$1M in 18 Months: The Boring Strategy Wall Street Doesn't Want You to Know

Dropping Bombs

Brad Lea

Business, Entrepreneurship

4.8 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 26 December 2025

⏱️ 80 minutes

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In this game-changing Dropping Bombs episode, FTMO all-time record holder Bernd Skorupinski shares his escape from the corporate grind to full-time trading success. With over 11 years of experience, 120 leaderboard wins, and nearly $1M in verified profits over 18 months, he proves trading isn't gambling—it's a learnable skill.

Bernd breaks down the swing trading side hustle, using simple rules, and prop firms to trade big money without risking much of your own. He exposes why 95% fail, the disciplined path to consistent wins, and "set and forget" approaches needing just 15-30 minutes daily. If you're tired of the 9-5 and ready for real time and money freedom, this conversation lights the fuse.

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Brad Lea is a self-made entrepreneur who turned small-town grit into a multi-million-dollar empire. With over 25 years dominating sales and leadership, he's mentored thousands to outsmart, outwork, and out win their competition. His top-rated podcast, Dropping Bombs, brings raw, game-changing insights from the biggest names in business.

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0:00.0	I used to work in corporate. I didn't want to be any more slave of my desk or just having that
0:05.0	nine to five grind for the rest of my life. And I stumbled onto trading. In the past one and a half
0:10.5	years, I was making close to a million dollars and trading not with my own capital, but with prop firm
0:16.6	capital. So how much do I need to get started realistically? I would say anything between $1,000 and $5,000.
0:22.3	You can get instantly funded up to $200,000 in capital.
0:25.6	Whatever you lose, the firm covers for it.
0:28.1	How many people are out there training people how to trade that are foolish?
0:31.6	I would say 95% if not more.
0:33.6	Like really famous guy, removed my name from that certificate, added his name, but he left the QR code and it led to my certificate. I kind of called this guy out and then went viral, half a million views. Do I need to be good at math? No. It's a skill that can be learned by everybody. It's the only business in the world. When you want to make more money, it doesn't require more of your time.
0:55.7	How long would it take me to learn enough to deploy it and be profitable?
0:59.6	That's a really good question.
1:04.3	What it is, Bradley, back again with another episode of Drop and Bombs today in the studio, folks.
1:09.4	I've got a real treat for you. Burned Skorapinski in the house. What's up, Byrne? I've been pronounced. Thank you so much for having me here in Vegas. Excellent. Thank you for coming all the way from Dubai. That's correct, yes. Folks, you might want to pay attention if you like making money the easy way. Now, I don't know if it's going to be easy
1:28.1	or not. Exactly. I wanted to interrupt. Usually I don't do that because it's not easy trading,
1:32.5	right? It's simple, but it's not easy. Sounds easy. Sounds easy, but it's not. Well, we're going to get
1:37.9	into that. But listen up, folks, because it seems like a killer way to make a living if you can if it's real and again
1:49.0	guys form your own own opinions i you know i had a guy on here one time that was doing these
1:54.1	shopping uh stores or e-commerce or drop shipping or some shit and you know i just talked I just talked to them about it. And then, you know, next thing, you know, a couple years later, turns out, you know, everyone wasn't happy. And, you know, then people started saying, why did you put him on your platform? Like, I don't do, I didn't do an FBI background check on you. But you seem like, you seem like a clean cut individual. But I do some research and the research
2:20.1	that I'm doing is saying that O'Burned Scorapinski is a full-time professional trader with 11 plus
2:25.9	years experience and an all-time record holder, a all-time record holder at FTMO, which is the world's
2:33.3	largest proprietary training firm with 120 board
2:36.3	or 120 leaderboard appearances in 18 months. One of the few traders with fully third party
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