Sean Lake and I have known each other since 2007, when he and my good friend and former Navy SEAL Glen Doherty walked onto the SEALFIT Grinder in Encinitas. What followed were years of hard training, experimentation, friendship, and some unforgettable experiences that helped shape the early days of SEALFIT.

In this episode, Sean and I go back to where his story began. He shares how he and Glen grew up together outside Boston, dropped out of college around the same time to pursue adventure, and eventually took very different paths. Glen became a Navy SEAL while Sean pursued snowboarding, later working with athletes including Shaun White and Tony Hawk before finding his way into the early CrossFit world and eventually SEALFIT.

We revisit what made those early SEALFIT years different. The suffering had a purpose. The physical work became a vehicle for developing character, accountability, adaptability, and the ability to become an exceptional teammate. Sean also shares what it was like to go through and later coach Kokoro, and why those lessons continued showing up in his life years later.

The conversation takes a deeply personal turn as Sean recounts losing Glen in Benghazi. As Glen’s best friend and next of kin, Sean was among the first to be notified. Grief eventually became purpose as he helped establish the Glen Doherty Memorial Foundation and pursued a years-long fight over death benefits for government contractors. That effort ultimately extended beyond Glen, helping other families affected by the same issue.

Sean later carried Glen’s legacy into entrepreneurship by founding BUBS Naturals, named for Glen’s Navy nickname. He shares how a personal experience with collagen sparked the idea, why the company was built around self-improvement and giving back, and what happened when an FDA recall nearly ended the business.

We close by discussing Sean’s approach to product quality, collagen, creatine, longevity, third-party testing, and his vision for building a company that can improve people’s health while continuing to support causes that mattered to Glen.

In this episode:
• Sean and Glen Doherty’s friendship and early years together
• Leaving the conventional path in pursuit of adventure
• Sean’s years in snowboarding and action sports
• How Sean and Glen discovered SEALFIT
• The early culture that shaped SEALFIT and Unbeatable Mind
• Why suffering can reveal character
• What Kokoro taught Sean about teamwork
• Becoming an exceptional teammate under pressure
• Losing Glen in the Benghazi attack
• Turning grief and anger into purposeful action
• The Glen Doherty Memorial Foundation
• Sean’s fight over contractor death benefits
• How Glen’s legacy inspired BUBS Naturals
• Nearly losing the company after an FDA recall
• Why Sean prioritizes third-party testing and product quality
• Collagen, creatine, human performance, and longevity
• Building a business around self-improvement and service

Learn more about BUBS Naturals:
bubsnaturals.com

Learn more about the Glen Doherty Memorial Foundation:
glendohertyfoundation.org

Learn more about Unbeatable Mind:
unbeatablemind.com

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Leadership principles may endure, but the environment in which we apply them never stops changing.

In this episode of the Mark Divine Show, I sit down with Richard A. “Rick” Moore, whose leadership experience stretches from Vietnam and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to four decades in engineering and business. Rick brings a long view to what makes teams work, how leadership evolves with experience, and what today’s leaders can learn from navigating very different periods of technological and organizational change.

We explore why trust remains the glue that holds teams together and why leaders risk losing something essential as they move further away from the people doing the work. Rick shares how his early leadership experiences taught him to understand not only what people could do, but what was happening beneath the surface and affecting their ability to perform.

The conversation also turns to AI and the extraordinary pace of change leaders now face. We discuss the uncertainty ahead, the willingness to take risks and leave familiar territory, and why failure becomes valuable when leaders are willing to confront it openly and learn from it.

Ultimately, leading through uncertainty isn’t simply about moving faster. It requires knowing when to act, when to slow down, how to maintain trust, and how to build teams whose strengths complement one another.

In this episode:

• Leadership lessons from Vietnam and the Army Corps of Engineers
• Why trust is the glue that holds teams together
• Staying connected to the emotional pulse of an organization
• How leadership changes as organizations become larger
• Why experience can’t always be accelerated
• Balancing technological speed with time to think
• What AI could mean for the future of leadership
• Getting comfortable operating outside your comfort zone
• Why failure can become one of your greatest teachers
• Maintaining trust in volatile and uncertain environments
• Slowing the mind down before taking action
• Building teams around complementary strengths
• Why great teams don’t require everyone to be good at everything

Learn more about Richard A. Moore:
www.moore.engineering

Learn more about Unbeatable Mind:
unbeatablemind.com

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Success can be built through knowledge, hard work, and relentless execution. But those strengths alone don’t necessarily create fulfillment, connection, or exceptional leadership.

In this episode of the Mark Divine Show, I sit down with Randy Lyman, author of The Third Element and The Emotional Healing Workbook. Randy began with a background in physics and entrepreneurship, bringing a highly systematic approach to solving problems. Eventually, he realized there was another part of the equation he had largely overlooked: emotion.

We explore how suppressed emotions and old patterns can continue influencing our decisions, relationships, and leadership long after the original experience has passed. Randy shares his own experience discovering that overachievement was connected to a deeper desire for acceptance and approval, and how addressing that pattern changed the way he approached his life and work.

We also discuss why emotional awareness requires more than simply learning an intellectual model of emotional intelligence. Randy shares practical methods for bringing the mind, body, and emotions into the process, including breathwork, EFT tapping, journaling, and his four-column exercise for identifying the emotions beneath recurring problems.

In this episode:

• Why success doesn’t automatically create fulfillment
• Randy’s transition from physics to entrepreneurship and emotional development
• The emotional patterns that can drive overachievement
• Why the need for approval can undermine authenticity
• The difference between understanding emotions and actually feeling them
• Randy’s problem, solution, judgment, and emotion exercise
• Breathwork, journaling, and EFT tapping
• Why recurring irritation can reveal deeper patterns
• Perfectionism and the desire to fit in
• How presence changes leadership
• Why a leader’s internal tension affects the entire team
• Creating environments where people feel safe enough to contribute fully

Learn more about Randy Lyman:
randylyman.com

Learn more about Unbeatable Mind:
unbeatablemind.com

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