How To Build A Business That Works

Dropping Bombs

Brad Lea

Business, Bradlea, Success, Mentor, Coach, Advice, Money, Strategy, Training, Entrepreneurship, Therealbradlea, Entrepreneur, Comedy

4.8 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 2 July 2025

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

From mowing lawns at 10 to running a multi-million dollar landscaping business, Josh sits down with Brad Lea to share how he almost went broke, fired 30% of his team, and now uses AI and ChatGPT to win more business than ever. Learn why taking ownership and culture are everything and how landscaping can turn your home into a vacation every day.

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https://www.joshlandscape.com

https://www.instagram.com/josh_landscape/

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_Z4s4pcCj7C80KIqI4W8qA

Transcript

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0:00.0	I fired 30% of our team and that was a huge component of rebuilding.
0:04.5	Pulcher is so important.
0:06.0	You're unstoppable when you get the right people on your team.
0:08.0	We actually just got our first lead off of chat GPT.
0:10.5	People are just going to chat GPT.
0:12.0	Where do I find the best landscaper?
0:14.0	In 2010, it was payroll to payroll.
0:15.5	We almost went out of business.
0:17.0	And so finally it hits me.
0:18.0	All these growing pains the last 18 months that we're having. It's all my fault.
0:21.1	How do you think AI is going to affect landscaping?
0:26.6	Now, when you say pushing a lawnmower, is that kind of like, you know, just or because
0:31.3	everyone pushed a lawnmower as a kid, right?
0:33.2	Right, right.
0:33.9	But did you like start doing people's houses as a kid and you turned it into a multi-million
0:38.5	dollar landscaping company?
0:39.7	Yeah, actually I was not even a teenager.
0:42.0	I was 10 years old.
0:43.0	I was push mowing lawns.
0:44.7	For everybody else in the neighborhood?
0:46.5	Yeah.
0:46.8	I actually grew up on the country and my siblings and I did.
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