The Base Line With Thom Shea

How big should your leadership team be? For the past 28 years my experience in team driven missions has been with small, highly selective, very highly training individuals who team up for the sole purpose of execution of a mission. Little did I know how every maneuverable, effective, and decentralized this type of team is when compared to the big, highly political, and less training and more emoti...

  Culture is the hot topic of the day. Whether it be political, economical, business, at the gym, or even at home, culture is the new topic. It is a rather old idea that is newly recycled with a nice catchy word like culture. Learn a Skill that matters I have just returned from a week long trip to West Point and was reading an article on the state of our economy and the solution was culture. What...

The difference between the ones at the top of their field and the other people isn't genetics, isn't where they went to school, isn't family upbringing, isn't luck.   Follow Us The difference is that the top people actually are trying to do something they cannot do. They are doing epic things when everyone else is trying to just survive. Can you imagine what your life would actually be like if you...

Honoring the Brotherhood of the SEAL Teams. Marty Strong and I discuss the Teams and how to survive retirement. Get into the mind of the author of numerous warrior stories with a true Navy SEAL brother and warrior.  Pre-order Death before Dawn In the post 9/11 world of special operations the Navy SEALs establish a reputation for excellence, courage, and fortitude. But for Lieutenant Matthew Barret...

Founded by former US Navy SEALs, O2X's comprehensive curriculum targets the specific issues facing tactical populations including high rates of injury, elevated cancer and cardiac health risks, and behavioral health issues commonly associated with high-stress work environments. Buy Now What you'll find in the book: Our science-backed EAT SWEAT THRIVE methodology The role of nutrition in optimizing...

It has been 10 years now, since I lead SEALs into combat. Ten years since utter clarity. Yes you did hear that correctly. Combat to great leaders is simple and clear. Taking SEALs into combat was for me a brilliant culmination of 20 years in the SEAL teams. Combat leadership as I reflect on it had five elements to it. They will not be what you expect to hear. The movies and politicians and people...

A Measurable Life   Bottom Line Up Front (BLUF): the Design of Human Performance   The Training Starts Now There are Five Measurable factors in your life. We call these aspects "The Five Pyramids of Human Performance." Our notion is that Human Performance ultimately is a measure of achieving results in the Five Pyramids of Human Performance®. To achieve these five results we find it necessary to a...

Can a book actually help you close more sales? Yes it can! Sales Success is the book that shapes sales careers. While reading this sales fable, learn sales strategies used and recommended by members of the sales hall of fame including Zig Ziglar, Tom Hopkins and Scott McKain. In Sales Success, you will discover why sales success happens for the earnest student…and why it doesn't for the rest. Buy...

The greatest challenge in life is to maintain momentum.  That is to say, maintaining momentum in health, learning, wealth, relationships, and spiritual growth.  Yet, as in all things successful that you do in life, the basics are the key. Buy The Book Unbreakable Sleep and rest are basic skills and few manage to control this skill set.  Eating and drinking properly is a basic skill and fewer have...

The Greatest gift you can give to the world is to be brave enough to write your story.  Kathlyn Heim shares the lessons she has learned in her life in the book Rule of Nines. The real credit always goes to the one's of us who risk it all and share what they have learned.  The Rule of Nines provides a 9-step simple plan to guide people towards success in the evocation of behavioral changes necessar...

We embarked three weeks ago on a project to show our clients a simple method to start up a new effort and ensure the foundation is set. Buy Unbreakable I have spent 35 years applying this time-honored way of achieving success. During those years the method of using the 21 day grind cycle to establish a baseline has proven effective every time. The 21 day challenge is a simple but not easy process....

Your Impossible Goal simply isn't. Maybe the basics are the real means to become successful. Ben Light is an accomplished Ultra Marathon runner, because he masters the basics of running. Step by step, process driven, hard work, goal oriented is the testament to achieving the Impossible Goal. Mindset is part of the step by step process. Having committed partners, as Ben mentions is literally the gl...

For those participating in the Unbreakable Training and currently doing the 21 day challenge, I personally congratulate you for being committed to your life starting with your health. It actually takes a high level of bravery to commit to a goal. It takes boldness to actually do three things a day that matter to you. It takes someone Unbreakable to actually do three things a day for 21 straight da...

I have spent a lifetime starting over or starting a new project or starting a new business or even starting a new mission planning cycle in combat. Today's podcast is about how to start a project, how to start anything. Today marks the 7 day point into a 21 day start up method, I was taught long ago. The bottom line upfront is that it really takes 21 days to initiate transformation. It takes 21 st...

Leverage to Scale CEO discusses the video marketing methods to grow business.   Learn how to connect here. If you want to create human connection in a digital world, there's one way to do it - and that's video marketing. It's never been more important (and challenging) to make your clients, customers and prospects feel heard, loved and valued. Automation has saved us time, but it's come at the cos...

Each year man celebrates the holidays. Whether you celebrate Christmas as the birth of Yeshua Hamashiach (known as Jesus) or you celebrate the winter solstice or you celebrate the closing out of a year, the time is meant to celebrate. This holiday season is a time to lay down your issues or grievances and to give. I would like to share a story I tell my kids around the hearth or fireplace every ye...

Listen, I am sorry that you think working out 3 days a week has any value in your life. Going to a gym to simply work out for the sake of working out is the biggest killer to real health. What is missing is you need a real, tangible definable Goal that you are working toward. Going to the gym just to go is like putting money in your mail box because it is like saving money. Neither are of value to...

Five Forms of Fear Fear is learned. Fear is real for those who practice fear. Fear has killed more men and women than any disease or event. Fear is how most people deal with failure. Fear is the most seductive mistress. Fear will always overpower the greatest of forces because fear lies in the shadows of every bright event. Sign up to overcome fear Over the past 50 years I have heard many acronyms...

It is December. The Christmas holiday season is upon us. Christmas trees are pooping up all over the place, lights are going up and school is winding down for the kids and end of your stresses are ramping up for business owners. Christmas in the Shea clan is always a time to be together, to celebrate our lives and accomplishments and be a family. We all like to sit around the table each night talk...

This weeks Unbreakable Podcast is for both individuals or companies committed to growth in 2019. There is fundamentally little difference between an individual or a company regarding looking at growth in 2019. I can tell you from personal experience it is not more complicated for a company to grow. The number of people or volume of products doesn't make growth more complicated. Individual growth i...

As I grow older, as I, personally, take on new nebulous endeavors, as I train leaders and high achieving men and woman across the nation, one subject comes up more than others. Pressure. Stress. Whatever name you call how you encounter the world you are dealing with. This week's podcast is to maybe pass on something relevant from my experiences that will help. And, since, Jill in particular asked...

Setting aside the politics of Veterans Day, setting down which side of the tracks you may be on, Veterans Day is a recognition of the profound effect the choice we do have in the United States to actually defend or not defend our country.   Veterans Day is simply a celebration of choices, maybe it is a celebration of the liberty to actually make a choice that our founding fathers fought and died t...

Imagine if you will you were faced with no way to win, no way out, and overwhelming odds not in your favor. What would be your next action or step?   Learn how In the world that surrounds most of us that thought, that circumstance scares us from even thinking about it. Most of us would avoid that situation all together. Few people have the presence of mind and guts to consider … what would I do? T...

Many of you lately have asked us to discuss how we raise our kids as warriors and what it is like for us to have one of our kids at one of the military academies. We get so many that Stacy and I have reflected often on the experience of raising kids and what we have done that is of any value.   13 warrior lessons I would have to start with defining a warrior. There are two types of warriors: those...

The search for the traits that successful people have, agnostic of industry or even gender seems to be the going trend. You don't have to have a secret decoder ring or spend a life time getting on degree after the other to find the common leadership traits. The 4 are evident everywhere you look. Knowing what they are and actually acquiring each trait as a thing you do each day however it not simpl...