This Kid Quit High School to Build a $50K/Month Agency at 19 (Here's How)
Dropping Bombs
Brad Lea
4.9 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 10 May 2026
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
This episode was sponsored by Cardiff & Bottarini Marketing Group
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Today's Dropping Bombs episode features Jaden Bottarini, a 19-year-old who turned elite athletic discipline into a marketing agency generating $50K a month before he ever finished high school.
His firm manages over $10 million in annual ad spend and has driven more than $1 million in client profits in the last 60 days alone. Jaden breaks down why most businesses don't have a sales problem but a marketing problem, how to rank your brand inside ChatGPT before your competitors realize it's the new Google, and why discipline beats talent every time.
He's 19, no degree, and already lapping people twice his age. The blueprint is right here. The only question is whether you're going to use it.
🔗 Connect with Jaden
IG: https://www.instagram.com/jadenbottarini
TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@_jadenbottarini
📖 Books Mentioned:
- The Laws of Human Nature by Robert Greene
- The 48 Laws of Power by Robert Greene
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| 0:00.0 | I want to take my company to a million dollars a month by the end of this year. |
| 0:03.0 | What's your secret sauce? Investing in information is extremely important. No one's looking on Google anymore. Everyone in the next five years is going to be searching on Chachabit, Gemini, and all these models. And if businesses don't adopt that, the tens of thousands of dollars they've spent on SEO and their website are going to be pointless. Thinking it takes a month to be successful, you're out of your mind. The amount of sacrifice, the amount of pressure you have to put on yourself will break 90% of people. |
| 0:25.4 | What do you think is more important? Sales or marketing? Sales. Incorrect, youngster. |
| 0:30.6 | I'm the education. |
| 0:35.3 | What it is, Bradley, back again with another episode of dropping bombs today in the studio, folks, youngest ever guest, Jaden Botterini. |
| 0:44.9 | What's happening? |
| 0:45.6 | Thank you for having me on, Brad. |
| 0:47.3 | Dude, this guy, if you guys like making money, you own businesses, you're tired of the freaking marketers out there or the marketing agencies that don't |
| 0:55.8 | call you back take your money and run this dude is a youngster but apparently like a little |
| 1:02.7 | phenom little child prodigy not child how old are you 19 i just turned 19 years old |
| 1:10.1 | seven time national gymnastics champion turned entrepreneur and founder of Botterini Marketing |
| 1:16.6 | Group. |
| 1:17.5 | By the age 18, already built six-figure marketing firm basically in high school, generating |
| 1:24.1 | $50,000 a month, helping businesses, worked at a golf club. |
| 1:31.0 | Now you're about to be this youngest member. |
| 1:33.7 | So seven-time champion, you seem to be like you like to dominate. |
| 1:42.0 | You like to freaking compete, apparently. |
| 1:44.4 | You think, is that true? |
| 1:46.3 | 100%. |
| 1:46.9 | The discipline that I took from my athletics translates to everything I've been able to |
| 1:51.9 | accomplish in business. |
| 1:53.1 | Because I always like to say it's pretty hard to get to the top. |
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