Highest Paying Blue Collar Business Making Millionaires in 2026
Dropping Bombs
Brad Lea
4.9 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 27 May 2026
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
This episode was sponsored by Cardiff
LightSpeed VT: https://www.lightspeedvt.com/
Dropping Bombs Podcast: https://www.droppingbombs.com/
Today's Dropping Bombs episode delivers blue-collar brilliance with Ben Jordan — a former trades worker who started with a two-man plumbing operation and scaled it into a $75M multi-state empire, and lost 204 pounds while doing it.
Ben exposes why 90% of home service businesses stay stuck under $2 million, why a salesman outperforms a plumber every time, and how getting his body right unlocked a completely different business. He also breaks down the subscription model, his five-day-a-week training system, and why he's turning down private equity to build the largest trades training organization in America.
The trades are the most underestimated wealth vehicle in America — and this man built the blueprint. Grab a pen.
🔗 Connect with Ben
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/benjordanofficial
✅ Additional Resources
The Action Group (Coaching): https://www.skool.com/the-action-group/about
Action Plumbing, Heating, Air & Electric: https://www.actionplumbing.net
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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.
LightSpeed VT is Brad's brainchild—the world's leading interactive training platform. It's built to make your team sharper, faster, and more effective, without wasting time or money. Whether you're a startup or a Fortune 500, LightSpeed VT is how you scale success and dominate your industry. Curious? Check it out:
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Brad's also behind Closer School, the go-to program for mastering sales and closing deals like a pro. Want to 10x your income? This is where you start. His book, The Hard Way, lays out the brutal, honest lessons he learned building his empire—your blueprint to winning the game. Get it here: https://bradlea.com/product/the-hard-way/
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| 0:00.0 | The revenue last year was 72 million. People don't understand how much money you can make in plumbing if you do it correctly. |
| 0:07.2 | Well, it's crazy is like the better shape you get in, the better your business does. |
| 0:10.3 | Is that a fact? |
| 0:11.0 | It's a fact. |
| 0:12.0 | Well, then I should get in shape. |
| 0:13.6 | I'm going to build the biggest training for the trades organization that we've ever seen. |
| 0:18.9 | How can people listening find success in each area to where now you're rich and you're ripped |
| 0:26.0 | and your better dad? |
| 0:27.7 | How do you get like the whole package? |
| 0:30.4 | Well, I think that what it is, Bradley, back again with another episode of dropping bombs today in the studio folks, |
| 0:41.7 | even though you got the horse voiced Brad. |
| 0:44.5 | We've got a real treat as always. |
| 0:46.5 | My man, Ben Jordan in the house. |
| 0:48.0 | What's cracking, Ben? |
| 0:49.0 | How you doing? |
| 0:49.7 | I really appreciate you having me out today. |
| 0:51.5 | Well, dude, you're what we call a true entrepreneur. |
| 0:54.5 | You've been doing it for a while. Collectively, you've got home services business doing high eight |
| 1:00.1 | figures. Oh, yeah. Almost nine figures. Almost nine figures. Just you and your brother? Yep. I have, |
| 1:05.9 | well, in my family, there's nine boys, right? But there's six of us collectively. We're in four different |
| 1:09.7 | states and we're running hard. |
| 1:12.1 | So we have multiple businesses within those states, you know, that we're just running plumbing |
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