The Cheat Code To Wealth Nobody In The Trades Is Talking About
Dropping Bombs
Brad Lea
4.9 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 11 March 2026
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
This episode was sponsored by Cardiff & Lifetime Restoration
LightSpeed VT: https://www.lightspeedvt.com/
Dropping Bombs Podcast: https://www.droppingbombs.com/
Today's Dropping Bombs episode delivers a raw immigrant success story with Dariusz "Derek" Skubisz — a Polish boy who arrived in America at age 7 with nothing — and built a roofing, restoration, and HVAC empire in one of the toughest markets in the country.
Derek exposes why most contractors are leaving 40% on the table, how his sales rep made $300K in eight months, and his mission to call out the fake gurus poisoning the entrepreneur coaching world.
If you're in the trades, in sales, or still waiting for permission to go all in — this one's for you. Your next level starts here.
🔗 Connect with Derek
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/derekskubisz/
Business Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lifetimerestorationinc/
Website: https://www.lifetimerestorationinc.com/
HVAC Website: https://www.thelifetimehvac.com/
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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 was 19 years old making 250K. Your boy made 300k in eight months. The reason why I became |
| 0:06.5 | successful is because I don't care about risk. I don't care what I lose. I'll lose everything |
| 0:10.6 | today and I'll go back out tomorrow and I'll restart it in a different industry and I'll take over |
| 0:14.9 | that industry. If my mom could build five boys by herself, not knowing English, came to America |
| 0:19.8 | with nothing with a luggage. |
| 0:21.5 | You have no excuses. |
| 0:22.8 | So you're doing over 10 million in revenue and you only started a couple years ago? |
| 0:27.4 | Like, we just finished our second year. |
| 0:28.9 | What do you think the secret sauce is? |
| 0:36.1 | What it is, Bradley, back again with another episode of dropping bombs today in the studio folks i got a |
| 0:41.3 | real treat treat for you derrick scubish is in the house what's happening what's going on thank you for |
| 0:48.4 | having me guys this guy right here is pretty freaking interesting he's the CEO and founder of lifetime |
| 0:53.8 | restoration and lifetime restoration and |
| 0:55.0 | lifetime heating and cooling, Polish immigrant who arrived in America at age seven and with his |
| 1:01.6 | divorced mother and four brothers, built successful roofing restoration and HVAC businesses in Chicago |
| 1:07.9 | suburbs also operates as a sales and business coach wants to |
| 1:12.2 | basically expose fake entrepreneur coaches plaguing the industry. Now, you say in Chicago, |
| 1:19.5 | it's a rough, it's a rough area to do roofing it. Yeah. Why so? Because the danger? |
| 1:26.3 | Not really the danger. People are just very stubborn. Everybody's just, it's difficult doing door-to-door sales over there because everybody just slams the door on you. From what I see in different states, people are like, dude, we go out door knocking. Everybody talks to you and like interacts with everybody in Chicago we don't have that |
| 1:46.1 | nobody wants to talk to you nobody wants to listen to what you're saying so they just slam the door |
| 1:50.4 | it is a way harder market people are just way more stubborn and are willing to listen to what you have |
| 1:55.6 | to offer so how do you train the sales guys um so we have a very good social media presence. So Lifetime is everywhere. We have our truck |
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