
The Cannonball Mindset · 2026-01-23 · 1h 6m
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Brad Lea's appearance on The Cannonball Mindset centers on his unconventional path from Forest Service worker and car salesman to founder of Lightspeed VT, a training platform that white-labeled for major names like Grant Cardone and Zig Ziglar. Rather than chasing followers, Lea built his brand through seven years of consistent daily social media posting, treating it as his TV station. He unpacks the four key ingredients missing from his original training business - content, repetition, practice, and accountability - and how fixing that gap created a scalable platform. Lea emphasizes that wealth creation isn't about overnight virality but about genuinely helping people by transferring knowledge from experts to those who need it. His core thesis: new information creates new beliefs, new beliefs create new behaviors, and new behaviors create results. He's candid about still grinding despite financial success, running multiple real businesses with employees and overhead, not just living off social media payments. His mission, stated plainly, is to be the conduit transferring knowledge from people who have it to people who need it - which accidentally turned his podcast into a $5-6 million annual side business.
By posting 3-4 times per day, every single day, for seven years consistently. He realized being the content (letting cameras follow his life) worked better than making scripted content, and he ignored people's opinions about his messaging.
Content, repetition, practice, and accountability. Lea's original training company failed because he only delivered content in one-day seminars; real impact requires being present for repetition, hands-on practice, and ongoing accountability.
He stays relevant through constant current content, and genuinely believes helping people achieve their goals is the fastest path to wealth. His free social media funnels into paid events, Lightspeed subscriptions, and investment opportunities, turning free content into a $5-6 million annual side business.
At age six, selling World's Finest Chocolate bars, he outsold every other kid by coming up with a clever pitch: 'When you taste one of these, you're gonna go through the roof.' He sold out the entire school's allocation that year.
He rejects the concept of balance entirely, saying it's really about priorities. You need to clear your schedule strategically - sometimes to focus on business, sometimes on family - rather than trying to give everything equal attention simultaneously.
Our reviewer’s read on each dimension, with quotes from the episode.
The episode is dominated by motivational platitudes and personal backstory, with very little density of actionable, non-obvious ideas per minute. The one structurally interesting claim - four required ingredients for real training (content, repetition, practice, accountability) - is buried in a lengthy origin story and never developed for a B2B operator audience.
You have to have new beliefs to create new behaviors, and those new behaviors is what creates the results.
People confuse activity with progress. Just because you're busy doesn't mean you're going anywhere.
Almost entirely recycled self-help content - beliefs drive behaviors drive results, vibrational frequency, choose your energy, everyone wants to be rich. There is no contrarian or first-principles argument that hasn't circulated widely in the motivational/sales-training ecosystem for decades.
The energy and the vibrational frequency that you give off will attract, like, energy.
You have to have new information in order to create new beliefs. And you have to have new beliefs to create new behaviors.
Brad Lea has genuine practitioner credentials - he built LightSpeed VT from the ground up in 2000 before online training existed, white-labeled it to major sales trainers, and runs multiple real businesses. He is not a pure thought leader, but the episode fails to draw out his specific operational knowledge in any depth.
I just stopped selling the businesses my training and started selling the trainers my business.
This was in 2000. And keep in mind there was no training online in 2000, so there was nothing to, you know, use. I had to build it.
A small number of concrete figures appear - posting cadence over seven years, podcast revenue, a 30-to-45-day sales training timeline - but these are unverifiable personal anecdotes rather than referenced data, named companies, or transferable metrics a B2B operator could act on.
I just started posting on social media three to four times a day, every single day. Uh, and it's been price seven years now of that.
I could turn literally someone with zero experience into a 20 car salesperson in 30 to 45 days.
The host asks mostly biographical setup questions and responds to sweeping, unchallenged claims - 'getting rich is easy,' 'everyone wants to be rich' - with 'Yeah,' 'Agreed,' and '100%.' The one near-pushback ('But you did at one point') is immediately dropped rather than developed into genuine interrogation.
This brand. You have this brand. How did you create the brand of just, hey, I just tell the truth, like it, don't like it.
Speaker B: 100%.
Computed from the transcript - who did the talking, and the words that came up most.
Check out our upcoming conference - Chad's Book is available everywhere - If you have ever felt stuck, overwhelmed, or frustrated that you are working hard but not moving forward, this conversation will hit different. Brad Lea, entrepreneur, author, and host of the Dropping Bombs podcast, sits down with Chad Sanschagrin for a no filter breakdown of why most people stay broke, why busyness is not progress, and why your results are tied to your beliefs, your choices, and what you tolerate. Brad shares stories from getting kicked out at 16, being homeless, learning sales early, building LightSpeed VT, and building a personal brand by posting relentlessly and letting the camera follow real life. From there, the conversation turns into a straight shooting framework for changing your life, new information creates new beliefs, new beliefs create new behaviors, and new behaviors create new results. You will also hear Brad's perspective on gratitude, energy, frequency, responsibility, and why he believes most people are choosing a reality they claim they hate.
Transcribed and scored by The B2B Podcast Index.
Speaker A: You have to have new beliefs to create new behaviors, and those new behaviors is what creates the results.
Speaker B: Yeah.
Speaker A: So if you want to change what you're getting, you have to change what you're doing. I believe there's no balance. There's priorities. So at some point, you got to clear the schedule. Go pay attention to the kids or the wife. You, uh, don't pay attention to your wife, you'll come home, find out she ain't your wife. People confuse activity with progress. Just because you're busy doesn't mean you're going anywhere. My wife and my kids and I got problems, and my rent's due. Boo hoo. There's people that would pray to be in the position you're in right now. And if I walked into your house in that situation with a gun to your head and you knew I was about to pull the trigger, would you care that you owed rent?
Speaker B: No.
Speaker A: What if I was about to blow your kid's head off? Would you care that they're getting bad grades?
Speaker B: Nope.
Speaker A: Yeah, but we don't celebrate the fact that we wake up every day, uh, with a whole nother chance to do anything. So, again, I choose gratitude first thing in the morning, which changes my energy. And the energy and the vibrational frequency that you give off will attract, like, energy.
Speaker B: Welcome back to the Cannonball mindset. My name is Chad Tancin, your host. But today, today, man, we've had some killer guests on. We know. We've had Gary, we have Ryan. We had Jesse. Man, we got the man, the myth, the legend, the one, the only Brad Lee. If you don't know him, um, you must be living under a rock, because he's everywhere. His face is everywhere. His podcast is everywhere. He's a writer, author, entrepreneur, and he probably has. Well, not even probably. He's got the coolest office compound of any building I've ever been into. And so we get to spend the next hour or so with the man, the myth, the legend. Bradley.
Speaker A: Well, thank you. I'm amongst great company.
Speaker B: Thanks for. Thanks for coming on. And I know this is going to be a real podcast because you don't sugarcoat anything. This brand. You have this brand. How did you create the brand of just, hey, I just tell the truth, like it, don't like it. I'm gonna challenge you. Is that always that always your ethos, or have you evolved to this. This brand that you have now?
Speaker A: I think it's always kind of been in the. In the personality traits, but I was a little bit too worried, um, about Other people's opinions growing up. And then at some point, I just realized, you can't make everyone happy. Yeah. You, uh, realize that?
Speaker B: Yeah.
Speaker A: And I think I keep things very simplistic or logical is what I like to say, because it is logic. You can't make everyone happy. And one day I'm sitting there going, man, I can't make everyone happy. I do this, they get pissed, I do that, they get pissed. I post this, they get mad, I post that, they get mad. So I'm like, man, I gotta choose somebody, right? I gotta pick a side here. So I started just thinking and I realized, like, my name's not on that list. You know, if my name was on that list of who to make happy, it'd be an easy choice, wouldn't it?
Speaker B: Yeah. Right.
Speaker A: So I just added my name and I'm like, listen, I'm gonna start making myself happy because I can't make anyone else happy for sure. And there's always gonna be someone mad. So the only thing I can control is me, you know, which again, looking back, it's like, well, duh, uh, I should have done that the whole time, but it took me a while to learn. And that's where the, the whole tell the truth and be real and just be yourself. And if someone doesn't like it, you know, I like it. So. So I'm not trying to be offensive, but if I happen to be, well, then let me apologize in advance.
Speaker B: So. So go back. Let's go back before Bradley the influencer, Bradley on every social media channel. Bradley before Brad Lee the podcast host, before Bradley the author, before Bradley the entrepreneur. Who are you then? Where were you? How did you get here? Because people look at you and you, uh, know they wonder. They might, they might, they might. Somebody might scroll upon you today for the first time and they'll be like, oh, well, this guy. It's easy for this guy because he's got all these followers. But this, this was a. This was a culmination of years of something. How did you get to here?
Speaker A: Well, what's cool about social media is everyone starts at zero. So whoever you see with a lot of followers, either bottom or. Or earned them. Yeah, you know, I didn't buy any followers. I just started posting on social media three to four times a day, every single day. Uh, and it's been price seven years now of that. And if you look at most people's social media, how many posts they put up, it's not enough. Uh, and so I realized a brand's important by hanging out with Grant and all these other influencer guys. And so I just said, I'm going to start building mine. And everyone has one. Everyone's got a brand. Everyone has a brand. Yeah. Uh, the question is, who knows about it? And social media is the new television. I literally get stopped in the airport for pictures and people are like, oh, yeah, I see you on TV every day. And I'm like, I'm not on tv. And they're like, well, you know, Instagram. And I started realizing, like, man, this is the new tv.
Speaker B: It's the new tv.
Speaker A: Yeah. So I figure since I have a phone that's the TV station, I might as well get myself a channel. So I just started posting. Um, took me a little minute to figure out kind of what worked. But I realized being the content was better than making content. So I just, uh, allowed the camera to follow me and everything I'm saying and doing is recorded. And then, boom. Let the world see it and not be worried about other people's opinion.
Speaker B: But go back before that. We'll go back. Like, what, at what point did you say, did you say, okay, I'm going to start posting content? I'm going to be. I'm going to be the content. I'm going to be the brand. What drove you to do that? You're, uh, you were, what were you doing before you even got on social media?
Speaker A: I was helping everybody else build their social media and their stages, per se. So here's, here's kind of the story. Um, I'll go all the way back just to catch up properly.
Speaker B: Yeah.
Speaker A: Like, at 16 or 17 years old, I came from blue collar family, so everyone thought, you know, hard work was the way to do it. So they kept pressuring me to get a real job. They kept saying, get a real job. And so a real job to them meant m. You know, $22 an hour, you know, mill worker. So, uh, I went out and I applied with the US Forest Service and was told that I'm going to be a firefighter in the. In the Pacific Northwest where the, you know, fires go. And so I show up for the first day of work and they throw me this big, heavy bag of water they called a piss bag. And they said, put that on and go squirt the stumps that are smoldering. The firefighters had already come through and put out all the fires. Yeah, I'm just some, um, grunt in the back with this heavy backpack filled with water, climbing up and down mountains, squirting on stumps, you know, I thought I was going to show up like fricking, you know, Paul Bunyan or something. You know, I was picturing myself in a flannel shirt with an ax over my shoulder and I, you know, sit on my face and a wolf by my side out there saving eagle eggs.
Speaker B: You know, it wasn't none of that.
Speaker A: No, I was a piss bag operator. And so the first day I get poison oak and I go up to the guy and I'm like, listen, I got poison oak. I might not be able to come in for a few, few days. And he opens his shirt and he's covered in it. And he said, dude, everybody here's got poison oak. That's part of the job. So get out there and go to work. And instantly I said, dude, uh, this isn't for me. So I quit. Everyone freaked out in my family. Uh, so I went the next day, opened up the newspaper and saw a job for sales selling cars. So I went and applied, got the job. First day I was there, they say, go pick a car. I said, what do you mean they said? They said, you get the car. You get a car to drive. It's called the demo. So you can just pick a car, put a dealer plate on it and take it. And I said, well, what kind of car? They said, any kind you want. So there's a row of Trans ams. I'm a 18 year old, dude.
Speaker B: Yeah.
Speaker A: Uh, and there's a row of Trans Ams with T tops. I'm thinking, man, this, this gives this. They want me to have a car, these guys want me to have poison oak.
Speaker B: Yeah.
Speaker A: See, again, logical decision.
Speaker B: That's right.
Speaker A: So I say, okay, great. And I put the dealer played on a Trans Am. And I want to get off work so bad just to drive around because, you know, I didn't have a car. So long story short, customers were coming in there looking for cars. Like it wasn't like I was trying to switch them from a bag of oranges to a car. They were coming in looking for a car and this guy, whoever owned the dealership, gave me hundreds of pieces of equipment to sell. And all I had to do was sit there and be nice and show them the cars. And dude, it was a no brainer. So I started excelling in sales.
Speaker B: And then I realized, had you ever sold anything before?
Speaker A: Yeah. You ever heard of a natural? Like a natural Salesperson? So at 6 years old in first grade, they gave me a big box of candy bars to sell the dollar.
Speaker B: Candy bars?
Speaker A: Yeah, the world's finest Chocolate.
Speaker B: That's right.
Speaker A: And so I went home and my family didn't buy any. In fact, two of my brothers ate half the box without paying for them. And so I need to sell some. So I leave the house, I start knocking on doors. First door. Want to buy a candy bar? You know, no, nothing was really happening. And if I did sell one, it was one at a time. So I figured, man, I got to come up with something to say. And again, this is a six year old kid, right. I knock on the door to one house, I put the candy bars behind my back, and for some reason I said, do you have the phone number to a good roof repairman? And they said, what? And I said, because when you taste one of these, you're gonna go through the roof. And they started buying the whole box at a time. And I outsold every kid. And I literally was being handed candy bars that they had left over for me to go sell when I sold every candy bar the school got that year, which, by the way, is the only year that's ever happened and probably still a record.
Speaker B: Yeah. Uh, so they still, they still sell those candy bars too.
Speaker A: Yeah. So, I mean, like, no one taught me to do that. I, I still to this day wonder, like, how did I come up with that?
Speaker B: Where did it come from?
Speaker A: Yeah, where did that come from? But I knew I had to say something.
Speaker B: Yeah.
Speaker A: And so, and so, uh, I think I had a little natural ability. Maybe I'm, you know, clever, sharp, quick witted, I don't know. But when I was 6, that happened. So I was already, you know, kind of gifted when it comes to the gift of gab, as they call it.
Speaker B: Um, so you're now at the car dealership and you. And you got a Trans Am and you start selling driving.
Speaker A: I started selling cars, then I. And then I got really good at selling cars and Matt and started, you know, getting into personal development and reading about sales. And I thought my whole life, you know, was, was going to be easy. I was just gonna sell, make a ton of money, and end up becoming a dealer.
Speaker B: Yeah.
Speaker A: So long story short, stayed in the car business. I jumped in and out. Sold art for a minute, sold RVs for a minute. You know, I've sold a lot of things, but ultimately mainly car business, so. Which is a great boot camp for people.
Speaker B: Yeah, for sure.
Speaker A: Teaches you thick skin. Teaches you how to overcome objections. You know, you work, you know, you kind of get to.
Speaker B: Yeah, yeah.
Speaker A: So I was in the car business. I helped somebody at a dealership at, uh, My dealership come out of the lot, Bay the porter and put him up front, showed him how to make some money. And I watched the impact it made for his family. And then I said, I'm going to start a sales training company to teach people sales because I like the way it made me feel to watch how it helped this family. Because this guy was a good dude and he had a, you know, nice wife, nice kids, but they were like very quiet and demure and almost like ashamed, it seemed. But he was on minimum wage and, you know, it's hard to take care of a family.
Speaker B: Right. You better make some commissions.
Speaker A: Yeah. So I moved him over to sales and taught him to sell and that made a big difference for him. He started making 15, 20 grand a month. I thought it felt good. So I said, man, I'm going to start a training company. So I quit my job, started a training company, ran out on the road and it didn't work very well. And I couldn't figure out why it didn't work. So ultimately I sat back and I thought, because I could do it when I was working. Yeah, I was pulling people out of Burger King windows and turning them into badass salespeople overnight.
Speaker B: Yeah.
Speaker A: Like, I was good at training people to sell, close, manage. Like I was the, uh, you had it, dude. I was, I could, I could turn literally someone with zero experience into a 20 car salesperson in 30 to 45 days. Uh, I thought I could continue to do that for myself. Uh, but it didn't work. So I kind of decided to look at what I used to do versus what I'm doing. And I came up with the four key ingredients that real training is all about. You need the right content, repetition, uh, practice and accountability. So when I worked there, I was there all day, every day with them. I gave him the content. I gave him the right content. Then, uh, I gave it to him with repetition. I had him practice over and over and over. And I hold them accountable.
Speaker B: Yeah.
Speaker A: So when I went out on the road, all I was delivering was the good content.
Speaker B: Yeah. Uh, you weren't there for the accountability and the repetition part. That was on their sales manager.
Speaker A: I couldn't. I was only there for a day.
Speaker B: Yeah.
Speaker A: Maybe two. You know, they pay me five, ten grand to show up for the day.
Speaker B: Yeah.
Speaker A: And I'd show up and there'd be a room full of people and I'd train them and I gave them all that information and I left. And no impact. So I couldn't figure it out. I realized the Four ingredients. So I said, I got to create something that fixes this for me. And I created Lightspeed. So lightspeed, uh, this was in 2000. And keep in mind there was no training online in 2000, so there was nothing to, you know, use. I had to build it. So I found people built Lightspeed Vt started it, started working. And then I ran, uh, into competition. People used Zig Ziglar and Brian Tracy and Grant Cardone and Joe Verde and all these big name trainers.
Speaker B: Yeah, right.
Speaker A: And so at one point I asked the dealer that was telling me no for my training because they used these people. I said, well, let me ask you a question. If I had those people in this system, would you buy it? They're like, oh, if this was theirs, absolutely. Oh, I'd take it right now. And I'd heard and, you know, I started to realize, like, hold on a minute, let me go talk to them about doing this. So I just stopped selling the businesses my training and started selling the trainers my business.
Speaker B: Your platform?
Speaker A: Yeah. So I white labeled my platform for them, showed them where their customers were. Grant Cardone, Zig Ziglar, all the big name trainers at the time. Um, which Grant wasn't a big name in the world like he is now. Uh, he was in the car business though. Anyway, so I closed Grant and everybody else, all the top trainers. So I used to like to say, I'm the guy that closes, the guy that teaches you to close. So I went and closed all of these sales trainers on using my platform and I just helped them. And so I just helped them build stages and events and training and curriculum and courseware. And then social media started. So I was kind of paying attention and what they were doing. And next thing you know, their brands are getting big. And at one point I'm like, dude, I gotta, I gotta make sure I get a brand new. About seven, I'd say seven years ago, I just said, man, this, this is too easy. I better get on it. Because it's not overnight if you do it for real. Yeah, you can't. You might get lucky with a couple viral videos like the, the Hawk to a Girl. But usually that's not necessarily the, I think the most solid way of doing it. Where'd she go, by the way?
Speaker B: Yeah. Uh, jail.
Speaker A: Where she at?
Speaker B: Nowhere.
Speaker A: Oh, I don't know where she went. But bottom, uh, line is it's a consistent ongoing thing. So I just decided to start. So I started doing it, boom, boom, boom. And now I have followers. So where was I before, dude? Working yeah. Ah, you know, getting experience, getting beat up, bruised.
Speaker B: So, so, so now you are where you are. You don't need to keep doing this anymore.
Speaker A: Doing what?
Speaker B: Be giving all this content away for free, doing all the podcasts, doing all, like, why do you do it now? The situation has changed. Your financial situation has changed, your influence has changed. You're a highly sought after keynote speaker. You could just go around making a killing, speaking for 45 minutes and jetting out. Um, you know, why do you still put your, why do you still redline it?
Speaker A: Well, because again, I mean, you know, you're relevant only when you're current. You know, you can become irrelevant very quickly. So you want to keep up, you want to keep your show on the, on the airwaves. Yeah, not only that, I mean, at the end of the day, I think it's true when Zig Ziglar says, if you want to, the best way to get what you want is to help others get what they want. So at the end of the day, I, you know, closed him too. So I had a lot of conversations with him and I'm, and I never really understood that because I was always like, well, that'll make sense to me. But now that I'm a little older, it makes perfect sense. And so if you really want to make a lot of money, just figure out how to help a lot of people, like, earnestly and honestly help. Don't try to figure out how to get, Figure out how to give. And so I've learned a lot in my life. Uh, you know, I got kicked out of my house at 16, I've been homeless, I've been in and out of trouble. Like, I'm a pretty knowledgeable guy. I've gotten, my company almost was stolen from me. I've read through a million contracts, I've closed a million deals. You know, I've seen a lot. I'm a well seasoned individual. Uh, that's just a fact. So I've done the work, you know, uh, and so with all of that experience, I think it's my obligation to tell people that are on the same path because they're going to have the same problems I did if they don't have anyone, you know, kind of laying out the information that would hopefully give them a difference, a different, uh, outcome or a quicker outcome. So that's my way of helping people is my social media. And it's all free, obviously, but it's not free eventually because they watch the social media and then they find out I'm doing, uh, an event here. They buy tickets, then they come and buy tickets, and they realize lightspeed exists. Then they get lightspeed, and then they realize, you know, I'm a cool dude. I'm actually like, I am on social media. So now they want to, you know, invest with me and together and buy buildings and real estate and deal flow and like, dude, it's just this. All you have to do for the people listening. It sounds cliche, but if you really want to be financially well off, you have to just stop worrying about the money coming to you and. And figure out how you can help a lot of people.
Speaker B: Yeah.
Speaker A: And if you can figure out how to help a lot of people and enjoy yourself, that's even the best. I like making social media content. I wish my. My day consisted of pure traveling around and letting people witness my life.
Speaker B: Yeah.
Speaker A: Wouldn't that be awesome?
Speaker B: Yeah.
Speaker A: Uh, but unfortunately, I have real businesses, I have employees, I have situations just like everybody else. I'm not one of those influencers that just make content.
Speaker B: You're a business owner.
Speaker A: I'm a businessman that happens to be, you know, get some followers. I'm not an influencer. I don't make. I mean, I do get paid for posting, but it's just extra. And it's like, I don't try. That's just what happens when you start to get followers. I am not an influencer. I m. Am not social media person. I'm a business person. I have several businesses that require my attention all day, every day.
Speaker B: Yeah.
Speaker A: Now my podcast is. Because all these people were coming into lightspeed to create their courses. And so I said I should get a couple of microphones and pick their brain while they're here. Because when they were in the studios making courses, it was all scripted curriculum. It was not just open conversation.
Speaker B: Yeah. It was all. Is all planned. Yeah.
Speaker A: And I wanted to know, where did you learn that and why do you think that's the case? And I just wanted to talk.
Speaker B: Yeah.
Speaker A: Uh, so I got two microphones. Everyone said, don't do it. There's a million podcasts. Everyone's got a podcast now. That podcast does 5, 6 million a year. Uh, on the side, like, accidental.
Speaker B: It's good on the side. Accidental.
Speaker A: Yeah. But, like, that's what I mean. It's like I was just trying to help people.
Speaker B: It was a. It was a. It was a result of. Not a mission towards.
Speaker A: I didn't say, hey, let me start a podcast so I can make a bunch of money.
Speaker B: Yeah.
Speaker A: I said, listen, my mission in life is to get the knowledge from the people who have it, like you, uh, to the people who need it. Because the reason people are failing, at least in my opinion, it's not because they want to. It's. They don't have the right information. No one's giving them the right information.
Speaker B: Agreed.
Speaker A: And you have to have new information in order to create new beliefs. And you have to have new beliefs to create new behaviors. And those new behaviors is what creates the results.
Speaker B: Yeah.
Speaker A: So if you want to change what you're getting, you have to change what you're doing. M. Would you agree?
Speaker B: 100%.
Speaker A: Okay. So in order to change what you're doing, you must change what you believe, because the reason you do what you do is because of your belief system. So the only way to change your beliefs is to get new information. The same information won't do it. It has to be new information. So here I am in a position where I'm talking to all kinds of subject matter experts and gurus and, uh, famous people who have succeeded in life. It's my obligation to get the knowledge from those guys and get it to the guys that are. That are needing it. When I say guys, I mean people.
Speaker B: Yeah, yeah.
Speaker A: Feminists hollering out, crying. Okay, guys, girls, whatever. People.
Speaker B: Yeah. Uh, you're the conduit. You're the conduit, dude.
Speaker A: Listen, we all have to have a mission in life.
Speaker B: Agreed.
Speaker A: My mission is to get the knowledge from the people who have it to the people who need it.
Speaker B: So you talk a lot. And we talk about this, I talk about in my book that your. Your. Your beliefs drive your, drive your emotions, your emotions drive your behaviors, your behaviors drive your results. All the things you just said. So where did your belief system come from? Where did your belief system come, uh, from? You have very firm beliefs and you don't shy away from that. If you watch any. Listen to, watch any of the podcasts, watch any of social media, you're very grounded in your beliefs. Your beliefs to me, and, uh, correct me if I'm wrong, drive a lot, if not every single behavior you have.
Speaker A: That's true for us.
Speaker B: All right, perfect. So where do those belief systems come from originally?
Speaker A: Obviously. Parents.
Speaker B: Yeah.
Speaker A: Community, your village, your tribes.
Speaker B: Uh, what you listen to, what you watch, what you read, everything.
Speaker A: So originally from the ages of 1 to 8 is when a lot of our, you know, belief systems are formed, are programming. I call it programming.
Speaker B: That's what we call. That's what we call in the book programming.
Speaker A: Well, you're being programmed.
Speaker B: Yeah.
Speaker A: And So I think my original programming was, you know, came from parents and family and village and society and the news and the weather and the. And the books that I didn't read and all that. Yeah, I think my current programming comes from, uh, the same things. I just choose different ones. You know, I already. I already realized that a lot of what I was being taught was total bullshit. You know, money doesn't grow on trees. Well, again, technically, money's paper, and that is coming from trees, so that's false. Number two, you know, fly under the radar. You know, fly under the radar. What are you talking about? Get on the damn radar. You know, people say be patient. Listen, uh, I'm sure there's times when patience would make sense. Like, you know, if a girl says, let me slip into something more comfortable, be patient.
Speaker B: Okay?
Speaker A: But when it comes to building your dreams and, like, getting what you want and getting sales and busting through goals and objectives, you don't need to be patient. You need to be more intense. You need to have. You need to be obsessed. You need to be more passionate, more active. And then people confuse activity with progress. Just because you're busy doesn't mean you're going anywhere. So. So now you have to think, right? And so when you start to think a little bit, you start to realize, like, wait a minute. My parents were full of shit. Uh, my parents were full of shit. They were nice, but they weren't rich. And they weren't correct. They were incorrect. They said, uh, you get a good job, you work hard, and you'll. And that's what you do.
Speaker B: Get your 401k and then retire 65 and right off into the sunset.
Speaker A: Yeah, well, again, maybe, if that's what you're looking for. But in my mind, if you want to be rich, which I always wanted to be rich, you have to get in the position to receive commission. I've never met anybody that's rich, that is not in a position that receives commission. So if you're out there with a salary job, I promise you, you're more than likely heading down the wrong path. Now, if you want to be rich, uh, if you want to be comfortable, sure, you can be comfortable.
Speaker B: Well, you're replacing security for abundance.
Speaker A: You know, people always say, how do you say this in front of your team? Yeah, and you can ask my team. It's the truth.
Speaker B: Yeah, that's right.
Speaker A: It's the truth. People say, so should I quit? Yeah, you probably should.
Speaker B: But not if you want to be rich or find. Or find a way. Find A way to put yourself in position to show value and get commission.
Speaker A: Yeah. And you don't have to quit. That's where people, like, take it to an extreme. Like, listen, you got kids, you got bills. Don't quit. But if you're foolish enough to just. That's your whole life is your salary, cubicle job. Then you're not going anywhere.
Speaker B: Uh, in my opinion, which is fine if you want to go. If you don't want to go anywhere.
Speaker A: Well, I don't think it's fine. But that's just my opinion.
Speaker B: If somebody. If.
Speaker A: If somebody happy, whatever.
Speaker B: That's what I'm saying.
Speaker A: But, dude, they're not happy. Dude, you got. People got to quit lying to themselves. They're not happy. Okay? Show me someone who doesn't want to be rich, and I'll show you somebody who's. Who licks lead paint. Okay? There's no reason in the world why someone doesn't want to be rich. They might pretend they don't because they can't figure out how. And they're justifying why they're not. And that's what a lot of parents do. Money's not everything, Chad. You better quit. The Lord's gonna look down upon you.
Speaker B: Yeah, uh.
Speaker A: Oh, yeah, right. Uh, that's not true either.
Speaker B: No. Okay. No. But I think the key.
Speaker A: God wants you rich.
Speaker B: Agreed. Agreed. That's why, uh, we talked about this when I was on your show, that we were designed for abundance. We were designed for abundance. Not to have a life of lack, but abundance. What most people think is. What, uh, people confuse is money is not the root of all evil. The love of money is the root of all evil.
Speaker A: I thought Satan was the root of all evil. Well, see, that's another bullshit thing they're saying, like, money, it's just somebody running their mouth. And then everybody believed it. And now it's there.
Speaker B: Well, I think. No. Well, the Bible, um. The Bible says it's the love of money is the root of all evil. Now, I think the key is, is it the money you love or is it the facilitation that money does for you what money does?
Speaker A: Well, you know, that Bible was written by a man.
Speaker B: I get it. Okay? I get. I get that.
Speaker A: And you know that, like the Bibles we read today weren't even the same as they were before.
Speaker B: That we could get into a whole.
Speaker A: You know why they do. You know why the King James Version is so widely used? Because he was a king, and it's the only one he allowed.
Speaker B: The only. Only Version he allowed to be used.
Speaker A: Yeah, like, dude, he got his own version. Even in the title. It's the King James version. Like, why do you get a version? Like, how about. Where's the actual thing? Well, there was no Bible. There were scriptures. And those scriptures were written by several men supposedly influenced by God. But at the end of the day, regardless of what people believe, whether love of money is the root of all evil. I always thought it was Satan, but
Speaker B: I could be wrong. But is it. But is it for you? Is it for you? Is it the money? Or is it what the money does? Money by itself does nothing. It's. It's what is it money? For me, money's not a motivator. It's a facilitator.
Speaker A: Well, yeah, but. Yeah, but you gotta. Um. Would they call me literally sometimes? Because my last name's Lee. And like, I. When I hear things, I take things literally.
Speaker B: Yeah.
Speaker A: So money itself is dirty. Most of it has cocaine granules on it. Like, I don't love money at all. Um, I prefer a credit card that has no limit and I never had to pay it. Like, imagine living where you don't need any money ever and you never will. Dude, that's what I'm trying to get to.
Speaker B: Yeah, yeah.
Speaker A: And. And what I want to do is provide that for everybody. And it is possible for everybody.
Speaker B: Agree.
Speaker A: And. And based on your lifestyle, it could be. It could be quicker. Like, if I could. If I decided that I'm comfortable at 40 grand a month coming in without working, you know, I'm already past that, so I could retire right now, but, brother, I want to fly in a G650 whenever I fly. I want to stay at the nicest hotels. I want anyone I'm with to fly in my G650. I want the decadent lifestyle.
Speaker B: Yeah, yeah, nothing wrong with that.
Speaker A: I have a Rolls Royce. Why would I want a Honda Accord? Now, again, people that. Oh, you're bragging. It's not bragging. That's the point. And that's what isn't going to work. So anybody that likes sends the hate my way. All you're really doing is poisoning your own environment. What kind of dumbass sends hate at all? Yeah, uh, like, if I spew hatred into the world, don't I live here too? Yeah, well, then I just dirtied up my own environment. Yeah, yeah, like, spread fricking love. Contribute to the world, Add to the value of the world. People that are hating out there, it doesn't affect me in reality, it actually affects you. You ever read the Four Agreements?
Speaker B: Oh, yeah, One of my favorite books.
Speaker A: Be impeccable with the. With your word.
Speaker B: Yeah.
Speaker A: Uh, people think that means, you know, your word. Be very careful what you say about things. Well, it does, but if I talk shit about you, that's actually going to affect me.
Speaker B: That's right. It's more about being back with the word, with yourself above first talking shit. Yeah. Okay.
Speaker A: The fact that I prefer a Rolls Royce doesn't make me a bad person.
Speaker B: No.
Speaker A: And if someone's thinking, listen, uh, to
Speaker B: him, well, that's what. Well, that's what happens. And I gave a talk to the University of Alabama Business school about this. About. Most people are so afraid to do what you just did because they say, uh, ah, you know, I really want a Rolls Royce. I really want a Rolls Royce. But, man, that's really ego. That's really ego. That's really like people. But people. People are gonna, like, look down and m. They go, you know what? I'll just settle. I'll just. I'll just. I'll just settle for a Hyundai. They had their own life. What's it called?
Speaker A: Alladoxaphobia.
Speaker B: Alladoxaphobia. What is it?
Speaker A: It's the fear of other people's opinion.
Speaker B: Yeah. Yeah. So they hedge their own life. They hedge their own life and they limit.
Speaker A: They limit themselves.
Speaker B: Yeah.
Speaker A: They don't take action that they could or should because, uh, because they're worried about what everyone else is going to think. Some people wouldn't say what I just said because they don't want to come across a certain way. Listen, I'm just telling the truth. I prefer nice shit.
Speaker B: Yeah.
Speaker A: I want luxury. Why is that a bad thing? Uh, I don't want a Timex. I want a Rolex, people.
Speaker B: Well, that's.
Speaker A: That's not even the real thing you
Speaker B: could go get, you know, Richard Mills.
Speaker A: I don't like them. I don't care what they, what they represent. I like what I like and I want what I want. And when I see it, it's usually luxury. Uh, for some reason now, again, I go camping, bro. There's nothing luxurious about camping. Yeah, but if they had a place where you could go camping, they call it glamping where the tent. Because I like tents and actual campfires. I don't want. I don't want to sleep in an rv. I want it like a tent and sleeping bags and I want the whole thing. So if they had a pre set up, if they had a service where I could spend a little bit of money and I show up to my campground and I got the best, uh, kick most kick ass equipment already laid out, campfire going, marshmallow on the sticks for my kids, little, little screen set up for movie night under the stars in like, Mont. You don't want that.
Speaker B: I definitely want it.
Speaker A: No, I want to show up in my truck and get out and spend six hours setting it up and. No, dude, it's called tell the truth. Everybody wants to be rich. Everybody wants to be well off. If they're, if they don't think they do, it's more than likely. And again, there's always exceptions to every rule. I'm not going to say every person on earth, but there's got to be a situation where they're limiting their belief or their programming is telling them that it's not okay to feel that way.
Speaker B: That's exactly right.
Speaker A: And I say bullshit.
Speaker B: Yeah, I agree with that. I agree 100% with that. So now how do you, how do you change that programming? How do you rewire that, that programming
Speaker A: you want me to get? Simple.
Speaker B: Yeah.
Speaker A: You choose to.
Speaker B: You just say, that's it, dude, listen,
Speaker A: everything boils down to a choice.
Speaker B: Yeah.
Speaker A: God gave us free will. It's a gift. It's the power that everyone keeps talking about. There's a power inside you, Chad. You just need to find it and tap into it and make people, people think like there's this beam of light or this Marvel comic power somewhere I got to tap into. It's not that, you know, it's not that big of a thing. It's called the power of choice. You can choose. So, for example, people wake up in the morning, they choose to look at their cell phone, check some emails, or they choose to get up and hydrate and meditate. Those are choices, right?
Speaker B: Correct.
Speaker A: So this choice, I read that, um, you know, my bank accounts low. I see my bank balance in my emails, I see that, you know, uh, a comment from a hater. And, uh, now I'm choosing to basically react to these.
Speaker B: I have an emotional reaction to it.
Speaker A: Those are choices. I can choose to be upset, or I can choose to be happy. But we allow emotions to take over. So everything boils down to a choice. Or I could have chose to get up, leave my phone alone, work out a little bit, prepare for all this negativity that I know is working, and ultimately be grateful because I get the day. So to me, it's like it starts with your energy. Because we're all just a frequency. We're vibrational, all vibrations. Yeah. 100%. That's scientific and spiritual. Yeah, they both agree to that. We are energy. Okay, so if we're a vibrational frequency, who gets to choose our frequency?
Speaker B: We do.
Speaker A: 100%.
Speaker B: 100%.
Speaker A: Just like if you got in my car and I was listening to country and you don't like country, you'd reach over, boop. Turn on rap, no big deal. Yeah, uh, well, how do I change to rap? No big deal. Same thing comes with choice. You wake up in the morning, you can choose to be pissed, or you can choose to be happy, but you
Speaker B: don't, but you don't understand. You know, I got kids and my husband's this and my wife's that, and my boss is this. And so it's easy for you to say because you live in a, you live in a, in a happy bubble where that's not reality for most people,
Speaker A: you also get to choose your reality. So at the end of the day, why do you have a bitchy wife?
Speaker B: Yeah.
Speaker A: Uh, what are you doing to make her bitchy? Yeah. Uh, and if she's just a bitch, then what are you keeping her for?
Speaker B: Why are you choosing to say, yeah,
Speaker A: I mean, at the end of the day, you get what you tolerate. So if you, if you decide I'm done with people treating me a certain way and you literally stop tolerating that treatment, it will disappear. That's right. Everything that you stop tolerating will disappear. Write down on a list everything you don't like about your life or anything in it, and then just put at the top, stop tolerating these things and literally make a choice to not tolerate that they will slowly disappear. And sometimes quickly disappear. Yeah, but a lot of people like my shitty car. I'm going to put that on my list. We'll throw away the keys. Well, I don't have a different car yet. Exactly. So you actually appreciate that for now, don't you? Yeah. So get it off the list. Put down what you truly don't want and stop tolerating it. So when people say, yeah, but you don't understand, Brad. My life is this. You made it that way and you've decided to make it that way. And people don't want to take ownership. They have a victim mentality. They want to blame other things in other situations, when in reality they're choosing it. Yeah, listen, I come from a fat family. I should be fat.
Speaker B: Mhm.
Speaker A: I'm choosing not to be fat.
Speaker B: You're choosing that by your beliefs and your behaviors?
Speaker A: No, by working at, uh, my working out and eating.
Speaker B: Yeah, well, your beliefs say, I'm not going to be fat. My behaviors are, I'm going to work out and eat the right way. No.
Speaker A: My choice is I'm not going to be fat.
Speaker B: Yeah.
Speaker A: Nope. Why? Well, because I want to live longer. I want to look better. I know people are judging me and I'm not. And I know that the better looking people in this world get more opportunities. The better looking you are, the more opportunities you get just out of the box. That's unfair. But guess what? It's the damn truth. The truth? The truth is more than the truth, okay? When it's truth, that means damn. Um, that's the real deal.
Speaker B: So what's, what's a belief that you had to change that didn't serve you well at a certain period. What was the belief that you had that you were like, all right, it's going on the list. I'm changing this because I'm choosing a different belief.
Speaker A: One of the first ones was that it's not easy. You know, life isn't easy. Yeah, it pretty much is. You know, getting rich isn't easy. Yeah, it pretty much is. Okay. I mean, it's not rocket science. It's pretty damn easy. Why can't most people do it then? Because, number one, ask most people of getting rich is easy. They're going to say no. Ask anybody. And the reason why they say no is because they don't know how to do it. So they're lacking. The information is the only thing stopping people from getting rich. Just like sales people will do that. You walked into companies and turned around their sales and started, all of a sudden they're going this way. Why weren't they before you?
Speaker B: Yeah, because they weren't.
Speaker A: What did you do? Did you bring in your magic dust?
Speaker B: No. Not at all.
Speaker A: No, you brought in information. You caused them to shift the way they were thinking, and the thinking changed what they were believing. And then all of a sudden, they started doing different things. Uh, you inspired somebody to take different actions through information, which changed their beliefs, which caused them to at least try. And next thing you know, they start realizing, man, words matter, man. I got to stop talking shit to myself. I got to stop saying things like that. And pretty soon they start to evolve and they start to become better and their momentum picks up and then they start to realize like, wow. And by the time they get to a point, they go, if they're telling the truth, that wasn't really that hard. M. Like, it's not hard. I don't Believe it's hard, and for me it's not. That's the craziest part about the mind.
Speaker B: But you did at one point.
Speaker A: I used to, yeah. I was taught all my life, dude, it's not easy. Uh, not very many people are gonna get rich. You can't just go out and get rich.
Speaker B: But that's not true.
Speaker A: That's 100% not true. Anyone can. Anyone can. I don't care. You ever heard the whole saying, I was pissed off that I had no shoes until I met a man with no feet? Yeah, like there's, you know, my wife and my kids and I got problems and my rent's due. Boo hoo. There's people that would pray to be in the position you're in right now. And if I walked into your house in that situation with a gun to your head and you knew I was about to pull the trigger, would you care that you owed rent?
Speaker B: No.
Speaker A: What if I was about to blow your kid's head off? Would you care that they're getting bad grades?
Speaker B: Nope.
Speaker A: I'd say yeah, but they're getting bad grades, Chad.
Speaker B: Yeah. Uh, no.
Speaker A: What would you say? That's fine. Yeah, Please let them live.
Speaker B: Yeah, I'll settle for their bad. Yeah.
Speaker A: But we don't celebrate the fact that we wake up every day with a whole nother chance to do anything. So again, I choose gratitude first thing in the morning, which changes my energy. And the energy and the vibrational frequency that you give off will attract, like, energy. So some people wake up and they don't. They're not aware of this choice because that's what it is, and they allow other people to determine their energy. It's like if you love country music and I come over to your house the morning, change it to rap, and you don't know how to change it back. Uh, or you just keep allowing everyone to change your frequency.
Speaker B: My frequency?
Speaker A: Yeah. You got to be able to see, hey, it's a choice. Who makes your choices? I do. Okay, good. So what should I do? Start. Start using that power. Choose for yourself. Then you take responsibility. Then you start to realize, man, if this is a frequency game, an energy game, I just have to have good energy.
Speaker B: Yeah.
Speaker A: I call it heavenly energy and earthly energy. Earthly energies down here. Heavenly energies up here, now. Why? Because I want to keep it simple. What do you think? What kind of energy do you think would be in heaven and then down here on earth? What would you think? Well, down here, you got the greed, the envy, the doubt, the worry, the fear, right? The depression up here. What do you have?
Speaker B: Love.
Speaker A: You can ask a 2 year old, they'll be like, you know, joy, happiness, you know, courage. You don't love exactly all the good shit.
Speaker B: There's no bad shit up there.
Speaker A: Okay, so you got the good shit here and you got the bad shit here. And by the way, we live here.
Speaker B: Yeah.
Speaker A: But you can choose to operate here or here. What would be the most common sense, Logical choice.
Speaker B: Yeah. Uh, use that, use that energy down here. Choose, uh, choose this energy for down here.
Speaker A: Well, you live down here until, until you maybe get up there. But my point is you get to choose. You don't have to have this energy just because you're here.
Speaker B: That's right.
Speaker A: You can choose to have this energy. Yeah, it requires a little bit of awareness that you get that choice. But as soon as you choose this energy, this still exists, but you're not allowing it to affect you. Now, again, easier said than done. If something real bad happened. Yeah. I might catch myself feeling a certain way. Well, I use emotions as a trigger, not a controller.
Speaker B: Yeah. Emotions are meant to modify behaviors. Emotions are meant to, if you're aware of the emotion they'll modify. Yeah, that's the trigger.
Speaker A: Well, again, I use it as a trigger. What they're designed to be is awareness. Hey, I'm feeling pissed off. Why now? Uh, do I want to be pissed off? No, I don't. Okay, well then stop being pissed off. And if you get self control like that, self regulation. Yeah, yeah, I've caught myself getting pissed for a minute and then I go up, uh, and I go, ah, you almost had me, dirty dog. You almost had me.
Speaker B: I'm good now.
Speaker A: Yeah, because I, because I'm aware and I, and I catch myself. Um, but that energy is a choice. Uh, so if you choose the right energy from the minute you wake up and you're grateful, that's like a very high frequency and you're authentic, which is even a higher frequency. And you realize that all of this still exists and it's going to hit you all day long. And the more you allow it to hit you and the more you hang around it, the harder it is. So just choose to stay around the positivity. Uh, I don't choose to listen to negativity. I don't choose to hang around limited mindset, negative people that are complaining and whining and bitching and moaning. If I walk into a room and it's filled with negative, whining, bitching people, I will try to shine my light real quick. And if it doesn't illuminate the room, I'll just find another room.
Speaker B: I'm out.
Speaker A: Yeah, I'm not staying in a dark room. Why? Well, because I get to choose. Uh, why would I choose to be in the dark if I could choose to live in the light? Yeah, why did you do get a choice?
Speaker B: What's the reason you think people do that? People? What's the reason people choose to stay in that, in that dark room?
Speaker A: Well, they're programming number one and number two. I also think it's, it's, it's Satan.
Speaker B: What do you mean?
Speaker A: I mean, dude, I, I, I, I don't think Satan wants you to win. No, I, I believe, I mean, if you believe in God, then you got to believe in Satan.
Speaker B: Agreed.
Speaker A: So one time I was on Chat GPT when it first popped out, and now I see people doing it all the time. But I, I posted this a long time ago. Now I see other people doing similar things. But I had, I had been on Chat GPT and I searched, uh, if you were the devil, how would you keep me from being successful? And it started saying, I would whisper things like, you're not good enough. I would affect your doubt and your fear. I would surround you with the wrong people. I would keep you, you know, addicted to video games and comforts and, you know, I would whisper things like this, that and everything. And I'm like, dude, I've heard that a million times. Like, that is what I'm hearing. That is why. Dude, that's freaking, that's the, that's the dark side keeping you small because he doesn't want you to be big and be enlightened and figure it all out. Because this world is fantastic if you see it that way. But when I wake up in the morning, dude, I'm excited. Nothing special has to happen that day. Uh, if nothing good happens, it was still a great day.
Speaker B: So you have seven kids?
Speaker A: Seven kids.
Speaker B: Seven kids. Uh, all under the age of what, what's the oldest? How old is the oldest?
Speaker A: The oldest is 38.
Speaker B: 38. And youngest?
Speaker A: 3.
Speaker B: 3. So what's the programming you've instilled in those seven kids and how's it varied from the 38 to the 3?
Speaker A: Well, the 38 and the 36 I didn't really raise. And they're libtards. No, actually, one's not. One is. One is. One's not. So I take that back. But I did, I can't take credit for either one of them, even though they're both good Kids. Uh, one's just not that bright when it comes to politics. Um, you know, but she loves the underdogs. You know, she wants to fight for the underdogs. And I think a lot of Democrats believe that, you know, all of those things are good for people, which I lean that way. I do believe in welfare and helping people, but it gets abused, and you never really know. So I'm not as far as right as people think I am.
Speaker B: Yeah.
Speaker A: Uh, and because, again, I want to help people, I do believe that we should have welfare programs. And, you know, if you need help, we all should come together and help each other, period. But when you're selling your food stamps for weed, when you're. When you're having kids just to get more food stamps, like get a job, like, let's. Let's educate them, let's empower them. Let's. Because nobody wants to feel that way.
Speaker B: Nobody.
Speaker A: But I do believe we should help people that really need help.
Speaker B: Yeah.
Speaker A: Just. Anyway, I don't want to get into politics, but the top two, I didn't really raise.
Speaker B: Yeah.
Speaker A: Uh, I just produced m. You know, I have seven kids from four women now. It does sound a little trashy, doesn't it? But I can explain. It's very explainable. The first one was one time high school sweetie. Wasn't even a sweetie. I asked her to go out with me. She said yes. We went out. Bang. Uh, that's it. One time, baby. So did you do anything in high school?
Speaker B: Yeah.
Speaker A: Okay, so that's not trashy. That's just teenagers.
Speaker B: Teenagers, right.
Speaker A: So there's one. Then I said, oh, I better not do that again. And so I waited till I was about 19. Some girl came around in a two, um, hundred eighty z and wanted to let me drive it, so I went and drove it. Well, it turns out she liked me. Bang. One time, One kid, two for two. First time I did it, kid. Second time, kid. Oh, now people say you only did it twice. Yeah. I mean, I wasn't running around banging everything. Um, but I had. But I was effective, Right.
Speaker B: Very clearly.
Speaker A: So I was immature and young, and so I wasn't sitting there being a dad. I didn't marry them, nor did they want me to marry them. It was just. I had a kid, so they kind of raised those two. Um, matter of fact, they didn't even really know I existed till they were about 13.
Speaker B: Oh, wow. Yeah.
Speaker A: Their moms weren't very open with them.
Speaker B: Yeah.
Speaker A: Anyway, then they came to live with me at 13, and I was responsible from then on. But then I was kind of trying to be their friend more than their parent.
Speaker B: Yeah.
Speaker A: I was young still. Um, then I came down and met my first wife. Right. So there's two women, two kids.
Speaker B: Boom.
Speaker A: Now I got married. Uh, nothing wrong with that.
Speaker B: No. No.
Speaker A: So we had a couple of kids, and then she wanted to be the boss, and there was. That position was already filled, so we had to. We had to move along. Uh, and then I met my current wife, and she wanted to have kids.
Speaker B: Yeah.
Speaker A: So I'm like, cool. So we had three with her, so it's seven with four. It sounds bad, but it's really not.
Speaker B: It's explainable.
Speaker A: Yeah. So the first two, I didn't really get to race. My two boys are pretty. Pretty well off, but again, arguing in the divorce, and I was still a little immature with them, but they're. But they're. Again, thank God. All my kids are fine and great compared to what they should have been with my lack of parenting skills. Uh, but now the current three, that's 12, 10, and three. And I think, uh, I'm doing a much better job with those.
Speaker B: So where did you. At what point did you say, hey, I'm gonna be more conscious about how I raise them or parent them or program them? Is it a conscious choice? Every day, like, hey, I realize I'm programming them m on how they view the world. I'm a lot more conscious about it.
Speaker A: Schools were programming them faster than we could, so I took them out of school and stole one of the teachers from the school and put her on salary. And now, you know, I program them better than. Than they were getting programmed. But people got to watch out for schools. Oh, yeah, Schools are programming your kids, of course. You know, and then their friends, the Internet, you know, my. My wife, you know, she hadn't had kids, so she's learning the hard way. And I gotta wrestle with her because she wants to baby them and give them everything like I did. Uh, and you can't do that very well. So we've still got room for improvement. I think if I, you know, end up with three more, I'll be the perfect dad.
Speaker B: That'd be 10 kids, big family.
Speaker A: Hey, so go forth and multiply. You ever heard that?
Speaker B: I have.
Speaker A: I'm just doing what I'm told, son.
Speaker B: So what? So what, what role? Where and where in your. All the hats you wear is the fatherhood role. Your business owner, your husband, your.
Speaker A: Well, it depends on the day, I believe. There's no balance. There's priorities so at some point, you got to clear the schedule. Go pay attention to the kids or the wife. Yeah, uh, you don't pay attention to your wife, you'll come home, find out she ain't your wife. Um, so depends, you know, Depends on the day. I believe in priorities. You know, your business needs attention. Go focus on it. Give it all you got. Ignore everything else, including your kids. Did he say that? Yeah, I've said that a million times. And guess what? Those kids probably don't need as much of your damn time as you think. I think that's all bullshit, too. You know, uh, give your kids quality time when you're with them. You know, if they need you, be there. Um, and their priorities. So one day my hat is CEO. The next day, my hat is parent. The next day, my hat is husband. You know, could be husband for five days straight. Yeah, but I also, you know, realize that, you know, believe it or not, uh, uh, it's all priorities. There's no balance. There's no such thing as balance.
Speaker B: What's your biggest fear?
Speaker A: Probably, like, plane crashes, Getting beat up by multiple dudes to the brink of death.
Speaker B: That's a physical fear. Was your biggest psychological fear.
Speaker A: It's all physical. I fear nothing mentally.
Speaker B: You don't fear losing all this?
Speaker A: Oh, no. Listen.
Speaker B: No. Why not?
Speaker A: Well, because, number one, you can get it back. Number two, you know, uh, being broke wasn't that bad for me.
Speaker B: But now you've tasted it. Now you've tasted. Now you've tasted not being broke, but you've been broke. So now you have context that some people will never have.
Speaker A: Yeah, but, dude, broke wasn't that bad. Nate's broke. Is that that bad? Look, he's having fun in life.
Speaker B: No, he's got Yeezys on.
Speaker A: Yeah, but, I mean, at the end of the day, being broke is not that bad. Do you remember being broke?
Speaker B: Yes.
Speaker A: Was it that bad?
Speaker B: No.
Speaker A: Everybody wants to pretend it's so terrible. It's not that terrible. You're just living without all the stuff. Now, pay attention to what I'm about to say. If I said to you, today's your last day, what would you be doing with my family? How much that cost?
Speaker B: Nothing.
Speaker A: The shit that really matters doesn't cost any money anyway, if you really think about it.
Speaker B: Yeah.
Speaker A: And if you ask somebody, what would you do? If you were going to die the next day or even in a week, what would you be doing? They wouldn't be like, I'd be running around hookers and blow now. Some might, but they just got their priorities messed up. I think by the time they finish doing that, they'd be, they'd be sad because they probably. They have kids or they have family. Yeah. Uh, you know, they're, that's who they're thinking about.
Speaker B: That's right.
Speaker A: And so at the end of the day, the, the, the, the realest things in life don't require money. And once you get money and you get the toys and you have all the fun stuff, which I have most of it, I'm still waiting on a few things. Um, you realize if you lost at all, you still got your family, you still got you, you still got friends, you can just hang out and enjoy. If you find enjoyment in the simplest of things, which I do. So again, like, if I go broke, just maybe gives me an opportunity to do it again. Prove it all over again.
Speaker B: Yeah, uh, I might even build it bigger and better.
Speaker A: Well, you probably would, but I mean, I like proving people wrong. You know, people like, what's your motivation? Sometimes my motivation is just to fucking say, I told you, don't doubt me. And the other one is, I'm not where I want to go. So some people say, you know, what keeps you going? And I'm like, well, I'm not where I want to be. Right? Yeah, but you're fine. I'm like, well, imagine you get up in the morning, right? You got to go to the bathroom. How come you don't just stop halfway across your room and piss there? Because it's not where you're going. You're. You're headed into the bathroom. So why don't you just stop halfway? Why don't you stop at the sink?
Speaker B: That's not where I'm going.
Speaker A: It'll work.
Speaker B: Yeah, that's not where it belongs. And that's not where I'm going.
Speaker A: That's, that's what keeps me going. I'm not where I want to be. Now let me get where I want to be. People say, oh, then you'll want to go somewhere else. Again, I get to choose. Don't try to put your thoughts on to me. I know me. You get when I get where I'm going. I'm done with the whole chasing of the money. Uh, now I'm going to go enjoy the money. I'm going to travel. I'm going to spend time with family. I'm going to, I'm going to get my kids pictures next to the greatest of icons. Eiffel Tower pyramids, you know, everything. I just want them to have pictures of them all over the world. Um, and I'm going to try to spend it all before I die.
Speaker B: So I got two last questions for you. Um, so I've got to spend a couple days with you now. I've had a parasocial relationship with you in the sense of I felt like I knew you before I met you. I've watched all your videos. I've watched all your. Listened to all your podcasts. Uh, tonight. Tonight, uh, I'm going to pray for you. What should I pray for?
Speaker A: Pray that. Pray that I arrive with him. Pray that I'm accepted and I'm approved. I pray that I'm m. One of
Speaker B: the ones love that.
Speaker A: Uh, I mean, at the end of the day, do. That would be. When you say, what do you fear? That's really what I would fear. I would fear not doing it right, because from what I hear, ooh, that is not a good result. No, like eternal lake of fire. Like, you know, how long eternity is long?
Speaker B: Huh?
Speaker A: Can you imagine if that were all real and the people that could have just easily chose God didn't, and now they have to burn in a lake of fire. Now, again, I have my issues, and I'm seeking information in that regard because I don't necessarily believe in that. There's a burning lake of fire and you have, like, pain and agony the whole time, like, forever. How long is forever? And if you were burning forever and you felt that way forever, it would become normal eventually, wouldn't it?
Speaker B: Eventually? Me? I, uh, don't know. I don't know.
Speaker A: But if it didn't do.
Speaker B: That's not. It's not even a mindset that I want to go down.
Speaker A: Okay, so that's the fear.
Speaker B: Yeah.
Speaker A: Uh, if I had a mental fear, it would be that I don't get into peaceful heaven now if I die and I. And. And we. And there's nothing. We were all full of shit, and we was all wrong. Well, it's nothing. Who cares? I'm done. It's over. Yeah, but if there is something, my fear would be not doing it right and being. Hey, good job, my boy. Yeah, good job. Come with us. Come on in, friend. I want them to invite me in.
Speaker B: Yeah, wouldn't you.
Speaker A: Wouldn't you freak if you get judged? And they're like. And here you. Here we are, thinking we're helping people and doing all this. And he says, you didn't read that part where money was the root of all evil? Go away, you rich bastard. You shouldn't have got rich. You should have been poor this whole time. You should have been humble and worn a dirty robe and walked around and just told everyone about me.
Speaker B: You should have just believed because that's what gets you in.
Speaker A: Well, I believe. No, no, I think what gets you in is what he did. I don't think it's what you did. I don't think you can get in. I think what he did already got you.
Speaker B: Got you in.
Speaker A: Yeah, you're in.
Speaker B: But you have to believe that he's in. Huh? Huh?
Speaker A: Did I get a. Did I get an amen back there?
Speaker B: You have to believe that he's in and that he did it for you. You don't believe that you're not getting in?
Speaker A: Well, number one, I believe it.
Speaker B: Yeah.
Speaker A: Number two, like, uh, look at the
Speaker B: three men on the cross. One got in, one got in, one did not.
Speaker A: I know, but I didn't have to do anything.
Speaker B: Correct. You just had.
Speaker A: He did it all.
Speaker B: That's exactly right. That's exactly.
Speaker A: And I already believe that. So, like, I'm in. I'll see you there.
Speaker B: Then. You're in.
Speaker A: Will I see you there?
Speaker B: Oh, yeah, I'll be there. I'll be there. I can, I can attest to that. 100.
Speaker A: I hope you are.
Speaker B: Yeah. Um, when you leave, when you leave this earth 50, 60 years from now, what do you want your contribution to have been?
Speaker A: I would say, ah, again, I mean, just that I helped. You know, I want people better off than I find them, and I want the world better than I found it. And that's the thing of, of the whole mission of getting the knowledge from the people who have it to the people who need it. Because I truly want to live in a better world. I mean, this world's getting pretty jacked up. Um, there's some. There's some. And again, but this world is also Satan's world. Like we live on Earth, and that is. Has been and in. In control of the evil side. Bible says that too. But. But in. With that being said, I just want to live in a better world. And I think I can make my own world better. But how do I make the world better? Because if I truly want to live in a better world, then the whole world has to improve, not just me. So that's why I'm on this mission. Because if I can get everyone to understand that, man, there's abundance everywhere. All we have to do is literally just change our energy, stay consistent, you know, and operate in a frequency of abundance and positivity. The whole world changes, and pretty soon There is no more lack, and there is no more hunger, and there is no more problems. Now someone says, well, that's not realistic, Brad. It actually is realistic. If everyone did it. Well, that's not realistic. Again, that's your business. I'm just gonna try. I'm just gonna keep doing what I do and hope when I die, people go, the world's a better place because
Speaker B: he was here, Bradley, dropping bombs, uh, telling the truth.
Speaker A: The truth. Tell the truth, folks. Sometimes it hurts. It's like poetry. Not everybody likes it.
Speaker B: Give me three people right off the top of your head. Like, first three people that come to name. That I should have on this podcast.
Speaker A: I believe you should have Elon Musk. I believe you should have. Ah, Donald Trump.
Speaker B: Yes.
Speaker A: And I think you should have Dr. Ruth Westheimer.
Speaker B: She's still alive.
Speaker A: I don't know. But if you can get her.
Speaker B: Where did you come up with those three?
Speaker A: Those are just three ones I would want to watch.
Speaker B: Bradley, check them out. Where do people find you? I'm saying such a. Such a easy question, because you just got the. The easiest click on the button, you
Speaker A: go to Google, and you type Bradley. And it'll show you a million places to find me. But, you know, my website's bradley.com. i'm on Instagram all over social media as the real Bradley. It's Lea. Remind people.
Speaker B: Yeah.
Speaker A: Uh, most people say, is that Leah? And I say, I don't know. Do you drink, Tia? It's Lee. I've had people argue with me. They're like, you know, Bradley? And I go, it's Lee. And they're like, well, it's not spelled Lee. And I said, well, yes, it is. They're like, no, Lea is Leah. And I go, well, do you drink, Tia? And they're like, lea is Leah. I'm like, no. L, E, A. H might be Leah, but L, E A is actually Lee. Because you, like, read a book. You go out to see, you know. Yeah, there's a split pea soup. It's not split pea. And you don't go out to Sia.
Speaker B: You're like a human Dr. Seuss book. Like, you got all the rhymes.
Speaker A: Hey, they were gonna call me Brock, but then I would have been Broccoli.
Speaker B: I don't know. The problem, um, is I don't know if you tell the truth right now, but you tell the truth.
Speaker A: They said that I was gonna be called Brock until someone realized it would be Brock Lee.
Speaker B: Nope. Not gonna do that to the kid. If you only had one. If you could only have one social media platform, what would it be
Speaker A: for me?
Speaker B: Only one.
Speaker A: For what purpose, though? Because they all have their little different.
Speaker B: You only get one. Doesn't matter for what purpose you get one.
Speaker A: Pick one that I get to use. Yeah, YouTube.
Speaker B: YouTube? Why is that?
Speaker A: Well, because it's a. It's a bunch of videos and how to. And, you know, I'm interested in knowledge. Um, you know, Instagram is where I'm at most. Like, if you hit me up on Instagram, I'm the one answering you.
Speaker B: Yeah.
Speaker A: Uh, TikTok is where I have the most followers because it was the most algorithmic in the beginning. It was like so easy to climb. Um, so I got a bunch there. Um, and I'm in there once in a while, but mainly I'm on Instagram or YouTube, but I'm on YouTube for me, looking for knowledge. Right. And then I'm putting. I just started YouTube recently and so we're getting up there. I want to get it over a million subscribers. I'm going to drop a lot of knowledge and long form on there. But if I had to pick just one and I could only have one. Yeah, YouTube.
Speaker B: YouTube, yeah.
Speaker A: Because I'm a. I'm a. I'm a knowledge seeker. Scrolling on TikTok and Instagram, you know, you only get like a minute worth of it. Yeah, like YouTube's where the knowledge is.
Speaker B: Yeah, I love that. I love that. Brad Lee. Check him out. Dropping Bombs podcast. Uh, peace. Real deal.
Speaker A: Thanks for having me.
Speaker B: Thanks for. Thanks for coming, brother.
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