Elisah McGee

Elisah McGee is a dynamic leader, carving a renewed path. She unabashedly pursues life, to be an example for her four children, to balance a hard work ethic with time for simple joys. A visionary, she founded Freedom Defense Group (FDG) in 2019 alongside her husband to raise the standard of innovation of mission-ready solutions for the Department of Defense, and state, local, and federal agencies with a mission to get our warfighters home safely.CEO, Elisah strategically aligns her company to exceed mission objectives by building infrastructure, guiding philosophy, positioning growth, and empowering leaders. Securing certification as a woman-owned small business in a majority-male industry, Elisah persistently strives to lead with honor and integrity, encouraging her team and peers to do the same. She faithfully pursues challenges to catapult personal growth and shift paradigm thinking. Moving their beach family to a barren 95-acre farm in rural Brookneal, VA in 2020, Elisah and her husband rapidly renovated and built structures, and adopted a growing variety of livestock. Two short years later they founded a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization, Mission Freedom Farm, to set the framework for a healing place for leaders to rest and reinvigorate their missions. She and her husband recently purchased a third farm where she plans to expand her nonprofit.Elisah is an avid philanthropist and community advocate. She has served as an election official with the Virginia Department of Election since 2021, was Mrs Virginia USA Earth 2023, is a board member of Keep Virginia Beautiful, and is the 2024 Ms. Virginia Continental Worldwide.A University of Virginia graduate, she is also a big-picture, creative thinker, and writer. She transcribed one hundred World War II letters between two sweethearts for her community, serves as a caretaker for two different century-old cemeteries, and has been entrusted with another World War II military journal to transcribe and preserve. Her mission to share nature’s healing elements with guests and followers of her nonprofit and education learned as Mrs Virginia USA Earth set her on a journey to write and publish her first children’s book in 2023, Be Kind To Nature. She is currently writing a chapter in the upcoming 3rd edition of The Joy-full Entrepreneur.