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Dropping Bombs
Brad Lea
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🗓️ 7 August 2025
⏱️ 56 minutes
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You're here because you want to win—big. Brad Lea doesn't mess around. In this episode, he sits down with Tony Phelps to tear into his journey from growing up with almost nothing to building a multimillion-dollar company, Accurate Air Solutions, emphasizing leadership, integrity, blue-collar grit, and the power of marketing, while offering insights into scaling, hiring, M&A, and launching a viral merch line, delivering the unfiltered truth you won't find anywhere else. No fluff, just real talk and actionable steps to crush it in business and life.
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https://accurateairsolutionsllc.com
https://accurateairgear.com
https://www.instagram.com/tonyphelps77/
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 quit my job in 2013. I didn't even have a contractor's license. I took it the following week after I quit my job. |
| 0:06.6 | I needed a truck. So I borrowed a truck from my wife's father-in-law, borrowed a ladder from a buddy. I was a bum. |
| 0:12.5 | You can get rich and blue collar now. You got to be a little bit business savvy. You got to figure out how to leverage people. |
| 0:19.7 | And then most importantly, going from zero to |
| 0:22.5 | 100 employees. What leadership lessons did you have to learn? This dude literally came from nothing. |
| 0:32.4 | Nothing. Like me. Yes. Jumped around, bounced around, single mom, 14 years old. |
| 0:40.0 | You say 14 got yanked out to Texas. |
| 0:42.5 | Yes, sir. |
| 0:43.0 | From Indiana. |
| 0:43.8 | Yep. |
| 0:44.2 | You had basically change of clothes and a couple of food stamps. |
| 0:49.5 | Exactly. |
| 0:50.1 | I didn't get to bring my bike. |
| 0:51.3 | I remember that. |
| 0:52.1 | Why did your mom decide to go to Indiana or to Texas? |
| 0:57.1 | Get back with dad or what? Yeah, introduced me to my father. I didn't know him my whole life. |
| 1:01.7 | But they weren't getting back together. They tried, but it didn't last but a couple months. |
| 1:06.3 | So, so she must, they must have had you and then he split? Yeah. And you didn't know? No, he probably left when I was a couple months owed if I had to guess. Did you ever find out why when you finally got to him? No, I lived with my mom. I probably knew why he left. Why? Because she was my mom and she wasn't what she was, you know. How was she? I'm not mad at him. She was, uh, she was born in Chicago and she was Judy. So she was great. I love my mom. I miss her. But I'm not mad at it. Is she tough or something? Yeah, she was probably tough to be around at times. Yeah. She did good for me, man. I mean, it worked two jobs. I'm sure she was tired of raising me, you know, a little bit and wanted to get me back with my dad to see how it worked. Well, God bless her. Yeah. Oh, yeah, for sure. See, that's what's good about moms. Dads can split. Mom's got to stay. They got to stick around. At at least at least at least most of them yes yeah um |
| 2:02.1 | but i got a similar upbringing so so you went out there she's basically introduced you to your real dad |
| 2:09.4 | what'd you see what'd you think when you first met him uh you know cool you know i was 14 i was kind |
| 2:15.2 | of pissed that i got pulled out of indiana so i really did |
| 2:18.8 | probably wasn't seeing anything but i mean we we definitely get along we have a relationship now |
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