason Gardner, who for the second time brought me along to |
| 1:45.0 | the echelon front in Orlando. And secondly, I want to welcome you onto the Behind the Shield podcast today. |
| 1:51.9 | I appreciate that. Jason is a good friend of mine, mentor of mine. I joke around that he has been |
| 1:57.6 | babysitting me for a long time, both in and out of the SEAL team. |
| 2:02.0 | So he's a good man, and I'm glad he brought us together, and I appreciate the opportunity to spend some time with you. |
| 2:08.2 | Yeah, likewise. |
| 2:09.1 | Well, very first question, then, where on planet Earth are you this afternoon? |
| 2:13.1 | Okay, well, right now, I'm in my office, which is in our pole barn, which is on our farm in Virginia. |
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