Dropping Bombs

This episode was sponsored by Cardiff & OnYa Roof

LightSpeed VT: https://www.lightspeedvt.com/

Dropping Bombs Podcast: https://www.droppingbombs.com/

Today's Dropping Bombs episode features Sam and Olly Arch, the Australian entrepreneurs behind OnYaRoof — a done-for-you system that's teaching everyday Americans how to run a roof rejuvenation business without ever picking up a hammer.

The Arch brothers reveal how one roofing client accidentally stumbled onto an extra $75,000 a month, why homeowners actually thank you for the cheaper fix, and how their model hands new dealers a built business, qualified leads, and word-for-word scripts — no experience required, and dealers keep every dollar.

If you're not making 40 to 50 grand a month working for yourself, you're not lacking opportunity — you're lacking an excuse not to. This episode hands you one less reason to wait.

🔗 Connect with Sam & Olly

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/onyaroof

Website: https://startonyaroof.com

Main site: https://onyaroof.com

Watch the full-length video version of any Dropping Bombs episode here on YouTube.

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.

LightSpeed VT is Brad's brainchild—the world's leading interactive training platform. It's built to make your team sharper, faster, and more effective, without wasting time or money. Whether you're a startup or a Fortune 500, LightSpeed VT is how you scale success and dominate your industry. Curious? Check it out:

https://www.lightspeedvt.com/

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://ourreward.store/collections/brad-lea/the-hard-way

This isn't just a video. It's a wake-up call. Watch it. Share it. Act on it.

Closer School: https://www.closerschool.com/

This episode was sponsored by Cardiff & Li Hydro

LightSpeed VT: https://www.lightspeedvt.com/

Dropping Bombs Podcast: https://www.droppingbombs.com/

Today's Dropping Bombs episode features Dane Mandriota, the Long Island entrepreneur who spent a decade putting breathing tubes in newborns and hand-loading heart valves for cardiac patients. Now he's traded operating rooms for a different kind of high-stakes venture: Hypotency, one of the first recreational cannabis dispensaries opening on Long Island.

Dane gets into the wild backstory behind his partner's cannabis license, born from a motorcycle crash and a prison sentence. He also opens up on the frequency medicine and manifestation practices he credits for his success, plus the Ferrari club world he now runs in.

From saving lives to building an empire, Dane proves reinvention has no ceiling. Miss this one, and you'll miss the blueprint.

🔗 Connect with Dane

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/successondmand

TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@successondmand

✅ Additional Resources

Hypotency Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hypotencyny

Hypotency Website: https://hypotency.com

LI Hydro Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lihydro

Mrs. Casual (Jennifer Mandriota's Fashion Brand): https://www.instagram.com/mrscasual

Watch the full-length video version of any Dropping Bombs episode here on YouTube.

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.

LightSpeed VT is Brad's brainchild—the world's leading interactive training platform. It's built to make your team sharper, faster, and more effective, without wasting time or money. Whether you're a startup or a Fortune 500, LightSpeed VT is how you scale success and dominate your industry. Curious? Check it out:

https://www.lightspeedvt.com/

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://ourreward.store/collections/brad-lea/the-hard-way

This isn't just a video. It's a wake-up call. Watch it. Share it. Act on it.

Closer School: https://www.closerschool.com/

This episode was sponsored by Cardiff

LightSpeed VT: https://www.lightspeedvt.com/

Dropping Bombs Podcast: https://www.droppingbombs.com/

Today's Dropping Bombs episode sits down with Kap Chatfield — a pastor, filmmaker, and former atheist who's built a following of over 4 million across platforms, including a million YouTube subscribers in under a year, after his media company nearly collapsed.

Kap unpacks the four-month, all-or-nothing bet that rebuilt his business from zero, why AI is quietly reshaping who wins in business and who gets left behind, and his unfiltered breakdown of the Antichrist, Bill Gates' cryptocurrency patent, and the mark of the beast in the Book of Revelation.

Faith or no faith, this conversation will make you rethink what you're building and why you're building it. Press play — you won't get this perspective anywhere else.

🔗 Connect with Kap

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kapchatfield

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/officialkapchatfield

YouTube (Main): https://www.youtube.com/@KapChatfield

YouTube (Kingdom Creator): https://www.youtube.com/@kingdom.creator

YouTube (Directed Life Podcast): https://www.youtube.com/@directedlifepodcast

X: https://www.x.com/kapchatfield

Rumble: https://www.rumble.com/kapchatfield

Website: https://www.kapchatfield.com

✅ Additional Resources

The Elite Creator (Coaching): https://www.theelitecreator.com

The Power to Prosper (Book by Kap Chatfield)

Watch the full-length video version of any Dropping Bombs episode here on YouTube.

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.

LightSpeed VT is Brad's brainchild—the world's leading interactive training platform. It's built to make your team sharper, faster, and more effective, without wasting time or money. Whether you're a startup or a Fortune 500, LightSpeed VT is how you scale success and dominate your industry. Curious? Check it out:

https://www.lightspeedvt.com/

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://ourreward.store/collections/brad-lea/the-hard-way

This isn't just a video. It's a wake-up call. Watch it. Share it. Act on it.

Closer School: https://www.closerschool.com/

This episode was sponsored by Cardiff & Michael James Remodeling

LightSpeed VT: https://www.lightspeedvt.com/

Dropping Bombs Podcast: https://www.droppingbombs.com/

Today's Dropping Bombs episode sits down with Michael James, a Georgia contractor who lost his house, his marriage, and nearly his business in the 2008 crash — then rebuilt it into an award-winning, seven-figure luxury remodeling company.

He explains how three years living in a friend's basement taught him the discipline that saved his business. Then he takes us inside the solo 3,500-mile bike ride from San Francisco to North Carolina — 42 days, completely alone — that changed the way he leads.

Michael proves rock bottom isn't the end of your story, it's just mile one. Press play before you talk yourself out of your own comeback.

🔗 Connect with Michael

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/themichaeljamesway

Instagram (business): https://www.instagram.com/michaeljamesremodeling

Podcast: https://t-sml.mtrbio.com/public/smartlink/themichaeljamesway

Website: https://themichaeljamesway.com

Remodeling Website: https://michaeljamesremodeling.com

Watch the full-length video version of any Dropping Bombs episode here on YouTube.

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.

LightSpeed VT is Brad's brainchild—the world's leading interactive training platform. It's built to make your team sharper, faster, and more effective, without wasting time or money. Whether you're a startup or a Fortune 500, LightSpeed VT is how you scale success and dominate your industry. Curious? Check it out:

https://www.lightspeedvt.com/

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://ourreward.store/collections/brad-lea/the-hard-way

This isn't just a video. It's a wake-up call. Watch it. Share it. Act on it.

Closer School: https://www.closerschool.com/

This episode was sponsored by Cardiff

LightSpeed VT: https://www.lightspeedvt.com/

Dropping Bombs Podcast: https://www.droppingbombs.com/

Today's Dropping Bombs episode delivers a real self-made story with Matt Wright, the British backpacker who landed in Australia with nothing and built the country's largest used-car operation before selling it to Toyota's global trading arm for $120 million.

Matt breaks down the COVID gamble that turned a struggling car business into a $500 million empire, the crypto bet that funded his first big move, and why he's now giving away $3 million of his own money to fund founders in Australia, the UK, and the US.

If a broke backpacker staying in a "share house" full of strangers can build a nine-figure exit, your excuse just ran out. This one's required listening.

🔗 Connect with Matt

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/realmattwright/

TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@realmattwright

Website: https://www.founderfindsfuture.com

Watch the full-length video version of any Dropping Bombs episode here on YouTube.

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.

LightSpeed VT is Brad's brainchild—the world's leading interactive training platform. It's built to make your team sharper, faster, and more effective, without wasting time or money. Whether you're a startup or a Fortune 500, LightSpeed VT is how you scale success and dominate your industry. Curious? Check it out:

https://www.lightspeedvt.com/

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://ourreward.store/collections/brad-lea/the-hard-way

This isn't just a video. It's a wake-up call. Watch it. Share it. Act on it.

Closer School: https://www.closerschool.com/

This episode was sponsored by Cardiff, Smilo Group, & The Smilo Foundation

LightSpeed VT: https://www.lightspeedvt.com/

Dropping Bombs Podcast: https://www.droppingbombs.com/

Today's Dropping Bombs episode delivers a story most people wouldn't survive to tell: Mike Smilo, a Valley Bank market president and multi-industry entrepreneur, was handed a stage four melanoma diagnosis with weeks to live — and refused to accept it.

Mike breaks down how he tracked down an unapproved T-cell therapy trial in Germany that no oncologist would mention, why the system meant to save you often works against you, and how he built the Smilo Foundation to connect other patients with the trials, doctors, and options nobody tells them about.

If you or someone you love has ever heard "there's nothing more we can do," this episode could be the difference between giving up and finding a way. Listen now — it might save a life.

🔗 Connect with Mike

Instagram (Personal): https://www.instagram.com/sm1lo

Instagram (Foundation): https://www.instagram.com/thesmilofoundation

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SM1LO

Linktree: https://linktr.ee/smilofoundation

✅ Additional Resources

Smilo Foundation (Donate/Info): https://www.smilofoundation.org

Bang Cookies: https://www.bangcookies.com

Watch the full-length video version of any Dropping Bombs episode here on YouTube.

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.

LightSpeed VT is Brad's brainchild—the world's leading interactive training platform. It's built to make your team sharper, faster, and more effective, without wasting time or money. Whether you're a startup or a Fortune 500, LightSpeed VT is how you scale success and dominate your industry. Curious? Check it out:

https://www.lightspeedvt.com/

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://ourreward.store/collections/brad-lea/the-hard-way

This isn't just a video. It's a wake-up call. Watch it. Share it. Act on it.

Closer School: https://www.closerschool.com/

This episode was sponsored by Cardiff

LightSpeed VT: https://www.lightspeedvt.com/

Dropping Bombs Podcast: https://www.droppingbombs.com/

Today's Dropping Bombs episode sits down with Sean Stone — son of three-time Oscar-winning director Oliver Stone, a former child actor in JFK and Natural Born Killers, and a Princeton grad who traded the red carpet for a lifelong hunt for the truth Hollywood and Washington don't want out.

Sean breaks down his Princeton thesis on the New World Order, why he calls the JFK assassination "the gateway drug to conspiracies," his conversion to Shia Islam and the buried history of Imam Ali, the moon landing debate, and the doomsday map billionaires are quietly buying land against.

If the insider's own kid is asking these questions on camera, maybe it's time you started asking them too.

🔗 Connect with Sean

Website: https://www.seanstone.info

Instagram: https://instagram.com/therealseanstone

X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/seanstonelives

Facebook: https://facebook.com/therealseanstone

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAikwXquRUgKTLBDUkU3FeA

Patreon: https://patreon.com/SeanStone

Telegram: https://t.me/seanstone

Rokfin: https://rokfin.com/SeanStone

✅ Additional Resources

10 Things to Learn: Ancient Wisdom for the Modern Soul (his new book): https://www.amazon.com/10-Things-Learn-Ancient-Wisdom/dp/1683585607

New World Order (his Princeton thesis, published book): https://www.amazon.com/New-World-Order-Strategy-Imperialism/dp/1634240901

Best Kept Secret (docuseries on the Epstein/dark elite topics he discusses): https://vimeo.com/ondemand/bestkeptsecret

Watch the full-length video version of any Dropping Bombs episode here on YouTube.

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.

LightSpeed VT is Brad's brainchild—the world's leading interactive training platform. It's built to make your team sharper, faster, and more effective, without wasting time or money. Whether you're a startup or a Fortune 500, LightSpeed VT is how you scale success and dominate your industry. Curious? Check it out:

https://www.lightspeedvt.com/

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://ourreward.store/collections/brad-lea/the-hard-way

This isn't just a video. It's a wake-up call. Watch it. Share it. Act on it.

Closer School: https://www.closerschool.com/

This episode was sponsored by Cardiff & CloseSales.AI

LightSpeed VT: https://www.lightspeedvt.com/

Dropping Bombs Podcast: https://www.droppingbombs.com/

Today's Dropping Bombs episode features Austin Medlin, the founder of CloseSales.AI who walked away from a $1.2M landscaping business because he had success but no joy — then rebuilt himself as a remote closer, took over 7,000 sales calls, and pulled in $7M+ in personal commissions along the way.

Austin breaks down why "sales is service" instead of a sleazy hustle, the deep-questioning method that makes objections disappear before they happen, and how he's turned it all into an AI platform that reviews every sales call, writes custom scripts, and hands early users a piece of the company.

Sales is the one skill nobody wants to admit they need — this episode makes it impossible to keep ignoring.

🔗 Connect with Austin

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theaustinmedlin

YouTube: https://youtube.com/@austinmedlin

Website: https://closesales.ai (code BRAD for 2 weeks free)

Watch the full-length video version of any Dropping Bombs episode here on YouTube.

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.

LightSpeed VT is Brad's brainchild—the world's leading interactive training platform. It's built to make your team sharper, faster, and more effective, without wasting time or money. Whether you're a startup or a Fortune 500, LightSpeed VT is how you scale success and dominate your industry. Curious? Check it out:

https://www.lightspeedvt.com/

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://ourreward.store/collections/brad-lea/the-hard-way

This isn't just a video. It's a wake-up call. Watch it. Share it. Act on it.

Closer School: https://www.closerschool.com/

This episode was sponsored by Cardiff, R&R Pipeline INC and Iron & Infrastructure LLC

LightSpeed VT: https://www.lightspeedvt.com/

Dropping Bombs Podcast: https://www.droppingbombs.com/

Today's Dropping Bombs episode delivers a blue-collar underdog story with Jacob Emery, the Ohio pipeline company owner who went from $9-an-hour ditch digger to buying the near-eight-figure business he worked for — with a combined net worth of just $37,000.

Jacob breaks down the 407-day deal that nearly collapsed days before closing and the five daily standards he still lives by today. He also unpacks why trench collapses make pipeline work one of America's most dangerous jobs, and how he built a personal development system inside a natural gas company.

You don't need money in the bank or a business to buy — you need the clarity Jacob had to build from nothing. This episode hands you the blueprint.

✅ Jake's Website & Socials

Website: Jacob Emery | Iron Built Entrepreneur (https://jacobemery.com/)

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jacobemery44/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/jacobemery444

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jacobemery44

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCpNbogg89_YgA0fVUMFb0Pg

TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@jacobemery44

Social Handle: @jacobemery44

🎙️ Iron & Infrastructure Podcast

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5GF5nv3bLFfOl9XbeAWvON

Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-iron-infrastructure-podcast/id1710384030

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCpNbogg89_YgA0fVUMFb0Pg

Watch the full-length video version of any Dropping Bombs episode here on YouTube.

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.

LightSpeed VT is Brad's brainchild—the world's leading interactive training platform. It's built to make your team sharper, faster, and more effective, without wasting time or money. Whether you're a startup or a Fortune 500, LightSpeed VT is how you scale success and dominate your industry. Curious? Check it out:

https://www.lightspeedvt.com/

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://ourreward.store/collections/brad-lea/the-hard-way

This isn't just a video. It's a wake-up call. Watch it. Share it. Act on it.

Closer School: https://www.closerschool.com/

This episode was sponsored by Cardiff

LightSpeed VT: https://www.lightspeedvt.com/

Dropping Bombs Podcast: https://www.droppingbombs.com/

Today's Dropping Bombs episode delivers a wake-up call with Justin Myers. He raised $4.5 million for an AI-powered finance platform, then watched Claude and ChatGPT roll out the exact features that made it obsolete. He walked away with two patents and rebuilt from zero, solo-coding a $50,000 AI platform in nine months.

Justin breaks down the two-to-five-year window before AI, robotics, and universal basic income reshape the economy, why data centers are quietly draining water and gas reserves, and the quantum computing threat that could crack every bank vault and crypto wallet on earth.

Whether you're running a business, building one, or just trying to stay ahead of what's coming, this conversation hands you the playbook before everyone else catches on.

🔗 Connect with Justin

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/financeguyjustin

✅ Additional Resources

The Anxious Generation by Jonathan Haidt: https://www.anxiousgeneration.com

Watch the full-length video version of any Dropping Bombs episode here on YouTube.

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.

LightSpeed VT is Brad's brainchild—the world's leading interactive training platform. It's built to make your team sharper, faster, and more effective, without wasting time or money. Whether you're a startup or a Fortune 500, LightSpeed VT is how you scale success and dominate your industry. Curious? Check it out:

https://www.lightspeedvt.com/

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://ourreward.store/collections/brad-lea/the-hard-way

This isn't just a video. It's a wake-up call. Watch it. Share it. Act on it.

Closer School: https://www.closerschool.com/