How I Built a $17M Insurance Empire with No Experience
Dropping Bombs
Brad Lea
4.9 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 22 March 2026
⏱️ 71 minutes
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This episode was sponsored by Cardiff & Allstate Insurance
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Today's Dropping Bombs episode delivers raw truth with John Craig — the New Jersey Allstate Agency owner who turned a $2.5 million book of business into a nearly $20 million in just a few years. Craig attributes his rapid success to "old-fashioned hard work and heavenly luck."
John breaks down what he calls "the most important business advice nobody's talking about:" the phone line to God is connected, and all you have to do is pick it up. We also get into what near-death experiences reveal about the universe, collaborate on Jesus' real name, and the kitchen floor prayer that changed everything for him.
This conversation goes places nobody planned, and that's exactly what makes it worth listening to. If you've ever wondered if you're built for more, this one's for you. Your next move starts with one phone call… and it's already connected.
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| 0:00.0 | I knew there was something like missing in my soul. And I was just so miserable. I got down to my |
| 0:03.8 | kitchen floor and my knees. And I almost like pleaded with God. Like prayed and cried at the same time. The phone line is connected for all of us directly to God. I don't think there's many people in the country that went as fast as I did from like a small like two and a half million dollar agency to like now I'm close to a $20 million book of business. |
| 0:22.3 | There's no better business partner than God, right? |
| 0:24.3 | All the stupid. like two and a half million dollar agency to like now I'm close to a 20 million dollar book of |
| 0:21.9 | business there's no better business partner than god right all the stupid you guys are doing is |
| 0:26.4 | it necessary what you have to know right now it's probably the best business advice I could |
| 0:31.6 | give life advice I could give what it is bradley back again with another episode of dropping bombs today in the studio |
| 0:41.4 | folks i got a real treat for you john craigs in the house yes up john so i mean is that |
| 0:49.3 | your full last name craig yeah yeah i was thinking about first names yeah i was thinking about maybe you know two first names. Yeah, I was thinking about maybe, you know, like making it more Italian, like John |
| 0:56.7 | Crigotti, you know, something little gangster like that. But it's just Craig? Yeah. What kind of name is that? When I looked it up, I saw it said, uh, it's Scottish, which is weird because I don't have like a ounce of Scottish blood, you know, so I don't know. |
| 1:10.8 | You've never asked? |
| 1:12.5 | I think, I think what happened was I have like an ounce of Scottish blood, you know, so I don't know. |
| 1:11.7 | You've never asked? |
| 1:17.2 | I think, I think what happened was I have like a, like a great grandfather, something that was adopted. |
| 1:18.4 | So I think that's where the name from. |
| 1:21.0 | Italian? |
| 1:22.0 | Yeah, well, definitely half. |
| 1:23.4 | That 100% half minimum. |
| 1:26.9 | And that's because, you know, my mother knows where she's from. |
| 1:30.1 | And then when I was in Italy, I've been there a couple times. |
| 1:33.5 | When we're specifically in Naples, Italy, I saw at least a half a dozen people that looked |
| 1:39.3 | exactly like me. |
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