How this Founder Built his 9-Figure Empire | $233M CEO Explains
Dropping Bombs
Brad Lea
4.8 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 14 August 2025
⏱️ 60 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 Chris Lee to tear into how he rebuilt his life by investing heavily in personal development, eventually scaling a solar company to $233 million in revenue before exiting, and now helps entrepreneurs grow their businesses through coaching, community, and mindset-focused strategies centered on personal choice, energy, and breathwork, 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://www.instagram.com/chrisleeqb/
509-374-7554
https://gonextlevelpros.com
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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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 | Started that in 2008, went bankrupt in 2011, lost everything. |
| 0:04.0 | Then I started spending money on coaches. |
| 0:06.0 | I've spent 1.3 million on my personal education. |
| 0:09.0 | We went from 89 year four to 233 million year five. |
| 0:14.0 | If you go do your deal over, would you have got more? |
| 0:19.0 | Chris, what was that company? So what was the name of the company? You got a big chunk. Soldier Power was the name of the company. It was a solar business. Yeah. And how old were you when you cashed out? I was 38. So not that long ago. Yeah, three years. I remember. This is the second visit. You guys go look up the old episode. Yes, sir. Chris Lee, L-E-E-E-A, but we're both Lee. Yes. Yours actually was L-E-E-E-E until, you know, your family wanted to disown old generally. Robert E. Lee. Yeah. You know what? That means we could be related. |
| 1:13.5 | Good chance. Good chance. Because I was in L-E-E at one point. Yes, sir. But now I'm Lee and people say, is that Leah? And I always say, I don't know, do you drink Tia? Like, why do you pronounce it Leah? They're like, well, that's how it's spelled. No, it spelled Lee, just like T, just like C, just like P. |
| 1:21.8 | You don't, you read a book, don't you? You do. But anyhow, it gets old. Just like my wife, |
| 1:29.5 | she gets mad because when the waitress at a restaurant says, do you have any questions about the menu? I always say, where were they printed? |
| 1:35.4 | And they go, huh? Where are these printed? And your wife hates that joke. |
| 1:41.3 | Or when they come up afterwards and they say, would you like to, would you like a box for that? |
| 1:44.3 | And I say, dude, I don't want a box for it. You don't want a box for that? See, now everybody's going to be eating. You guys are going to hear, do you want a box for that? And you're going to think of this. Just dad jokes. And all you say is, no, dude, you can have it if you want it that bad. Ain't worth fighting over. Appreciate you, though. Anywho, you got to check. Hey, but so guys, if you don't know, now you're about to know Chris Lee, you can find them on Instagram at Chris Lee QB. And why the QB thing, weren't you a quarterback or something? So I was a quarterback. Yeah, growing up, and I coached high school quarterbacks for seven years. Oh, yeah. And so that's kind of the background there. And, you know, a lot of times as a Lee, they think you're Asian. There's no Asian quarterbacks. Just. They don't exist? No. Isn't that racist? Yeah. Well, are you being racist? No, I am being culturist. Or a realist. A realist. Yeah, because that's just the truth. |
| 2:34.8 | Isn't there? |
| 2:36.6 | Show me one. |
| 2:40.4 | Yeah, I don't know of one, so. |
| 2:42.3 | I can't think of one. |
| 2:44.6 | Yeah, it's just a joke that I use on the stage. |
| 2:48.0 | And you've been speaking on stages left and right, yeah? Yeah, I've been speaking on quite a few stages. |
| 2:50.4 | And you're speaking on uh scaling |
| 2:52.9 | and growing businesses yeah yeah so that's uh the main focus last two years we've been uh building |
| 2:59.2 | out our community next level pros and so we have eight pillars for for growth and that's the |
| 3:07.1 | uh the main focus and we take and insert those into companies |
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