We’re excited to introduce you to the always interesting and insightful Justin Robinson . We hope you’ll enjoy our conversation with Justin below.
Hi Justin, thanks for joining us today. Alright – so having the idea is one thing, but going from idea to execution is where countless people drop the ball. Can you talk to us about your journey from idea to execution?
When the pandemic first hit like so many of you I was stuck in the house. I wanted to take advantage of finally having some down time. I wanted to be productive but also accomplish something that I’ve never done before.
During this time thoughts began to run through my mind of all the problems that exist in our world. After acknowledging my lengthy list I set my heart to solve at least one of the problems that I’ve identified as a plague to our society.
I’ve decided that with my unique set of skills, talents and gifts that it would be most effective for me to address our current identity crisis. I believe that most of our social and economic decay results from humanity not truly understanding who we are and why we exist.
Upon this conclusion I then had to create a vehicle and strategy on how to bring about this understanding to our world. What could I do to deliver my message and who needed to be my audience?
Having five children of my own I thought it would be fitting if I could cater my idea and message to children or the next generation hoping that they could grasp it, conceptualize it and become the change that we desperately need. The best way for me to bring my idea to life is by putting it in a children’s book.
I’ve never written a book before but I knew exactly what message I wanted to convey and I knew how I wanted to do it. My first step was to create a mock draft of the book.
Each day while supervising my children as they attended school virtually I would work on the mock draft. Day by day, page by page until I felt it was perfection.
It took me three months to complete the mock draft. From the cover page to the back page. The mock draft said everything that I wanted to say. Now I just needed to bring my words to life by adding some illustrations. My new challenge in this part of the process was that I was not a illustrator nor did I know one.
Now I had to search high and low for someone to help me complete this next phase. I asked around and someone referred me to an app called Fiver. After utilizing the app to find an illustrator I finally connected with some one that I felt could create the visual piece of the project.
After five months of communication over an app I successfully received all the illustrations that I needed to move to the next phase of development.
After I received the illustrations from my source on Fiver I was now able to take the mock draft and illustrations to be formatted for publishing. My only problem was that I didn’t know how to format nor did I know any who knew how to format a book.
However I had access to this Fiver app where I could be connected to different type of freelancers. So again I used Fiver to connect with someone who could assist me with this process of the project. It was a success!
Now my mock draft was officially ready to be printed and all that there was to do is self publish it on Amazon. I set my account up and self published my first children’s book and it is now available for purchase on Amazon.
It took me a total of eleven months and $1200 dollars to create the vehicle that would allow me to communicate to my desired audience.
Justin, love having you share your insights with us. Before we ask you more questions, maybe you can take a moment to introduce yourself to our readers who might have missed our earlier conversations?
At Kingdom Work we believe that the humans of this world are suffering from an identity crisis. We don’t know who we are and why we exist. We have been set apart by race, religion, and culture. We have accepted to live beneath our proper position as earth kings and children of God. We have been greatly deceived. Our objective is to teach children who they are and reveal God’s original idea for creating humans. Through the word of God we believe that God is not interested in religion. He does not view things as humans do. God is interested in His form of government being established here on earth through us. God is King, and He desires to teach us how to be Kings by imitating him. We need to be reconciled to God and live in the government that He has established for us. We believe that Jesus is the only way to experience true life here on earth.
Is there mission driving your creative journey?
Yes our mission is advance the kingdom of God on earth by changing lives through love and knowledge of God and His word. We want people to turn from religion and began to self govern their own lives according to Gods word. Loving our neighbors and serving the ones in whom we come in contact with is how we should be living our lives. There can be peace on earth but it starts with our changed mindsets
We’d love to hear the story of how you built up your social media audience?
Social media is entirely built around content. So for us we had to create a theme, bring it to life and capture the moment to create marketing material for social media. We decided to create our “Royal Experience” where we go to after school programs and transform the entire place and people by giving them a taste of heaven. This is what we do! We found a way to bring the culture of Heaven to earth. This is the objective of God and this is exactly what advancing the Kingdom looks like in a practical sense.
The Royal Experience is crafted to promote the kingship of Jesus. The objective of the event is to create an atmosphere that results in a changed mindset. Participants will be positioned and empowered to gain understanding concerning their true identity in Christ as authorized kings of the earth, members of a royal family and children of God. (1 Peter 2:9-10)
Every time we have a “Royal Experience” we capture the event and use the content for marketing. The pictures are breath taking!
We use social media to promote not only our Earth Kings book but also to show people our attempt to bring change to the world.
My advice for anyone who is interested in gaining social media presence is to be consistent and resilient. I’m other words keep on posting!
Contact Info:
- Website: https://earthkingsbook.com