How to Grow Your Business SO Fast in 2025 It Feels ILLEGAL
Dropping Bombs
Brad Lea
4.8 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 10 August 2025
⏱️ 58 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 Andrew Bennett to tear into how he's built Louisiana’s fastest-growing construction company — by leveraging industry relationships, hands-on leadership, and a relentless work ethic to hit nearly $200M in sales in just five years, 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.
Andrew's links
https://www.omega-foundations.com
https://www.facebook.com/omegafoundations
https://www.facebook.com/andrew.bennett.526
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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| 0:00.0 | We are the number one fastest growing company in Louisiana. |
| 0:04.2 | Seventh fastest construction company in the nation. |
| 0:07.1 | We went from $8 million in sales to $1 million in sales. |
| 0:11.1 | What's your goal with the company? |
| 0:15.3 | Let's get back to like when you were out of a job. |
| 0:17.9 | And by the way, this wasn't that far ago. |
| 0:19.7 | This was like when COVID, what's that, four or five years ago? |
| 0:22.1 | Yeah, five years ago. |
| 0:23.1 | So it was October 2019, you know, I lost my job, told you a story about it, got fired, |
| 0:32.1 | ended up taking an hour lunch break with my father-in-law, and they fired me for it, |
| 0:36.8 | which one of the super |
| 0:38.0 | intense there he he had it out for me so and i'd have to lose my job and uh i got home and i |
| 0:43.8 | told my fiance at the time i said i'm pretty sure that i can do this better than than them so |
| 0:49.4 | now you're in what town baton rouge so at that time i was in tibito louisiana tibodeau hey try to get up on that micon Rouge? So at that time I was in Tibido, Louisiana. Tibado. Hey, try to get up on that mic. There you go. So at that time, I was in Tibido, Louisiana. So my wife was going to Nichols, and I had a mutual friend there, and she had mutual friend. So we ended up meeting there. What's Nichols? Nichols State University state university college and she was going to school there |
| 1:12.8 | has scholarship for track and field and uh end up meeting her and the rest is history well i mean |
| 1:20.8 | there's more there's way more of the story than that folks so in covid you lose your job you don't have |
| 1:27.2 | any money right you're getting married without a job. You don't have any money, right? You're getting married |
| 1:29.0 | without a job. Right. You ain't got a bunch of money laying around. Yeah, so I took everything I had. |
| 1:33.8 | I had a, I have a friend who works for an insurance company and he ended up talking into this |
| 1:38.4 | whole life program. So I ended up having about $17,000 to out up in this whole life program. I went to him and said, Jacob, I want to start my own business. I want to pull everything out of it. He was like, Andrew, I don't think that's a good idea. I said, Jacob, I'm pulling everything out of it. So they sent me a check, $17,000. I probably had a few thousand dollars to my name then. and my wife, she had a job and ended up, you know, working through that. |
| 2:05.6 | And I went to my uncle at the time and he had just sold his company to a pretty large outfit. |
| 2:12.6 | And I said, look, I want to start a business. |
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