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Dropping Bombs

Brad Lea

Business, Bradlea, Success, Mentor, Coach, Advice, Money, Strategy, Training, Entrepreneurship, Therealbradlea, Entrepreneur, Comedy

4.8 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 11 November 2025

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Summary

This episode was sponsored by Cannonball Moments

LightSpeed VT: https://www.lightspeedvt.com/
Dropping Bombs Podcast: https://www.droppingbombs.com/

In this no‑BS episode of Dropping Bombs, Chad Sanschagrin delivers the exact mindset shifts unlocking growth, influence, and unstoppable execution. The national bestselling author of Keep Telling Yourself and founder of Cannonball Moments explains why teams win when leaders coach the person, not the position—and how identity drives behavior and results. He also reveals how a childhood "trauma" fueled a victim mentality that nearly destroyed him... until he uncovered the shocking truth years later that turned him into a sought‑after performance coach and host of The Cannonball Mindset.

Steal the frameworks: use his four‑question interrupt to dismantle limiting stories, practice the "pause of choice" before reacting, go all‑in by taking your hands off the chips, stop being "illiterate by choice," and upgrade from lack to abundance so performance follows. If you're leading teams or leading yourself, this conversation gives you clear steps to build confidence, culture, and revenue—without fluff. Watch, take notes, subscribe, and implement—this is your wake‑up call to unlock true abundance and stop self-sabotaging now.

🔗 Resources
🌐 Chad Sanschagrin — https://www.chadsanschagrin.com/
🌐 Cannonball Moments — https://www.cannonballmoments.com/
📚 Keep Telling Yourself (Book) — https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Keep-Telling-Yourself/Chad-Sanschagrin/9781637746486
📲 Chad Sanschagrin Instagram — https://www.instagram.com/sanschagrin_chad/
📲 Cannonball Moments Instagram — https://www.instagram.com/cannonballmoments/
🎙️ The Cannonball Mindset Podcast — https://www.cannonballmoments.com/podcasts-cannonball-moments

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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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Brad's also behind Closer School, the go-to program for mastering sales and closing deals like a pro. Want to 10x your income? This is where you start. His book, The Hard Way, lays out the brutal, honest lessons he learned building his empire—your blueprint to winning the game. Get it here: https://bradlea.com/product/the-hard-way/

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0:00.0	People spend more time trying to figure out how to upgrade their electronics than they do how to upgrade themselves.
0:05.4	Jesus believed one thing above all other things, that your life should be devoted to self-transformation.
0:10.3	Most people don't have abundance. They don't think abundance is for them. Victims, man, they get a lot of
0:15.5	attention. They get a lot of sympathy. You have to shift your story and then shift your behaviors at the
0:19.9	same time and the universe will tilt in your favor, 100% of the time. The devil is going to try to convince
0:24.9	you that their story of your life of black is more powerful than your story of a life
0:29.5	of abundance. Yeah, but you had money. No, I didn't have money. I had no money. I had
0:34.8	debt. I had a ton of debt. You did it anyway. So I don't really share it publicly. I'm going to share it publicly now.
0:44.5	What it is, Bradley, back again with another episode of dropping bombs today in the studio, folks. I got a real treat for you.
0:52.3	Somebody that you may not have heard of, you may have, but probably not.
0:56.6	The dude behind the dudes.
0:58.6	A sales trainer, extraordinary, very successful.
1:03.0	Now an author of Keep Telling Yourself, Chad.
1:07.7	Chad, San Chagrin.
1:10.7	Welcome to the show, buddy. What's happening, brother? What would be here? What name is San Chagrin. Welcome to the show, buddy. What's happening, brother? Now, what name is San chagrin? He is what's crazy. So San Chagrin is a French Canadian name. And what's interesting is I grew up with a single mother. Don't have a relationship with my father. And when I was about 13, I was like, man, I'm changing my last name because I'm not really a San chagrin. And that's my father's name that I don't have a relationship with my father. And when I was about 13, I was like, man, I'm changing
1:28.0	my last name because I'm not really a Santergren. That's my father's name that I don't have.
1:32.2	My mother's middle name is, my mother's maiden name is Fleck, F-L-E-C-K. I'm not really a Fleck. Who am I?
1:38.0	But my middle name is Everett.
1:40.3	Chad Everett, E-V-E-R-T-T-T.
1:43.4	And so like that said, I'm going to change my name to Everett.
1:46.9	Never had the courage, do it.
1:48.1	Never had the courage to do it, never had the money to do it, never had the, but I always thought about it. So I get into this, I switch my mind, said, I changed my life around, I become, you know, have the life I have now. And somebody says, you know what your last name means, don't you?
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