We were lucky to catch up with Michelle Green recently and have shared our conversation below.
Hi Michelle, thanks for sharing your insights with our community today. Part of your success, no doubt, is due to your work ethic and so we’d love if you could open up about where you got your work ethic from?
I was raised on a farm in a small town in South Carolina. Everyone works when you are raised on a farm.
Thanks for sharing that. So, before we get any further into our conversation, can you tell our readers a bit about yourself and what you’re working on?
We have the Kingdom Brand, this means we have established businesses that focus on building the Kingdom in credit repair, community development, and business school for entrepreneurs. The original idea began when I was 12 years old when our church was planning a trip to Six Flags for the youth choir. Once my friends and I got permission to go, I started a game plan for all of us to earn the money and made a clear list of what we wanted purchase besides the tickets. This was my first experience with creating a vision board and a budget that would intrigue me for the throughout the rest of my life. At 17 years old I was introduced to money solutions and compound interest. Since I wasn’t old enough to get licensed, I waited until I turned 19 years old to start my career as an independent contractor in the financial industry. While encountering challenges in my community with financial wealth, I began to realize over the years that there was an underlying issue of basic financial literacy. At the age of 21, I found myself in my own financial challenge when I decided to purchase a home but couldn’t, because my credit was ruined a stolen identity. My mom was very intelligent and read thousands of self-help books all of her life. I went to her for a book on how to repair my credit and she provided me with a book I still have to this day. I read the book and mastered everything in it, then fixed my credit. Surprisingly, I had no idea how many people didn’t know how to fix their own credit until 2006 while working at Verizon Wireless. I had been helping friends and family repair their credit from the late 1990’s. One day while I was at work, a co-worker friend of mine asked me if I knew anyone who knew how to repair credit and I told her I did, and it was me. So, I helped her and in three months she was able to increase her scores over 700 and purchase her first home. She told everyone in her family and that’s when the idea of Kingdom Builders Credit Repair was birthed. Later on in time I met a lady though a client-friend of mine who mentored me in opening a nonprofit. Come to find out that this woman we met had Alzheimer’s dementia and had run away from home, setup a business in South Carolina charging $1500 for her non-profit information and consultations. Shockingly, most of her information was correct and I established my first nonprofit business Kingdom Builders Community Development Corporation! What an experience! Then in 2018 after years in the credit repair industry and talking to people who also owned businesses but didn’t understand how to setup, fund, manage, or market their companies, I did a trial run on the business university. I did a four-week class, and the 6 in-person entrepreneurs that signed up were blown away by the business expertise I provided in that class. I wanted to continue doing the business classes, but it was difficult to get business owners to sit down in person for 2-3 hours during office hours. However, when covid happened in 2020, I decided to do an actual semester course which exploded an ended up becoming Kingdom Builders Business University in 2021!
If you had to pick three qualities that are most important to develop, which three would you say matter most?
The three qualities, skills, and knowledge that were most impactful to my journey were having a good work ethic, never meeting a stranger (people person) and never giving up. My advice for those who are early in their entrepreneurship journey would be to focus on the end of the journey, make the vision easy able to understand and know that everyday will not be that big moment, they only come in rare times. but in stages.
Alright so to wrap up, who deserves credit for helping you overcome challenges or build some of the essential skills you’ve needed?
The most helpful person in my journey since age 12 is God. Everyone has to have a higher source than themselves to believe in. That source has to have all the solutions to your problems and be unchangeable, and consistent the word promised for your life. Without God, I wouldn’t have a foundation to fall on and I would not be who I am today. Secondly, would be my family. Although I grew up in my grandparents’ home with my mother, I was surrounded by aunts, and uncles, cousins and extended family and friends from the church community who would keep it real with me but show their hearts when I least expected it. Lastly, once I got married, my husband and children, along with my close friends have honestly been my support system with my clientele and network teams!
Contact Info:
- Website: www.kingdombuilderscreditrepair.com
- Instagram: @kb.michellegreen
- Facebook: @kb.michellegreen
- Linkedin: Michelle Green
- Twitter: @kbmichellegree
- Youtube: kb.michellegreen
- Yelp: 8445227552
- Other: TikTok & Threads KB.MichelleGreen
Image Credits
Dr. Tina Ramsay
