The Shawn Ryan Show
Long-form interviews with operators, veterans, journalists, and whistleblowers — released in full, not in clips.
Podcast
The
Shawn Ryan
Show
The Shawn Ryan Show preserves history through unfiltered, long-form conversations with the people who lived it — operators, veterans, journalists, and whistleblowers. A Vigilance Elite production, presented as part of the IJ Holdings portfolio.
A Vigilance Elite Production
Hosted by former Navy SEAL and CIA contractor Shawn Ryan
Headquarters
Florida and Tennessee, United States
Areas of Focus
Podcast · Tactical training · Film consulting
Structure
Vigilance Elite production · Presented by IJ Holdings LLC
The Mission
The Mission
The Shawn Ryan Show is built on one conviction: history is best preserved by the people who lived it, in their own words, at length. Each episode gives a guest the room to tell the whole story — the wins and the losses, the decisions and the consequences — without a publicist’s edit. Guests come from special operations, journalism, politics, and business. The show does not smooth the edges off what they say.
Read the missionUnfiltered
Guests tell their own story, at length, without an edit from a publicist or a producer smoothing the edges.
Preservation
Every episode is an attempt to record history while the people who lived it are still here to tell it.
Service
The show exists to give veterans, operators, and whistleblowers a platform that takes them seriously.
Est. 2015 · Vigilance Elite
Shawn Ryan
Tennessee, United States
About Shawn
Former Navy SEAL. CIA Contractor. Founder. Host.
Host, The Shawn Ryan Show · Founder and CEO, Vigilance Elite
Shawn Ryan is the founder and CEO of Vigilance Elite and the creator and host of The Shawn Ryan Show. A former U.S. Navy SEAL who later served as a contractor with the CIA’s Global Response Staff, he built the show to document the untold stories of war, loss, and redemption — told by the men and women who lived them.
The Long Interview
The format gives guests the time and the room to say the whole thing. No segment clock, no hostile framing — questions asked plainly, and answers left intact.
The Work
Beyond the Microphone
The work around the show: training, consulting, and the operation that makes long-form, unfiltered production possible.
Vigilance Elite
Tactical training in weapons handling, close-quarters work, and civilian response for law enforcement and the public.
Training
Film and Technical Consulting
Training and technical advice for productions that need the tactics to look and work right.
Consulting
Field Production
Documentary work that records accounts of combat, loss, and recovery in the places they happened.
Production
Veterans and Transition
Giving servicemen and women a platform for the parts of the story that never make the briefing.
Advocacy
Public Commentary
Plain-spoken analysis of national security, media, and the questions the mainstream conversation leaves out.
Commentary
Vigilance Elite publishes its own training schedules, course details, and booking information directly. This portfolio is an editorial overview only, not an official company page.
Explore the work
Origins
Where the work comes from
The show grew out of Vigilance Elite, the training company Ryan founded in 2015 after fourteen years of service across the Navy and the intelligence community. What began as a platform for tactical instruction became a place where veterans and whistleblowers could tell their stories in full — and where the audience could hear them without a segment clock running.
Florida and Tennessee, United States
Dispatches
Field notes from the show
Watch
Episodes, in full
Inquiries
Bookings, press, and collaborations
For bookings, press, collaborations, and business matters relating to the show and the portfolio.