$2M/Year Remote Job No One Knows About
Dropping Bombs
Brad Lea
4.9 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 29 January 2026
⏱️ 88 minutes
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In this brutally honest Dropping Bombs episode, NEXA Lending founder and CEO Mike Kortas exposes how he went from homeless at 18 to building one of America's most ambitious mortgage broker platforms. Mike reveals the 100% commission model that's disrupting traditional lending, why wholesale rates beat retail every time, and the prospecting strategies that tripled his pipeline in 90 days.
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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 | This dude went from literally homeless sleeping with a cow to now a multi-millionaire with multiple jets. |
| 0:06.4 | We do have people that make money while they sleep. |
| 0:09.3 | Seven figures a year, money while they sleep. |
| 0:11.8 | They don't do anything. |
| 0:12.6 | My pipeline tripled, literally, in 90 days. |
| 0:15.3 | What does a good loan officer make? |
| 0:17.3 | Oh, a good loan officer should be making seven figures all day. |
| 0:19.5 | More than a million a year. |
| 0:20.5 | Oh, yeah. Top two paid industries in the world. Number one, professional athletes. Number two, financial sales. Nobody in the country will ever beat my rate. Nobody. Do you literally pay people every day? Our payrolls runs twice a day. We have an early morning, direct deposit, and late in an afternoon direct deposit. And leads are free in the mortgage industry. |
| 0:38.5 | I can show anybody how to get free leads. |
| 0:40.4 | Nexsa is making more millionaires in the mortgage space than anybody right now. |
| 0:44.3 | I'm getting in this business, folks. |
| 0:49.1 | What it is, Brad Lee back again with another episode of Drop Bombs today in the studio. |
| 0:53.8 | Folks, I got a real treat for you, especially if you're in the mortgage business, |
| 0:58.7 | Mike Cordes in the house. |
| 1:00.8 | What's happening? |
| 1:01.5 | What's up, Brad? |
| 1:02.0 | How you doing? |
| 1:02.5 | Folks, if you guys don't know this dude, he's the founder and CEO of NECSA lending since 2017, |
| 1:08.3 | 20 plus years in the mortgage industry. |
| 1:11.4 | He built one of the most ambitious broker platforms in the United States with over 3,500 loan |
| 1:17.2 | officers and counting, championing the independent broker model with 100% commission structure, |
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