How to Scale Smarter with AI and Sell Your Business for 30X
Dropping Bombs
Brad Lea
4.8 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 30 July 2025
⏱️ 70 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 James “Amo” Amorosi to tear into his unconventional journey from fighter to hedge fund and private equity leader, the power of mindset, the AI-driven valuation of businesses, his mission to help pro athletes build lasting wealth, and why investing in people matters as much as the numbers, 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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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 | I'm seeing companies selling for 2030x. It's because of the AI component. We're in the infant stage of AI. |
| 0:08.4 | 90% of the football players would experience economic hardship or go broke within two years of retiring. |
| 0:14.6 | Basketball players, 70% within four to seven years. How many deals do you look at a month? |
| 0:21.5 | You got 35 years experience in private equity and hedge funds. You've been doing this for a while. |
| 0:27.1 | Been doing it for a while, Brian. Now, I'm interested in private equity and hedge funds because I'm just |
| 0:31.3 | starting to figure out that buying businesses is better than building them. |
| 0:40.6 | I'm in agreement with you, 100%. Well, you've been in agreement for a while, it sounds like. |
| 0:42.9 | So you've always done this? |
| 0:44.6 | I mean, how did you get into this? |
| 0:47.5 | Let me tell you story. |
| 0:50.0 | I was competing in Japan. |
| 0:51.8 | I lived in Japan for a while. |
| 0:52.8 | I was fighting professionally in an organization called K-1. And my body was getting in Japan. I lived in Japan for a while. I was fighting professionally in a organization called K-1. |
| 0:52.0 | And then my body was getting beat up, training like six, eight hours a day. And I'm like, you know, I had a good friend Steve going on. And I called him up. I go, Steve, I don't think I could do this much longer. And I was young. I was like 21, 22. I said, I can't do this much longer. I said, he was in college. |
| 0:52.8 | I go, what are we going to do? |
| 0:54.1 | He was going to be traders. |
| 0:55.6 | I said, no, we're going to be traitors. |
| 1:11.7 | Okay, done. 122. I said, I can't do this much longer. I said, he was in college. I said, what are we going to do? |
| 1:16.5 | Because we're going to be traders. I said, no, we're going to be traders. Okay, done. So we started trading. Long story short, I came back. I got a job on Wall Street in the floor in the futures |
| 1:24.3 | markets. Was that easy to do? No. |
| 1:33.2 | I can go there a little bit if you want because everything about my career is unconventional, Brad. |
| 1:39.7 | I went to college, but I did it part-time and I got a degree in economics, but nothing about my career is conventional. |
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