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Mike Ashabi works with a variety of entrepreneurs, business owners, and startups to help them build strategies for sustainability and scaling. His company, True Life Ventures, focuses on making clients increase business growth by 40% month after month, and as a result, allows them to achieve financial freedom. Michael is a very result-driven person and aspires to keep helping clients around the world to succeed. In late 2020 Mike Ashabi released his book Demanding Greatness, a motivational book that reminds us that even in the low points we need to Demand our Greatness. In this episode, Mike and Brad discuss how Mike gets to the root of your "why" with a series of his "secret sauce" questions. If you don't know the reason why you are achieving something along with a pain point you cannot solve it and what you don't face is what you will have problems with, Mike explains. Go get his book on amazon and jump over to his website to learn about the True Life brand. https://truelifeventures-ma.com.

Dave Oancea, better known as "Vegas Dave," and often regarded as the "Futures King," is one of the elite sports handicappers of this era. His amazing talent for betting on long shots has helped him build a lucrative career in Las Vegas for the last 15 years. Today, Dave is an acclaimed sport betting consultant, providing membership packages for clientele from all over the world, putting them in a prime position to win at sports betting. From what started with five players four years ago has now grown into a global business recognized worldwide with over 10,000 happy clients. In this episode, Vegas Dave and Brad obviously discuss the sports betting world and also the personal development world. They discuss how one needs to brand and market themselves so much to the point of whatever it takes and YOU will happen. It's all fun and games (literally) until it isn't anymore as sh*t gets more and more real you have to make a choice, "work for a boss or be the boss" as Vegas Dave so eloquently puts it. Dave has some great plans for his future as he continues to grow as an entrepreneur.Visit his website at www.itsvegasdave.com to learn more about his plans and what he currently does now.

Daniel Kwak first immigrated to the United States with his family at the age of 5. Due to a financially disadvantaged upbringing at the age of 20, he had a negative amount of 187.65 in his bank account. Motivated by continued financial hardship throughout his life he started learning about Real Estate Investing. Enter The Kwak Brothers Brand: Daniel and his brother, Sam, are entrepreneurs, real estate investors, mentors, and authors of many books. Today you may find them on YouTube or on stage speaking to empower individuals in the world of real estate investing. Their goal is to put you first and your problems first before all else! In this episode, Daniel and Brad discuss Daniel's rags to riches growing up dirt poor and identify the opportunities to be in the right place at the right time, but by choice. Brad says, everyone should think like this, but everyone doesn't, and Daniel does. Listen in and identify the opportunities that you may see. Comment and share when you find them.

"Everybody needs a good coach in life." Those that have great coaches outperform those that don't 3-4X and out-earn those that don't 3-4X. Coach Burt is both INTENSE and POSITIVE and many like his authentic nature and pure coaching skills of packaging and delivering content in ways that get people to take action and get results. Coach Micheal Burt is considered "America's Coach," a unique blend of a former championship basketball coach combined with a deep methodology of inner-engineering people to produce at a higher level in the business world. In this episode, Brad learns about the prey drive from Coach Burt for motivation and what it means to "flip the switch." A person of influence is hard to find and in this episode, you are sure to find it.

A Navy SEAL combat veteran and serial entrepreneur, has leveraged the principles of leadership, discipline, accountability, and resiliency learned in training and applied downrange for building high-performance teams in the business world. Brent is an acclaimed speaker on topics ranging from leadership and culture transformation to change management and building high-performance teams. Companies of all sizes from across the globe hire him for speaking and consulting with a desire to leverage his expertise in building teams that evangelize change and achieve winning results. In this episode, Brent and Brad dive into what the desire was to become a Navy Seal, leadership from a whole standpoint, the three kinds of employees there are, and the passion that is involved with doing it all!

JT Foxx is a private equity fund manager, a serial entrepreneur of many companies across all sectors, an investor in companies & property, and the World's #1 Wealth & Business Coach. He has business interests in over 54 countries and is a former media personality having had his own self-syndicated radio show called the JT Foxx Show in the United States and Canada, which now has moved to his highly-popular MillionaireFlix platform. He has appeared on major news media networks across the globe in addition to the features in Forbes and various print magazine covers as well as multiple radio shows. In this episode, JT explains to Brad that it's not what you know. It's not who you know, it's who knows you. You start with one person and persistence without stalking is key. Listen in to learn more.

David Carpenter was broke financially, crushed emotionally, and overwhelmed mentally. After finding quick success as an entrepreneur by earning a company paid for BMW at only 19 years old, David was quickly humbled when he watched his entire business crumble less than two years later. At 21, he was forced to return his car due to the fact he couldn't keep up with the payments. However, as a relentless competitor his entire life, David refused to give up and decided to launch his second business, which, to his dismay, ended up failing within a year… In this episode, David and Brad discuss what it takes to grow as it relates to mindset, personal responsibility, and of course grit. Brad asks challenging questions and David's responses are the tips anyone could need to grow their business and take it to the next level.

In 1943 at the age of 8, Joe won an American Webster's dictionary in an 80 yards sprint race in his hometown of Bolton. This was the dictionary where Joe was to find the word Reebok (the American spelling), in 1960. If he had won an English Dictionary, he would have found the word spelled, Rhebok. Joe and his late brother Jeff were born into the J W Foster & family business, but on their return after 2 years away from home on National Service, they asked questions about the future. The year was 1955 and the brothers saw a business still rooted in the 1930s. Their father and uncle were now operating the business and very much like another sport shoe company (Adidas), spent more time feuding than collaborating. The result was that in 1958 Joe and Jeff left the Foster business to set up their own business. Six miles down the road in the next town, Bury, the brothers founded "Mercury Sports Footwear", which after 18 months they changed its name to 'Reebok'. Joe had been advised to protect their company's name by registering it. Finding the word Mercury was registered by another company started the search for a new name and one source was Joe's Webster's dictionary. Leafing through for inspiration Joe came across grey rhebok, a small South African antelope, this sounded just right and was free to register. The Reebok business developed with Jeff looking after production, Joe took charge of the sales and marketing side, as well as design which included the classic silhouette, outsole, and the Starcrest. In this episode, Brad identifies how Joe Foster very well may have invented "Influencer Marketing" back in 1982 and leveraged it to Billions, building a global brand in Reebok that he eventually exited some 10 years ago. Now spending time in France awaiting a trip back to his home country of the U.K. Joe Foster is still smart as a whip and knows what it takes to help products sell at scale.

Gary Finkelstein is the #1 Millennial Agent and Top 5 Producer in the state of Florida for Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices Florida Realty. Most recently he was awarded Chairman's Circle Platinum 2018. In 2013 he was awarded as one of the Top Sales Associates for his success. In 2016, Gary generated 5 of the highest sales per square foot in Isla Del Sol and Historic Plantation. Recipient of the sought-after Diamond Award in 2014 and 2015, as well as, Millennial of the year. A self-made millionaire before the age of 35, Finkelstein shares with the bomb squad listeners: focus on your strengths, rack up the wins, set small attainable goals, be a winner, and of course THINK LIKE A G.

Would you rather have a million dollars or life? Assuming your answer is life-- when you wake up, look in the mirror and tell yourself, "Congrats! You get another day, bi*ch!" … because you do. Brad Lea lays it down in this solo Dropping Bombs episode with the value, the wit, the realness, and of course the BOMBS. Listen and learn as this Thanksgiving Day special gives you a lot of self-reflecting to do on strategies that Brad has created like The Million Dollar Morning in correlation with some of the lessons he has learned the hard way so you don't have to. Subscribe, leave a review, and always keep it real. Happy Thanksgiving from The Dropping Bombs family to you and yours!