Cracking the Code: Brad Lea’s Secrets to Building Confidence and Success

This month, we spoke with Brad Lea about his simple structure for building self-confidence and the success that follows. Brad Lea is the founder of Lightspeed VT, the author of “The Hard Way,” CEO of multiple businesses and a public speaker. Dennis Postema: How did you progress from car sales and firefighting to CEO? Brad Lea: By making a lot of mistakes and paying attention. Forming relationships. The ability to close on sales, influence and persuade, and ultimately, three core pillars that I have developed: mindset, skill set and habit. If anyone ever says, “How did he do it? He dropped out of high school.” Anyone can do it if they believe they can. It doesn’t matter who thinks you can’t do something, as long as you’re not one of them. Master the mindset, master the skills necessary to take you where you want to go, and then improve your