Into the Lion’s Den with Dan O’Shea is a raw and candid podcast exploring high-stakes decision-making, leadership under pressure, hostage negotiation, and counterterrorism.

Hosted by retired U.S. Navy SEAL and combat veteran Dan O’Shea — a former military analyst for BBC, CNN, Fox News, and others — the show draws on his four decades of global experience across six continents. From running the U.S. Embassy Hostage Working Group in Baghdad during one of America’s largest hostage crises since Iran 1979, to chasing hostage-takers in Iraq and countering insurgencies in Afghanistan, O’Shea has lived the reality of stepping into the lion’s den.

Each episode features honest conversations with combat veterans, warrior-diplomats, war correspondents, military authors, and whistle-blowers who have operated in the arena. Guests share their unfiltered stories of risk, failure, moral courage, instinct, and hard-won lessons in war, leadership, and life.

New episodes drop weekly on Armed Forces Press.