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Dropping Bombs

How to get rich from $0 (I was in jail when I learned this...)

Dropping Bombs

Brad Lea

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

4.82.3K Ratings

🗓️ 18 July 2025

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Summary

LightSpeed VT: https://www.lightspeedvt.com/⁣
Dropping Bombs Podcast: https://www.droppingbombs.com/⁣

You’re here because you want to win—big. Brad Lea doesn’t mess around. In this episode, he sits down with Brandon Kowalski to tear into his raw journey from juvenile detention and addiction to building an $80 million roofing company, 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.⁣

Brandon's links⁣
https://www.instagram.com/brandonj1122/⁣
https://sites.libsyn.com/559010⁣
https://www.instagram.com/brandonjroofing⁣
https://www.brandonjroofing.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.⁣

LightSpeed VT is Brad’s brainchild—the world’s leading interactive training platform. It’s built to make your team sharper, faster, and more effective, without wasting time or money. Whether you’re a startup or a Fortune 500, LightSpeed VT is how you scale success and dominate your industry. Curious? Check it out:⁣
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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/⁣

This isn’t just a video. It’s a wake-up call. Watch it. Share it. Act on it.⁣
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0:00.0

You were in prison, wrong attitude, wrong circle, wrong environment, wrong everything.

0:05.0

You're gonna do 80 million this year? Somewhere right there. One of the first things I do when I get up, I've mentioned my prison cell. I just closed my eyes, look out that window, it's nothing but fences and razor wire. And I sit there and I live in that for a moment. I'm gonna hang up this phone. You just need to talk to God and just hung up on me. and I end up trying to go take my own life and by the grace of God that didn't work.

0:03.7

And right when I got brought back, the very first thing the Paramex said to me is, Brian, I'm supposed to tell you, God's not done with you. He's got a plan for you.

0:31.1

You came out of prison. I did. So it says here juvenile detention at 12. What were you doing at 12? Man, uh, all those things I shouldn't have been doing, you know, selling weed, you know. At 12? Yeah, man. Bro, my daughter's 12. I know. She's innocent. How did you, did you have bad parenting? What's the, what's the scoop? No the scoop? No man my parents both of them did the

0:56.0

the best they could for sure and we did you know our family split up and it just left you know

1:03.0

Mom worked a lot everybody had to work a lot you know and left me a lot of unattended time

1:08.9

and I was just angry I was angry man and I turned to all the wrong things. You know, it was, uh, just turned to all the wrong things. And I had, you know, this guy looked up to in our neighborhood and he was like the, the neighborhood weed man, you know, and he was really tough and he'd take me fishing, you know, and he, I just thought he was the coolest thing on, walk in the planet and uh you know he would just give me whatever i wanted you know and he he just thought he was the coolest thing on walking the planet and uh you know

1:29.0

he would just give me whatever i wanted you know here's some weed here's whatever and uh i just

1:35.0

thought i was cool you know and it was i i just turned to i always turned to the wrong thing and i

1:41.7

don't know why you know know, it's just angry.

1:45.1

Where are you angry over?

1:48.1

It's, I don't know.

1:51.0

You know, my parents split, you know, and I was a younger, younger of the three children.

1:55.2

I'm the youngest.

1:56.1

And I guess I felt like I got cheated out of that, you know.

2:07.6

And, you know, they stayed together, you know, made it for them two and I guess couldn't for me. But that's, and really that's not true though.

2:09.6

Like I know today that's not true.

2:11.6

And but that's the story I told myself then, you know.

2:14.6

And it just, man, I just felt like that was what I was supposed to be doing at the time, you know? And it just, man, I, I just felt like that was what I was supposed to be doing

2:20.2

at the time, you know? And yeah, I didn't know how to deal with any of it, you know, and so,

2:26.0

you can't be blamed at 12 years old. Yeah. But you also don't go to prison at 12 years old. So

2:31.5

you eventually kept that path going. I did. That was, man, again,

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