Grace Mbugua started JEILO Collections in her servant's quarter in Nairobi with two sewing machines. Then Carrefour ordered a thousand pieces.

In this conversation, Grace walks Matthew Rohrs through what happened next: closing her NGO, training cleaners into leather craftsmen, building a manufacturing operation through COVID, and what faith integration actually looks like inside a factory that now exports to the US.

KEY TAKEAWAYS:

➡️ Why Grace shut down a women's empowerment center that was working but not sustaining itself, and what that taught her about real opportunity

➡️ How JEILO Collections promotes every entry-level hire out of entry-level work within one year, including a cleaner who became her best leather craftsman

➡️ What Kingdom business actually looks like in practice: Monday teaching sessions, prayer over shipments, and customers prayed for by name

TIMESTAMPS

00:00 Intro and what JEILO Collections does

05:30 From NGO to for-profit business

11:00 Faith inside the factory

16:30 The Carrefour moment

22:00 How COVID rebuilt the business

27:30 Get out from behind your desk

33:00 The ripple effect of Kingdom business

CONNECT:

Website: https://www.sinapis.org/

Matthew's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/matthew-rohrs-1692715/

Sinapis' LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/school/sinapis-group/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sinapisgroup/

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