Interested in starting your own entrepreneurial journey in business development but unsure what to expect? Then read up on our interview with Isaiah Grant, founder of Kingdom Impact, located in Boston, MA, USA.
What's your business, and who are your customers?
The name of my company is Kingdom Impact. We specialize in helping coaches, consultants, agency owners, speakers, and authors drive massive impact and sales for the Kingdom. Over the next ten years, the company's mission is to help 1,000 coaches, consultants, agency owners, speakers, and authors turn their business into a workplace ministry that drives exponential impact and sales. We do this by building world-class sales leaders, systems, and teams. We focus on helping business owners maintain their faith and focus on their zone of genius. This is where a leader is able to walk in purpose (meaning for life), passion (things you love), potential (vision for growth), and proficiency (gifts) that Christ has given them. We've had clients scale to 10K-100K per month using our proprietary S.S.S.S. System. This system stands for Self Mastery (becoming a world-class leader), Simplify (simplest direct path to 7 figures), System (Building world systems that get predictable and profitable results), and Staff (Building a world-class team). We focus on helping you become a great leader, create a simplified strategy to grow to 7 figures, implement systems that get predictable and profitable results, and build a world-class team who can free you from the day-to-day "grind" of working in the business.
Tell us about yourself
I grew up in a single-parent, low-income household, where my mom suffered from diabetes, kidney dialysis, liver cirrhosis, heart disease, high blood pressure, and more. Growing up, I had to learn to be resourceful, be an action-taker, and build meaningful relationships. In 8th grade, I was diagnosed with diabetes while doing a year-long project on diabetes in science class. At that moment, my life drastically shifted to what I had thought at that time was the worst. While in high school, I hired a health coach who helped me grow mentally and spiritually and also get rid of diabetes. In my senior year of college at UCONN, I decided that I wanted to be my own boss. While working for six years in the corporate world (post-undergrad), I started and managed a digital marketing company servicing local businesses, where I mastered product management, marketing, and sales. Eventually, I decided to take a leap of faith and go full-time into running my own business. I shut down my digital marketing agency and became a business coach that has helped 100s of coaches, consultants, agency owners, speakers, and authors drive massive impact and sales for the Kingdom. We do so by building world-class sales leaders, sales systems, and sales teams.
What's your biggest accomplishment as a business owner?
We've helped 100s of coaches free up 1000+ hours of their time by building world-class teams and have helped these clients generate over 2+ million in sales. In addition, we've turned our business into a 7 figure business.
What's one of the hardest things that comes with being a business owner?
The hardest things I've had to overcome were firing low performing/bad culture-fit employees and leading in times of personal struggle. When you have to fire low performing/bad culture-fit employees, it's important to note that it's not personal. You may feel guilty or shameful at that time, but remember you have put the systems in place to help that employee be successful. If they are still not successful after receiving adequate training, day-to-day job systems, and proper feedback, it is time to push them into their destiny, which is not at your company. Be slow to hire and quick to fire. When you are struggling in your personal life, you have to work through that, or it will directly impact your ability to lead.
What are the top tips you'd give to anyone looking to start, run and grow a business today?
Patience. Vision. Mentorship. Don't compare your chapter 1 to someone else's chapter 10. Some people have worked harder, smarter, and longer. This doesn't negate the fact that we all started as beginners. Remember why you do what you do. Is it for money or to impact lives for the kingdom? Heart motive is important. Remember, if your vision is small enough for you to do alone, then it's not big enough. "Where there's no vision, the man perishes." – Proverbs 29:18.
It's important to get around world-class people who've achieved what you want to achieve. Don't try to guess how to be successful. Get into a mastermind, where you are surrounded by a coach and peers that can help you exponentially grow. We become the five people we hang around. Get around A players, and you'll become an A Player. Every level requires a new version of yourself. Focus on your vision and who you're becoming in the process. It's about the journey, not the outcome.
Where can people find you and your business?
Website: https://www.kingdomimpact.co/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/kingdomimpactco
Instagram:
https://www.instagram.com/isaiah_grant/
https://www.instagram.com/kingdomimpactco/
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