We build World Changers
Our mission is to impact 100,000 of them by giving speakers, coaches and thought leaders a home, a code to live by, and the AI growth systems to turn their impact into influence and their influence into income.
Our why
How one kid at a 5 a.m. workout started all of this
The story behind Impact to Income, from our founder, Alec D. Diaz.
It started with one kid
Before there was a community, there was one kid named Jariel. I met him at a local recreation center in Orlando. He was 14, and I could tell he was looking for someone to guide him. I told him to meet me at the basketball court the next morning at 5 a.m. Most kids won't get up at 5 a.m. on a Saturday. Jariel did.
We worked out, we had fun, and afterward we went to breakfast. That became our rhythm: training on the weekends, talking about God and talking about our lives. We had a lot in common. Jariel's dad passed away when he was young. He was the middle of five kids, and his mom had triplets. I was the oldest of five, I grew up in a single-parent home too, and I never knew my father. I saw a lot of myself in him.
Keep reading the story
One became hundreds
Jariel invited two friends. Two turned into ten, and ten turned into hundreds of young people from the community. That's how Kingdom Hooper was born, the 501(c)(3) nonprofit I founded to reach young people through basketball, faith and mentorship. For more than a year we rented a church gym, and I paid for everything out of my own pocket.
There's only so far one paycheck can go. When we lost the gym and couldn't find another one within budget, I had to put the program on pause. I kept it alive with recurring events and kept saving, but I'd hit a ceiling on how much impact I could make.
The career, and the call
In my corporate career I climbed from engineer to vice president at one of the largest financial institutions in the world. I led a technology portfolio of more than $25 million and built a flagship enterprise AI product. Then I chose to leave, to walk in purpose and build my own tech company, VZN Leadership LLC, doing business as XConvergence.
While I was building, I answered a call to the mission field. I went to Costa Rica as a missionary to help a pastor who was building a youth outreach we called Un Niño Más, "one more child." A letter from the government opened doors for us to foster homes, schools and recreation centers. We shared the word of God, played basketball with the kids, and I shared my testimony and the life principles that could help them on their journey. Watching that community transform changed my life.
Where Impact to Income was born
After months in the field, the money started to run short. I'd spent thousands of dollars on snacks, food and clothes, and on helping the pastor and families in the community so the events could keep going. I had to come home to Orlando to grow the business and earn more, so I could go back.
Even when you want to do good in the world, you need money to do it.
That's why we built Impact to Income. We help each other build meaningful income and meaningful relationships that multiply our message and our testimony, so we can go into the world and make a bigger impact. The impact we make creates income, and that income funds even greater impact. We get to do meaningful business, help people and change lives.
That's our why, and it's why this community was born.
Alec D. DiazFounder, Impact to Income · Founder, Kingdom Hooper
Watch the mission: Un Niño Más
We documented the journey on YouTube, episode by episode.
