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The Kelly Roach Show

1159. The Rocky Road to $100M: Lessons in Scaling, Clarity, and God's Timing

The Kelly Roach Show

Kelly Roach

Business, Entrepreneurship

4.9 • 965 Ratings

🗓️ 14 August 2025

⏱️ 25 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

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Summary

What does it really take to scale toward $100 million while staying aligned with your values, vision, and calling?

In this candid episode of The Kelly Roach Show, Kelly pulls back the curtain on the real journey to her $100M goal: the messy pivots, crushed dreams, and the moments of divine direction that shaped her path forward.

You'll hear how she went from running six companies at once with no clear "one thing" to identifying thecornerstone of her next era of growth.

She shares why she walked away from the idea of scaling her high-ticket coaching model to $100M, faith-led decision-making and why she's embracing a decade-long vision instead of chasing big, immediate results. 

If you've ever wrestled with long-term strategy, business model decisions, or trusting the process in uncertain times, this episode is for you. 

What You'll Learn:

  • The difference between growth and scale - and why both matter

  • Why Kelly walked away from scaling her high-ticket model beyond 8 figures

  • The next steps toward building her second 8-figure company

Timestamps:

3:00 – Why Kelly decided not to scale her high-ticket coaching model to $100M
7:40 – The staffing realities of scaling to 9 figures
9:00 – Killing a dream and building six companies
11:40 – God's directive to keep Virtual Business School going
13:00 – The market shift that positioned VBS for massive growth
15:10 – Putting VBS at the helm of the business portfolio
16:16 – Boutique consulting plans for The Business Advisory
18:18 – Slowing down after 8 figures
21:14 – Shifting from self-reliance to partnering with God

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Growth is more clients, more revenue, more margin, more everything, right? It's volume.

0:07.0

In order to find efficiencies at scale, we would be compromising the work product in order to do that.

0:12.0

You want to create like massive scale or big results, you got to really focus on one thing.

0:19.0

Like God is always operating five steps ahead of us.

0:22.4

He's always setting everything up in advance.

0:24.6

He's always got our backs,

0:26.2

even when we feel like things are like totally off the rails.

0:29.1

What has been really interesting for me in this process

0:32.8

was that when I was going from six to seven figures,

0:35.7

when I was going from seven to eight figures, I was always

0:39.4

in a rush all the time. I always felt like everything had to be big fast now. In today's episode of

0:45.8

the Kelly Rote show, we are talking about the Rocky Road to 100 million. So if you've been

0:52.8

following along with the show for any number of years,

0:56.4

you know that when I had a six-figure business, I had a goal to take it to seven figures.

1:01.4

When I built a seven-figure business, I had a goal to bring it to eight. Once I had an eight-figure

1:05.7

business, I set a goal to bring it to nine. And I've attempted over the years to bring you along on this journey

1:14.0

with me no matter how imperfect and hopefully share things along the way that will be helpful for you

1:20.3

as you pursue your goals and your dreams. And I know that all of us have a very different vision

1:26.6

for our businesses and for our lives,

1:29.3

but this is mine. And I tend to live my life by the Leo Baskaglia cook that is God's gift to you

1:41.0

is your talent and what you do with it is your gift back to God, right? And one of the

1:48.6

things that has always been a huge motivating and driving factor for me in the world of

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