The Determined Society with Shawn French
Making $50 Million in 1 Year: Brad Miller's Transformation From Rock Bottom to Financial Freedom
Mon, 03 Feb 2025
Join Shawn French in this riveting episode of The Determined Society podcast as he sits down with Brad Miller, the founder of Southern Tier Telecommunications. Discover Brad’s incredible journey from a troubled childhood and incarceration to becoming a successful business mogul. This episode is packed with life lessons, insights on overcoming adversity, and the importance of determination. Don't miss out on this inspiring story! Subscribe for more episodes. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Chapter 1: How did Brad Miller's early life influence his path?
Audience, I want you to tune into this, like literally lock the fuck in right here. From nine years old, you were incarcerated and you were incarcerated for the next seven years.
At nine years old, I would already have been arrested probably 15 times. Finally, I went to court. The president judge of Mercer County, Pennsylvania, he looked at me and he said, OK, he said, enough's enough. So he incarcerated me. I remember that day because he asked my parents if they had anything that they would like to say. And my parents basically turned away and left the courtroom.
So at that point, I was in handcuffs and shackles and they took me away. At 16 years old, I went back in front of the judge with an opportunity to be released. The judge said, my father and my mother, Mr. and Mrs. Miller, your son has obviously done his time. This is ingrained in my brain. My mother stood up and she said, It's not my child.
They got up and they walked out of the courtroom, which left me in a very unique position.
This one look, I let the pain inspire me. I put my all in everything I'm doing. Up until it's done, I'm me for the entirety. I put in overtime. I be working. Just know I'm a go for mine. Cause I earned it. They watching. I know it's time. I confirmed it. The whole society determined.
What's up, everybody? Welcome back to another episode of The Determined Society. I'm your host, Sean French. And before I introduce today's guest, please do me a favor. If you haven't already, please go subscribe to Determined Society, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and the YouTube. Come check us out everywhere at the Sean French on Instagram and at the Determined Society on Instagram as well.
Today, I have a special treat for me and for you. It's not very often I get to interview somebody that I know, love, and respect on a personal level. But when I do, it's everything to me because I see the embodiment of what the individuals talk about on my show in real life. see the family, see the children, have dinners, friends givings, all that kind of stuff.
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Chapter 2: What challenges did Brad face during his youth?
So my guest today, his name is Brad Miller, and he is the owner and founder of Southern Tier Telecommunications, and he's just an amazing guy, and he's done some amazing things in his career and built an amazing freaking business that would blow your mind, but it didn't come without hardship, and we're gonna get into the story of who Brad is today.
So without further ado, my man, welcome to the show.
Thanks for having me, Sean. Certainly appreciate it.
This is like, this is, I got goosebumps right now. Like I just, I just absolutely adore and love you and the family. And you know, we, we had, thank you. We had such an amazing time for Marina's birthday. We have many, many good moments. Oh, we have, we've done, we've met each other and we we've had Halloween where I danced on your lap in the golf cart.
That was good. I love that moment.
I wish that moment would come out. And then we've done Friendsgiving.
Yep.
Right. And then we recently did, I missed New Year's. Thank God I did because I heard you. That was a good place to miss. I'm glad we did. And then Marina's 36th birthday. That's right. That was so much fun at Ember. Yeah.
Yeah. We had a good time. She really enjoyed everybody's presence there. So appreciate you guys coming out to that as well to celebrate. Hell yeah, man. Yeah. Fun night. It was. It was a blast.
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Chapter 3: How did Brad find inspiration to change his life?
So the guy who actually is my partner today that I've elected to be my partner... Fired you. Fired me. And his only reason... It wasn't his intent. But so what happened is I basically overperformed what the CFO and the CEO of a very large company today were intimidated by. They actually became fearful for the level of energy that I was going to bring to the company.
And they thought in that time, from an old school perspective... It was going to be unprofessional. Right.
Okay.
And, you know, I guess, look, we talked today versus then. And would I be an asset to their team? I would consider I'd be a fantastic asset. Of course, yeah. Because, of course, I could have built their business to a mega empire. And not just me, but obviously it takes a team. People, right? Yeah, from the people around me, but the abilities to lead those people.
So scaling back in 2016, my business partner and I had came back together and we were working for a company yet again for another company. And I had the opportunity. I was always a visionary, Sean. So my whole life, I always looked at every opportunity. Forgive me for saying this, but every day job that I worked, I would always look around and I would say.
why am I doing this for you when I can do this for me? I can do this. Yeah. So that egotistical mindset kicked in, but I was appreciative of that. Sure. I considered it value. I wasn't being boastful. I wasn't praising myself for something that I wasn't successful. It was introspective, right? That's exactly right. So, In 2016, my business partner and I, we decided to spin off.
And so we had no money. I just put this in perspective for you. We had no money. So when I had met Marina, I was completely broke. I came into the relationship with $65,000 in debt. I was filing bankruptcy from the previous divorce with a house that was in a state that I no longer resided. Five children that... We're divided because I'm here, they're there. I have them 50% of the time.
We have significant travels. Here's this 23-year-old girl introducing herself into my life. I've got this now opportunity. My previous employer offered me $250,000 to stay. So yeah, I was, I was, I was at, well, I was making $700 a week and that 700 turned into 120,000 annualized. Sure. And then just, just through the opportunity and growth.
And then when my business partner left the company, they immediately came to me the next day and they're like, Hey, we need you to run this whole thing. We're gonna give you 250,000 plus incentive. So just imagine what's going through my mind. I never made this kind of money before. So I go home to Marina and I asked her, I said, Hey, what do I do? And she said, I can tell you exactly what you do.
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