How Broke Beginners Make $20K in 7-10 Days Selling Solar
Dropping Bombs
Brad Lea
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🗓️ 24 January 2026
⏱️ 66 minutes
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In this Dropping Bombs episode, Marine Corps veteran Michael Gutschmidt, the "Megawatt Millionaire," reveals how he's banked over $7M since 2015 selling direct-to-home solar.
While everyone thinks solar is dying, Michael exposes why commissions are now $10K+ per deal and how the industry is stronger and more lucrative than ever. From Iowa farm kid to champion recruiter, he's helping broke beginners fly out for 7-10 day blitzes and bank $10K-$20K with zero money down.
Michael breaks down Warren Buffett's "greatest transfer of wealth in history," why the U.S. energy grid is headed for collapse, and how homeowners can achieve 25 years of energy independence for free. Hear the 11 objections every solar rep faces, why door-to-door beats every other sales job, and how financial freedom starts with conquering your ego.
If you're tired of dead-end wages and ready to get paid like the elite, this episode is your blueprint.
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| 0:00.0 | Inc Solar dead. |
| 0:01.0 | It's legitimately better than ever. Forbes said it this year. It's a top 10 paying industry in America. A dude can go make 20, 30 grand a month. Oh yeah, easily. I mean, the average commission in California is over 10 grand. Deal. I have guys in my organization today making seven figures a year just selling solar. We're in a national emergency. The president signed a national energy crisis. So we're going to see more and more |
| 0:21.4 | brownouts happen. There's 94 AI data centers. Each AI data center needs the equivalent of its own |
| 0:28.4 | nuclear reactor, which is insane. If the grid goes down for 30 days or more, one third of America |
| 0:34.0 | would die within 30 days. Which is why I think it's going to happen. So if I'm on that solar and battery, my shit don't go down. And it recharges every day. It was scary this summer. The original draft of the Big Beautiful Bill killed solar completely immediately. But it didn't do it. The original draft. But thank the Lord for our really good lobbyist teams. So it's not going anyway. |
| 0:54.6 | We've got a long runway. |
| 0:55.8 | Commissions are better than ever. |
| 0:57.4 | Installs are faster than ever. |
| 0:58.6 | For a minute there, everybody was making money in solar. |
| 1:02.1 | And then you saw some go out of business and some tank. |
| 1:05.9 | What was the reason they went out of business and tanked? |
| 1:10.2 | Honestly, it was what it is brad lee back again |
| 1:16.7 | with another episode of dropping bombs today in the studio folks as always i got a real treat for you |
| 1:21.5 | especially if you like making money my man michael gooch smit in the house the gooch |
| 1:26.7 | come on thanks for having me thanks for being here, if you guys want to follow this guy at Michael Scott Goochmidt, which is GUT Schmidt. That's right. So some people say, is that gutschmidt? And you got to say it's Gooch Schmidt. Gooch. That's good time, yeah. It's like good German name. |
| 1:45.2 | Yeah. |
| 1:45.6 | You know how you say Vaseline in German? |
| 1:50.1 | Hmm. |
| 1:50.4 | Wienerschleid. |
| 1:53.0 | You've got all the German jokes today. |
| 1:55.7 | It's pretty good. |
| 1:59.2 | Yeah. |
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