SEAL Team Officer In Charge Sean Glass | Mike Drop Ep. 211

About this video

Mike Ritland interviews Sean Glass, a former Navy SEAL with 13 years of service and three combat deployments who later became COO of a construction tech startup and co-founded Primal Beef. Glass discusses his career transition from the Teams, his work teaching leadership principles at Echelon Front with Jocko Willink, and the challenges of balancing fatherhood with the detachment skills learned in military service. The conversation covers his upbringing in Texas, decision to join the SEALs after reading a Vietnam-era book at age 13, and experiences through BUD/S training.

Key takeaways

• Glass credits Jocko Willink’s approach to leadership as maintaining calm by not holding strong opinions on most things except moral, ethical, legal, and discipline-related matters, allowing openness to outside influence on everything else.
• According to Glass, detachment—a skill honed throughout SEAL training—is harder to maintain at home because of emotional investment in family, and he views his children as ‘fault finders’ that help identify areas for personal growth.
• Glass attributes his decision to become a SEAL to reading a military book about Vietnam-era operators at age 13, which gave him singular focus; his parents required college first, leading him to pursue the officer route through Texas A&M.

Episode details: published October 28, 2024 · 49.7K views · 2:40:32 long. Summary written by Self Growth Videos from the episode itself. Stories told by Mike Ritland’s podcast guests are the guests’ own accounts, attributed to them — not independently verified. Commentary is Ritland’s, presented as his analysis.

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