Episode 268 Sci-Fi Author Yvette Kendall is our guest to talk about her new novel THE GOD MAPS https://www.thegodmaps.com Tuesday 4/23/19 Host: Kinte https://twitter.com/KinteF Shannon Ford-Jefferson Guest: Yvette Kendall http://www.yvettekendall.com FB Event: https://www.facebook.com/events/2168127569947875/ Yvette Kendall https://www.amazon.com/GOD-Maps-1-Yvette-Kendall-ebook/dp/B07Q6ZMJN7/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=THE+GOD+MAPS&qid=1555639088&s=gateway&sr=8-1 Yvette Kendall is a mother and a product of the Chicago Public School system. Ms. Kendall developed a love for creating at a young age and continued on this path as she progressed in life. She began to nurture her love for making unusual things and decided that she would like to see her ideas on store shelves. This was the beginning of a unique platform in which Ms. Kendall began to get noticed for her work. In this position, she has had the opportunity to work with a wide range of people in various genres that have helped her obtain a broader view of what products were on the market and what could be on the market. As she progressed in this industry, she carved our a niche to develop Intellectual Property and to create products for the market (as well as private individuals) globally. Ms. Kendall was the first to file and put efforts in to developing what the world knows now as “E-Book Readers” in July of 1998. When she invented the E-Reader, she named it the "Bookman" but it was ill-received; it seems that she was ahead of her time, and the notion of reading books and magazines electronically on one device was a concept too strange for most to conceive. Because of the difficulties she experienced with finding funding, assistance and exposure over the years and the obvious absence of “Women of Color” in the field of Innovations, Ms. Kendall decided to do something about it! In April of 2011, she formed the first African-American Female Organization for Women and Girls of Color….FBI Rocks was born. Ms. Kendall is President/CEO of FBI Rocks Organization (Female Black Inventors Rocks); and its operated by the best and brightest women in their respective fields. With the hands-on experience that Ms. Kendall has garnered in product development, she has made FBI Rocks a one-stop resource for black girls and women to gain interest and to excel in the fields of Intellectual Property and Product Development. Many of her innovations have made it to a nationwide audience. The 1st being “Scalers Shoes”, fitness sneakers with a built-in body weight scale with digital screen; Scalers Shoes had its debut on The TODAY Show in 2011. Another product that has has success is “Cleencups”, the World’s 1st Anti-Bacterial Drinking Cups (www.Cleencups.com); these cups has a food safe anti-bacterial coating that sanitizes the hands once the users touches them. Cleencups signed licensing deal with Discovery Channel Television in 2010. Other products that Ms. Kendall has invented are “Hatari Helmets” which are motion graphic and animated motorcycle helmets, and “Meal Pearls” which is a new food source developed by use of Bio-Polymers and most recently Ballisticks Pads, a new personal life-saving bulletproof pad which has over-performed in initial test (www.Ballisticks.com). Kendall didn't stop there, she has a website for brandsharing of futuristic products, services and innovations by women of color. It's called "Black Fem Futurist". It can be found at www.BlackFemFuturist.com She is also a new author in the genre of SciFi. Her novel "The GOD Maps" and Comic Books Series by the same name, will be available for purchase in the Spring of 2019. Please visit www.thegodmaps.com for more information. For Bookings or Interviews, please contact a representative at: stravardluxpublishing@gmail.com