The Best Travel Hacks You Will Hear in 2025
Dropping Bombs
Brad Lea
4.9 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 18 August 2025
⏱️ 55 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 Olivia Ferney to tear into how she leverages social media, elite client relationships, and a white-glove travel service to deliver exclusive, high-end vacation experiences—while debunking luxury travel myths and revealing what it's really like to serve ultra high net worth individuals, 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 | Traveling has been very black and white. |
| 0:02.0 | You go online, you book through a third party website, |
| 0:04.0 | and that's just kind of the way that people do it. We kick ass at getting spectacular suites at an unbeatable price. We work with a lot of ultra-high net worth people, celebrities, talent. A big thing for them is having private access, making sure there's no paparazzi. A vault of secrets when it comes to my clients, I've seen a lot of things. Are there some hacks or are there some tricks? |
| 0:24.4 | The reason I invited you on is because number one, I like traveling. |
| 0:28.6 | And I like exclusive shit that most people can't get. |
| 0:33.4 | But I don't always like to pay the exclusive fees. |
| 0:37.0 | Fair enough. Fair enough. |
| 0:37.8 | Fair enough. |
| 0:38.3 | What are the, |
| 0:38.9 | are there some hacks or are there some tricks to the game? |
| 0:42.6 | There's some hacks if you know me. |
| 0:43.9 | Absolutely. |
| 0:44.5 | There's some hacks. |
| 0:45.2 | I think for everyone traveling has been very like black and white. |
| 0:47.9 | You know, |
| 0:48.1 | you go online, |
| 0:48.9 | you book through a third party website or your travel agent. |
| 0:51.7 | And that's just kind of the way that people do it. |
| 0:53.5 | Like for yourself |
| 0:54.2 | how do you book your travel normally um my wife fair enough lots of wife and she she you know |
| 1:03.0 | researches and does things but usually it's a buddy of mine that says dude you got to go check |
| 1:06.9 | this place out fair so we just call direct but we're not doing all the shit that I see you doing. No, yeah. So the company that I work for has been in the space for about 15 years. Top tier travel. Top tier travel. You owe me a free vacation. We're pumping it out. So basically, yeah, we're accommodation specialists and I think that's something that's really unique in the space. You know, there's a lot of travel agents. There's a lot of people in like the concierge space. We kick ass at getting just top tier inventory, which is like spectacular suites. A lot of like regular suites as well at four and five star hotels, but at an unbeatable price. That's kind of our value is just getting the best price against anywhere online, direct, any third-party website, and always getting those like really special sweets as well. And we do a lot of like white glove service things as well. So I like to put photos of people and their families like in the rooms. I build out really nice gift bags and boxes for people. I just like it feeling a very special, you know, occasion no matter when you're going. If it's for a 20th anniversary or you're going with your new girlfriend, I want people to feel really special and they're still not paying as much as they would regularly. But if you're going with your second girlfriend? We do make that just as special as well. Is it very discreet? It is very discreet. That's a big part of the business is, you know, we work with a lot of ultra high net worth people, celebrities, talent. And a big thing for them is having like private access, making sure there's no paparazzi anywhere, anything like that. And discretion is one of my very, very important things for the business. How do you make sure there's no paparazzi? You can't control that. We can through private entries. Yeah, so we'll make sure that your car is right from your jet is coming in through a back entrance. You use a different elevator. There's private service entrances and exits with a lot of those people. So what if they're not on a private jet? Well, then the paparazzi might be waiting for you outside, but most people that have paparazzi following them around do tend to fly private in my experience, especially if they're trying to avoid the paparazzi. But some people love the paparazzi and are like, hey, all good. They get off their first class flight or economy flight and then they'll get in their driver, their car and go right to the hotel. Do you hook up private jets too? We do. So you're A to Z. |
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