April 23, 2024 • 20 mins
Welcome to the premiere episode of the Inventor Spotlight Podcast, presented by the Inventor Smart Community! In this episode, our host, Samantha St. Raymond, sits down with inventor Evelyn Wilson to delve into her unique journey from a career in nursing to the world of inventing. Evelyn shares the inspiration behind her innovative "D Germ" product—a personal hygiene solution born from everyday challenges. Discover how Evelyn leveraged her professional background and personal experiences to address a common problem with a simple, elegant solution.
Throughout the conversation, Evelyn discusses the pivotal moments of her invention process, from the initial "aha" moment to prototyping and seeking intellectual property protection. We also explore the significant role that the National Inventor Club and the Inventor Smart Community have played in her development as an inventor. This episode is a must-listen for anyone interested in the real-world process of bringing an idea to life, highlighting the support systems available for inventors and the importance of community in the creative process. Join us to be inspired by Evelyn's dedication and learn how to navigate the intricate path of invention and innovation.
Watch the episode here: https://youtu.be/OxDpaDfj_34
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To learn more about the Inventor Smart Community App, watch the video here: https://youtu.be/PxQvjjBq1S0
Inventor Smart Community App: The Ultimate Inventor's Community! Imagine a place where your invention ideas are celebrated, nurtured, and propelled forward. Welcome to Inventor Smart, where you'll connect with a passionate community of creators who understand your journey and help you bring your ideas to life!
Here's how Inventor Smart Community App will inspire you:
*Connect and Collaborate: Join lively group chats and forums to brainstorm with fellow inventors, share your progress, and overcome obstacles together.
*Tap into a Wealth of Knowledge: Get expert advice on patents, licensing, manufacturing, marketing, and retail distribution – all from experienced inventors who've been there.
*Spark Your Inspiration: Attend exciting online and in-person events designed to ignite your creativity and connect you with fellow innovators. Join live streams with industry leaders and the National Inventor Club, participate in book club meetings and Q&A sessions, or meet face-to-face at Meet and Greets.
*Gain Recognition: Showcase your invention to the community and gain valuable exposure. Pitch your ideas to explore potential partnerships. Be featured in our "Inventor in the Spotlight" series, where we share your inspiring journey with the community.
*Stay in the Know: Receive real-time notifications and announcements to keep you informed and inspired. Download Inventor Smart today and experience the power of a supportive community!
Download the Inventor Smart Community app today:
iOS in the Apple app store:
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/inventor-smart-community/id6448789752
and Andriod in Google Play store: https://inventorsmartplay.com
Also on the web app.inventorsmart.com.
Have a great invention idea? Do you want to know if your idea will make you money? If you're just getting started, need help with product development, engineering, prototyping, finding a product licensing agent or with bringing your invention idea to reality manufacturing overseas or in the USA, schedule a call with Brian Fried, The Inventor Coach @ https://brianfried.com
Throughout the conversation, Evelyn discusses the pivotal moments of her invention process, from the initial "aha" moment to prototyping and seeking intellectual property protection. We also explore the significant role that the National Inventor Club and the Inventor Smart Community have played in her development as an inventor. This episode is a must-listen for anyone interested in the real-world process of bringing an idea to life, highlighting the support systems available for inventors and the importance of community in the creative process. Join us to be inspired by Evelyn's dedication and learn how to navigate the intricate path of invention and innovation.
Watch the episode here: https://youtu.be/OxDpaDfj_34
------------------------------------
To learn more about the Inventor Smart Community App, watch the video here: https://youtu.be/PxQvjjBq1S0
Inventor Smart Community App: The Ultimate Inventor's Community! Imagine a place where your invention ideas are celebrated, nurtured, and propelled forward. Welcome to Inventor Smart, where you'll connect with a passionate community of creators who understand your journey and help you bring your ideas to life!
Here's how Inventor Smart Community App will inspire you:
*Connect and Collaborate: Join lively group chats and forums to brainstorm with fellow inventors, share your progress, and overcome obstacles together.
*Tap into a Wealth of Knowledge: Get expert advice on patents, licensing, manufacturing, marketing, and retail distribution – all from experienced inventors who've been there.
*Spark Your Inspiration: Attend exciting online and in-person events designed to ignite your creativity and connect you with fellow innovators. Join live streams with industry leaders and the National Inventor Club, participate in book club meetings and Q&A sessions, or meet face-to-face at Meet and Greets.
*Gain Recognition: Showcase your invention to the community and gain valuable exposure. Pitch your ideas to explore potential partnerships. Be featured in our "Inventor in the Spotlight" series, where we share your inspiring journey with the community.
*Stay in the Know: Receive real-time notifications and announcements to keep you informed and inspired. Download Inventor Smart today and experience the power of a supportive community!
Download the Inventor Smart Community app today:
iOS in the Apple app store:
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/inventor-smart-community/id6448789752
and Andriod in Google Play store: https://inventorsmartplay.com
Also on the web app.inventorsmart.com.
Have a great invention idea? Do you want to know if your idea will make you money? If you're just getting started, need help with product development, engineering, prototyping, finding a product licensing agent or with bringing your invention idea to reality manufacturing overseas or in the USA, schedule a call with Brian Fried, The Inventor Coach @ https://brianfried.com
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Speaker 1 (00:10):
Good morning to Evelyn. How are you.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
Good morning, Samantha. I'm fine. How are you?
Speaker 1 (00:16):
I'm doing well? Thank you.
Speaker 3 (00:18):
You look beautiful this morning. I love those colors. I
love what you're working with.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
Thank you, thank you.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
So I just thought we'd take a couple of minutes.
It's exciting.
Speaker 3 (00:28):
This is our first premiere podcast series of Inventor Spotlight,
compliments of the National Inventor Club and the Inventor Smart Community.
Of course, my name miss Samantha, and you are miss
lovely Evelyn, and I just want to let our audience
know that we're both inventors and we do this just
because we love inventing and we get really close to
(00:50):
our ideas and we get creative. So today we're just
going to talk about a little bit about your journey,
your product that you're working on at whatever stage you
want to talk about, and tell us and just kind
of tell us how you've developed all this, why you're
an inventor, why you believe in your product, and we'll
kind of go from there.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
Does that sound good?
Speaker 2 (01:10):
Sounds great?
Speaker 1 (01:11):
All right, So go ahead and start and just introduce yourself.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
Hello everyone, my name is Evelyn Wilson. I am an inventor.
Samantha said, we met maybe about a year ago, and
we have learned a lot from each other and from
inventor Smart. Within this year, we've been to convention, we
had a lot of Zoom and a lot of club meetings.
(01:36):
And I became an inventor because I really had a
problem and I needed a solution, and the solutions that
were out there, I just didn't really see them. So
I used my nursing background and my everyday issues that
I had and everyone else had, and I put those
two together and I developed my product. And I just
(01:58):
think everyone could use it. Everyone everywhere could use it
because everyone has a nose. So that's why I started
my d germ product Ideam, and that's why I'm here
to share it.
Speaker 1 (02:11):
I love this so much, so tell me how what was.
Speaker 3 (02:15):
That moment when you uh, I know your your background
is nursing, which we love that, thank you so much.
So tell me about the moment that you had that aha,
light bulb moment of wait a minute, there's a need here,
there's a problem, and I just I just thought of
the solution.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
Because we certainly know it's a long.
Speaker 3 (02:35):
Journey from that uh, that idea in our heads to
get around to actually having a product on the market.
But you know, I really want to tap into that
moment that you thought about this product.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
Okay, it was a cold winter morning and I was
driving my grandson to school and my nose was running
a lot. And I'm not a running person. I don't
get cold too often, I don't have algies any of that,
but that one morning it was really getting on my nerves.
(03:09):
So I was driving, was blowing my nose and driving
some more, then digging for the sanakizer and had to
stop signed looking for the lotion. I was like, this
is just and then my nose just kept running, kept running,
kept running. So I dropped them off. I came back
and I had a whole lot of nasty tissues sitting
(03:30):
in my passenger seat, And of course I thought, let
me take these nasty tissues and put them in my
pocketbook and then go in the house and throw them
in the trash. But then I thought about it, and
I was like, that's nasty too, Like you don't want
to take that nasty tissue and put it in your pocketbook.
We have everything in our pocketbook, my cell phones, key fobs,
(03:51):
that pen you borrow from the bank last month, your
your your your, your cards, all all types of things
that are just my purse. And I just didn't see
the point in me putting used tissues in my purse
and then everything else in my purse was used elsewhere.
To me, it was it reminded me of sprimmen germs.
(04:12):
So I thought, maybe there there's got to be something
out here. So I looked and I looked, and I looked,
and I saw some things, but they weren't exactly what
I needed. They were big and fulky and just it
was just just just too much. And so that is
how I came up with my product to d Germ.
I just didn't want I didn't want to deal with
(04:35):
all that bulkiness. I was like, this is I need
something more. I need something better. I need something more personal,
more discrete, more portable. And that's where it came from.
And so from there I started looking at companies who
would help me. You see, my air quotes helped me
(04:55):
develop my product that wasn't working out, and so I
so maybe I should take on more of a director
leader role and do it myself because other people just
weren't getting me where I needed to be, and so
(05:16):
I thought, you know, put it in my own hands,
take charge of my own future, faith however you want
to word it. And that's when I really started digging
into inventor clubs and the USPTO and things like that.
And it evolved from there because from that, from the automobile,
(05:36):
from in my car. From that happening, I started thinking
of other where, other ways that it could be used,
Other places it could be used, like in classrooms with kids.
My grandson's seat was one side of the classroom and
the one standardizer pump for the whole class was way
on the other side. And I thought, that's not going
(05:58):
to work. He needs something more personal. I need him
to be sitting at his desk concentrating on the teacher.
And also I thought, of you know, I would like
it in my pocketbook. Why does it have to just
be for the car? So it grew legs, as we
say from there.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
Yeah, it does grow legs.
Speaker 3 (06:21):
So how long right now have you been working on
your development of your product? And kind of where are
we at today? Are we ready to launch, are we
ready to manufacture? We created prototypes? Just kind of tell
us a little bit about that. I have created in
home prototypes.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
Everything that's a scrap piece of anything around here becomes
a prototype. To me, Yes, it does anything everything. And
what I also did was I had two D printings
drawn up, and I had CAD designer involved with one
of my embodiments of my jump product. So it's getting
(07:02):
there taken about two years because there's a lot to
learn along the way. You really don't want to rush
any of your products or ideas or anything because you
don't want to make You may make some mistakes, but
you don't want to make any big mistakes. And you know,
(07:23):
I've learned from people who've made some really big mistakes.
That's why I'm doing it, you know, the more cautious
I'm going to a more cautious route.
Speaker 3 (07:32):
Well, I do love that you just said it takes
a couple of years, because sometimes there can be a
misconception that inventing happens really fast and you're an overnight
success and you're going to make millions of dollars and
millions of people are going to buy your product. And
I think true inventors know that that kind of fairy
(07:55):
tale imagination doesn't.
Speaker 1 (07:57):
Really happen that quickly.
Speaker 3 (07:59):
Obvious, So it does take a long time to kind
of create your own product. Like you said, you had
this aha idea while you were driving pops into your mind,
and then as you develop, you're doing.
Speaker 1 (08:11):
Some sketches, you're doing more.
Speaker 3 (08:12):
Thinking, and then you get out in the market and
you start to look around.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
Who can help me?
Speaker 3 (08:17):
If you're a new inventor and you're not really sure
where do I go, what do I do?
Speaker 1 (08:21):
Who do I trust?
Speaker 3 (08:22):
Then we find there's just sharks in the water, and
we get really confused about There's a lot of companies
out there that you can pay a lot of money
to for their services, and we don't want to knock
those companies. We know that some of them do amazing work.
But as a young independent inventor, you may not have
that type of backing to get you to the next
(08:44):
step of where you want to be. So I know,
for me personally, when I found Brian and the National
Inventor Club, that was just a godsend to me because
I wanted to be a part of a community and
a membership. So I know that you're a member. Like
you said, we've met before. We're traveling to different cities.
We're meeting up in groups. We've become this community family
(09:08):
of inventors. So tell us how you found the National
Inventor Club and the Inventor Smart community and how this
has evolved for you.
Speaker 2 (09:19):
I used to listen to Brian Freed, who years ago,
I just remember, I would go to the free library.
I had to go to the free library to listen
to them. I don't quite remember why, but I would
go there to listen to his radio shows. And so
recent I say maybe about last year, a little bit
(09:40):
more over a year ago. A friend that Brian has
and I have. You know, when you're in these communities,
you start meeting like the same people they introduced us,
they introduced us, and so that's when I joined National
Inventor Club. And you guys were on the on the
(10:02):
on the on the traveling part of it. I was like, well,
you know, there's nothing wrong with traveling. So so, you know,
we were going to the USPTO of Virginia. My husband
was like, you please be quiet. I couldn't stop talking
about it, and so you know, and then we went
out to Vegas for for that convention as well. So
(10:23):
that's the beauty of all of this because you get
to speak from people all over the world and in person. Okay,
zoom is nice, don't get me wrong. Zoom is nice.
Podcasting nice, but so is meeting people face to face.
You hear what they want, You hear what they expect,
(10:44):
You hear their timetable, you hear how they come to
come to realize. You know, this might work, this might
not work. And you remember that room that was to
the to the left when we went to the Alabiba
convention and it was all those inventors in there there events.
Speaker 3 (11:00):
It was like.
Speaker 2 (11:02):
A great big what do you call that guy?
Speaker 1 (11:06):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (11:08):
Yeah, what do you call it? What do you call
that character? Candy land? I don't know how else to
say it, but Jean Wilder in a chocolate factory when
all them kids walked in and saw that candy. That's
the feeling I had when I went to that convention.
So conventions are extremely important if you can go, if
you can't talk to somebody, to talk to somebody to
(11:30):
death about when they went and what their experience was.
Because I feel as though it's kind of like I
write a passage and all this, you have got to
see what else is out there. You've got to see
where other people started where they're going, where they're at now,
and where they're going later. It is great. I've met
so many nice people along this journey and I'm excited.
(11:51):
I'm excited to be where they are. I love that too.
Speaker 3 (11:56):
Because we did all get together in in Arlington, Virginia.
It was it last April, I believe. I think there
was twenty seven to thirty of us, all members of
the National Inventor Club and the Inventor Smart Community.
Speaker 1 (12:13):
Brian set it up for us.
Speaker 3 (12:14):
We had a tour day at the United States Patent
Trademark Office. We had many guests available, a full day there.
It was incredible. They had a beautiful breakfast prepared for us.
We had an amazing lunch. We toured the museum, we
played games, a scavenger hunt, we had people from p
TAB there. We had folks that are attorneys and examiners,
(12:39):
and as a young inventor myself, I was blown away.
I had never in a million years imagined that that's
a place that we would be as a community, all together,
learning from one another, meeting each other face to face.
And I think that's the strength and the power being
in a National Inventor Club community because we're getting to
(13:00):
know each other and we're supporting each.
Speaker 1 (13:01):
Other along the way, and You're right, we have questions.
Speaker 3 (13:04):
We want to know what process did you take, or hey,
what manufacturer have you used? Or what patent agent or
what patent attorney have you trusted? Have you used? And
I think that's what the club is starting to really encompass,
is building each other up and sharing networking and sharing
other service providers that we've all used before so that
(13:26):
we can build relationships outside to create our products.
Speaker 1 (13:30):
So I'm so excited to have you.
Speaker 3 (13:32):
Today because you have recently been on our Inventor Spotlight.
We're proud of you and your tenacity to continue forward
with your product.
Speaker 1 (13:42):
We know it's not easy. You have to do lots
of steps.
Speaker 3 (13:45):
You have to redesign, go a different direction, pull back again. Financially,
it takes time as well to commit to your product
on how you're going to spend your money, where you're
going to manufacture, how many units you're going to do,
are you going to license, are you going to manufacture yourself?
(14:06):
And you've got to look at the marketing side of
it and the distribution side.
Speaker 1 (14:10):
So there's many, many.
Speaker 3 (14:11):
Things that all of this takes time and patience and
forthcoming to get to pull this to market.
Speaker 1 (14:19):
So what's next for you, Evelyn? What do you Where
are we at now? What do you think is going
to happen next?
Speaker 2 (14:25):
Well, I really want to perfect my prototypes just a
little bit more. The more I the more I keep
trying to perfect them, It's like the better of a
solution I come up with. So I'm kind of like
surprising myself and I like that. I like that That's
what I'm supposed to go for other challenge myself. So
(14:47):
I really enjoyed that part. I do have a PPA,
so I'm waiting, you know, I'm just trying to make
sure that I've covered every possible that I can do,
every possible core owner, tweak it to the best of
my ability, and then converted to a full utility. And
even in the process of all of that, I still
want to look more a design engineer for a more working,
(15:11):
functional prototype, and then we'll see about manufacturing and licensing,
inventoring and things like that. So I'm still I'm still
in the process. I'm still in the process. I show
up the meetings, interacting the inventor smart app, I do
podcasts and I just stay in contact with the members
(15:33):
so that we can each encourage one another.
Speaker 1 (15:36):
That's great.
Speaker 3 (15:37):
So do you think that's helping being part of a community,
like we've been talking about being featured as a Spotlight member,
interacting inside the Inventor Smart Community app, going to the
meetings at the National Inventure Club, which they're monthly, they're online.
Speaker 1 (15:53):
Do you think this is helping.
Speaker 3 (15:57):
Keep you inspired, keep you educated, and keep moving forward
as an inventor.
Speaker 1 (16:02):
Is this inspirational to you? Is it valuable? Do you
see the value there?
Speaker 2 (16:07):
Absolutely? And it's not even look it's not. I'm sorry,
it's it's not. It's like maybe a maybe a day's pay.
It's not a lot. Some of these prices out here
were like Astro, I couldn't even afford to be in
their club. I was like what I couldn't afford that.
I couldn't afford it. I couldn't afford it. And what
(16:28):
we get from from from nice and invent a smart app.
I really don't think you're going to get a better
deal out there, Sorry, guys, I really don't. I don't
really I don't really think it's it's a better deal
out there. So it's very much so worth your time
and every penny.
Speaker 1 (16:48):
H it really is, it really is.
Speaker 3 (16:50):
Of course, I've learned a lot from Brian and the
amount of guests that he's had on the National Inventor Club,
from the Small Business Administration to the USPTO, to other authors,
other inventors, celebrities, just been incredible. Okay, well, we don't
want to keep anybody.
Speaker 1 (17:09):
Too much longer. I just wanted to say.
Speaker 3 (17:11):
Thank you for being here this morning. I love chatting
with you. I'm excited about your product. I am a
little aware we've talked about it a few times in
the past, and you're encouraging and you're inspiring because I
know you've been working on this for quite some time,
and you're reminding our audience that this takes time. Don't
give up. Keep baby steps along the way. Look for
(17:33):
those bridges of incidences. Connect with the right people. Join
us at the National Inventor Club or the Inventor Smart
Community app. You can go to Google Play Store and
download and we're right here. We're available for you to
connect and join with us and we can learn and
support one another. And I love that about this community.
(17:53):
It's growing exponentially and the fact that you remember, just
warms my heart every time I see you in the
app or when we get a chance to do a
live event, we get to see each other, and I
love that so much, and I'm really proud of you
and how far are you come?
Speaker 2 (18:11):
Thank you, thank you, thank you so much. And you
know what else I like about the Inventorsment Act. You
know how like late at night, you're like, it's the
end of the day. You worked all day, you fed
the dog and deubled the kids and whoever else lives
in the home, and then sometimes right before you hit
the pillow, you think of some of a question to ask.
And that's the great thing about that Invenors Martt. You
(18:33):
can get on there at like eleven fifty five pm
and ask the question, and you know what I'm saying.
It's not like you have to write it down or
for the next time that we meet or anything like that.
The whole community there is there to help you twenty
four hours, seven days a week. So that's what I
really appreciate about that app. I really like that.
Speaker 3 (18:56):
Yeah, it's also so international that everybody's on your time zone,
so and you're speaking like a true inventor as you
say to yourself as I'm laying down putting my head
going to sleep, boom and idea, pops. I think every
inventor can certainly identify with that process of how that works,
(19:16):
either waking up or first going to sleep.
Speaker 1 (19:18):
We always get these great ideas.
Speaker 3 (19:20):
But yeah, to your point, you can certainly go into
the app, go into the main hub, post a question
and you could get an answer right away or first
thing in the morning, wake up and find some more
solutions to what you're thinking about. Okay, so again you
are our inventor Spotlight premiere person. So I'm so happy
(19:42):
about that, yay, and looking forward to seeing you again
in person online on the app so we can communicate, connect,
share and just have this love and joy for inventing.
Speaker 2 (19:56):
Yes, yes, thank you so much for having me. Thank you.
Speaker 1 (20:00):
All right, we'll see you next time. Have a great
Speaker 2 (20:02):
Day, all right, take care, bye bye bye bye
Good morning to Evelyn. How are you.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
Good morning, Samantha. I'm fine. How are you?
Speaker 1 (00:16):
I'm doing well? Thank you.
Speaker 3 (00:18):
You look beautiful this morning. I love those colors. I
love what you're working with.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
Thank you, thank you.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
So I just thought we'd take a couple of minutes.
It's exciting.
Speaker 3 (00:28):
This is our first premiere podcast series of Inventor Spotlight,
compliments of the National Inventor Club and the Inventor Smart Community.
Of course, my name miss Samantha, and you are miss
lovely Evelyn, and I just want to let our audience
know that we're both inventors and we do this just
because we love inventing and we get really close to
(00:50):
our ideas and we get creative. So today we're just
going to talk about a little bit about your journey,
your product that you're working on at whatever stage you
want to talk about, and tell us and just kind
of tell us how you've developed all this, why you're
an inventor, why you believe in your product, and we'll
kind of go from there.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
Does that sound good?
Speaker 2 (01:10):
Sounds great?
Speaker 1 (01:11):
All right, So go ahead and start and just introduce yourself.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
Hello everyone, my name is Evelyn Wilson. I am an inventor.
Samantha said, we met maybe about a year ago, and
we have learned a lot from each other and from
inventor Smart. Within this year, we've been to convention, we
had a lot of Zoom and a lot of club meetings.
(01:36):
And I became an inventor because I really had a
problem and I needed a solution, and the solutions that
were out there, I just didn't really see them. So
I used my nursing background and my everyday issues that
I had and everyone else had, and I put those
two together and I developed my product. And I just
(01:58):
think everyone could use it. Everyone everywhere could use it
because everyone has a nose. So that's why I started
my d germ product Ideam, and that's why I'm here
to share it.
Speaker 1 (02:11):
I love this so much, so tell me how what was.
Speaker 3 (02:15):
That moment when you uh, I know your your background
is nursing, which we love that, thank you so much.
So tell me about the moment that you had that aha,
light bulb moment of wait a minute, there's a need here,
there's a problem, and I just I just thought of
the solution.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
Because we certainly know it's a long.
Speaker 3 (02:35):
Journey from that uh, that idea in our heads to
get around to actually having a product on the market.
But you know, I really want to tap into that
moment that you thought about this product.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
Okay, it was a cold winter morning and I was
driving my grandson to school and my nose was running
a lot. And I'm not a running person. I don't
get cold too often, I don't have algies any of that,
but that one morning it was really getting on my nerves.
(03:09):
So I was driving, was blowing my nose and driving
some more, then digging for the sanakizer and had to
stop signed looking for the lotion. I was like, this
is just and then my nose just kept running, kept running,
kept running. So I dropped them off. I came back
and I had a whole lot of nasty tissues sitting
(03:30):
in my passenger seat, And of course I thought, let
me take these nasty tissues and put them in my
pocketbook and then go in the house and throw them
in the trash. But then I thought about it, and
I was like, that's nasty too, Like you don't want
to take that nasty tissue and put it in your pocketbook.
We have everything in our pocketbook, my cell phones, key fobs,
(03:51):
that pen you borrow from the bank last month, your
your your your, your cards, all all types of things
that are just my purse. And I just didn't see
the point in me putting used tissues in my purse
and then everything else in my purse was used elsewhere.
To me, it was it reminded me of sprimmen germs.
(04:12):
So I thought, maybe there there's got to be something
out here. So I looked and I looked, and I looked,
and I saw some things, but they weren't exactly what
I needed. They were big and fulky and just it
was just just just too much. And so that is
how I came up with my product to d Germ.
I just didn't want I didn't want to deal with
(04:35):
all that bulkiness. I was like, this is I need
something more. I need something better. I need something more personal,
more discrete, more portable. And that's where it came from.
And so from there I started looking at companies who
would help me. You see, my air quotes helped me
(04:55):
develop my product that wasn't working out, and so I
so maybe I should take on more of a director
leader role and do it myself because other people just
weren't getting me where I needed to be, and so
(05:16):
I thought, you know, put it in my own hands,
take charge of my own future, faith however you want
to word it. And that's when I really started digging
into inventor clubs and the USPTO and things like that.
And it evolved from there because from that, from the automobile,
(05:36):
from in my car. From that happening, I started thinking
of other where, other ways that it could be used,
Other places it could be used, like in classrooms with kids.
My grandson's seat was one side of the classroom and
the one standardizer pump for the whole class was way
on the other side. And I thought, that's not going
(05:58):
to work. He needs something more personal. I need him
to be sitting at his desk concentrating on the teacher.
And also I thought, of you know, I would like
it in my pocketbook. Why does it have to just
be for the car? So it grew legs, as we
say from there.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
Yeah, it does grow legs.
Speaker 3 (06:21):
So how long right now have you been working on
your development of your product? And kind of where are
we at today? Are we ready to launch, are we
ready to manufacture? We created prototypes? Just kind of tell
us a little bit about that. I have created in
home prototypes.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
Everything that's a scrap piece of anything around here becomes
a prototype. To me, Yes, it does anything everything. And
what I also did was I had two D printings
drawn up, and I had CAD designer involved with one
of my embodiments of my jump product. So it's getting
(07:02):
there taken about two years because there's a lot to
learn along the way. You really don't want to rush
any of your products or ideas or anything because you
don't want to make You may make some mistakes, but
you don't want to make any big mistakes. And you know,
(07:23):
I've learned from people who've made some really big mistakes.
That's why I'm doing it, you know, the more cautious
I'm going to a more cautious route.
Speaker 3 (07:32):
Well, I do love that you just said it takes
a couple of years, because sometimes there can be a
misconception that inventing happens really fast and you're an overnight
success and you're going to make millions of dollars and
millions of people are going to buy your product. And
I think true inventors know that that kind of fairy
(07:55):
tale imagination doesn't.
Speaker 1 (07:57):
Really happen that quickly.
Speaker 3 (07:59):
Obvious, So it does take a long time to kind
of create your own product. Like you said, you had
this aha idea while you were driving pops into your mind,
and then as you develop, you're doing.
Speaker 1 (08:11):
Some sketches, you're doing more.
Speaker 3 (08:12):
Thinking, and then you get out in the market and
you start to look around.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
Who can help me?
Speaker 3 (08:17):
If you're a new inventor and you're not really sure
where do I go, what do I do?
Speaker 1 (08:21):
Who do I trust?
Speaker 3 (08:22):
Then we find there's just sharks in the water, and
we get really confused about There's a lot of companies
out there that you can pay a lot of money
to for their services, and we don't want to knock
those companies. We know that some of them do amazing work.
But as a young independent inventor, you may not have
that type of backing to get you to the next
(08:44):
step of where you want to be. So I know,
for me personally, when I found Brian and the National
Inventor Club, that was just a godsend to me because
I wanted to be a part of a community and
a membership. So I know that you're a member. Like
you said, we've met before. We're traveling to different cities.
We're meeting up in groups. We've become this community family
(09:08):
of inventors. So tell us how you found the National
Inventor Club and the Inventor Smart community and how this
has evolved for you.
Speaker 2 (09:19):
I used to listen to Brian Freed, who years ago,
I just remember, I would go to the free library.
I had to go to the free library to listen
to them. I don't quite remember why, but I would
go there to listen to his radio shows. And so
recent I say maybe about last year, a little bit
(09:40):
more over a year ago. A friend that Brian has
and I have. You know, when you're in these communities,
you start meeting like the same people they introduced us,
they introduced us, and so that's when I joined National
Inventor Club. And you guys were on the on the
(10:02):
on the on the traveling part of it. I was like, well,
you know, there's nothing wrong with traveling. So so, you know,
we were going to the USPTO of Virginia. My husband
was like, you please be quiet. I couldn't stop talking
about it, and so you know, and then we went
out to Vegas for for that convention as well. So
(10:23):
that's the beauty of all of this because you get
to speak from people all over the world and in person. Okay,
zoom is nice, don't get me wrong. Zoom is nice.
Podcasting nice, but so is meeting people face to face.
You hear what they want, You hear what they expect,
(10:44):
You hear their timetable, you hear how they come to
come to realize. You know, this might work, this might
not work. And you remember that room that was to
the to the left when we went to the Alabiba
convention and it was all those inventors in there there events.
Speaker 3 (11:00):
It was like.
Speaker 2 (11:02):
A great big what do you call that guy?
Speaker 1 (11:06):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (11:08):
Yeah, what do you call it? What do you call
that character? Candy land? I don't know how else to
say it, but Jean Wilder in a chocolate factory when
all them kids walked in and saw that candy. That's
the feeling I had when I went to that convention.
So conventions are extremely important if you can go, if
you can't talk to somebody, to talk to somebody to
(11:30):
death about when they went and what their experience was.
Because I feel as though it's kind of like I
write a passage and all this, you have got to
see what else is out there. You've got to see
where other people started where they're going, where they're at now,
and where they're going later. It is great. I've met
so many nice people along this journey and I'm excited.
(11:51):
I'm excited to be where they are. I love that too.
Speaker 3 (11:56):
Because we did all get together in in Arlington, Virginia.
It was it last April, I believe. I think there
was twenty seven to thirty of us, all members of
the National Inventor Club and the Inventor Smart Community.
Speaker 1 (12:13):
Brian set it up for us.
Speaker 3 (12:14):
We had a tour day at the United States Patent
Trademark Office. We had many guests available, a full day there.
It was incredible. They had a beautiful breakfast prepared for us.
We had an amazing lunch. We toured the museum, we
played games, a scavenger hunt, we had people from p
TAB there. We had folks that are attorneys and examiners,
(12:39):
and as a young inventor myself, I was blown away.
I had never in a million years imagined that that's
a place that we would be as a community, all together,
learning from one another, meeting each other face to face.
And I think that's the strength and the power being
in a National Inventor Club community because we're getting to
(13:00):
know each other and we're supporting each.
Speaker 1 (13:01):
Other along the way, and You're right, we have questions.
Speaker 3 (13:04):
We want to know what process did you take, or hey,
what manufacturer have you used? Or what patent agent or
what patent attorney have you trusted? Have you used? And
I think that's what the club is starting to really encompass,
is building each other up and sharing networking and sharing
other service providers that we've all used before so that
(13:26):
we can build relationships outside to create our products.
Speaker 1 (13:30):
So I'm so excited to have you.
Speaker 3 (13:32):
Today because you have recently been on our Inventor Spotlight.
We're proud of you and your tenacity to continue forward
with your product.
Speaker 1 (13:42):
We know it's not easy. You have to do lots
of steps.
Speaker 3 (13:45):
You have to redesign, go a different direction, pull back again. Financially,
it takes time as well to commit to your product
on how you're going to spend your money, where you're
going to manufacture, how many units you're going to do,
are you going to license, are you going to manufacture yourself?
(14:06):
And you've got to look at the marketing side of
it and the distribution side.
Speaker 1 (14:10):
So there's many, many.
Speaker 3 (14:11):
Things that all of this takes time and patience and
forthcoming to get to pull this to market.
Speaker 1 (14:19):
So what's next for you, Evelyn? What do you Where
are we at now? What do you think is going
to happen next?
Speaker 2 (14:25):
Well, I really want to perfect my prototypes just a
little bit more. The more I the more I keep
trying to perfect them, It's like the better of a
solution I come up with. So I'm kind of like
surprising myself and I like that. I like that That's
what I'm supposed to go for other challenge myself. So
(14:47):
I really enjoyed that part. I do have a PPA,
so I'm waiting, you know, I'm just trying to make
sure that I've covered every possible that I can do,
every possible core owner, tweak it to the best of
my ability, and then converted to a full utility. And
even in the process of all of that, I still
want to look more a design engineer for a more working,
(15:11):
functional prototype, and then we'll see about manufacturing and licensing,
inventoring and things like that. So I'm still I'm still
in the process. I'm still in the process. I show
up the meetings, interacting the inventor smart app, I do
podcasts and I just stay in contact with the members
(15:33):
so that we can each encourage one another.
Speaker 1 (15:36):
That's great.
Speaker 3 (15:37):
So do you think that's helping being part of a community,
like we've been talking about being featured as a Spotlight member,
interacting inside the Inventor Smart Community app, going to the
meetings at the National Inventure Club, which they're monthly, they're online.
Speaker 1 (15:53):
Do you think this is helping.
Speaker 3 (15:57):
Keep you inspired, keep you educated, and keep moving forward
as an inventor.
Speaker 1 (16:02):
Is this inspirational to you? Is it valuable? Do you
see the value there?
Speaker 2 (16:07):
Absolutely? And it's not even look it's not. I'm sorry,
it's it's not. It's like maybe a maybe a day's pay.
It's not a lot. Some of these prices out here
were like Astro, I couldn't even afford to be in
their club. I was like what I couldn't afford that.
I couldn't afford it. I couldn't afford it. And what
(16:28):
we get from from from nice and invent a smart app.
I really don't think you're going to get a better
deal out there, Sorry, guys, I really don't. I don't
really I don't really think it's it's a better deal
out there. So it's very much so worth your time
and every penny.
Speaker 1 (16:48):
H it really is, it really is.
Speaker 3 (16:50):
Of course, I've learned a lot from Brian and the
amount of guests that he's had on the National Inventor Club,
from the Small Business Administration to the USPTO, to other authors,
other inventors, celebrities, just been incredible. Okay, well, we don't
want to keep anybody.
Speaker 1 (17:09):
Too much longer. I just wanted to say.
Speaker 3 (17:11):
Thank you for being here this morning. I love chatting
with you. I'm excited about your product. I am a
little aware we've talked about it a few times in
the past, and you're encouraging and you're inspiring because I
know you've been working on this for quite some time,
and you're reminding our audience that this takes time. Don't
give up. Keep baby steps along the way. Look for
(17:33):
those bridges of incidences. Connect with the right people. Join
us at the National Inventor Club or the Inventor Smart
Community app. You can go to Google Play Store and
download and we're right here. We're available for you to
connect and join with us and we can learn and
support one another. And I love that about this community.
(17:53):
It's growing exponentially and the fact that you remember, just
warms my heart every time I see you in the
app or when we get a chance to do a
live event, we get to see each other, and I
love that so much, and I'm really proud of you
and how far are you come?
Speaker 2 (18:11):
Thank you, thank you, thank you so much. And you
know what else I like about the Inventorsment Act. You
know how like late at night, you're like, it's the
end of the day. You worked all day, you fed
the dog and deubled the kids and whoever else lives
in the home, and then sometimes right before you hit
the pillow, you think of some of a question to ask.
And that's the great thing about that Invenors Martt. You
(18:33):
can get on there at like eleven fifty five pm
and ask the question, and you know what I'm saying.
It's not like you have to write it down or
for the next time that we meet or anything like that.
The whole community there is there to help you twenty
four hours, seven days a week. So that's what I
really appreciate about that app. I really like that.
Speaker 3 (18:56):
Yeah, it's also so international that everybody's on your time zone,
so and you're speaking like a true inventor as you
say to yourself as I'm laying down putting my head
going to sleep, boom and idea, pops. I think every
inventor can certainly identify with that process of how that works,
(19:16):
either waking up or first going to sleep.
Speaker 1 (19:18):
We always get these great ideas.
Speaker 3 (19:20):
But yeah, to your point, you can certainly go into
the app, go into the main hub, post a question
and you could get an answer right away or first
thing in the morning, wake up and find some more
solutions to what you're thinking about. Okay, so again you
are our inventor Spotlight premiere person. So I'm so happy
(19:42):
about that, yay, and looking forward to seeing you again
in person online on the app so we can communicate, connect,
share and just have this love and joy for inventing.
Speaker 2 (19:56):
Yes, yes, thank you so much for having me. Thank you.
Speaker 1 (20:00):
All right, we'll see you next time. Have a great
Speaker 2 (20:02):
Day, all right, take care, bye bye bye bye
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