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Dropping Bombs

Overcoming Adversity - Episode 26 with The Real Brad Lea (TRBL). Guest: Weldon Long.

Dropping Bombs

Brad Lea

Business, Entrepreneurship

4.92.3K Ratings

🗓️ 31 August 2017

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

From a troubled high school dropout and a convicted felon to a successful entrepreneur and a New York Times Best-Selling Author, Weldon Long shares his story. Get insights and practical advice on how to change your mindset and achieve success.

Transcript

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0:00.0

What it is Bradley back again with another episode of Dropping Bombs today in the studio.

0:16.9

I've got a buddy named Wally, Weldon Long. Welcome.

0:21.2

What's happening, Brad? Glad to be here, man.

0:23.2

Man, as you know, Dropping Bombs is a little episode we threw together that ultimately talks

0:29.5

about problems and then hopefully someone can take those answers or those remedies that

0:36.3

we discuss, apply it to their own life and get through any roadblocks, challenges, things

0:40.8

of that nature. And who better to be in the studio than you? I mean, talk about problems,

0:47.6

man. I'm all about overcoming them, thriving in the face of adversity.

0:51.2

Yeah, that's why I'm glad I have you on here. I mean, I have, you know, problems. Everyone

0:55.8

has problems, but I don't know if anybody's ever experienced the type of problems you've

0:59.6

experienced, man. Well, I was a pretty hard case, answer sure.

1:04.0

Like like you're you're killing it now. You got the you got the Ferraris, you got the

1:09.6

lifestyle, you speak it all the big companies, you're a keynote speaker, but a little bit

1:15.7

before all of this, you were in prison. Yeah, I spent 25 years in my life, Brad, as you know,

1:23.9

on the streets, 13 years in the penitentiary on three different trips. I was a real hard

1:28.7

case when I was young from 1987 until 2003, over that 15 or 16 year span, I spent 13 years

1:35.5

walking prison yards. It was a ninth grade high school dropout, kind of run on the streets

1:39.8

of my youth went to the penitentiary at 23, got out at 27, went back a couple of years

1:45.3

later, got out again at 30, went back again at 32 and at 40 years old, I got out the last

1:50.2

time to a homeless shelter. But when I got to that homeless shelter, I'd had kind of a

1:54.9

moment of clarity that last time in prison. And that changed everything. Well, I bet.

2:01.5

Now here, now here, my friends, my listeners is a prime example of getting your shit together.

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