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VoyageMIA: Exploring Life & Business with Bimal Shah of The One Year Breakthrough

http://voyagemia.com/interview/exploring-life-business-bimal-shah-one-year-breakthrough/

Today we’d like to introduce you to Bimal Shah.

Bimal, we appreciate you taking the time to share your story with us today. Where does your story begin?
I was born in Dayton, Ohio and went back to India when I was two years old as my parents got divorced. I was raised in Bombay (now Mumbai) and came to this country back when I was 20 with $20 in my pocket. I worked five jobs to pay my own out of state tuition and graduated with close to $20K in Savings. Got more than a dozen job offers and rejected all of them to start my own business in the financial services and been helping entrepreneurs thrive ever since. Have been married to my lovely wife Ami for 22 years and have two beautiful daughters after which I named my current companies. I am on a mission to make pioneers out of entrepreneurs by helping them achieve their three-year goal in one year. My business is founded on three principles- Thrive, Transform, and Transcend.

Alright, so let’s dig a little deeper into the story – has it been an easy path overall and if not, what were the challenges you’ve had to overcome?
I have been through many hard times in my life and it has been full of ups and downs. First my journey in the US started with nothing, working five jobs to pay out of state tuition, taking a greyhound bus from California to Florida as had no money for a plane ticket, leaving a business and moving to south Florida as result of aunt’s death and starting back from scratch, taking a kind of a one-year sabbatical at the wrong time and having to start over again, and consistently innovating and improving till I got what the market wanted. Even during this current pandemic has been full of challenges and obstacles. Despite that, I have managed to exponentially grow the business in 2020 by focusing on five key words- adapt, pivot, change, learn, and improve. Every day, II would ask myself questions on those five words and it made a big difference.

Thanks – so what else should our readers know about The One Year Breakthrough?
I believe the world evolves because everyone is unique and different and so are entrepreneurs. My purpose is to make pioneers out of entrepreneurs throughout the world by helping them achieve their three-year goal in one year- What I define as next level growth. That is also my tag line and I want to do whatever it takes to achieve that result. I wanted to do that without them worrying about how much to pay me. Therefore, I created a unique model of acquiring Grants for business for them to work with me. To do so, I must wear all the hats in all the functions of the business to achieve that result- whether it is being a grant writer, recruiter, marketer, sales trainer, project manager, management consultant, financial consultant, business coach, business consultant, business accelerator, marketing, operations, Software trainer, motivator, or leadership coach or something else. I believe in giving results first with accountability. The after effect is that people and employees have already seen the value and it is easy for them to take the first step as it doesn’t require a lot of thought. After seeing me focused on delivering results and lead by example, makes the team focused on results. I also believe in eliminating risk for the customer, so it makes it easy for them to make a decision. With the team, I focus on how we can make things easy for ourselves and for that many a times you have work hard and fast on smart things.

We’d love to hear about how you think about risk taking?
There are several risks I have taken in life and business and all the risks have been calculated risks weighing the dangers, opportunities, and strengths. I took the risk of coming to this country with almost no money. I took the risk of working several jobs and paying out of state tuition from my own pocket. I took the risk of staring my business straight out of college. I took the risk of buying my first home six months out of college. I took the risk of moving down to south Florida because my aunt passed away and starting from scratch. I took the risk of taking almost a sabbatical when I got married. I took the risk of starting a management consulting, coaching, and employee training business. I took the risk of working on government grants and maximizing the grants each business can get the very first time i dove into it. There are risks everywhere. I have now built a business model that allows me to eliminate risk for entrepreneurs to do business with me.