FORMER NAVY SEAL, ENTREPRENEUR & BESTSELLING AUTHOR

Brandon Webb (@brandontwebb) is a combat-decorated Navy SEAL sniper turned entrepreneur who has built two brands 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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Guess this city correctly, tag a friend, and I’l

Guess this city correctly, tag a friend, and I’ll send you a e-copy of my new Novel, STEEL FEAR. Hint: somewhere in Latin America. #steelfear #authorsofinstagram #author

Cloud ⛅️ Surfing Miami to Key West. #pilotlife

Cloud ⛅️ Surfing Miami to Key West. #pilotlife

First person to guess this location correctly, and

First person to guess this location correctly, and tags a friend, wins a advanced e-copy of my new book, STEEL FEAR. ***Hint**** I'm swimming between two continental tectonic plates in water that's just above freezing temps. Also the location for book #2 in the series. So insanely beautiful! #steelfear #authorsofinstagram

Because here is the bottom line on fear: If you do

Because here is the bottom line on fear: If you don’t know what matters, fear will take over, pin you, and hold you down. If you’re crystal clear on what matters, fear will propel you forward. It’s really that simple. #masteringfearbook #authorsofinstagram

Pilot experience share: Yesterday I landed at KHWO

Pilot experience share: Yesterday I landed at KHWO at night from a beautiful flight to Key West. First time I've landed here at night, second time to the field. When I checked in on tower frequency to land I said I was unfamiliar with the field. Always a good idea. Four intersecting runways! After a smooth landing, I pulled off to the left taxiway and tower threw a multiple intersection and runway crossing taxi instruction at me. Right on Juliet, left on Mike, cross 1R right on Delta to the landing and give way to the banner tow plane. I didn't get it all the first time, sun had just set, eyes weren't adapted, so I asked again, and the tower guy started in on me! Pause....Better to be sure than have a runway incursion! So I asked again, said I was new to the field, and gave him hell back for trying to push me into a bad situation. As Pilot in Command it's our responsibility to be safe. Ask as many times as you need to ensure safety of flight. For you controllers, being aggressive in the tower just makes things worse and KHWO already has a bad safety record. A student, or new pilot, may have tried to wing it but that's the worst thing you can do. Better to ask again and have a bruised ego than a bruised airplane. Write down the taxi instructions and ALWAYS ask if you're unsure. I hoped the tower would go easy when I said I was new to the field. Usually that sets the tone and most controllers will be super helpful. ***Scroll to see the taxi diagram***Amazing flying in south Florida. Really looking forward to exploring more. See you in the sky! #pilotsofinstagram #igaviation #pilotlife #vansairforce

"Mr. Webb, it's Miss Pena from the New York state

"Mr. Webb, it's Miss Pena from the New York state tax investigators office, please call us back."

Talk about getting your pulse beating like a Catholic priest at summer camp! I had a business address in the city after hurricane Maria.

She crossed my name off the list.

Then the pandemic hit, and I boxed up my apartment and moved it into storage.

The current climate in New York was beginning to look like that Nazi prisoner of war camp in the movie, The Great Escape".

So it was clear to me it was time to duck under de Blasio's barbwire and head for warmer climates but, I hard a storage unit full of stuff and my airplane hangared in CT to sort out, so I booked a nonstop to JFK from Puerto Rico.

The next morning I was up early, the streets were eerily empty as I dodged half frozen brown slushy mud puddles and tossed my luggage into an Uber from Soho to Grand Central station headed for Danbury, CT.

The tiny airport is tucked in between hills and has a super steep approach to the east and west runways. The morning I arrived, it was clear blue skies, snow on the ground, and was hovering around 27 F. It was the kind of morning where touching aircraft metal makes your fingers numb so I told the front desk I'd preflight inside the hangar. They pushed me out, gassed me up and I was off.

Barreling down the Hudson river with a stiff 38 knot tailwind, my fingers were still numb from the preflight, I passed a-beam the Intrepid and couldn't help feeling nostalgic, and then Lady Liberty off my right wing. 3

I must have taken over a hundred flights over the city with friends and family over the past five years. Always and incredible experience, no flight the same.

As I made a right turn at the VZ bridge with Coney island to my left, I thought about my time in the city. I made my peace with it, and pushed the throttle forward to 2500 rpms and climbed up to my cruising altitude of 4500 feet as the outside temps dropped to a ball shrinking 22 F.

It's rare to get a tailwind headed southwest, I was averaging 175knots, very fast in a single engine airplane.

It was like the city understood my pain and like lovers who know they'll meet again, NY kissed me goodbye.

Mission: Photograph the Manhattan skyline while fl

Mission: Photograph the Manhattan skyline while flying upside down in the RV6. Outcome: Accomplished. My friend Rich is an amazing photographer despite not getting the panel in the photo, yikes! Ha! Swipe to see an amazing photo of New York. I have this one framed on aluminum. Good time bud. #newyork #i❤️ny

Who agrees travel and experience are the seeds of

Who agrees travel and experience are the seeds of great story telling?

One of my favorite quotes:

"Traveling – it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller.” – Ibn Battuta

Thinking of swapping my 2nd home in NYC for Miami.

Thinking of swapping my 2nd home in NYC for Miami. What do you guys think?

Normally I wouldn’t consider this because I thought I was ride or die NYC but for the reasons below I am. It’s still one of the best cities on the planet!

But, the migration of talent to Miami from LA and NYC is insane. I’ve met so many incredibly smart talented people in Florida this month. Demographics are shifting mostly do to quality of life and the major adoption of remote work. My team @sofrep.official and I have been remote for 9 years so we get it. I personally need to surround myself with talent for inspiration and stimulation.

The last thing is that FL is business and tax friendly. NY tried to tax me because I had a business mail box in the city after Hurricane Maria struck my home in Puerto Rico! They just default to “f u pay me!” So will seriously consider making the move + the flying weather in Florida is amazing. I can fly to Key West or Bahamas for lunch and a swim and be back for happy hour at the beach 🏖.
#digitalnomad #entrepreneurlife

Best caption below will be entered in my NYC sprin

Best caption below will be entered in my NYC spring flight giveaway. I’ll pay hotel and travel to Manhattan and take you flying over the city in my RV8. I’ll pick the winning caption Thursday. Photo: Queens food tour with my @eonyc crew.

Advanced reader copies of Steel Fear (serial kille

Advanced reader copies of Steel Fear (serial killer on CVN-72!)just dropped. Appreciate the preorders on Amazon. Best title idea for book 2 below (Setting is in Iceland and we pits SEAL against SEAL among other plot twists) wins a signed copy of the new book. #authorsofinstagram #steelfear #webbmann

My mom dug this gem out of an old musty shoe box.

My mom dug this gem out of an old musty shoe box. Race week Isla Partida Baja Mexico. Best home school year ever! I won my first and last sailing race ever entered in my little Sabot. Had hundreds of hours sailing that little boat for fun and the look on the adults faces when an 11 year-old bested them all, they didn’t see that win coming! Lots of bruised egos in the beach. I forgot I also entered this paddle race, which is ironic because I would later go on the qualify for the Catalina Classic 32 nautical mile race from Catalina island to Manhattan beach California; after returning from Afghanistan with SEAL Team 3 in 2002. One of the hardest things I’ve done is to finish that race, and many did not. I bonked 22 miles into it after crossing the channel and finished on sheer Navy SEAL will power. Harder than no sleep for 5 days in navy Hell Week for me. I still don’t recall the 2 hours of finishing and aftermath. What a waterman challenge though! And Friday night in Avalon was legendary with our boat being escorted out of the harbor for making too much of a ruckus! 🤣 That story I’ll have to write about soon for @sofrep.official Meanwhile, be kind to each other and LOVE you mom!

2020 was what you made of it. I had plenty of adve

2020 was what you made of it. I had plenty of adversity but decided to make it a great year. Raised money for a friend in the food and beverage industry who was struggling in NYC. Had to sell a business whose supply chain got hit and was already struggling and in turn around mode. Started a new business with @aldakarenh Finished my novel with John and we sold it to @randomhouse and then to @peacocktv for series (Exciting). Thanks to my new agent Hilary at @wme 🙏🙏🙏Spent an amazing summer in San Juan with the kids and got them advanced scuba🤿 certified. Incredible to be 100 feet deep in the clear blue of the Caribbean blowing bubbles with them. Made new personal commitments around dating and lifestyle. Yoga every day. @yogajournal Those are just the highlights but 2020 was an incredible year of transition. Now to bang into 2021 with friends at my place in Old San Juan for my NYE party.

It was approaching Christmas Afghanistan 2001, and

It was approaching Christmas Afghanistan 2001, and I was working to deliver some Holiday cheer to Al Qaeda with the guys from SEAL TEAM 3. Before our first major patrol me and the fellas procured some alcohol and invited our sister platoon "Delta" over for a few drinks.

Note: when asking friends and family to smuggle booze in the mail, make sure they don't send it in a Listerine bottle. There's few things worse than Listerine infused Canadian Crown Royal Whisky. Gatorade bottles work just fine.

I forget the exact date but I think it was Christmas Eve. We had this massive bonfire going on our compound and one of the guys threw a bench over the fire (heavy drinking involved...). This bench of fire and fury became our "Battle Bench".

All who dared hop on top to claim the throne would soon be challenged to a Game of Thrones like battle. Our new guy Heath was beckoned by an older teammate from a rival platoon. Little did Ed know, Heath was a pretty darn good wrestler. He would soon find this out.

As them jumped up on the bench, sparks flying into our laps, Heath tossed him off the fiery bench like a Lion brushes away an irritating fly on the hot desert plains of Africa.

By this time the bench was thoroughly on fire.

Thoroughly embarrassed, Ed tore off his brown shirt, bared his hairy frogman chest to us all in a show on manhood. Few were impressed. Then came the double dog dare to go a second time. Again, Heath tossed Ed like a professional pitcher throws a curve ball for a strike. Heath 2 Ed zero.

Ed hopped up again, skipping a formal protocols, and at the same time he landed the bench broke into a puff of red and orange sparks and crumbled beneath their feet. Heath jumped clear like a deer hops a road fence, and Ed went into the white hot coals shirtless.

We stood in awe until for 10 seconds but it seemed like an eternity before one of the corpsman (navy for medic) yanked Ed out of the fire. He half yelled another challenge Heath’s way before letting out a deep throated snarl as he fell over in pain, like a felled oak, from second and third degree burns.

Battle bench 🔥of Fire

Lessons learned? I'll leave that to you to decide for yourself in the comments.

When I was in the navy we had a sexual predator on

When I was in the navy we had a sexual predator on the aircraft carrier Abe Lincoln. They never caught the perpetrator. Which gave me the idea for a thriller about a serial killer onboard a U.S. Navy aircraft carrier. I write a LOT of nonfiction and I knew I needed to learn fiction. So I watched a tons of online videos and read Stephen King’s On Writing. One of the greats, an amazing writer and his book is a great gift to anyone looking to write the made-up story.

A few years later I cobbled together 15,000 words, the plot outline but, found myself a one-legged man in an ass-kicking contest. I needed help if I was going to finish it. Enter John Mann.

John and I have written 6+ books together and working with John always forces me to be my best, and has made me a much better writer. So I was thrilled when he accepted an offer to partner on our new series.

We’ve both had good solo acts but sometimes the band makes better music together. So WEBB & MANN was born.

Pre-order now, save your digital receipt and to be eligible for a private reading and signing in New York September 2021. Available anywhere books are sold. Thanks for the support! @randomhouse #authorsofinstagram #author #authors #thrillerbooks

Check my story for the full cover reveal.

What brought me to Puerto Rico? Plenty, but I’ll

What brought me to Puerto Rico? Plenty, but I’ll get to that in a second...Many historians forget that San Juan, Puerto Rico is actually America’s oldest city, not St. Augustine, FL (1565). Old San Juan was founded in 1521, with the first settlement established by the Spanish explorer, Ponce De Leon in 1508. The island is an American Commonwealth with an elected Governor who reports to Congress. You don’t need a passport to travel here, and the island is as rich in history as it is incredibly beautiful. Warm Beaches, Tropical Rain Forrest, mesmerizing Waterfalls, and more. I was surfing yesterday evening and we had another bomber sunset, and a local surfer pointed skyward and said, “Look, the Caribbean lights!”. I’ve seen the most intensely colored sunsets in Puerto Rico. So why did I buy a home here? Because I love ocean, and tropical climate and the island has the best tax incentives in America. I have a remote run online business and my creative business writing and is a short 3-hour nonstop to Manhattan. Great food, incredible surfing, seaplane flying, and beach close living for what a postage stamp apartment would cost you in New York City. So it fits my lifestyle very well. Fact: PR used to be the world’s largest coffee exporter. (Photo: just down the street from my house in Old San Juan.) #puertorico #oldsanjuan #authorsofinstagram #entrepreneurlife #traveldestination

What’s your passion? Mine is Aviation. I’ve me

What’s your passion? Mine is Aviation. I’ve met the most incredible people through flying planes. Ever since I was a kid I’ve wanted to fly planes. I still remember getting up early for school to watch the latest episode of Robotech. Who remembers that one?! But sometimes life pushes us in different directions and I became a Navy SEAL instead of a fighter pilot. Then the SEAL teams gave me time off to get my pilot training and I couldn’t get enough. Eventually I fell in with a group of military fighter pilots who jumped me into their “Fight Club”. What an amazing experience flying Yaks, jets and other military warbirds. One of the most rewarding experiences of my life and the best was when a former Top Gun USMC pilot said to me after one of our air combat flights, “You should’ve been a fighter pilot.” #igaviation #pilot #pilotlife #navyseals #fighterpilot #yak52 Video: Warming up the Yak oil! Hat tip: Chuck Yeager, what a legend. #chuckyeager

No $hit there I was...submarine surfing SEAL Team

No $hit there I was...submarine surfing SEAL Team 3.

Lots of black magic rumors floated around about Jerry M at Team 3. “I heard he used to have a hollow heel in his combat boot for a bump of coke.”, one new guy whispered to me as Jerry was digging in to tell us yet another strange tale from the Teams of yesteryear.

Side note: Jerry was both a master of story and pranks. He once slipped a tin foil wrapped black dildo into his friend’s carry on bag at JFK. The friend profusely denied ownership which only got him to secondary inspection.

That’s the kind of stuff he pulled routinely. Check six with Jerry! Ok, on to his story.

“Alright fellas, want to hear a good one?” Of course we did. I personally couldn’t get enough, and used to love going up to the second deck of the training cell to hear some of Warrant “half-ass” McCarthy’s stories about Nam. His nick name was earned by taking a frag grenade to the ass in the jungle. I think it’s safe to say Charlie got it just as bad or worse.

So no shit there I was, standing in the air loft and Jerry starts in.

They were doing SDV-2 ( aka SEAL Delivery vehicle...or mini subs) work off the coast of Panama. The submarine came to a depth of 30, 50ft? Can’t remember but it was shallow enough to do a diver free ascent to the surface & run a trunk line to shuffle gear up to the surface. The sub is a little like an underwater airplane, or shark, it has to keep moving to breathe aka maintain steady state. Just a few knots (mph for you land lubbers).

The visibility was like an aquarium, you could see hundreds of feet up. I guess Jerry spotted a small panga boat hull and decided to have some fun. He swam up the trunk line to the surface, slowly blowing bubbles out as his lungs expanded under reduced pressure. Don’t do that and your lungs will burst...it’s not pretty.

So up pops Jerry. He turns to the face two white faced Panamanians in a fishing panga who are making rigorous religious gestures. Where is land Jerry asks in Spanish. They point to the East. Jerry says Gracias and submerges. He would later die in Iraq as a legendary three letter agency guy. The legend lives on...

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

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