How TIMESHARES Keep You Poor (GET OUT NOW)
Dropping Bombs
Brad Lea
4.8 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 10 July 2025
⏱️ 68 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 Chuck McDowell, as he shares his wild ride from selling timeshares to helping over 48,000 families cancel theirs with Wesley Financial Group. Learn how he turned lawsuits and adversity into a $150M company, plus his lessons on entrepreneurship, leadership, and “touching the 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.
Chuck's links
https://wesleyfinancialgroup.com/about-chuck/
https://www.instagram.com/chuckmcdowell/
Brad Lea is a self-made entrepreneur who turned small-town grit into a
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| 0:00.0 | We've canceled over 48,000 families times here. |
| 0:03.0 | What's that revenue up to? |
| 0:04.7 | About 150. |
| 0:05.8 | Is there any issues with that? |
| 0:07.5 | A lot of the resorts have sued me. |
| 0:09.6 | This time last year, I was spending 1.1 a month in legal fees. |
| 0:13.1 | They've served me on Christmas Eve. |
| 0:14.9 | Anything you could think of that they can do in America to destroy a human they've done to me. |
| 0:23.0 | What's your biggest moneymaker? |
| 0:25.1 | Wesley Financial Group. |
| 0:26.8 | And they basically get people out of timeshares. |
| 0:29.9 | Correct. |
| 0:30.5 | Now, you started in the timeshare space. |
| 0:32.6 | How long ago? |
| 0:33.9 | Been 15 years of war. |
| 0:36.3 | What were you doing before timeshare selling timeshare yeah but i mean |
| 0:40.2 | for about all uh uh insurance uh home security business so you're always handicapping business |
| 0:48.3 | so you were always in sales always in sales since 14 were you making the scratch yeah yeah so I want to go back |
| 0:56.3 | I want to go back before you made the real scratch yeah where were you who were you |
| 1:02.7 | how old were you before I made real scratch yeah I guess at 14 I was making real scratch I was |
| 1:09.5 | just 14 but how much there, how much we make? |
| 1:12.2 | There's been a lot of ups and down. |
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