Dan Peña's QLA EXPOSED By Student
Dropping Bombs
Brad Lea
4.8 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 19 November 2025
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
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In this episode of Dropping Bombs, Christian Dawes brings a raw masterclass on leverage, grit, and buying businesses. Christian is living proof that Dan Peña's QLA methodology works—even if you're starting from rock bottom. Kicked out of seven schools and raising four kids, he bought his first company for $2.4M with 110% financing and lined up two more, pushing toward $10.5M in acquisitions.
Inside: use other people's money, build a credible board, and chase deals where the math wins—not your ego. Expect ruthless filters and volume: call hundreds of owners, walk in, and ask to buy the business. High margins buy forgiveness; low margins kill you. If the numbers fail, bin it and move on. This is a field manual for average men who refuse average outcomes—watch now, take the first swing, and become relentlessly capable.
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🔗 Resources
🌐 Dan Peña's Website — https://www.danpena.co.uk
📚 QLA for Dummies (Free Guide) — https://www.danpena.co.uk/qla-for-dummies
🏰 Guthrie Castle Seminars — https://www.danpena.co.uk/seminar/
📚 Your First Hundred Million (Audiobook) — https://www.danpena.co.uk/your-first-hundred-million-audio-book-download/
Guest Socials:
📲 Christian Dawes Instagram — https://www.instagram.com/christiandawes26/
Watch the full-length video version of any Dropping Bombs episode here on YouTube.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | You're one of Dan Pena's star students. |
| 0:02.5 | I couldn't even afford to drive to Melbourne two hours away. |
| 0:04.6 | Three months later, I'm on a plane, gone to Scotland for two weeks to stay in a castle with a billionaire. The way my life changed, I can't even explain it. I bought a business for 2.4 million and overfinanced at 100 grand. There's billionaires. Really? Billionaires. Using the exact same method that I'm using. If you can learn to leverage people's credibility and people's money, you're going to make it. |
| 0:22.2 | So you're buying a non-cash-flowing business? |
| 0:24.8 | Yeah. the exact same method that I'm using. If you can learn to leverage people's credibility and people's |
| 0:21.3 | money, you're going to make it. So you're buying a non-cash-flowing business? Yeah, but just hear me out. A lot of people think that the person that head of a company is some amazing, intelligent human being. It's like, no, they're probably dumber than you. If you have a vision, and if you take action on that vision, and if you're consistent and disciplined, it's going to happen.'re like a no excuse dude there's no excuses there's solutions to every single problem every single one |
| 0:41.8 | what biggest shift did your mindset have to make in order to put you in a position where this is now |
| 0:46.8 | reality funny story right so what it is brad lee back again with another episode of dropping bombs. |
| 0:55.5 | Today in the real studio, I've got a real treat for you, Christian Dawes in the house. |
| 1:01.1 | Is it Dawes? |
| 1:01.8 | It's doors. |
| 1:02.7 | Doors. |
| 1:03.9 | This bloke grew up in Victoria, Australia, had a dysfunctional family life growing up. |
| 1:10.5 | Tell me about that. |
| 1:12.0 | So to summarize that, my old man was in Hentridge, |
| 1:16.7 | its infamous prison in Australia. |
| 1:18.4 | He come out, met my mum somehow. |
| 1:20.7 | I think she was like a caseworker or something. |
| 1:22.9 | So there was some kind of tie there. |
| 1:25.8 | Me and two sisters were the result of that. |
| 1:29.3 | So you can imagine those two different kind of lifestyles were pretty conflicting. |
| 1:33.4 | So my mom was pretty, what's the word, like straight edge, straight cut. |
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