Leif Babin
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Sep 6, 2026
AlexHOST
Actually, we have to read his book.
AlexHOST
It's called Extreme Ownership by him and Leif Babin.
TroyHOST
I listened to him early on when he came around to Joe Rogan and I feel like Sam Harris interviewed him as well.
AlexHOST
Yeah, he's fucking solid.
Robin DreekeGUEST
Dichotomy and balance.
Robin DreekeGUEST
Jocko would link Leif Babin to stream ownership, dichotomy and leadership.
Robin DreekeGUEST
Everything in life is a dichotomy.
Robin DreekeGUEST
We can't experience great things in life unless we have an experience of really horrendous, because then it's all just vanilla.
James O'DellGUEST
Look at some of the leadership books and curriculum that are out there that talk about the performance of teams and how they change with new leaders.
James O'DellGUEST
I even think of Extreme Ownership by Jocko Willink and Leif Babin and their experience in the military and how they said, you just replace a leader on a team and often the team performance changes radically.
James O'DellGUEST
Yet we're not training on that.
James O'DellGUEST
So continuing education is critical in the aftermarket.
Jamie CochranHOST
I'm Jamie Cochran.
Leif BabinHOST
I'm Leif Babin.
Jamie CochranHOST
Lead win.
Leif BabinHOST
An extreme ownership podcast.
Leif BabinHOST
Welcome back to the Lead Win Podcast.
Leif BabinHOST
I'm Leif Babin.
Leif BabinHOST
We have Carlos Mendez and Jamie Cochran, who's not with us currently, but we're gonna talk about a really important topic, and that is why leadership training fails.
Leif BabinHOST
So it's crucial to train leaders.
James LawrenceGUEST
And I like to say that it's about how many people you bring to that mountaintop, not just getting there.
Joe De SenaHOST
Next up, we've got, or last up, we've got Leif Babin, Jocko's partner, extreme ownership, gets out there and teaches civilians how to level up and how to operate, whether singularly as an individual or as an organization, at the highest level.
Joe De SenaHOST
very similar to what you would see at SOCOM or Special Forces.
Joe De SenaHOST
These folks, they live and breathe this idea of no days off.
Steve CorridoriGUEST
Yep.
Steve CorridoriGUEST
By Jocko Willink and Leif Babin.
Steve CorridoriGUEST
It's, I mean, that one kind of goes along with the second book that's called The Dichotomy of Leadership.
Steve CorridoriGUEST
I mean, you'll end up finding them both together usually.
Jamie CochranHOST
[upbeat music] I'm Jamie Cochran.
Leif BabinHOST
I'm Leif Babin.
Jamie CochranHOST
Lead Win.
Leif BabinHOST
An Extreme Ownership podcast.
Jamie CochranHOST
And we're back with another episode of the Lead Win podcast with Leif Babin and Carlos Mendez, and I wanna touch on a topic today.
Jamie CochranHOST
We talk a lot about combat and business.
Jamie CochranHOST
We weave in some stories of family, but I wanna anchor today on this idea of extreme ownership at home.
Alex HormoziSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
And why not have it have brand power in and of itself?
Leif BabinSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
What I would say to a 20-year-old is to learn from people who have enough life experiences to be humble, right? So when you're humble enough to recognize that you don't even know what you don't know, if you were to ask young Lieutenant Leif Babin, the Charlie Platoon commander, I've been through SEAL training, I've been through a deployment to Iraq, so I had some combat experience.
Leif BabinSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
And when we were going through our workup cycle in Task Unit Bruiser, if you were to ask me if I was going to get in a terrible friendly fire situation with other U.S. forces, would that happen? If you'd asked me that before we deployed to Ramadi in 2006, I'd have said, hell no.
Leif BabinSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
That happens to losers who don't know how to plan, who don't know how to train, who don't know how to prepare their team.
Brooks BoydGUEST
And when I give you the title of it, you might understand the excuse for profanity.
Brooks BoydGUEST
Uh, the book is by Jocko Willink and Leif Babin.
Brooks BoydGUEST
The title is Extreme Ownership: How U.S. Navy SEALs Lead and Win.
Brooks BoydGUEST
It was published in two thousand seventeen.
Brooks BoydGUEST
The subtitle of that is relax, look around, and make a call.
Brooks BoydGUEST
Uh, under stressful situations, you think, "Oh no," and you're in panic mode, "I've gotta do something." Well, just take a breath, sit down, and this was done.
Brooks BoydGUEST
Leif Babin said he did that.
Brooks BoydGUEST
He remembered what he was taught by his, uh, platoon leader, and, uh, he, he, he stopped.
Jay YoungHOST
I, I wanna mention the book recommendation for this week is Extreme Ownership.
Jay YoungHOST
The Jocko Willink and, and Leif Life, Leif Babin.
Brock MurphyGUEST
Leif.
Jay YoungHOST
The central idea is simple.
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