Dropping Bombs

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 front-row seat to the AI shift with Tom Bilyeu, co-founder of the billion-dollar brand Quest Nutrition and CEO of Impact Theory , the YouTube powerhouse with 4.6 million subscribers and nearly $6 million a year in con...

This episode was sponsored by Cardiff & Future Fortified Technologies   LightSpeed VT: https://www.lightspeedvt.com/ Dropping Bombs Podcast: https://www.droppingbombs.com/ Today's Dropping Bombs episode delivers hard-earned dealmaking wisdom with self-described "Megapreneur" Victor Young, a 31-year car industry veteran who went from radio personality to Lamborghini dealer. He then built a bourbon...

This episode was sponsored by Cardiff    LightSpeed VT: https://www.lightspeedvt.com/ Dropping Bombs Podcast: https://www.droppingbombs.com/ Today's Dropping Bombs episode brings back Courtney Contreras, a former Marine and Physician Associate who left hospital medicine, built a membership-based clinic with over 300 patients, and now teaches anyone, doctor or not, how to launch their own.   Courtn...

This episode was sponsored by Cardiff & Where U?   LightSpeed VT: https://www.lightspeedvt.com/ Dropping Bombs Podcast: https://www.droppingbombs.com/ Today's Dropping Bombs episode features Brandon Willington, the Australian entrepreneur and 2025 Young Entrepreneur Award winner who built Where U?, a two-day workshop that teaches business owners to run their own Meta and Google ads.   Brandon brea...

This episode was sponsored by Cardiff & Capital City Roofing   LightSpeed VT: https://www.lightspeedvt.com/ Dropping Bombs Podcast: https://www.droppingbombs.com/ This Dropping Bombs episode delivers a roofing business in a box with Brad Strawbridge and Blake Grissom, the founders behind Capital City Roofing, a two-year-old company on pace for $10 million this year, and BuilderLync, the roofing op...

This episode was sponsored by Cardiff & Around the Clock Heating, Cooling Plumbing & Electric    LightSpeed VT: https://www.lightspeedvt.com/ Dropping Bombs Podcast: https://www.droppingbombs.com/ Today's Dropping Bombs episode brings back Jose Anon, the Colorado Springs founder who took Around the Clock Heating, Cooling, Plumbing & Electric from nothing to a projected $14M-$16M in its first year....

This episode was sponsored by Cardiff    LightSpeed VT: https://www.lightspeedvt.com/ Dropping Bombs Podcast: https://www.droppingbombs.com/ Today's Dropping Bombs episode features my personal physician, Dr. David Boyd, a doctor with 20 years of experience who left the hospital system after C*VID and built Blind Spot Medical, a concierge practice for entrepreneurs and high performers.   Dr. Boyd b...

This episode was sponsored by Cardiff & Credit to Real Estate Academy   LightSpeed VT: https://www.lightspeedvt.com/ Dropping Bombs Podcast: https://www.droppingbombs.com/ Today's Dropping Bombs episode features Lee Patterson, a Georgia investor whose family lost their childhood home. Twenty years later, he bought it back for $50K and gave it to his mother on Mother's Day. In between, he built a s...

This episode was sponsored by Cardiff & Around the Clock Heating, Cooling Plumbing & Electric   LightSpeed VT: https://www.lightspeedvt.com/ Dropping Bombs Podcast: https://www.droppingbombs.com/ Today's Dropping Bombs episode features Jose Anon, the Colorado Springs founder who took Around the Clock Heating, Cooling, Plumbing & Electric from a cold-call start to eight figures in under a year.   J...

This episode was sponsored by Cardiff & Structured Wiring by Rader   LightSpeed VT: https://www.lightspeedvt.com/ Dropping Bombs Podcast: https://www.droppingbombs.com/ Today's Dropping Bombs episode features Jason Rader, the Huntington Beach electrician who went from installing DirecTV to working on Laker homes, and now stays booked three weeks out with 300+ five-star Yelp reviews.   Jason breaks...

This episode was sponsored by Cardiff, The Escape Society & ScriptKit   LightSpeed VT: https://www.lightspeedvt.com/ Dropping Bombs Podcast: https://www.droppingbombs.com/ Today's Dropping Bombs episode features Danny Fisher, the 26-year-old who walked away from a $73,000 corporate job and now earns around $30,000 a month making short videos on TikTok.   Danny breaks down how TikTok Shop affiliate...

This episode was sponsored by Cardiff, Pro X Property Management & IronHarbor Real Asset Fund   LightSpeed VT: https://www.lightspeedvt.com/ Dropping Bombs Podcast: https://www.droppingbombs.com/ Today's Dropping Bombs episode features Tyler Casey, the founder who bought his first house at 18 with a few thousand dollars in savings and built it into Pro X Property Management, a franchise system, an...

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 an unfiltered sit-down with William Stern, the Cardiff founder who went from 24-year-old startup owner to funding over $2.5 billion in small business loans this year.   The conversation goes straight at the topics mos...

This episode was sponsored by Cardiff & Veraskope   LightSpeed VT: https://www.lightspeedvt.com/ Dropping Bombs Podcast: https://www.droppingbombs.com/ Today's Dropping Bombs episode delivers a true mud-to-multi-state success story with Phil Dudley, founder of Elite Builders, a family-owned contracting company now licensed across three states — built without a college degree, a mentor, or a safety...

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 raw redemption with Curtis Riggleman — a former car thief who slept in stolen cars as a homeless teenager. He's now Director of Operations over nine dealerships for LFG Auto Group, one of Central California's largest aut...

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...

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 h...

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...

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 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....

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...

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...

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, an...

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...

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...