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Sean Whalen

@seanwwhalen

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Anyone who tells you it’s easy is lying.Nothing great comes easy. I’ve continued to share this project because I’m not only proud of the work I’ve done to make it reality, because I want people to see the process & journey. Over the last 4 years since I started pretty much every hurdle that could show up did. Business struggles. Physical struggles. Relational struggles. We had to blast cause we hit bedrock. We had to tear out entire slabs of concrete. We’ve had brutal winters. We had business struggles. Divorce. To say it’s been an interesting few years is an understatement. But here’s the thing. I figured it out. I solved the business issues. We fixed the concrete. I healed major betrayals. This ranch is more than just 500 acres, a great view and a compound for my family, it’s been one of my great tests of life. I’ve wanted to throw in the towel many times. I wasn’t sure how we’d get to the next step many days. It seemed like every day there was a new problem to solve. But isn’t that how it’s supposed to be?I’ve spent 2 decades building myself, my mindset and my life to be able to handle struggle. To be able to have the mental fortitude to face trails and create solutions. That’s the whole point of doing all this work every day, and building habits and patterns, so that when it gets hard, you’re able to create solutions not fold under the pressure. This ranch isn’t just a piece of real estate, it’s a lesson. It’s a test. It’s a challenge that’s been given to me to refine me and make me a better man. And that’s why I don’t and wont quit, cause if you’re halfway up the mountain, you’re only halfway done. You’ll never get the summit if you quit when your feet have blisters or the weather gets ugly. You gotta keep climbing. I dont quit when it gets hard, I find a way. I don’t read and study and pray just for the optics, but to have the strength to overcome the storms. To build a mindset that’s able to overcome what tries to break me. I don’t jump into the deep end just to doggy paddle back to the shallows, I learn to swim.Don’t quit yall. You owe it to yourself to keep going. 🤜🤛 by @seanwwhalen

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DAD’s…I felt compelled to share this with all the dads today. This is a video I sent my son at 4am from the balcony of my hotel room when I was in Monaco. I sent both of my sons and my daughter videos like this all the time. I try not to go more than a day without texting all of my children words of affirmation. Men… how we speak to our children and how we lead them and what they see matters more than we will ever truly understand. My dad split when I was a freshman in high school. He wasn’t around. I didn’t have a father who spoke life into me or guided me or showed me the way, I had to figure this game out on my own. Much like many of you. I had to build my own confidence. I had to chart my own course. I had to do much of this life on my own figuring it out as I went. This is why I speak these words into my kids. This is why I invest into them so heavily. This is why I never quit. Because they are watching. If I don’t ruthlessly speak life into them, then who will? If I don’t show these young men specialty the truth, and a father, who not only lives his life and his passions, but who overcomes demons, trials and tribulations, who rises again and again, what will they ever actually know and discover about life? Dads, it’s our job to be the light to our SONS. It’s our job to build a life that they can look at and see that we believe what we believe, and live what we preach. We cannot tell them to dream while we live a nightmare. We cannot tell them to shoot for the stars while we chill in the streets.NOTHING and I mean NOTHING will compensate for us failing these young ones. No amount of money you leave them when you die will compensate for you not being there today. This is a tough pill to swallow for many, but it’s an unavoidable truth and I can’t think of a greater failure than looking back and realizing I failed the things I loved the most. Whatever you do today, speak life into your young men. Give them your heart. Let them see the fire and tenacity and passion in your eyes and let them watch you walk with honor and integrity. Nothing we do will be more important. 🤜🤛 by @seanwwhalen

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When I die and go to heaven, me and God are gonna smoke and stogie and have a pretty good laugh at all this. 🫡 by @seanwwhalen

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Luke 22: Sell your cloak, and buy a sword ⚔️ Jesus didn’t say not to fight. He said to turn the other cheek, and when necessary, pick up the sword ⚔️ by @seanwwhalen

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No one needs a guns and night vision. Well no one needs pedos, dudes in the ladies room or wetards thinking there are 47 genders… but here we are. Stay strapped. 👆Shirts available.🌈 by @seanwwhalen

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Congratulations Liam! So blessed to see my awesome son in laws graduation from BYUI today. 4 year degree in 2.5 years! This young man is smart and is ready to conquer the business world! Well done big dog. I’m proud of you. The best part though is now they move to Utah, which means lots of grandson time! Having them 10 minutes away versus 3 1/2 hours away is gonna be so much fun!So blessed and grateful for this amazing family of mine! 🤟🏼 by @seanwwhalen

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Kids. I love them.My 16 year old son needed to borrow my truck for a few days. “Be safe and don’t crash it” I told him as I handed him the keys a few days ago. 8:52am this morning he makes that heart stopping call every dad dreads… “DAD, IT’S ME, I GOT INTO AN ACCIDENT.”He’s good. Other car and driver are good. I drove over to where he was at, made sure he was ok, had some very firm words for him because he was in the wrong, watched him handle himself respectfully with the police, and we hugged it out. I’m grateful to be a dad. For these experiences. Every kid screws up and I remember what it was like being a 16 year old kid, and I have to say that even though all 3 of my kids have had a few fender benders, they have navigated the teens years really well. There is so much power in these intense moments, so much we can teach our children about emotions, respect, accountability and honesty. It’s easy to laugh and play, but the real gold comes in the intense and the struggle. Life ain’t “fair” or easy, and these kids need to know from a young age how this game of life really works. And yea he will be paying every cent of this. Also big shout out to Lehi PD, yall are great. Chopped it up with them, Gave each of the officers a sample puck of our new energy/ focus pouches and a LIONS NOT SHEEP patch, and got one in return. Life is good yall.Hug your kids. Discipline them. Be firm and teach them the rules of the jungle, then live in them and make sure they know you are there for them. Forward we march. by @seanwwhalen

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I read what you read & know what you know.I’ve never met Andrew Tate, nor am I privy to any insider information, evidence, or anything from legal standpoint on what he’s being accused of. Do I agree with a lot of things that he says? Absolutely.Do I disagree with a lot of things that he says? Absolutely.But here’s the rub no one wants to admit, cause it’s easier to blame this guy than blame the real problem… Know why Andrew Tate is so popular with young men?Because many young men are FATHERLESS (even with a dad at home)Young men need hero’s. They need an idol. They need someone they can be inspired and motivated by, someone to mirror and they want to emulate, and the truth is a majority of FATHERS in this country are not any of these things. If Tate is where your kid looks, if Tate is your kids idol, YOU HAVE FAILED AS A FATHER. A majority of men in this country stand for nothing. A majority of men in this country are overweight, have zero drive, tenacity, ruthless ambition, and butter soft hands. A majority of men are in an emotionless, lethargic and complacent state who care more about fantasy football than creating a fantasy life. I hate to break it to you but this is the truth, and so when a young man hears another man stand up, speak up, talk about ambition, drive, motivation and he shoot fire from his eyes and wizardry from his tongue, guess what? He’s the man the young buck attaches to. He’s the beacon. He’s the North Star and the model these youngsters want to be like, not their frumpy, zero ambition, zero fire, never thrown a punch or worked for anything other than a mini van dad. But men don’t want to hear this. You think because your seed made this kid he’s gonna worship you while you call a 40 hour work week difficult, call 911 to keep you safe, and never thrown on head gear with your son and taught him some savagery. Dads slap an iPad and YouTube in front of their kid to shut them up and guess what the kid finds? Everything their dad isn’t. A feeling and emotion from a stranger that they have never felt from the guy sipping his coffee out of “world’s greatest dad” mug.Andrew Tate ain’t the problem. DAD’s are the pro by @seanwwhalen

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What’s your take?What do you think when you see this video?What do you FEEL when you see this video?“Douche”“What a bunch of assholes”“Rich pricks”“Entitled brats”It’s funny how people see things but I’m genuinely curious what YOU THINK & FEEL when you see this?Do you subconsciously think “I wish I could do that?” Do you get mad at your own situation?Do you think it’s a waste of money?Do you wish you could be doing the same thing?Do you cheer and say “Hell yea” and push harder on your dreams? Does it make you ANGRY 😡 Life is interesting for ALL of us. Life and experiences are teaching ALL of us. I used to be jealous of those who had what I didn’t. Those who achieved what I hadn’t achieved. The guy with the abs. The guy with the car. The guy with the chopper and money. For the record, this ain’t my chopper, it’s my buddy Keaton’s and yesterday he said “wanna jump out of the chopper?”Zero reservation… “HELL YES!” The interesting thing is this. We flew over the lake trying to find our friends, and it was wild how excited people got. We flew over a couple boats thinking it was them and the people on the lake were laughing and cheering and fist pumping every time we flew over them. Not a single middle finger 🖕🏼 from anyone, cause truth be told the folks on the lake on their ski boats enjoying the fruits of their labor get it. Fun fact, we actually saw a few folks on sudden boats later that night and they were saying how cool it was we flew over them and their kids loved itWhile the angry and bitter judge. I’m really curious for YOU what you think and feel when you see this video, cause I can tell you there are a lot of lessons in it for YOU.I’m grateful to have friends that are as crazy as me. Who think as big as me. Who push themselves into scary and uncomfortable places to build amazing lives. This was my first time jumping out of a chopper and it was a blast. It’s pretty damn windy and unstable holding on to those big skids, so I’m gonna start doing some wide grip pull ups so next time I’m a little more prepared. 🤣Big thanks to Keaton for the opportunity and Rob & Dana for an incurable weekend. Much love y’all. by @seanwwhalen

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Winners know its excellence. Losers call it “narcissism”.Winners know it’s confidence. Losers call it “ego.” In a world of mediocrity, obesity, depression and lazy, in a world where those who master a craft, rise above, and produce, “they” want you to conform to their weakness and appease their surrender, not rise to YOUR greatness. NO ONE will cheer for you louder than YOU MUST CHEER FOR YOU.No one wants you to surpass them, so you MUST surpass yourself every day. What “they” think of you is meaningless. What YOU THINK OF YOU is what matters. Remember, Jesus was perfect, did it all right, healed the sick and fed the masses… and “they” still hated him.🤜🤛 by @seanwwhalen

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Men.I know every man watching this KNOWS THIS PLACE.As someone who’s been there (a few times in life) it’s easy to feel like a FAILURE. To feel SHAME. To feel like NOTHING MATTERS.I was a self-made multimillionaire in my 20s. When I got divorced and went BK at 30 I was in this space. Depressed. Felt worthless. Didn’t give a damn if I lived or died. And a single conversation with my friend @garrettjwhite changed my view in a MAJOR way. It’s actually stuck with me all these years and been something I’ve come back to many times when I’m in a dark spot.“YOU HAD TO MAKE THE MILLIONS IN ORDER TO LOSE THE MILLIONS.”That sentence changed me forever. It’s easy when you’re in the pit to SEE NOTHING. To FEEL NOTHING. It’s easy to SHAME YOURSELF, we are experts at that.But never forget you had to build and create what you “lost.” Maybe it’s money. Maybe it’s your body. Maybe it’s a family. All of these things are monumental, but please always remember that you were the one who chose the marriage, raised the kids, started the business, had the jacked physique own time…You did it. And you can do it again, but this time you can do it better because when you get yourself out of the darkness, when you claw your way back, that return is glorious. That comeback makes every tear and pain literal gas to the spark inside you. “This too shall pass”. Never forget this fellas. Much love. 🤟🏼 by @seanwwhalen

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