Grant grew up in southern Illinois where he graduated from Carbondale High School and continued his education at Indiana Institute of Technology. At the age of twenty, he founded Northern Lights Entertainment which is the first fire manipulation performance company in Indianapolis, Indiana. While spending time in California, Grant became a certified fire walk instructor and motivational speaker and taught others how to conquer their fears. In 2015, he founded an organization called Northern Lights Entertainment that broke the Guinness World Record of the “Longest Fire Whip Ever Crackedâ€. Grant moved back to southern Illinois in 2018 and still enjoys the same activities that he grew up doing. A few of those include fishing, kayaking, and fire walking.