FORMER NAVY SEAL, ENTREPRENEUR & BESTSELLING AUTHOR

Brandon Webb is a former US Navy SEAL sniper, Entrepreneur (SOFREP.com & CrateClub.com), and New York Times bestselling author. He is a member of YPO New York City, a former Veteran advisor to the U.S. Small Business Administration, and Harvard Business School OPM 56.

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What’s your happy place? Mine is in the cockpit of this Russian Yak 52. What a Beast! #igaviation #pilotsofinstagram #pilotlife

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Who wants to go upside down in the TB-30? Video: Diving for loop entry speed, then smooth pull up and over. #igaviation

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WEBB Air, Inc. NYC. #webbair

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Who’s your favorite leader? Me: Churchill is up there, as is Mandela. About last night: Suited up to meet another great leader, General Colin Powell, last night with my YPO chapter. What an amazing man and career. I had a chance to ask him a tough question about American Foreign Policy, and I’ll respect the privacy of the closed door conversation but, can tell you that he was more honest than most I’ve heard. Thanks to @kseikon CEO of @ianriosofficial for the amazing suit! #ceolife #entrepreneurlife #thoughtleader

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Before the Sunrise this morning I meditated, then slipped into a hot bath with piano music playing comfortably loud, then I finished my friend Kamal’s latest work, Love Yourself Like Your Life Depends on It. Wednesdays are my days. A day to read, reflect, plan, write to my kids, help a friend, or just take care of myself. It’s my secret day. After finishing the last bits of his book, I feel really proud to know Kamal and love him like a brother. Few people have the gift of raw uncut transparency, shared in a way that helps others. Kamal has this gift. Love Yourself reminds us that we all suffer, we all fear, we all self doubt, and we all love. And that self love, and how we speak to and love ourselves internally is what makes the difference during times of deep pain. Go pre-order his book because even if you don’t think you need it now, inevitably you will, and it will help greatly when you do. My copy is back in my glass case, break-open in case of emergency. ***Postcards: Love you Gman, Hunter and Liv -Dad #inspiration #authorsofinstagram

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LIFE LESSON: In Military jungle training they taught us how to trap Monkey's as a food source (sorry Vegan extremists!). They would dig a hole, put a coconut inside and use sticks forming a circle. Inevitably a monkey would come along, reach inside and grab onto the coconut. When the monkey would attempt to pull it out of the hole, the sticks would prevent that from happening. The monkey could just let the coconut go and run free but wouldn’t. The instructor would come along, look at the monkey, the monkey would look back, while holding tightly onto the coconut ("not letting go of my getting my coconut!"). Then the instructor would whack off the Monkey's head with a machete. Dinner is served in true jungle survival style fashion. What fixed ideas and fears are you holding onto that is your own version of the coconut? And will you let go of your coconut before it's too late? Good to think about. Tag someone that needs to read this. #leadershipquotes #masteringfearbook

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Great to give a Key Note talk on my latest book, Mastering Fear, for the good people at @ISACA. Halifax, Canada is such a fantastic town. The seafood 🦞 last night was unbelievably good (Thanks Peter!) If you haven’t been to Halifax, it’s a short flight from New York and worth the trip! #keynotespeaker #entrepreneur #navyseals

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One of the hacks to success is to know and practice positive mindset and the rule of three (see below). Positive Mindset: I’ve seen this work in training with Navy SEAL snipers, combat, and I’ve seen it do wonders in business. Crisis produces opportunities for those who have the right mindset. No successful person in life has the time to be negative, tear people down or focus on the why of how things can’t be done. The short solution, if you’re a pessimist learn how to become an optimist. Optimists build things and pessimists never get out of their own way to build shit because they are so focused on why something will never work!
Rule of 3 ***1.) Give Back. Mentor someone (@thebunkerlabs is a great example of this for my fellow veterans). We all need a hand up (not a hand “out”). ***2.) Build a Strong Peer group. If you hang out with losers you’re destined to stay a loser and suffer the consequences accordingly. We adapt to our environments, especially social media! So choose your friends and the environments you put yourself in carefully. I’m always amazed how many people don’t get this. It’s why I only follow people I like or aspire to on social media. And why I have an incredible diverse set of friends and, am a member of YPO. Collectively your peer group should hold us accountable and make us a better person. ***3.) The Top 1%. The people at the top are there for reason. Find the top 1% of your chosen profession and do whatever it takes to get inside that circle and learn from them. Never stop learning. Why I went back to school at @harvardhbs and was one of the best investments I could make in myself. Out of my class I am the small fish and it feels good to surround myself with so many successful people and don’t get me started on how good the HBS professors are! Insanely good. (Photo: my keynote speech at the Bunker Labs Gala). #leadership #entrepreneurship #businessquotes

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Another Fear story: It’s nighttime over the Persian Gulf, summer of 1995. The four of us—pilot, copilot, another crewman, and me—have been out in our H-60 Seahawk helicopter doing sonar ops. It’s been a long night, and we need to refuel on a nearby destroyer before heading back to the aircraft carrier we’re calling home.
The pilot slows us down to a crawl as we approach the vessel below. Landing on a destroyer’s deck is always tricky, more so on this moonless night. Someone needs to spot the deck as we hover in place high above the ship and talk the pilot down. Tonight, the spotter, the guy down in the belly of the bird strapped into the gunner’s seat, is me.
I crack open the door and look down, scanning for telltale lights. There aren’t any. I glance up—and see lights. For the span of a single breath, I experience total disorientation: why are there lights up here, at eye level, when the destroyer is way down below us? Then the disorientation vanishes as I look down again and see water, right there at my feet. Persian Gulf water—churning, grinning, reaching up for me, curling around my ankles.
We’re not hovering high above the ship after all.
Our goddam pilot has put us right down in the drink.
Now the seawater is pouring into the cabin, caressing my legs, climbing the interior walls, searching for the engine. Hey, baby. I’m here. Come to papa. This is so not good. If the engine stops, we flip upside down and sink to the bottom of the Gulf.
“Altitude!” I scream into the comms. “Altitude!”
Seized by full-on panic, the pilot freezes. “What’s happening?” he screams. “Oh God, oh God, oh God!” Not what you want to hear from your commander in a moment like this. Fear has paralyzed him, taken him, swallowed him whole.
And because of that, all four of us are going to die, right here, right now.

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We’ve been at war with Radical Islam for almost 20 years. It’s time to take a pause and think about this: Are we really doing the best we can to create a world that is more inclusive and accepting of people regardless of race, religion, culture, or economic status. Only if we are willing to have this conversation with each other, will we make the world a better place.

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Meet Conan, the Hero Military Working Dog 🐕 injured in the line of duty on the Special Ops Mission to take down al-Baghdadi. #dogsofinstagram Tag someone who needs to see this good 🐶 ! @sofrep.official Story Link in Bio.

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The U.S. Army’s Delta Force Raid Kills Leader of ISIS. Great job to the editorial team at @sofrep.official for this breaking story and one less bad guy in the World thanks to Delta. ***Story Link in Bio. #ussocom #deltaforce

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Those that know me, know that I love Americana 🇺🇸. And nothing says America like Texas and Mantiques @dfwmantiques in Dallas. #antiques #navyseals #americana

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The Navy SEAL morning commute. #navyseals

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Honored to speak with the @thebunkerlabs community last night. This team is making a direct impact by empowering and inspiring veterans to pursue entrepreneurship and success in business and life. Where I donate my time and $ is based, not on how big a charity is, or how much money they’ve raised, it’s all about donated dollars driving direct impact. Last night was inspiring and I hope everyone enjoyed my own personal journey of entrepreneurship and WFIO moments (We’re Fucked, it’s Over!) Because all of us entrepreneurs have had them! #entrepreneurlife #bunkerlabs #leadership

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Nice to see a resurgence of men’s fashion. This video takes you inside the @thearmourynyc back room where the real magic happens. Thanks to the Armoury team and my friend Mark @markchodotcom for the amazing Caid bespoke jacket; thankful they let me include some hidden design features. #007 #bespoke #bespokesuit #entrepreneurlife

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From this weekend in San Juan, Puerto Rico 🇵🇷 in the Isla Grande Club 172SP. In the pattern. One of the most epic flight patterns on the planet. High wings are the best for photo ops. #pilotlife #pilotsofinstagram #sanjuan #puertorico

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I wrote this because most Washington politicians can’t find Damascus on a map without a smart phone, let alone do they understand the complexities of Southwest Asia and how that lack of understanding has led to poor decision making, resulting in a massive loss of American service men and women’s lives over almost two decades of failed foreign policy strategy. You can ask a room of politicians, what is the plan for Afghanistan?”, and you’d get a different answer from each one, because nobody knows. And that’s unacceptable to me and it should be to you as well. What have we truly accomplished in places like Afghanistan and the Middle East since 9-11? Besides destabilizing and kicking off civil war in Syria? We have to ask ourselves these tough questions. Is the world a better place now than it was then? Is America better off? Do we need to think carefully about how we can make the world a better safer place for all. And at home, it’s time for us to stop the name calling and stereotyping each other and start having intelligent and open dialog regardless of our political views. Because only through debate and understanding, can we right the course for a better future and a better America. Link to article in my bio. ***Thanks for sharing this with anyone who needs to read it, including your elected officials.*** I also put the first part of the article in the comments below. #foreignpolicy #gwot

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The Ballad of the Navy SEAL. Slightly edited... “Been around the world twice, talked to everybody once. Seen two white whales fuck,

Been to 3 world fairs, and know a man in Thailand with a wooden Cock.

I’m a hard bodied hairy chested Roottin’, toottin’, shootin’, parachutin’ demolition double cap crimpin’ Frogman.
There ain’t nothing I can’t do. No sky too high, no sea too rough, no man too tough.

Learned a lot of lessons in my life like; never shoot a large caliber man with a small caliber bullet.
I drive all kinds of trucks, 2x, 4x, 6x and those big motherfuckers that bend in the middle and go "CHHH CHHH” when you stomp on the brakes.
Anything in life worth doing is worth overdoing, moderation is for cowards.

I’m a lover, I’m a fighter, I’m a UDT Navy SEAL diver. I wine dine, and intertwine.

So if you’re feeling froggy then you better jump up, because this frogman's been there, done that and is going back for more.” -The Only Easy Day Was Yesterday. #navyseals

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From the making of our film “Big Mountain Heroes”. Winner of best action sports short at the Mammoth Film festival. The movie showcases alternative methods of dealing with combat stress (Thrills before Pills), in our case, shredding big mountain terrain with five combat veterans. I showed up a few days early to warm up and ended up dislocating my shoulder skiing off piste with my guide. The conditions had been marginal that year and then we got a decent snow but, over ice and it got me. Scroll for shoulder X-ray. Ended up skiing the final day in the Heli anyway. You can see the full movie on YouTube. Go big or go home! 🎿 #navyseals #bigmountainheroes @mammothfilmfestival