The $10M Blue-Collar Business No One's Talking About

Dropping Bombs

Brad Lea

Business, Entrepreneurship

4.8 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 19 December 2025

⏱️ 59 minutes

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This episode was sponsored by Egan Landscape Group

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In this grit-fueled Dropping Bombs episode, green industry mogul George Egan shares his $2K-to-$10M blueprint—from injury pivots to scaling Egan Landscape Group with 100% margins and referral power.
George drops practical insights on forging unbreakable teams through goal chats, layering "plant insurance" for recurring revenue, and exploding into home services. Steal his GoPro timelapse hack for viral leads and culture that outhustles rivals. Your escape from the wage grind starts here.
Bonus: Stick around for the wildest cougar client stories—think lonely housewives, bathrobe greetings, and why George now brings backup.

🔗 Connect with George Egan
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Company Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/eganlandscapegroup/
TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@eganlandscapegroup
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@EganLandscapeGroup
Website: https://eganlandscapegroup.com/
Email: [email protected]

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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	Literally, you started with a lawnmower. Now you got a freaking big multi-million dollar landscaping
0:05.9	design and construction company. I had no money. I think I had $2,000 to my name. My $2,000,
0:11.7	I bought my first load of plants and then we sold them. And then I bought another load and sold them.
0:16.3	What was the margin there? It's a hundred, uh, oh, the margins of 50%, 100% market. So it just kind of took off from
0:23.2	there. What were you doing? What was the, the secrets. The secret is. What it is Brad Lee back again
0:32.2	with another episode of dropping bombs today in the studio. Folks, I got a real treat for you.
0:36.8	George Egan in the house. What's going on, George?
0:39.3	Bread.
0:40.2	Folks, if you guys don't know George, George is like a mogul in the green industry. This dude has built from a truck and a mower, from what I hear, built a massive landscaping organization company. You got a wholesale.
0:54.8	What's the wholesale?
0:55.8	The wholesale is we have a nursery and we sell plant material to contractors.
1:01.2	That's how it started.
1:02.1	That's why it's called Holtz,
1:02.9	it's called Egan Wholesale Group.
1:04.6	And then it's evolved and homeowners is coming in now too
1:08.1	and purchase and plant material too.
1:09.9	So now we let retail buy as well.
1:12.2	But why another name? Why wouldn't it just be Egan Landscape Group? Still landscape, still the green industry.
1:18.2	Yeah. So one of the things was now I'm selling to my competition, really, other contractors.
1:24.5	So I wanted to separate that. Do they know this? Oh yeah, they know.
1:28.0	Because they do now. They do not. They do now. Some of them did, you know, some of them don't. Some of them just. Why would they care? I don't know. It's a competition thing. Some guys do. So we, we wanted to specifically say wholesale too. So they knew they were getting better pricing, wholesale pricing. That's a wise move.
1:44.7	Yeah.
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