August 29, 2024 • 30 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hi everybody.
Speaker 2 (00:00):
I'm Lisa Askals, the Inventress, CEO of and founder of
Inventing a t z AOI Inventor Spotlight TV. But here
we are on my podcast, The inventress Is Podcast and
super excited because we have a powerhouse here today, a
powerhouse inventor internationally known for her great productistic assist. You
(00:24):
wait till you hear what it is you Canna, It's
gonna blow your mind. I cannot wait to have this
conversation with you.
Speaker 1 (00:33):
Welcome, Cindy Green, Welcome, Welcome, Welcome, welcome. Thank you so much, Lisa.
I'm excited.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
Clause happening in the background here.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
How you doing, girl, I'm doing fine. I'm excited to
be here and they had this conversation with you, and
I'm just looking forward to it.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
Well, excited to have you. And I have to start
by saying, I'm so proud of you for your diligence,
your perseverance, and just everything that you're doing. So I
talked a little bit about tea stick assist. I said,
you know, gave the name, but didn't give too much information.
So I'm going to give a little bit more and
then I'm going to give you the floor. So my
(01:19):
incredible client, Cindy Green, is the inventor of the product
tee Stick Assist, and we're going to talk to you,
Cindy about how you came up with this tea stick Assist,
and you're going to explain what it is. I can
show it because I got plenty of them here. You
can explain what it is, why you came up with
the invention, and I'll talk about why you are internationally
(01:42):
known in many congratulations, but I want you to say
these things. So, Cindy, welcome to the Inventor's Podcast.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
How are you girl? And what's your product? Hello, Lisa,
And my product is the tea stick Assist. And so
a little bit about the story of how tea stick
came to be. When I was raising my daughters, they
(02:11):
were younger and we had I wanted to make sure
that where we were living. It was old in Germantown
in Philadelphia, and the building was kind of old and uh,
brownstone brick, I love that, and so but I wanted
to make sure that everything was well, and so I
wanted to get a lead poisoning test for my daughter.
(02:36):
So in order to do that, I had to get
a urine sample. And she was young. This is in nineteen, say,
ninety to ninety three. My daughter was born in nineteen
eighty seven. So there I am trying to get a
urine sample from my very young daughter, and it was
(03:00):
she didn't know how to do it by herself. She
didn't know how to navigate a maneuver any of it.
I don't know how to navigate it either, and I'm
much older, so I did it for her. But it
was just uncomfortable. Was so it was so uncomfortable and
it was awkward. It was medieval. It was like, why
(03:27):
am I down here under my daughter trying to collect urine?
It was it just was, it just was. It was
very uncomfortable. It made no sense, right, it made no
(03:48):
This was in nineteen around nineteen ninety three. Yeah, yeah,
this is around nineteen ninety three. So it irked me
so bad. And then every time I gave a you're
in sample after that, I just noticed how like I
knew it before, but what I need to do for her?
And then when I had to start giving your en samples,
(04:11):
every time I did it, it was like, right, you know,
I just I hate this. I just hate the whole thing.
And it's very unhygienic, very yeah for sure. Yeah yeah.
We're taking this little cup right, Oh my goodness, we're
taking this little cup.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
Right, and they're putting it underneath, and you know, we're
hoping that it lands in the right spot.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
But continue, yes, and then, like I said, every time thereafter,
I'm noticing this issue in a situation with trying to
give a urine sample. Sometimes at certain points in my life,
I was heavier, or I was thinner, or you know,
(05:02):
my I might have had some kind of an ailment
where you know, bending was an issue. And then I
also was helping to take care of my mother and
my mother in law, and they're getting up in age,
and so every time it happens, and every time I
have to go through this, I just said, no more.
(05:25):
This must stop for all women. So in nineteen ninety eight,
I started my journey of getting a patent for the
tea stick assists. It didn't have the name then it was,
it didn't have a name at all. Actually I made
it first. I made the tea stick first out of,
(05:51):
oh my goodness, popsicle sticks and anything else I could
get my hands on, arts and crabs because I just
wanted to know if the reason why we're not doing
that differently is because there is no better way. There
is no better anything. So I always live when I
(06:12):
hear you speak about you were always making something to
solve a problem. And you know that that was me.
I I I always went to my own devices creatively
to solve different problems that I was making it, I
(06:33):
was putting together or I was taking it apart. And
so I started with, like I said, Arsen, Yeah, Arsen
craft sticks and things like that.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
Whatever you had available, right, because what inventors do, yes, yes.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
And it's usually urgent.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
Right, it's usually urgent. Let me, this is crazy you
had had it? It's crazy, it's urgent. What do I
have to make this product?
Speaker 1 (07:06):
Right? As a prototype?
Speaker 2 (07:07):
And this is where the brilliance of your innovation comes in.
Speaker 1 (07:11):
Right. I retired from teaching, So as a teacher, I
was always making something because a lot of materials, when
they come to your desk, they're not they're good, but
you need to tweak them so that it fits the
student that you're working with. So and I had glue
and taping, scissors all over the place. But so it
(07:38):
was really a creative journey. It was a journey of
how do I make this work, no matter what my size,
because I didn't think that any woman should have to
go through that in order to give your example. And
I know for my counterparts, the males, they don't have
(07:58):
to ark on that journey. It don't and I'm not
upset with them, but if you're having to ease your
way out, but I got I didn't understand. We've got
people in the moon. We've got Yeah, they didn't have you, Cindy,
they didn't have you.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
And literally, this is how inventions are born. You know,
people many times will not invent something because they think, well,
that has to be out there. Am I Who am
I to invent it? It should have been done by now.
But this is You are a perfect example of how
(08:39):
great products are born. You are and you what you
did was you continued. You didn't just stop. I mean, yes,
it was nineteen ninety eight when you first thought of it,
but to move forward, especially at that time, like who
do I use?
Speaker 1 (08:52):
Where do I go? How do I develop it? What
do I do?
Speaker 2 (08:54):
And you put your popsicle sticks together and you put
your inventor's cap on and you heated this incredible product
that you tested over and over again for yourself. You
made various designs and I know that for a fact
because I have several here, and just hats off to
you that not only did you invent it, you patented
(09:18):
it and not only locally but globally internationally.
Speaker 1 (09:29):
Cynthia Green, do you have the patent in front of you? Ah? Yes,
As a matter of fact, I do a lot. My
United States patent it's here. This is the utility Patgeant.
I am Sue, And this is the United States patent
(09:55):
for the design. And yeah, this is bring it. This
is the patent for United Kingdom, and this is the
patent for you know, I'm sorry. Here it is the
(10:17):
original the United Kingdom for design. This is my patent
for UH Canada stop design. And this is my patent
(10:39):
for the EU. Did I cover them all?
Speaker 2 (10:49):
Listen everybody, So we're talking about the epitome of creativity.
Speaker 1 (10:55):
Not stop.
Speaker 2 (10:56):
But let me back it up and congratulations on all
of these runs, right, And you deserve praises and congratulations.
And I know you're we talk about gratitude and all
that stuff. Let me tell you something.
Speaker 1 (11:09):
You are changing lives.
Speaker 2 (11:12):
You're changing the world with this product with your innovation,
with your thoughts, with your determination, and you're brilliant, you
really and truly are. And you're helping not only the
medical aspect of it and people, you know, women going
to the doctor and your nation and all that stuff,
but you're speaking to women and people all over the
(11:33):
world right now and telling them what you did.
Speaker 1 (11:35):
And you stuck with it.
Speaker 2 (11:36):
So what I was going to say was not only
it's not easy to just patent, right, so it sounds like, oh,
I got my patents. It wasn't just that you had to.
I mean the USPTO and International Patent said, Okay, no,
this is not good enough. We need more information, so
(11:59):
you have to kind of not reapply, but insert more information.
And I will say, and I'm not an attorney, but
I'll say, like a cadssule, right in addition to what
you've patented, because USPTO said this is similar to something else,
give us more information about why this is different. So
it wasn't just I applied for patent.
Speaker 1 (12:19):
I got it. Oh, Lisa, Uh, my patents got resubmitted
so many times. I have an excellent patent uh. Lawyer
David Potowski Pilowski Sorry, David, But anyway, he's excellent and
(12:41):
he really walked with me in this process. But yes,
resubmissions numerous times, and it got it got uh sometimes discouraging,
like there were times when I just didn't know whether
or not I should continue, because you could submit it
(13:08):
as many times as you can finance to submit it.
But then there's a place where can can you continue
the journey? Sometimes it's finances. Can you continue to resubmit,
or just can you can your self esteem? Can your
(13:30):
sense of purpose take this kind of a beating and
keep going? Can you move forward after being told by
the administration of that no, this does not meet the criteria,
and if you want to, you may submit it. But
as it is right now, our answer is no. And
(13:56):
that part of the journey is very interesting because oh,
that part was started. But I have a community that
is extremely supportive that helps me to say, continue, go forward,
(14:17):
you can do it. We're rooting for you, We're cheering
for you. And that community is a motivation on Monday.
It is OUI. It is the organization that I have
connected with you, Lisa, and places where my spirit would
have been crushed or I would have felt overwhelmed that
(14:41):
there's a whole bunch of people that are always.
Speaker 3 (14:43):
Saying yes, Cindy, no, you can do it, you can
do it, either saying you could do it, or else
they're saying, this is what I did, this is what
it took to get through it, this is how you
re invent yourself, this is how.
Speaker 1 (15:00):
You double down and start over again. And there's always you.
That's like the biggest cheering section I've ever seen, like
awesome in spiritual and emotional support.
Speaker 2 (15:18):
Well, listen, I'm glad to give that to you. You're welcome,
and it's it's you hit the nail on the head
because if you do not have support and you're doing
this alone, I have to say, you know, I speak
positive into existence. Right when you want something badly enough,
you can receive it. But if you don't have the
support of positive people around.
Speaker 1 (15:40):
You, it's lost.
Speaker 2 (15:42):
It's lost because you don't have positive you have the
opposite right, Yes.
Speaker 1 (15:46):
You have your thoughts.
Speaker 2 (15:48):
If you don't have people around you are cheering you
on and rooting you on, you're by yourself and your thoughts.
Speaker 1 (15:54):
And speaking of rush you, speaking of supportive people, I
have to say that this journey I was very, very
very blessed my family, God bless them. I was like,
we need this and they're like okay, and I'm like, amazing, Yeah,
(16:18):
you gotta try this out. And they're like okay. And
I also was very very blessed. I worked with UH four.
I worked with a lot of phenomenal people, but but
there were four ladies that I worked with on my
job and the last leg right before I retired. When
(16:43):
I was I was ready to retire, I had been
rejected with some of the patents and I was not
understanding the reason why they were saying that, uh, there's
(17:04):
no need for this.
Speaker 4 (17:06):
I was just floored, Cindy, it's a person when yes,
it's a person at everybody out there when you're submitting
a patent, it's a person at.
Speaker 2 (17:19):
USPTO, United States Patent Office or the International Patent Office.
It's a person who is telling you that they don't
feel they personally, based upon whatever criteria, whatever other searches
they've done, that they don't feel that your product is
unique enough to fit the mold of what you're trying
(17:42):
to do right right?
Speaker 1 (17:44):
You know what I did to off set that when
I was getting that the beautiful women that I work
with those four women, and I'm telling you about God,
God bless them. I made prototypes and I gave it
to them, and I said, you go use these. I
(18:06):
mean the array and the size and the shapes of
the four by four friends sisters not by the same mother,
but certainly in heart. They and then they had to
fill out a form. Then they had to cheek, you know,
and they did it. They did it in different size
(18:29):
form NDA.
Speaker 2 (18:30):
So you allowed you made them fill out a non
disclosed agreement or no.
Speaker 1 (18:34):
I made them do the information form. You created, the
information created. Such a teacher. You're such a teacher. I
was like, how did this feel? Was rough? Was it easy?
Did it? Did you have difficulties? And they were different
sizes of some very tall, some short, some larger at
the top, some larger at the bottom, some with nice
(18:55):
little round stomachs you know, war uh, thick on the thighs.
What all different body types between the four of us,
between the four of them and one of me. We
covered everything. And then I had my sisters. I have
all sisters, and I have so my sisters come in
(19:16):
different sizes and different shapes. None of us are very tall,
but we come in different sizes in different shapes, and
my nieces and my daughters. I made them all try
it out, and I I was encouraged by their information.
(19:39):
I was encouraged by the information that they gave back
to me. Yes, first of all, they told me, yes,
this is needed, and yes it does work, and yes,
I don't want to take my next year. I don't
want to give a urine sample without this. Can I
have one to take to doctor? So I was very,
(20:05):
very blessed to have that support group. So when I
came into UH working with you and aUI and the
entrepreneurs and and that that are on Motivational Monday, I
stepped into an environment that I knew a lot about
(20:27):
because they are my sisters and biological sisters, they are
my daughters. Oh my goodness. They were my friends at
work who on their lunch break I said, I got
one go try it out and they and they did,
(20:48):
and they told me, that's you.
Speaker 2 (20:50):
That's you too, though.
Speaker 1 (20:51):
It's you.
Speaker 2 (20:51):
It's your it's your passion, it's your love that you
show because people are not necessarily going to support you
if you're not shown. And yeah, it's like you know,
that's that's a whole nother idea, because you're creative, but
you you are you and body love and kindness and
innovation and brightness and intelligence and all of those things.
(21:15):
And you are tracting what God is giving you. Right, Yes,
you're bringing, You're bracing it. So you're talking about your friends,
your family, and what a blessing that you have your
friends and your family, Your family number one, because family
does not always support in the way that we'd like
for them to support.
Speaker 1 (21:34):
Yes, and my family, I have to add this in
uh huh. So the logistics, there's one thing to make
it on your dining room table. It's another thing when
you decide to move forward. You need something more formal
and more official. My wonderful, wonderful nephews, I said, I
(21:58):
had this stick that I want to have a design for.
And they would sit with me. Yes, they would sit
with me, and I told them, yes, what it was
that I needed, And my nephews started a drawing. They
(22:23):
did a drawer for me. Yes, that's it. Yes, indeedy, Yes,
that's it. That's it. So that design. My nephews they're
in engineering and all that, architect and they're very creative.
They started doing the drawings so I looked out a
little because the design I didn't have to have someone
(22:49):
else make up the design for me. They were able
to draft what was up here, and in that way,
that was another blessing that I had family members they
had that skill level.
Speaker 2 (23:02):
That's a blessing that, yes, would extract what was in
your brain. Yes, because you're not necessarily an artist, right,
drawing the way you oh, no, your head, the way
you see it in your head. But to have what
a blessing to have this in your DNA. Right, So
your family also creative in different ways. Did you even
realize how creative these people were in your family for this?
(23:25):
So God puts all these puzzle pieces together, you know
what I mean, Like you didn't even realize that you'd
be using them to help you to build and create
the design that you saw in your own mind. But
they had enough imagination and knowing you and loving you
enough to take that understanding and idea drafted and create
(23:50):
it on paper, which is such a blessing and support
you and not say eh, you know, she's so creative,
just another idea. They got it, and I want you
this is so important. I'm saying this for a reason
because there's so many people out there who are inventors,
who are creative, who are creative over and over again,
(24:11):
and sometimes they're dismissed because of their creativity. Right, Yes,
you're blessed enough to have people around you who embrace
your creativity and help you move forward in this space
because it's a lonely world sometimes I'm talking about not
just inventors but artists also, it's a lonely world because
(24:33):
you're creative and you're thinking of new things all the time.
But you thought of this marvelous, marvelous invention.
Speaker 1 (24:42):
That is and will change lives. One you're in specimen
at a time, Oh my goodness, one you in stestinon
at the time. Yes, I absolutely believe that, Lisa, Absolutely, No, you're.
Speaker 2 (25:01):
Amazing, Cindy, like just and for people seeing this, and
I asked you to be on the podcast because more
people need to see it. You'll be on our show
and everything else, but it needs to be seen. When
you're talking about antiquated, doing this underneath yourself with this
I don't know what is this one two inch cup
two inches in circumference and you're trying to aim and
(25:25):
you're nervous so you're at the doctor and you know
all of these things for you to come up with
this idea that people are now embracing, it's ingenious.
Speaker 1 (25:35):
It's ingenious.
Speaker 2 (25:38):
So thank you Cindy for your incredible innovation and not
just thinking of it, but taking the steps to do it,
implementing the steps to do it and make.
Speaker 1 (25:52):
It happen, not sleeping on it. So what made you
not sleep on it?
Speaker 2 (25:58):
That's a question I have because inventors are listening and
they're looking.
Speaker 1 (26:02):
What made you not sleep on it? Lisa, I believe
in my product. I believe there is a need. I
believe that women deserve the right to do this procedure
(26:23):
with some level of dignity. I believe that it's time.
I believe that there is a place for my product,
and there is a need for all over the world.
Speaker 2 (26:42):
All all of your your international patents away your international patents.
Speaker 1 (26:51):
Yeah, well that uh, that definitely came about from here.
A response that I got back, like, because I asked,
my friends and family, don't tell me what I want
to hear, because you don't want to hurt my feelings. Yes,
I need to know. I knew in my heart what
(27:14):
I believe to be the truth about the product. But
I needed to know from them, you know, is this real?
Do you see the need for it as a woman
who is going to be giving a rue sample for
(27:34):
as long as she will ever need to give a
your sample? And the answer was unequivocally yes.
Speaker 2 (27:46):
M hm m m.
Speaker 1 (27:51):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (27:52):
You just happened to be the one who took the
steps to do it and make it happen. Yes, with
the proper support. And I can't not help but iterate
that how important it is to have the support and
the love, because you know, your family is always number one,
and you're you're you were really again fortunate enough to
have people who were who cared enough to give you
(28:17):
not the right response, but the accurate response, right, well, right,
what was honest?
Speaker 1 (28:24):
The honest response, right, Lisa? So? And it is.
Speaker 2 (28:28):
I mean, you are I this is taking off as
we speak. You're doing great things. We're doing great things together.
And I so appreciate you as a client. You are
on it, you do your research. I appreciate you more
than you know.
Speaker 1 (28:46):
Well, I appreciate you because this part of my journey,
nobody else can go there with me except.
Speaker 2 (28:59):
You, And I'm right here with you the way.
Speaker 1 (29:04):
Yes you are, Yes you are.
Speaker 2 (29:07):
I am. I am so thank you so much for
being here on the podcast. So it's important that people
see your website. Of course we're not, you know, on
social media yet promoting on social media, but you certainly
have your website.
Speaker 1 (29:21):
And yes, I do.
Speaker 2 (29:24):
Your website.
Speaker 1 (29:25):
Did you want me to just.
Speaker 2 (29:27):
Say it out loud, girl? Oh okay, because I could
take this over, but I wanted to come out of
your mouth your website.
Speaker 1 (29:35):
I was proud of you. What is the website? My
website is www dot tea stick assists dot.
Speaker 2 (29:46):
Com exactly the way she said it right, Yes, stickassists
dot com and it does assist. And check this out,
shape of a te assist you, Cindy, you are a
rockstar girl. You are amazing, amazing, amazing, Thank you, thank you,
(30:06):
thank you.
Speaker 1 (30:07):
That's t stick assist dot com. T stick assist dot com.
You will see it.
Speaker 2 (30:13):
It's going to be a licensed to product. It's going
to be picked up as a licensed product.
Speaker 1 (30:17):
And you know in every doctor's office.
Speaker 2 (30:19):
Anytime you go to a doctor's office and you're going
to get a urine test, you're going to see this.
You'll be using, not just seeing it. You'll be using
the t stick assist. Thank you so much, Cindy for
being here today.
Speaker 1 (30:34):
Love you, love you, Love you enjoyed.
Speaker 2 (30:36):
This completely wonderful conversation and will you come back again?
Speaker 1 (30:42):
Will you? I would love to.
Speaker 2 (30:44):
Okay, good, you got it all right, my dear, have
a blessed day.
Hi everybody.
Speaker 2 (00:00):
I'm Lisa Askals, the Inventress, CEO of and founder of
Inventing a t z AOI Inventor Spotlight TV. But here
we are on my podcast, The inventress Is Podcast and
super excited because we have a powerhouse here today, a
powerhouse inventor internationally known for her great productistic assist. You
(00:24):
wait till you hear what it is you Canna, It's
gonna blow your mind. I cannot wait to have this
conversation with you.
Speaker 1 (00:33):
Welcome, Cindy Green, Welcome, Welcome, Welcome, welcome. Thank you so much, Lisa.
I'm excited.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
Clause happening in the background here.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
How you doing, girl, I'm doing fine. I'm excited to
be here and they had this conversation with you, and
I'm just looking forward to it.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
Well, excited to have you. And I have to start
by saying, I'm so proud of you for your diligence,
your perseverance, and just everything that you're doing. So I
talked a little bit about tea stick assist. I said,
you know, gave the name, but didn't give too much information.
So I'm going to give a little bit more and
then I'm going to give you the floor. So my
(01:19):
incredible client, Cindy Green, is the inventor of the product
tee Stick Assist, and we're going to talk to you,
Cindy about how you came up with this tea stick Assist,
and you're going to explain what it is. I can
show it because I got plenty of them here. You
can explain what it is, why you came up with
the invention, and I'll talk about why you are internationally
(01:42):
known in many congratulations, but I want you to say
these things. So, Cindy, welcome to the Inventor's Podcast.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
How are you girl? And what's your product? Hello, Lisa,
And my product is the tea stick Assist. And so
a little bit about the story of how tea stick
came to be. When I was raising my daughters, they
(02:11):
were younger and we had I wanted to make sure
that where we were living. It was old in Germantown
in Philadelphia, and the building was kind of old and uh,
brownstone brick, I love that, and so but I wanted
to make sure that everything was well, and so I
wanted to get a lead poisoning test for my daughter.
(02:36):
So in order to do that, I had to get
a urine sample. And she was young. This is in nineteen, say,
ninety to ninety three. My daughter was born in nineteen
eighty seven. So there I am trying to get a
urine sample from my very young daughter, and it was
(03:00):
she didn't know how to do it by herself. She
didn't know how to navigate a maneuver any of it.
I don't know how to navigate it either, and I'm
much older, so I did it for her. But it
was just uncomfortable. Was so it was so uncomfortable and
it was awkward. It was medieval. It was like, why
(03:27):
am I down here under my daughter trying to collect urine?
It was it just was, it just was. It was
very uncomfortable. It made no sense, right, it made no
(03:48):
This was in nineteen around nineteen ninety three. Yeah, yeah,
this is around nineteen ninety three. So it irked me
so bad. And then every time I gave a you're
in sample after that, I just noticed how like I
knew it before, but what I need to do for her?
And then when I had to start giving your en samples,
(04:11):
every time I did it, it was like, right, you know,
I just I hate this. I just hate the whole thing.
And it's very unhygienic, very yeah for sure. Yeah yeah.
We're taking this little cup right, Oh my goodness, we're
taking this little cup.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
Right, and they're putting it underneath, and you know, we're
hoping that it lands in the right spot.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
But continue, yes, and then, like I said, every time thereafter,
I'm noticing this issue in a situation with trying to
give a urine sample. Sometimes at certain points in my life,
I was heavier, or I was thinner, or you know,
(05:02):
my I might have had some kind of an ailment
where you know, bending was an issue. And then I
also was helping to take care of my mother and
my mother in law, and they're getting up in age,
and so every time it happens, and every time I
have to go through this, I just said, no more.
(05:25):
This must stop for all women. So in nineteen ninety eight,
I started my journey of getting a patent for the
tea stick assists. It didn't have the name then it was,
it didn't have a name at all. Actually I made
it first. I made the tea stick first out of,
(05:51):
oh my goodness, popsicle sticks and anything else I could
get my hands on, arts and crabs because I just
wanted to know if the reason why we're not doing
that differently is because there is no better way. There
is no better anything. So I always live when I
(06:12):
hear you speak about you were always making something to
solve a problem. And you know that that was me.
I I I always went to my own devices creatively
to solve different problems that I was making it, I
(06:33):
was putting together or I was taking it apart. And
so I started with, like I said, Arsen, Yeah, Arsen
craft sticks and things like that.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
Whatever you had available, right, because what inventors do, yes, yes.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
And it's usually urgent.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
Right, it's usually urgent. Let me, this is crazy you
had had it? It's crazy, it's urgent. What do I
have to make this product?
Speaker 1 (07:06):
Right? As a prototype?
Speaker 2 (07:07):
And this is where the brilliance of your innovation comes in.
Speaker 1 (07:11):
Right. I retired from teaching, So as a teacher, I
was always making something because a lot of materials, when
they come to your desk, they're not they're good, but
you need to tweak them so that it fits the
student that you're working with. So and I had glue
and taping, scissors all over the place. But so it
(07:38):
was really a creative journey. It was a journey of
how do I make this work, no matter what my size,
because I didn't think that any woman should have to
go through that in order to give your example. And
I know for my counterparts, the males, they don't have
(07:58):
to ark on that journey. It don't and I'm not
upset with them, but if you're having to ease your
way out, but I got I didn't understand. We've got
people in the moon. We've got Yeah, they didn't have you, Cindy,
they didn't have you.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
And literally, this is how inventions are born. You know,
people many times will not invent something because they think, well,
that has to be out there. Am I Who am
I to invent it? It should have been done by now.
But this is You are a perfect example of how
(08:39):
great products are born. You are and you what you
did was you continued. You didn't just stop. I mean, yes,
it was nineteen ninety eight when you first thought of it,
but to move forward, especially at that time, like who
do I use?
Speaker 1 (08:52):
Where do I go? How do I develop it? What
do I do?
Speaker 2 (08:54):
And you put your popsicle sticks together and you put
your inventor's cap on and you heated this incredible product
that you tested over and over again for yourself. You
made various designs and I know that for a fact
because I have several here, and just hats off to
you that not only did you invent it, you patented
(09:18):
it and not only locally but globally internationally.
Speaker 1 (09:29):
Cynthia Green, do you have the patent in front of you? Ah? Yes,
As a matter of fact, I do a lot. My
United States patent it's here. This is the utility Patgeant.
I am Sue, And this is the United States patent
(09:55):
for the design. And yeah, this is bring it. This
is the patent for United Kingdom, and this is the
patent for you know, I'm sorry. Here it is the
(10:17):
original the United Kingdom for design. This is my patent
for UH Canada stop design. And this is my patent
(10:39):
for the EU. Did I cover them all?
Speaker 2 (10:49):
Listen everybody, So we're talking about the epitome of creativity.
Speaker 1 (10:55):
Not stop.
Speaker 2 (10:56):
But let me back it up and congratulations on all
of these runs, right, And you deserve praises and congratulations.
And I know you're we talk about gratitude and all
that stuff. Let me tell you something.
Speaker 1 (11:09):
You are changing lives.
Speaker 2 (11:12):
You're changing the world with this product with your innovation,
with your thoughts, with your determination, and you're brilliant, you
really and truly are. And you're helping not only the
medical aspect of it and people, you know, women going
to the doctor and your nation and all that stuff,
but you're speaking to women and people all over the
(11:33):
world right now and telling them what you did.
Speaker 1 (11:35):
And you stuck with it.
Speaker 2 (11:36):
So what I was going to say was not only
it's not easy to just patent, right, so it sounds like, oh,
I got my patents. It wasn't just that you had to.
I mean the USPTO and International Patent said, Okay, no,
this is not good enough. We need more information, so
(11:59):
you have to kind of not reapply, but insert more information.
And I will say, and I'm not an attorney, but
I'll say, like a cadssule, right in addition to what
you've patented, because USPTO said this is similar to something else,
give us more information about why this is different. So
it wasn't just I applied for patent.
Speaker 1 (12:19):
I got it. Oh, Lisa, Uh, my patents got resubmitted
so many times. I have an excellent patent uh. Lawyer
David Potowski Pilowski Sorry, David, But anyway, he's excellent and
(12:41):
he really walked with me in this process. But yes,
resubmissions numerous times, and it got it got uh sometimes discouraging,
like there were times when I just didn't know whether
or not I should continue, because you could submit it
(13:08):
as many times as you can finance to submit it.
But then there's a place where can can you continue
the journey? Sometimes it's finances. Can you continue to resubmit,
or just can you can your self esteem? Can your
(13:30):
sense of purpose take this kind of a beating and
keep going? Can you move forward after being told by
the administration of that no, this does not meet the criteria,
and if you want to, you may submit it. But
as it is right now, our answer is no. And
(13:56):
that part of the journey is very interesting because oh,
that part was started. But I have a community that
is extremely supportive that helps me to say, continue, go forward,
(14:17):
you can do it. We're rooting for you, We're cheering
for you. And that community is a motivation on Monday.
It is OUI. It is the organization that I have
connected with you, Lisa, and places where my spirit would
have been crushed or I would have felt overwhelmed that
(14:41):
there's a whole bunch of people that are always.
Speaker 3 (14:43):
Saying yes, Cindy, no, you can do it, you can
do it, either saying you could do it, or else
they're saying, this is what I did, this is what
it took to get through it, this is how you
re invent yourself, this is how.
Speaker 1 (15:00):
You double down and start over again. And there's always you.
That's like the biggest cheering section I've ever seen, like
awesome in spiritual and emotional support.
Speaker 2 (15:18):
Well, listen, I'm glad to give that to you. You're welcome,
and it's it's you hit the nail on the head
because if you do not have support and you're doing
this alone, I have to say, you know, I speak
positive into existence. Right when you want something badly enough,
you can receive it. But if you don't have the
support of positive people around.
Speaker 1 (15:40):
You, it's lost.
Speaker 2 (15:42):
It's lost because you don't have positive you have the
opposite right, Yes.
Speaker 1 (15:46):
You have your thoughts.
Speaker 2 (15:48):
If you don't have people around you are cheering you
on and rooting you on, you're by yourself and your thoughts.
Speaker 1 (15:54):
And speaking of rush you, speaking of supportive people, I
have to say that this journey I was very, very
very blessed my family, God bless them. I was like,
we need this and they're like okay, and I'm like, amazing, Yeah,
(16:18):
you gotta try this out. And they're like okay. And
I also was very very blessed. I worked with UH four.
I worked with a lot of phenomenal people, but but
there were four ladies that I worked with on my
job and the last leg right before I retired. When
(16:43):
I was I was ready to retire, I had been
rejected with some of the patents and I was not
understanding the reason why they were saying that, uh, there's
(17:04):
no need for this.
Speaker 4 (17:06):
I was just floored, Cindy, it's a person when yes,
it's a person at everybody out there when you're submitting
a patent, it's a person at.
Speaker 2 (17:19):
USPTO, United States Patent Office or the International Patent Office.
It's a person who is telling you that they don't
feel they personally, based upon whatever criteria, whatever other searches
they've done, that they don't feel that your product is
unique enough to fit the mold of what you're trying
(17:42):
to do right right?
Speaker 1 (17:44):
You know what I did to off set that when
I was getting that the beautiful women that I work
with those four women, and I'm telling you about God,
God bless them. I made prototypes and I gave it
to them, and I said, you go use these. I
(18:06):
mean the array and the size and the shapes of
the four by four friends sisters not by the same mother,
but certainly in heart. They and then they had to
fill out a form. Then they had to cheek, you know,
and they did it. They did it in different size
(18:29):
form NDA.
Speaker 2 (18:30):
So you allowed you made them fill out a non
disclosed agreement or no.
Speaker 1 (18:34):
I made them do the information form. You created, the
information created. Such a teacher. You're such a teacher. I
was like, how did this feel? Was rough? Was it easy?
Did it? Did you have difficulties? And they were different
sizes of some very tall, some short, some larger at
the top, some larger at the bottom, some with nice
(18:55):
little round stomachs you know, war uh, thick on the thighs.
What all different body types between the four of us,
between the four of them and one of me. We
covered everything. And then I had my sisters. I have
all sisters, and I have so my sisters come in
(19:16):
different sizes and different shapes. None of us are very tall,
but we come in different sizes in different shapes, and
my nieces and my daughters. I made them all try
it out, and I I was encouraged by their information.
(19:39):
I was encouraged by the information that they gave back
to me. Yes, first of all, they told me, yes,
this is needed, and yes it does work, and yes,
I don't want to take my next year. I don't
want to give a urine sample without this. Can I
have one to take to doctor? So I was very,
(20:05):
very blessed to have that support group. So when I
came into UH working with you and aUI and the
entrepreneurs and and that that are on Motivational Monday, I
stepped into an environment that I knew a lot about
(20:27):
because they are my sisters and biological sisters, they are
my daughters. Oh my goodness. They were my friends at
work who on their lunch break I said, I got
one go try it out and they and they did,
(20:48):
and they told me, that's you.
Speaker 2 (20:50):
That's you too, though.
Speaker 1 (20:51):
It's you.
Speaker 2 (20:51):
It's your it's your passion, it's your love that you
show because people are not necessarily going to support you
if you're not shown. And yeah, it's like you know,
that's that's a whole nother idea, because you're creative, but
you you are you and body love and kindness and
innovation and brightness and intelligence and all of those things.
(21:15):
And you are tracting what God is giving you. Right, Yes,
you're bringing, You're bracing it. So you're talking about your friends,
your family, and what a blessing that you have your
friends and your family, Your family number one, because family
does not always support in the way that we'd like
for them to support.
Speaker 1 (21:34):
Yes, and my family, I have to add this in
uh huh. So the logistics, there's one thing to make
it on your dining room table. It's another thing when
you decide to move forward. You need something more formal
and more official. My wonderful, wonderful nephews, I said, I
(21:58):
had this stick that I want to have a design for.
And they would sit with me. Yes, they would sit
with me, and I told them, yes, what it was
that I needed, And my nephews started a drawing. They
(22:23):
did a drawer for me. Yes, that's it. Yes, indeedy, Yes,
that's it. That's it. So that design. My nephews they're
in engineering and all that, architect and they're very creative.
They started doing the drawings so I looked out a
little because the design I didn't have to have someone
(22:49):
else make up the design for me. They were able
to draft what was up here, and in that way,
that was another blessing that I had family members they
had that skill level.
Speaker 2 (23:02):
That's a blessing that, yes, would extract what was in
your brain. Yes, because you're not necessarily an artist, right,
drawing the way you oh, no, your head, the way
you see it in your head. But to have what
a blessing to have this in your DNA. Right, So
your family also creative in different ways. Did you even
realize how creative these people were in your family for this?
(23:25):
So God puts all these puzzle pieces together, you know
what I mean, Like you didn't even realize that you'd
be using them to help you to build and create
the design that you saw in your own mind. But
they had enough imagination and knowing you and loving you
enough to take that understanding and idea drafted and create
(23:50):
it on paper, which is such a blessing and support
you and not say eh, you know, she's so creative,
just another idea. They got it, and I want you
this is so important. I'm saying this for a reason
because there's so many people out there who are inventors,
who are creative, who are creative over and over again,
(24:11):
and sometimes they're dismissed because of their creativity. Right, Yes,
you're blessed enough to have people around you who embrace
your creativity and help you move forward in this space
because it's a lonely world sometimes I'm talking about not
just inventors but artists also, it's a lonely world because
(24:33):
you're creative and you're thinking of new things all the time.
But you thought of this marvelous, marvelous invention.
Speaker 1 (24:42):
That is and will change lives. One you're in specimen
at a time, Oh my goodness, one you in stestinon
at the time. Yes, I absolutely believe that, Lisa, Absolutely, No, you're.
Speaker 2 (25:01):
Amazing, Cindy, like just and for people seeing this, and
I asked you to be on the podcast because more
people need to see it. You'll be on our show
and everything else, but it needs to be seen. When
you're talking about antiquated, doing this underneath yourself with this
I don't know what is this one two inch cup
two inches in circumference and you're trying to aim and
(25:25):
you're nervous so you're at the doctor and you know
all of these things for you to come up with
this idea that people are now embracing, it's ingenious.
Speaker 1 (25:35):
It's ingenious.
Speaker 2 (25:38):
So thank you Cindy for your incredible innovation and not
just thinking of it, but taking the steps to do it,
implementing the steps to do it and make.
Speaker 1 (25:52):
It happen, not sleeping on it. So what made you
not sleep on it?
Speaker 2 (25:58):
That's a question I have because inventors are listening and
they're looking.
Speaker 1 (26:02):
What made you not sleep on it? Lisa, I believe
in my product. I believe there is a need. I
believe that women deserve the right to do this procedure
(26:23):
with some level of dignity. I believe that it's time.
I believe that there is a place for my product,
and there is a need for all over the world.
Speaker 2 (26:42):
All all of your your international patents away your international patents.
Speaker 1 (26:51):
Yeah, well that uh, that definitely came about from here.
A response that I got back, like, because I asked,
my friends and family, don't tell me what I want
to hear, because you don't want to hurt my feelings. Yes,
I need to know. I knew in my heart what
(27:14):
I believe to be the truth about the product. But
I needed to know from them, you know, is this real?
Do you see the need for it as a woman
who is going to be giving a rue sample for
(27:34):
as long as she will ever need to give a
your sample? And the answer was unequivocally yes.
Speaker 2 (27:46):
M hm m m.
Speaker 1 (27:51):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (27:52):
You just happened to be the one who took the
steps to do it and make it happen. Yes, with
the proper support. And I can't not help but iterate
that how important it is to have the support and
the love, because you know, your family is always number one,
and you're you're you were really again fortunate enough to
have people who were who cared enough to give you
(28:17):
not the right response, but the accurate response, right, well, right,
what was honest?
Speaker 1 (28:24):
The honest response, right, Lisa? So? And it is.
Speaker 2 (28:28):
I mean, you are I this is taking off as
we speak. You're doing great things. We're doing great things together.
And I so appreciate you as a client. You are
on it, you do your research. I appreciate you more
than you know.
Speaker 1 (28:46):
Well, I appreciate you because this part of my journey,
nobody else can go there with me except.
Speaker 2 (28:59):
You, And I'm right here with you the way.
Speaker 1 (29:04):
Yes you are, Yes you are.
Speaker 2 (29:07):
I am. I am so thank you so much for
being here on the podcast. So it's important that people
see your website. Of course we're not, you know, on
social media yet promoting on social media, but you certainly
have your website.
Speaker 1 (29:21):
And yes, I do.
Speaker 2 (29:24):
Your website.
Speaker 1 (29:25):
Did you want me to just.
Speaker 2 (29:27):
Say it out loud, girl? Oh okay, because I could
take this over, but I wanted to come out of
your mouth your website.
Speaker 1 (29:35):
I was proud of you. What is the website? My
website is www dot tea stick assists dot.
Speaker 2 (29:46):
Com exactly the way she said it right, Yes, stickassists
dot com and it does assist. And check this out,
shape of a te assist you, Cindy, you are a
rockstar girl. You are amazing, amazing, amazing, Thank you, thank you,
(30:06):
thank you.
Speaker 1 (30:07):
That's t stick assist dot com. T stick assist dot com.
You will see it.
Speaker 2 (30:13):
It's going to be a licensed to product. It's going
to be picked up as a licensed product.
Speaker 1 (30:17):
And you know in every doctor's office.
Speaker 2 (30:19):
Anytime you go to a doctor's office and you're going
to get a urine test, you're going to see this.
You'll be using, not just seeing it. You'll be using
the t stick assist. Thank you so much, Cindy for
being here today.
Speaker 1 (30:34):
Love you, love you, Love you enjoyed.
Speaker 2 (30:36):
This completely wonderful conversation and will you come back again?
Speaker 1 (30:42):
Will you? I would love to.
Speaker 2 (30:44):
Okay, good, you got it all right, my dear, have
a blessed day.
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