Get RICH In This Overlooked Industry (No Talent Required)
Dropping Bombs
Brad Lea
4.8 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 16 December 2025
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Summary
This episode sponsored by Adkins Enterprises LLC
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In this electrifying Dropping Bombs episode, national guitar champion Zachary Adkins shatters the starving artist myth—revealing how he scaled from teaching guitar in his house to running four music schools across Nebraska with 800+ students and $1M+ revenue. Why chase fame when you can build a 7-figure empire from your garage? Zach even shreds live on his custom Ernie Ball, proving talent meets strategy.
From flipping $100 ad spend into full-time freedom to expanding during Covid to 250 students, Zach exposes the blueprint: reinvest ruthlessly, pay teachers well, and dominate underserved suburban markets. Action takeaways: leverage convenience over competition, charge premium to avoid burnout, and scale multiple locations. Music isn't just notes—it's a scalable empire.
Whether you're a musician, entrepreneur, or just hate leaving money on the table—this conversation is your wake-up call to build real wealth in an overlooked industry.
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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 | You can teach anyone how to build a seven-figure music business. |
| 0:03.4 | You don't have to be a musician to open a music school. |
| 0:05.5 | Would you say you're one of the best guitar players in the world? |
| 0:08.2 | I'm probably in the top 1%. |
| 0:10.9 | Like, dude, I'd pay you 50 Gs if I could play like that. |
| 0:20.8 | I got first place in a national guitar competition. |
| 0:23.5 | Who do you think the best guitarist ever is? |
| 0:25.6 | Ever? |
| 0:26.3 | Oh, well. |
| 0:26.8 | You built a seven-figure and growing music school from scratch. |
| 0:31.5 | All of them from zero. |
| 0:32.5 | We have four locations. |
| 0:33.6 | Why do you think that there's so many broke musicians when it's so easy to do what you did? Find guitar players, piano players, drummers, and then give them an opportunity to make money, and then you make money. I expanded during COVID. I didn't shut down at all. You don't have to be a musician to own a music school. The question is, do you want to make seven figures and do you like music? I don't think burning out is a thing. I think you just feel |
| 0:54.4 | undervalued and underpaid. But if you were making a billion dollars teaching guitar, |
| 0:58.4 | what it is, Brad Lee, back again with another episode of dropping bombs today in the studio, |
| 1:07.4 | folks. I got a real treat like I always do mr zachary adkins how are you dude what's |
| 1:14.1 | going down just uh flew in yesterday so here to talk about guitar and music and business everything |
| 1:21.1 | interesting i i think you might be the first guest ever with the guitar but But folks, stick around because it's not just |
| 1:29.7 | guitar, even though he does teach guitar. It's about business at the end of the day, which is |
| 1:36.6 | what we're known for. So you built a seven-figure and growing music school from scratch. Yep, we have four locations. Yeah, you have all of them from |
| 1:48.1 | zero. We have four locations. So, dude, you're just a guitar player, you know, you said you were in |
| 1:54.7 | the car business for a split second. So you had a little thick skin boot camp in that. Yeah. |
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