Ben Owen is an Army Infantry veteran, a father to eight children, graduate of the University of Alabama, and American Patriot. From startups to Fortune 500 companies, Ben has excelled in leadership, strategy, raising brand awareness and sales. He is the President of digital media and data intel company Black Rifle Co, co-founder of We Fight Monsters, and CEO of Flanders Fields, where his mission is to stand up as many Flanders owned clean living facilities as possible to get veterans clean and off the streets through volunteer missions in the United States and around the world. As a previously homeless and addicted veteran, Ben has seen some of the worst the world has to offer. In this episode, he shares his story of rising above the extraordinary hardships he’s faced in order to bring hope and help to as many people as he can. Shawn Ryan Show Sponsors: https://ShawnLikesGold.com | 855-936-GOLD #goldcopartner https://amac.us/srs https://meetfabric.com/shawn https://americanfinancing.net/srs | 866-781-8900 | NMLS 182334, www.nmlsconsumeraccess.org https://hillsdale.edu/srs https://patriotmobile.com/srs | 972-PATRIOT This episode is sponsored by BetterHelp. Give online therapy a try at betterhelp.com/srs and get on your way to being your best self. https://helixsleep.com/srs https://rocketmoney.com/srs https://prizepicks.onelink.me/LME0/SRS https://blackbuffalo.com Ben Owen Links: Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/therealbenowen/ LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/therealbenowen Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/p/Ben-Owen-100077606762984/ Black Rifle Co - https://www.blackrifle.company/ Flanders Fields - https://flandersfields.org/ We Fight Monsters - https://wefightmonsters.org/ Once American - https://onceamerican.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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I know my team's getting ready to go down there and do that with you. Yeah. I'm going to take them to 1428 Wilbert Street, the house that used to be full of bullet holes. There is a woman and her three children living in that house that just celebrated Christmas. The women that used to sell dope out of that house, I've got them housed in another old trap house around the corner.
So I was nearing rock bottom and stole a bunch of dope from Christian. Do you remember that?
Yeah, and I want to kill you today. You know, when the doctors told me that I was dying, and I was really relieved because I was sick of living like that, you know, I really couldn't be more stoked about it. I mean, I didn't want to die a junkie, but that's kind of where life had brought me.
This is where we housed the females who were selling their bodies. Those who would not submit, they got dealt with harshly, very harshly. I started using when I was 12 years old. My life just started getting worse after that. Constantly in and out of jail. Didn't beat on domestic violence.
ben owen sean ryan welcome to the show man thank you sir i've been really looking forward to this one i have too it's uh it's an absolute honor to be here thank you thank you well it's an honor to have you and uh i love your hat thank you four four four is my number is it oh yeah so explain that to me i've heard four four four is an angel number and i don't know why it is so
Long story, but about, I think it's been about two years now, had basically had God like slap me in the face in Sedona. And I won't get into it cause we'll be here all day, but like no shit. He just like showed up three times back to back to back in my life. And then I came home and I was telling, I had called this guy, Eddie Penny, who's a friend of mine.
We worked together in the SEAL teams very early on. And then we reconnected through the show. And when he came on, It's like the whole dynamic of my show kind of changed. His journey to faith and how he found Christ was just astounding and sent waves throughout the listenership of the show. And after he came on, it was like every person that came on the show talked about
jesus or their belief in christ or you know what i mean something like that every single one for the longest time i think it was over a year and uh you know i started putting it together and i was like man and i released eddie's episode on christmas and then i have my own experience in sedona where um i'd done psychedelics to to you know get over some stuff we can get into that later but but uh it kind of like
It didn't, psychedelics didn't like reignite my belief in Christ or anything like that, but it made me realize there's something more out there. And so I was searching all kinds of stuff, looking at fucking crystals and you name it, man. I was like trying to figure it out. And then Sedona happened. Like, long story short, this guy read my mind from front to back. Like, read my mind.
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