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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Self Talk: we are what we think and SAY we are. Th

Self Talk: we are what we think and SAY we are. This is self talk at its truest form. How do we change for the better? Below is an excerpt from an upcoming article on @sofrep.official I wrote on the topic.

How many of us have heard someone at a party say, “I’m just not good at remembering names.”? We become what we tell ourselves internally. This is called, “Self Talk”, and there’s good self talk and there’s bad self talk. Think you are bad at remembering names, declare it to the world, and no surprise you’ll be exactly what you say you to yourself.

“I’m not good with numbers.”

”Never been good at speaking to an audience.”

”I’m terrified of flying.”

”I’m just not good at relationships.”

”I’m not a good business person.”

And the list goes on...

Before you start sweating like Trump at a BLM rally, the good news is that we can fix our self talk for the better. The key is to develop positive habits that affect change and identify negative self talk we want to fix. I’ll share a personal story with you about my first time shooting during the Navy SEAL Tactical Training course (STT...or at least that’s what they used to call it).

STT was the 3-month long tactical training course you entered after graduating the grueling SEAL selection, the same one Dan Bilzerian almost finished twice. Yes folks, Dan was almost a SEAL two times over, and full credit to the modern version of Hephner for making it through Hell Week twice however, SEAL selection is just a right of passage to actually start the real real of Navy SEAL training. Three months of parachuting, diving, land navigation, and shooting. All this to give newbies the foundation to merge into a SEAL platoon and be able to successfully complete more advanced training with their platoon during a 12-18 months of intensive specialized training in all of the above and more.

Shooting. I never picked up a gun before I was 18 outside of Nintendo 64’s “Duck Hunt”. When I started the shooting portion of STT I was bad, really bad. To be continued tomorrow. #leadership #positivity

VISUALIZING is a game changer for personal develop

VISUALIZING is a game changer for personal development. I know a story about a pilot who was shot down and held in brutal captivity for 4 years. When freed he spent one of his first days playing golf. He shot 18 holes par in the worst physical shape of his life. How is this possible? He practiced perfect golf in his head for years...it works. Also how Phelps set a world record at the Olympics when his swim goggles flooded. He had visualized this emergency and had a mental plan. What’s your plan? Photo: After the Revolution in 🇺🇦 Ukraine, on the ground for @sofrep.official

Last flight of the year before the @vansaircraftin

Last flight of the year before the @vansaircraftinc #rv8 goes in for her annual inspection. Incredible sunset last night over the Hamptons and Long Island sound. #pilotlife #igaviation @boseaviation

Amazing flight to Rhode Island in the rocket 🚀

Amazing flight to Rhode Island in the rocket 🚀 ship. #pilot

Shout out to my fellow Veterans who are living goo

Shout out to my fellow Veterans who are living good lives and setting solid examples for others in transition. Too many I’ve seen go down a dark path. We need more incredible folks raising the bar like @wingnutwick @pacochierici @themobilecigarlounge @eric_davis215 @careylohrenz @timkennedymma @mritland @mchooyah @jacobsotak @sofrep.official @bigphilcampion ...to name just a few. #veteransday navyseals #sniper

Best city in the world. #newyork

Best city in the world. #newyork

Infinite hope and unconditional love is the way fo

Infinite hope and unconditional love is the way forward. “Rebuild stronger”. Business & Personal. That’s my own theme for 2021. What’s yours?

Want to fly over Manhattan?Comment below or tag a

Want to fly over Manhattan?Comment below or tag a friend for a chance to win a flight experience with me over #newyorkcity #pilot #piloto #igaviation

Another amazing thing about Puerto Rico (besides t

Another amazing thing about Puerto Rico (besides the incredible beaches, and the lowest tax rate in America) is the rain forrest. It runs along the entire island from east to west. It’s very common to have an entire waterfall fall and clear fresh water swimming to yourself, even in El Yunque national park. #puertorico #enchantedisland

Still my favorite man cave. #pilotlife #pilot #iga

Still my favorite man cave. #pilotlife #pilot #igaviation #yak52 #entrepreneurlife #mancave

Empire city off the nose. What’s your favorite t

Empire city off the nose. What’s your favorite thing about New York? #pilotsofinstagram

Who wants to fly with me over New York city? Tag a

Who wants to fly with me over New York city? Tag a friend who would go, and share your best 2020 pandemic story below. Anything at all that’s interesting and inspiring. I’ll pick a favorite and throw you in the RV8 for a city flight this year...#flynyc #pilot #piloto #entrepreneur #igaviation #pilotsofinstagram

If you had one year to live. What would you do and

If you had one year to live. What would you do and where would you go?

Me: sell mostly everything I own and do an around the world trip in my own airplane with friends and family joining along the way.

It’s a great thought experiment that reveals important from the not important and helped me personally overcome adversity a few years back and “let go”.

#leadership #entrepreneur #focus #importance #worklifebalance

What’s one of your strengths and a goal for this

What’s one of your strengths and a goal for this year? Mine is execution and to acquire an existing cash flowing business. Plenty of great ideas out there but very few will actually take action. Let’s make sure we are in the group that does and use this to our advantage. #entrepreneur #cashflow #business #leadership #motivation

How many people have told us the things we were ne

How many people have told us the things we were never going to do? Never be a SEAL, never be a pilot, never have success, you don’t have the grades to be in the navy (My high school guidance counselor!...and he’s a local politician now! Go figure...) Let’s keep proving them wrong. The best story below about saying screw you to the naysayers wins a copy of my new book, Steel Fear (going to be a limited tv series as well). #authorsofinstagram #authorslife #navyseal #pilot @boseaviation #pilotsofinstagram #igaviation

Beautiful day of flying with amazing cloud cover a

Beautiful day of flying with amazing cloud cover and the fall trees turning color. Departed TEB airport for Manhattan, over the Long Island sound and landed in Danbury, CT our new field. Such a great little airport. Aviation is one of the best investments I’ve made in myself, plus community of aviators and the people you meet along the way, you just can’t put a price on it. #igaviation #pilotsofinstagram #vansairforce

I remember playing my Atari as a young boy until m

I remember playing my Atari as a young boy until midnight. Defender was my game and I’d flip it over and over. Asteroids, Joust...then Nintendo! I still remember when I got my first Walkman and had music 🎶 in my pocket as I’d walk to school and ride my bike to baseball practice. Duran Duran, Lionel Ritchie, MJ, The Police, Men at Work...The World was radically changing then as it is now in a lot of good ways. Best that we embrace the changes coming or opportunities will pass you by. We all have fears to deal with. I used to be afraid to jump out of planes and ended up loving it once I faced it down. Some are understandable but to paraphrase Plato, the real tragedy is when people are not afraid of the dark, it’s when they are afraid of the light. Think about that for a moment. #masteringfearbook

What’s your Coconut? True story: A friend of min

What’s your Coconut? True story: A friend of mine from the Philippines tells me how they trap monkeys in his country. They dig a hole, place a coconut in it; the monkey reaches in, grabs the coconut, and his fist is now too big to pull back out. He’s trapped. All he has to do is let go of the coconut. But he won’t do it. Why not? What keeps that monkey's fist clenched? Fear. He's afraid of losing what he has.

We are like the monkey, preconceived notions and realities.

What prevents people from taking the risks they need to take in order to achieve the things they dream of achieving? What keeps people stuck in relationships that aren’t working, in dead-end jobs they hate, or even, as in my case, in great jobs that nonetheless are hold- ing them back from something that could be even better? They can’t let go.

You can achieve great things.
But first you have to let go of the coconut.

Some of my happiest days were spent in this little

Some of my happiest days were spent in this little Sabot sailboat. I remember sailing hours and hours in this little wind machine. The freedom was so good. I’d even go out to the outer break wall in California to anchor and sleep over for the night. My first big solo sailing trip! 😀This picture is me when I was around 11 during a race in Baja, Mexico. I won by a large amount and embarrassed a few hard core sailors according to my parents...I still remember my mom sticking up for me at the awards ceremony when they tried to give me some crap prize that was not equal to the other adult awards. She got me the goods in the end! I think she also won the chili cook off! Gotta love mom! I also wrote about this and more in my first book, The Red Circle. What’s your favorite mom story? #theredcircle #navysealtraining

Island lunch run. #pilotsofinstagram

Island lunch run. #pilotsofinstagram

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