Thom Shea's Blog, page 15
April 19, 2020
173. What is the Gap? | [ Solving The Gap Series]
In this episode of Unbreakable Podcast [Solving the Gap Series], Thom Shea and Joseph Caldwell dive into why they created this series, how they have solved the gap in different areas of their lives, and what they're doing to help others do the same.
173. What is the Gap? [Solving The Gap Series]
In this episode of Unbreakable Podcast [Solving the Gap Series], Thom Shea and Joseph Caldwell dive into why they created this series, how they have solved the gap in different areas of their lives, and what they're doing to help others do the same.
April 12, 2020
172. Disrupting the Model With Matt Mead
Matt Mead went from ‘entrepreneurial cowboy’ to multi-millionaire business tycoon within a decade defined by changing technology.
With scientific precision, Matt mastered the analog and digital data that drives business. Today, he is the leading authority on responsible entrepreneurship and digital fraud, providing mentorship and solutions to those who deserve a second chance at providing for their families through great businesses.
April 8, 2020
171. Lead by communicating with Howard Shore
During chaos leaders need to lead by communicating more. Isolation kills business and the people who are isolated from leaders.
It is as simple as that.
Howard M. Shore has helped thousands of business executives and their teams reach their full potential with his unique approach to finding more profits, revenue, and freedom.
April 5, 2020
170. Professional Sports Ends and Leading During Chaos with Lance Tyson
Tyson Group provides the edge that B2B sales teams need to consistently succeed in today’s complex and volatile marketplace. This elite and qualified team offers expert sales development strategies tailored to companies’ individual needs, cultivating talent that yields measurable results. Their proven process guides leaders and their teams from initial assessment to training and long-term coaching, ensuring substantial and lasting benefits.
April 2, 2020
169. A Time To Serve
The human spirit can always overcome any obstacle if it learns not to give up on itself.
After completing the Unbreakable 24 hour challenge, Jennifer committed to writing her book A Time To Serve.
You too can accomplish great things when you learn to never give up.
March 29, 2020
168. Millionaire Underdog JT Foxx and Leading During Chaos
JT Foxx is the ultimate Millionaire Underdog. He is a successful serial entrepreneur with companies, brands and business interests spanning the globe. He is one of the top platform speakers in the world and has been deemed the World's #1 Wealth Coach as seen and heard on television, and in radio and print. Unbreakable Podcast is for people who want to rediscover their edge. I believe in the human ability to get off the X and regain their edge. It doesn’t matter how old, how many times you have won or lost, or how low you have become. I am committed to you getting your edge. Subscribe to Unbreakable Podcast Sign up for Solving the Gap
March 23, 2020
167. Three Critical Choices during Chaos
Not everyone has experience to draw upon during chaotic times. Few people have lead others through times that are truly difficult both emotionally and physically. Yet, we all now find ourselves faced with choices and chaos.
I would like to share with you the 3 critical choices you will have to make during these chaotic times with the COVID19 hysteria, travel restrictions, and the simple not knowing what will come next. My personal experiences in chaos and leading during chaos are drawn for a life in the SEAL teams in war and the life as a SEAL trying to be a father and a husband during those difficult times.
Throughout the history of mankind, war has been the most chaotic experiences. Life threatening experiences tend to be chaotic. Yet, in all the darkness of war and chaos, the existential threat is actually a great teacher of what to do and what to not do. War is the greatest teacher and always will be.
The first thing existential threats teach and therefore your first choice you have to make is BE PPREPARED physically. So the first choice you have to make is either run from the threat, ie put your head in the ground and hope and pray nothing happens. Or prepare for the worst possible event. In the SEAL teams, by the way I know most people don’t understand the SEAL Training methodology, we decided to prepare every day for bad shit happening.
How do you prepare for bad things. First off you have to right now today begin to get your body in shape. It is not too late you are not too old. Start right now. Keep it simple too. For an hour work out either in your house or outside or wherever you find yourself.
Why, during a crisis is physical health the first choice. Because if you are not constantly fit you have very little chance of enduring what will come.
The reason SEALs survive in the most chaotic life threatening dirty unhealthy environments is the constant level of physical fitness we chose to have everyday. The body is a beautiful thing and is capable of dealing with dangers and viruses and chaos only when it is moving and fit and in action. So get to it now. Don’t wait.
The second choice during chaotic times of any sort it protect your family or team or company. That is a hard choice to make for a great many people because chaos throws people into isolation. I got mine mentality will always destroy the person who had chosen to abandon family and team and company and only protect one’s self.
Get your family together and talk very openly about what WE will do together today to protect our home, our assets, our supplies. Same goes for your team or company. Get all assets under control and shore up all immediate issues that are being affected. Do it right now.
The SEAL team mentality is lethal during chaos. There is a relevant mantra that works well here too. Team first, gear second, and I am third. That mindset will get you and your family and business through this chaos, but the leader has got to make it and demand others make it.
The Third choice a leader must take during chaos is to keep all emotions in check. Most people don’t have the ability any longer to control emotions because the society has moved completely 180 degrees away from emotional strength. Yet emotional stability in a crisis has to be a choice you make every day and practice it every day.
Fear is a choice. Fear if you choose it will cripple you. That is what fear is designed to do. Fear prevents action of any kind. Panic is the first base hit of fear.
How do you deal with emotions and fear during chaos? Keep actions simple and keep in action. If you want to learn the details of fear than reach out and my team will help you deal with making this choice.
If you are a leader, I recommend you getting of the phone or skype or any method to talk with each of your team or employees and find a way to help them be fit, protect their families and not overreact emotionally. Keep communicating and leading this way until the crisis is over. If that means calling them every day that is what you must do. If you isolate now as a leader the team or company or even your family will be much harder to lead with each day of isolation.
March 19, 2020
166. Leading During Chaos
Difficult times require simple leadership. Simple, not complex, not transformational, and not over reactive. Simple!
All difficult times are the same. They all seem complex, and life threatening with so many unknowns. Difficult times without leadership on a personal level create chaos on all levels.
Chaos causes fear. And fear is the absence of simple actions. Without simple actions nothing can be accomplished. Fear is the most devastating reaction to chaos.
It is time for personal leadership not national leadership. You must lead yourself first by finding three simple things that produce immediate results to overcome this current chaos. You must break through fear and the complexity of chaos and root your actions in three simple things.
Take a step back. Make a list of everything that you have been told will be an existential threat to mankind, your company, and your family. Hurricanes, military combat, guns, racism, confederate flags, drugs, depression, viruses. On that list try to write down the millions of dollars spend convincing you, you were going to die within the year.
Make another list on a work-out you can do outside, a sexy thing you can do with your wife or husband or lover, a way you can bring value to one person. Make a list of three simple things you can do today to improve your conditions. No matter where you are, who you are.
Now you have two choices one is not real and makes no difference and will never happen to the level they proport. The other list will change world and stabilize all chaos.
The major problem is you have been convinced chaos is real and every crisis is an existential event. And you have convinced yourself to not take simple actions.
You must lead now. You must break through the complexity and engage in spite of the chaos by actually doing simple things.
March 17, 2020
165. SEAL Team leading during crisis
Interview with Thom Shea, Adam La Reau and Mike Rice. Discussing leading during chaos, surviving isolation and building organizations based on health and fitness.
