I Built a $32M Empire in the Industry Every Man Wants In (Banks Hate Me)
Dropping Bombs
Brad Lea
4.9 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 3 February 2026
⏱️ 85 minutes
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This episode was sponsored by Peppermint Hippo
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This Dropping Bombs episode features strip club CEO Alan Chang, revealing how he scaled from $1M to $32M revenue across 10+ gentleman's clubs nationwide. With over 20 years in adult entertainment and a proven track record, Alan delivers the blueprint for turning taboo into profit.
Alan breaks down why banks blacklist the industry, how two strippers invested nearly $2M to fuel his growth, and wild stories from inside the clubs most people never hear. From handcuffing customers to celebrity sightings and catfights, this conversation delivers the unfiltered truth on building wealth in a controversial industry.
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| 0:00.0 | Does it make you just a ton of money? |
| 0:02.0 | It does make a lot of money, yeah. |
| 0:03.0 | In 2018, I bought my first club. |
| 0:05.0 | We did a million dollars in revenue that year. |
| 0:06.0 | By the end of this year, we'll do 32 million in revenue. Plus, you're working with hundreds and hundreds of beautiful women. Did you date any of them? Of course. A lot of times I hooked them up with the customer too. Ugh. Yeah, well, listen, it is what it is. You know, that was my business, though. |
| 0:19.5 | That would be a killer business to own. |
| 0:21.4 | Yeah, especially for a single guy. |
| 0:23.0 | It was the best time of my life. The connections you can meet working in this industry is insane. We ended up freaking up in James Kahn's room and I'm sitting on the couch. I get a knock at the door. I open the door. Chris Robb. The celebrities would be in there all the time, get whacked out and having a blast, right? Allegedly, Charlie Sheen was thrown in the dumpster at Cheetahs. So what's the, like, craziest thing you ever saw? And I'm sure you've seen serious. Yeah, I saw a lot of crazy. I mean, some stuff I can't say. But, uh... Do um feel bad for for some of these girls or it's like |
| 0:56.6 | hey that's part of the business i'm gonna need somebody well i mean if you're if you think the |
| 0:59.8 | girls are gonna take advantage you're definitely wrong they're they're sharks we have to protect |
| 1:04.3 | the customers from the girls really oh yeah dude if you let the reins go, don't crush the guys. |
| 1:12.1 | How so? |
| 1:17.9 | What it is, Brad Lee back again with another episode of dropping bombs today in the studio, folks. |
| 1:23.2 | I got a real treat. |
| 1:24.6 | As always, Alan Chang in the house. |
| 1:27.1 | What's up, Alan? I don't read folks if you |
| 1:28.9 | guys don't know who this guy is that's probably because you've never been to the peppermint |
| 1:33.9 | hippo here in Las Vegas Nevada which is one of the most elite premier what do you call it |
| 1:40.6 | adult entertainment yeah strip club sometimes strip clubs or if you're like me, you might even call it a titty bar. |
| 1:47.7 | Titty bar makes it sound kind of like the dive ones. Correct. Yours isn't really the dive ones. |
| 1:53.4 | Yours is like one of the upscale ones. So he is the CEO and founder of Peppermint Hippo and director at Trade Wins Universal. |
| 2:03.6 | You scaled it from one mill to 32 mil and revenue across 10 gentlemen clubs now nationwide. |
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