The Legal "High" That's Making Entrepreneurs Unstoppable
Dropping Bombs
Brad Lea
4.9 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 30 April 2026
⏱️ 74 minutes
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This episode was sponsored by Cardiff, Last Rep, & Reach Peak
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Today's Dropping Bombs episode features Stephen Samson, a self-made entrepreneur who went from the military to the boardroom without a degree, built a multi-million dollar company from nothing, and walked away with a life-changing exit in six years.
Stephen gets into what it really takes to survive a bootstrapped startup, why most growing companies are being held back by their own technology, and how he's now building a THC recovery beverage targeting the millions of people ditching alcohol for something better.
Whatever you're building right now, this episode is the push you didn't know you needed.
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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 think that this is the future. |
| 0:01.5 | This is the same benefit of alcohol, minus all of the negatives. This is a healthier alternative. I can drink a couple of these, take the edge off, and I can get up the next day, and I'm not gonna be hung over. I do a lot of AI automation, making companies more efficient. I need you hear it at light speed. I'm sure you do. There's only a handful of tech people that really understand deep tech, but also understand business. |
| 0:22.7 | When everybody in the United States, people. I'm true you do. There's only a handful of tech people that really understand deep tech, |
| 0:21.2 | but also understand business. When everybody in the United States who's listening thinks being in |
| 0:27.5 | Canada would be better, tell them what's the problem with free health care? Can I swear? Yeah. |
| 0:37.1 | What it is, Brad Lee back with another episode of dropping bombs today in the studio, folks, |
| 0:42.6 | a real entrepreneur, Stephen Sampson in the house. |
| 0:46.4 | Thank you for having me, Brad. |
| 0:47.7 | Guys, if you don't know this guy, he's a technology executive and entrepreneur with a background |
| 0:52.4 | in cybersecurity and global enterprise consulting. That sounds |
| 0:56.0 | fancy. Yes. What is what does that mean? I work for PWC and Accenture. That's where I got my |
| 1:02.0 | my background. Pull that mic over to you. Will you? Sorry. Try to get that better. Yep. |
| 1:07.1 | You work for PWC and Accenture. Yes. Leading global technology projects for Fortune 50 companies. |
| 1:13.9 | Yes, we were, well, PWC and Accenture only works for large enterprises. |
| 1:18.5 | Do you have some sort of degree for that? |
| 1:21.9 | I don't. |
| 1:22.6 | I, uh, when I, uh, I barely graduated high school, actually. |
| 1:27.1 | So how did you get that job? |
| 1:28.5 | I joined the military. |
| 1:30.7 | Really took, I was always good in IT, but I really took a liking to cybersecurity. |
| 1:39.0 | When I was in the military, they trained me, but they gave me books. |
| 1:43.2 | So I just read every book I could possibly imagine, got some certificates. |
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