Engineer · Entrepreneur · Author · Speaker · Minister

I build ideas into things people can actually use.

Businesses. Books. Technology. Products. Communities. Ministry.

I'm Chanel E. Martin. Engineer turned serial entrepreneur, author, publisher, speaker, ordained minister, and strategist. Pick a lane and I've probably built something in it.

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Chanel E. MartinSpeaker · Strategist · Builder

15+Years building

1,000+Entrepreneurs advised

150+Publishing projects

1,000+Customer interviews

100K+Community reach

ForbesNext 1000 Honoree

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Ideas are one thing. Delivery matters.

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The builder behind the brand

The backstory

You probably can't put me in one box. I've tried. It doesn't work.

I started as a chemical engineer. Then I helped build a beauty technology company from the ground up.

That's where I learned how to raise money, understand customers, build products, pitch ideas, market new technology, and turn a concept into something people could actually hold in their hands.

From there came consulting, publishing, ministry, community building, conferences, beauty, and now AI.

I build. I teach. I help people turn ideas into something real.

Sometimes that's a business. Sometimes it's a book, a product, a strategy, a piece of technology, or a ministry assignment.

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Built, not borrowed

What I bring to the room

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I don't teach entrepreneurship because I read about it in a book. I've built companies.

I don't teach publishing because I wrote one. I've led more than 150 publishing projects and taught thousands to write and publish their own.

I don't talk about customer research because it's trending. I conducted more than 1,000 customer discovery interviews while helping build hair technology from scratch.

I don't talk about funding from the sidelines. I've raised capital, crowdfunded products, sat in accelerators, and helped win major startup competitions.

And faith isn't something I bolted onto my business brand. I've spent the last decade in ministry, teaching, leading teams, and helping Christian entrepreneurs hear God about what they're building.

Experience. Strategy. Faith. And I'll tell you what I really think.

Speaking + teaching

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I speak to entrepreneurs, executives, authors, women, students, founders, churches, ministry leaders, and organizations about building ideas, leading through change, hearing God, and doing the actual work it takes to bring a vision to life.

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Business, Innovation & Entrepreneurship

Building ideas, understanding customers, creating products, raising money, marketing, and figuring out what to do when the original plan falls apart.

Thought Leadership & Publishing

Turning years of knowledge into books, products, programs, intellectual property, and businesses.

AI & Technology

Using AI in a way that is actually useful, without losing the thinking, creativity, judgment, and human voice that make the work worth something.

Faith, Ministry & Prophetic Leadership

Hearing the voice of God, prophetic ministry, faith and business, spiritual gifts, leadership, obedience, strategy, and building while staying sensitive to what God is saying.

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Chanel gave our audience the one thing every other speaker skipped—actual steps to take on Monday morning.

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Faith + strategy

Prophetic Planning with Chanel

What is God saying about what you're building? And what are you actually going to do about it?

I help Christian entrepreneurs and leaders learn how to hear God about their business, their ideas, their timing, their decisions, and their assignments—then move that revelation into practical action.

Because hearing God doesn't mean you stop planning. Prayer doesn't replace strategy. And faith isn't an excuse to ignore research, preparation, numbers, or wise counsel.

Prophetic Planning is where those two worlds meet.

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Ordained minister · Teacher · Leader

Private strategy sessions

Sometimes you don't need another course.

Sometimes you just need somebody who's actually been in it to look at what you're building, ask you better questions, and help you figure out what makes sense.

Bring me the business. The book. The product idea. The offer. The technology. The launch. The marketing problem. The ministry idea. Or that one thing you've been staring at for months and still haven't figured out.

You walk away knowing exactly what I see, what I'd change, and what I believe your next move should be.

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Proof of workStrategy resources built from lived experience.

Portfolio

What I've built

Different industries. The same obsession with making ideas real.

Publishing + Technology

Beyond The Book Media

Publishing, author education, and technology built to help people turn ideas into books and intellectual property. 150+ publishing projects. Thousands taught.

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Beauty + Consumer Research

Her Beauty Regimen

Hair and scalp care, consumer research, product development, and personalized hair-recovery solutions—built on engineering, beauty technology, and entrepreneurship.

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Founding Team · 2012–2016

MYAVANA / Techturized

Part of the founding team behind the beauty technology company that helped bring personalized hair analysis and recommendation technology to market.

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Faith + Community

Kingdom Business Network

Led programming, conferences, media, events, communications, and community engagement for a national faith and business community reaching more than 100,000 people.

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What I’m Building Now

AI & Technology

AI-supported publishing tools designed to make complicated processes simple to finish—at the intersection of technology and intellectual property.

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Faith + ministry

Faith isn't a footnote in my story.

I started serving in ministry around 2016 and have been leading and teaching prophetic and ministry teams since about 2019.

I'm an ordained minister, trained in inner healing and deliverance, and trained in prophetic and supernatural gifts. I currently serve in leadership at my local church and teach on prophetic ministry, hearing God, faith and business, ministry leadership, and spiritual gifts.

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