Yvette Kendall is an International selling Author from the south side of Chicago, Illinois — she is the author of “The GOD Maps” SciFi Series and the creator of the new SciFi sub-genre “Biblical Futurism". Her initial offering of The GOD Maps, Volume One is the first in the trilogy series.
In this episode, we talked about her inspiration for her latest published book “The GOD Maps” and her vision and mission to assist women in technology and so much more.
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Hello everyone and welcome to the out front podcast I am your host vince noble as always before we get started with these extraordinary conversations I want to say as much as I love how intellectually stimulating they are. They are meant to do far more than peak our intellect they are meant to inspire us and drive us into meaningful action. So as you listen our guests are not solely on this show to promote themselves their services or products. But in large part. To provide significant insights and actionable steps to encourage us and engage us thereby helping to shift you from 1 level to the next. So I encourage you to listen and think about how you may be positively impacted in some way. No matter who you are. It is my greatest hope that you find tremendous value in today's episode I am super excited Today. We have the distinct pleasure ah having with us miss Evette kindle Yvette kindle is a international selling author from the south side of Chicago Illinois we already have a little bit in common there. A event is the author of god maps an sci fi series and the creator of the new scifi sub.
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Biblical futurism her initial offering of the god maps volume 1 is the first in the trilogy series and this episode will be talking about her inspiration for her latest published book the god maps. Her vision and mission to assist women in technology and so much more. We certainly have a lot to unpack in this episode. So let's go Yvette welcome to the show today.
Yvette Kendall
Hello and it's nice to be here.
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Wonderful. Wonderful. Is certainly a pleasure to to have you on the show with us today I know we had been really tried to sink up with you and our busy scares you to get you on the show but nonetheless hey you here and welcome to the show today.
Yvette Kendall
Yvette Kendall
Thank you so much and again I'm happy to be here.
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So that for those who may not know you please tell us a little bit about yourself.
Yvette Kendall
Well like you just mentioned I am from excuse me I am from the south side of Chicago wanting raised and I used to be a product developer I used to file patents to create things and.
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Foul patents and I really noticed that it wasn't a lot of black women in technology so they kind of started me on the path that I'm on today and after I decided to walk away from technology a little bit I wound up getting this story ah in my head and. I thought it was great and I started to share with other people and I say hey you need to you need to write that ah never written a thing in my life and I was terrified to write the story down and write a book I had no knowledge of how to do any of that. But god kept giving me the story parts of it every day.
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Yvette Kendall
And it felt like it was meant for me to do and I just I just did it with the lack of my knowledge of what to do once. The story was completed I just did it and you know, kind of here we are today.
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That's that's certainly wonderful one. So being that you say you from the south side of Chicago you know hey we have a little bit in common a born and born and raised on the South Side Chicago myself as well. So so.
Yvette Kendall
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Ah, and another Chicago one. Yes, so I I attended um, Curie metropolitan high school I'll know if you're familiar with that.
Yvette Kendall
I am familiar with Curie I my first year of high school I went to Kenwood. So oh yeah, but.
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Okay, yeah, okay, so listed you know I respectfully say you know so that there are some exotic ways of of spelling name there on the shelf size Chicago so you your your. Proper pronunciation of your name is e that correct Eva yes, ok, certainly all right? So so y that um what what inspired you you know to to author books and more specifically sci-fi you know there's.
Yvette Kendall
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That's not a great deal of African American women in that particular space.
Yvette Kendall
Yeah, well, you know what? Ah like I was just saying growing up in um, growing up in high park. Um, my mother was a psychiatric nurse. And I would get out of school at three o'clock and her hospital was right across the street from my school so I used to go to her job after I got off. Ah after I got out of school and she didn't get off of work till about think four thirty or 5 and I would have to spend the day on the psychiatric floor.
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Yvette Kendall
Ah, and just kind of do art and things like that until she got off of work and at some point I got tired of doing that so she was dating a man that worked at a bookstore and at the University Of Chicago and she said hey if you don't want to come over here. Go you know, walk over there and you know hang out with him in the bookstore. So ah, this one particular day I was walking to the University Of Chicago's bookstore and I got to the the University Of Chicago and they had a courtyard and he had these huge medieval doors that opened up to this beautiful courtyard.
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Yvette Kendall
And I just wandered in and when I wandered in I went through the halls and I got to a classroom that was empty. Of course it was after school and um, it was a man there ah wearing a white lab coat and he was um. Doing something in this classroom. So I kind of dipped my head in he saw me and I kind of dip back Out. He says no no come on in and I walked in he said let me show you something and he put ah he blew up a balloon and he put it in a container with dry ice and. I Saw this balloon collapse right in front of my eyes and then he pulled it back out and it reinflated I was Hooked. It was like is nothing else better than whatever it was. He showed me. It was just it was science.
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Yvette Kendall
I Grew up ah with my father watching Star Trek So it was just like always around me one way or another so when I got older. Of course you know taking science in high school and doing ah you know all these little functions where it was science involved.
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Yvette Kendall
So after I got older and I got into doing um patents and and products and things like that which is of course very science adjacent I got the story and like I said it really sci-fi is the flip Side. Of Science is just it's the same coin just a different side. So Um I Just you know decided to go into the to the literary aspect of it and start writing and I started writing in 2018 and like um.
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Yvette Kendall
The middle of 2018 so january two thousand and nineteen I was done with the book. It took me six months to write it and got it published and a year after it was published I was contacted on linkedin and. By the executive producer of lovecraft country. Ah and he offered me a tv series for the got maps. So yeah, so from there I just kept writing so I have a love for sci-fi I have a love for horror and I just.
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Yvette Kendall
I just kept writing and then I started writing children's books and I I just kept writing so here we are today? Um I just finished writing my first full feature um horror movie called north.
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And I've been in talks all week about getting that you know done with a major studio so we can you know go into production. So yeah.
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Right? That's Wonderful. So So along with that. Would you say your your discovery of that did you did you always have this ambition but but never kind of you know, pulled the trigger on writing. Was was it always your ambition to become a publish author.
Yvette Kendall
No I didn't even know that I I didn't know what I didn't know I when I grew up I was really good with I used to win spelling contests and I used to win poetry contests because I loved Langston Hughes
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Yvette Kendall
And always want to write like Langston Hughes and I would win all these little writing contests. But I thought it was just something you did when you were in school you just I didn't I didn't think it was an aspiration someone like myself could have. Ah, so you're talking to someone you know I have a high school Diploma I've never been to college a day in my life. So when you start saying things when you start saying things like become an author or become a writer and when you do not have that education. You just don't think that's something that's optional.
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Right? right? right? So So what would you say sort of been sort of your superpower that you would share with us in terms of your secret sauce if you will you know everyone have this creative space. Um, if you will that that. Those success Hacks that that keeps you focused on the challenging times of creating and writing.
Yvette Kendall
Ah, success hack. Ah, you know what I just write down everything I think a lot of people may go Oh well that may sound stupid or oh I don't have time to complete something your your best friend is you writing down incrementally. So if you.
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Yvette Kendall
Um, up even with a paragraph you know put it in the notes in your phone and if you do this often at the end of the week you'll have you know several pages that you can write down and kind of you know, start sewing those tissues together.
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Yvette Kendall
When you are you know, doing your meaningful meaningful writing. So I think a lot of people are just so afraid and apprehensive just to get started. So the first thing is you just start writing.
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Right? right? right? Absolutely absolutely So before we you know, really get you know too much into the book. Talk talk to us about you know your inspiration for creating this female Black. Um. Inventors Rock space. You've created.
Yvette Kendall
Um, yeah, well I actually just I touched on it like when I first started doing ah product development and filing patents I Just people would not believe that what I created.
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Was my and one of the reasons was were you a black girl from the south side of Chicago how do you know about you know chemicals and engineering and electrical this or statistical that they just.
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They just assume because I was African-American and female that I would not be able to have this type of knowledge. So I ran into it not only on the side of African Americans But when I started going you know getting East doors with these big companies that were.
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Yvette Kendall
White ran they were you know they had the same questions. How did you do this and how did you figure this out we we couldn't figure this out. How did you figure it out So I would I was a little confused like is this because I'm female and I'm black that.
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Yvette Kendall
This should not be open to me so I that was that was one of the catalysts and the other thing was every time I went to find someone to work with me in moving my innovations along they were They were not female.
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Yvette Kendall
Or they were not black so it kind of made me feel like this is an industry that is untapped to female black ah innovators. So that's where Fbi rocks came from.
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Right? You kind of alluded a little bit to that. But in terms of you know, scaling this sort of business or or funding many of your initiatives. What what have you found most difficult in this space.
Yvette Kendall
Ah, funding is definite funding is well. You know what it goes back to belief. Oh if black people don't believe you'll be successful. Well though, that's your grassroots If you're black.
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Yvette Kendall
Your grassroots are generally going to be the people that live around you and look like you. So if they don't believe you you can't get what you need in order to take this product and bring it to fruition. So that's 1 thing and then when you.
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Yvette Kendall
Are talking people that are not ah you know of other persuasions is filled with the I don't if I give you money How do I know that you're going to handle it properly. How do I know that there's going to be a return. So then you have resistance.
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Yvette Kendall
On their end because of their fear so you have a lack of belief and then you have fear which means things are stagnant unless you have your own you know your own money to push your part forward.
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Right? right? right? right? So on your own capital so that kind of leads me to saying So so what insights would you say? um, you know that you would share with with those seeking to start a business venture without heavy outside investors.
Yvette Kendall
You know you have to get around ah like minded people and you have to get around people that believe in your cause and believe it believe in it to the point that they take it personal. You know so because other than that it's just you pushing this bolder uphill and even.
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Yvette Kendall
Get it uphill once you get to that Plateau You realize there are several more Hills you need to climb. So if you don't have a team if you don't have people that believe in you and are like minded and want to work with you and see you successful.
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Yvette Kendall
Is's just Iss really a hard go at it and that was really one of the one of the reasons why I left during innovation one was it was so hard to find a capital and I had used up all of my own personal funds to drive. You know these ideas. But then the other thing is the lack of protection from the Us patent office especially with with companies that want to you know to take your patent that have the money to do so there's just a lack of protection. Ah.
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Yvette Kendall
Via the government with patents so it was just something you darned if you do you darned if you don't kind of think.
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Right? right? right? So that I have to ask you know coming out of this I would say post Pandemic lockdown at least um the effects of the lockdown and social distancing and all of that you know how are you doing and more specifically. You know you know how are you you know dealing with it now in your business marketing your books or just in your personal life.
Yvette Kendall
This pandemic borrowing that people have died and have suffered was the best thing that could have ever happened to me I am I'm an Introvert so I was I was already not. Going outside and hanging out with people so it's like my life didn't change in that aspect. But what did change there. There started to be excess funding made available. So I could sow into and grow my business.
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Yvette Kendall
And because I own a publishing company. Ah and it can be in a virtual space. You can reach around the world and not having leave you know, leave your your computer.
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Yvette Kendall
My business actually grew in that aspect and then you have all this downtime where people that always wanted to write something or they were writing something they weren't complete. Um they had time to finish and say hey you know can I publish with you or can you teach me.
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Yvette Kendall
This or that so there were a lot of opportunities because people were settled people were kind of stuck with themselves and they had to figure out how to move to the next thing without going outside and without being around a group of people. So um, it did like say it it accentuated.
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Yvette Kendall
My situation ah very much. So.
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Wow, That's good so that you know let's get into the book a little bit more so to tell us about you know what was your inspiration for writing a book. The the God maps.
Yvette Kendall
You know it's funny because there were literally I said to myself I do not want to do product development anymore I don't want to file not another patent I don't want to do anything with the patent office and I said I'm just gonna not do it anymore. And when I said that it was almost like like God was waiting on me to say Okay, you sure you're done okay got nothing else for you. So I was walking through my living room and his story fell in my head and I'll say well this is this is cool.
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Yvette Kendall
And I've never heard of this concept before and I just ah sat down and started writing and I wrote the first 12 pages and that's when I started to share it with some close friends and family and they was like we think you have something here. You just need to you need to finish it and that's.
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Yvette Kendall
Kind of what happened so it really was not ah it. It was a flash of inspiration. Ah, but it wasn't generated by me seeing something or hearing something or seeing a picture. It was really it got speaks to me through innovation.
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Right? So so having said that in writing this book and in other books you've written what what would you say is your single greatest mistake in writing ah publishing or even marketing your books.
Yvette Kendall
And this is him having a conversation with me.
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And what did it teach you.
Yvette Kendall
Oh my gosh. What was my biggest mistake in my biggest mistake in writing is sharing my writings with other people. Ah because other people.
Yvette Kendall
Like to see themselves in other's works and you get a lot of what you should do what you need to do and I always tell people if you feel so strongly strongly about something then you should write your own book.
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Yvette Kendall
Should never alter. Now you people giving you advice on. Oh you, you know this may be helpful is 1 thing versus people saying hey I I want you just to do this. So my my biggest thing is. Sharing the information and having to tell these people I'm not gonna listen to and a word that you say so and it still is still something I struggle with because you get excited when you know you've done something great and you want to share it but but people being what they are um.
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Yvette Kendall
Kind of can ruin it or even take you down a path that you're not supposed to go if you if you listen to everything people say so um, but as far as publishing. Um my biggest problem and I think is a.
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Yvette Kendall
Think is a global problem finding the right people to do the job and and be people of their word and you know once they're paid for a position they do that position you you you bump into a lot of people that. Just want to you know they just want to get paid but they don't want to do the work So find people that are they have a track record that are credible and disclosure is everything don't just people understand what you mean don't assume that they understand what you're talking about.
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Yvette Kendall
You know, talk to people or explain things like people to people like it's the first time they've heard it and that way you can get a better understanding and contracts good contracts make good situations I can't say that don't do a handshake. Don't do a verbal.
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Yvette Kendall
Everything has to be spelled out and the one don't put in your contract that not that's not spelled out I'll be darned if that's not the 1 thing they go do um.
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You're right here I right right? So so what would you say you know sort of looking back. Um, what? what was what was the single attribute growing up in your past that you think sort of.
Yvette Kendall
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You know, prepared you in a way to become this offer that you are today and business owner.
Yvette Kendall
Ah I guess struggle I left home early I didn't have a close relationship with my ah my parents I mean you know we didn't talk very much and I was really.
Yvette Kendall
Go and figure it out for yourself and I think it prepared me for dealing with people. It prepared me for being let down it prepared me for having to um you know, rotate swiftly when things are going left.
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Yvette Kendall
I think being independent and being independent early gave a a um ah a thickness to my skin that I probably wouldn't not have had had I had parents that were really involved and helped me along with everything it just I was really.
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Yvette Kendall
And I say that having a 21 year old daughter that I did help her along and I did make sure she was protected and things like that. So I see the difference in her at 21 and me at 21 is is a you know a definite ah contrast. So. That's 1 thing that I'll say it just like you know coming from the south side of Chicago and having to take the the bus at you know, Eight nine years old by yourself or get on the l you know you learn a lot about people really quickly like way away from things and recognize things where um.
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Yvette Kendall
So when you get older, you go like you know I've seen that before so just kind of yeah I would say that.
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Right? That's awesome. You know so you that you know I always say you know on this show that a huge part of this show. You know is about positive when Mindsets about being resilient and demonstrated mental toughness and learning to face adversity to all. Wow.
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Continuing to lead and live and win and help others fulfill their dreams and so you truly bring you know we we truly bring guests on this show that that embodies what that is all about and you my friends certainly embody what this show is all about.
Yvette Kendall
Yvette Kendall
Um, ah thank you so much.
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Absolutely so you bad listen you know this is the part of the segment that we call a hot seat. Um, where we he a few random hot topics about yourself and that we found helpful to our artists that often want to know from our ah from our guest. So you know my first question would be to you.
Yvette Kendall
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If you could turn back to time and talk to that 18 year old self. What would you say to her.
Yvette Kendall
Um, ah oh my gosh I would I would tell her to travel globally meet people from all walks of life and thrones and faith and.
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Yvette Kendall
Pay attention. Take notes take advice. Ah but go beyond what you see every day. Ah so you can see what the world has to offer a lot of people don't leave their block A lot of people don't leave their town. A lot of people.
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Yvette Kendall
You know? So when you say things they'll go hey well black people. Don't do this black but well you know? yes we do you just haven't left seventy ninth street you know it's like so yeah I would tell her stop what you're doing graduate travel see the world.
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Yvette Kendall
And and become a worldly person and not as a national person.
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Yeah, yes that that's truly a good one I do believe that you know once people get outside the zip codes or they comfort zones I would say um, they really discover that there's um. There's a whole another world that opens up to them and and it changes your travel um will will definitely change your perspective you know, even um, you know myself you know today you know the more I travel I get the opportunity to travel engage people in different environments. Um, it. It changes your perspective. That's awesome. That's a good one. so so so what what would you say y that that some people Misunderstand about event.
Yvette Kendall
Yvette Kendall
Ah, people think I am mean and aggressive. But thank you and I'll I'll tell you what that where it come what that comes from when people cannot get you to do what they want you to do.
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Yvette Kendall
You are aggressive. You are. You're faulty in some way shape or form if you constantly said yes and you gave in you would be the best person that they know so I let people know that my life is not about them. My life is about me and. Despite what you got planned and what you want for me and what you want me to do want me to go I don't have to be nobody I don't want to be so I think people Misunderstand my directness and my ah ability to tell you what you're not going to do.
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Yvette Kendall
As something does not afford it to everybody. So.
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That's wonderful. So so what would you say has been your greatest personal achievement.
Yvette Kendall
My greatest personal achievement. Um as a career wise I mean I'm obligated to say my daughter if you want to say that but beyond my daughter ah career wise it has been. Ah.
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Yvette Kendall
Allowing ah allowing god to speak to me and then dared to do the things that he ah is allowing me to do and not being afraid of doing them. You know again I went from. Not writing anything to writing a book that ah some people say needs to be paired with the bible and I for some people for for them to say that what it is my first works ever that is so um, you know that is so prolific to them. Um.
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Yvette Kendall
And those are their words not mine I just wrote my novel this past to do a god but um, that to me and then finding out that I went from I want to write something to living in I am a writer um I wrote something today.
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On Facebook and it says writing books tv series and movies is such a delicate thing. It's all about balance being certain to open and close the circle of ideas that's powering your stories. Hopefully. You will be blessed to speak to the majority of your audience and have the creativity to induce more who are not also be inclusive in a way that's not pandering and trendy authenticity should be what anchors.
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Yvette Kendall
Your universe for me is about exploring what has been overlooked in a fantastic way is about making something that's remarkable. So that's kind of what I'm doing. It's like I want something to be intrinsic I want something.
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Yvette Kendall
Ah, you know a lineage to move on and on and on so I'm not just writing ah for fun. It has to be it has to mean something.
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All right? Absolutely absolutely. That's wonderful. So so what would you say your biggest failure and what did you learn from it.
Yvette Kendall
Oh my biggest failure. Oh goodness. Um.
Yvette Kendall
Oh Gosh I don't feel a lot. Ah you know what? my you know, um, unanswered and unspoken expectations is my biggest failure. Ah, whether that be in a relationship whether that be with a job whether it be with you know,? whatever if you have expectations of something or someone else and you don't communicate them. You're setting your situation up for Failure. So.
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Yvette Kendall
I I have learned that when I am in a situation to express what I want and find out if that person place or thing even has the capacity to provide that.
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And that way you're not setting yourself up for failure and you're not ah losing a relationship that could have been something that even if it wasn't going to be what you intended It could still be.
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Right? Absolutely absolutely And as you said, um, that that could be applied to you know every area of our life if you will whether it's relationships whether that's business or what have you.
Yvette Kendall
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Um, you said a couple key things - capacity and expectation. Um, you know I just believe that um performance is a direct link to expectations.
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And and if they're known from the beginning I mean that's sort of the expectation management before you have to manage expectations or realize as you said um, are you in a space or place that has no capacity for what you're seeking. Yeah.
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That's Wonderful. So So my my next question would ask you E that is what what makes you feel sort of inspired or like um like your best self. What? what? what is that? What is that place or space that you go to that really gets you inspired. Ah, you feel like you're at your best.
Yvette Kendall
Ah I have started a um, a system of self-care and and and and it doesn't it doesn't look like the way it sounds like you know when women say self-care. Oh I'm going to get a massage I'm going to get my hair done is is not that. My self-care is my living space and and being able to listen to whatever music and and not see anyone if I don't want to see them not talk if I don't want to talk and if I want something that I believe I want to. Eat is is about is about saying yes to me so I bought a home last year and my room is um, decorated like a art museum like I have um, Klimt. And Monet and boskyat paintings I mean it's their every war and um I come in my room I close my door I turn on my himiddifier I have my shows I watch or I play music and um.
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Yvette Kendall
I absorb the art of life and I feel like a different person I wake up at at four or five o'clock in the morning I start writing I you know couples after hours after that I'll take a a bubble bath.
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Yvette Kendall
Get out the bubble bath. Get back to writing open the window give fresh air. You know is whatever peace looks like to you my just look artistic and I started to give into that I used to go Oh well I'm gonna spend all this money on a painting I could be you know.
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Yvette Kendall
Buying a vacuum you know, but that vacuum is not giving me life. So I started to give in to what feeds my soul and I just feel like a different I feel like a different person and it has changed the what you know what? I write the way I write. Ah, the way I communicate it has to be from a space of Self-love and that's what I do now.
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Well, that's wonderful y event wonderful things to live by as well. So you've had before we go talk to us about um, a bit more about, Um, you know those interested in. How to connect with you those looking to purchase your book or just connect with you on on social media.
Yvette Kendall
Okay, so if you want to connect I am on Instagram and I am up under my handle is scifi dot ceo and that's spelled sc I f I dot ceo and if you want to connect on Facebook is yvettee kindle sci-fi writer. Um I'm no longer on Twitter thank goodness. Ah, oh.
Yvette Kendall
And I am on Linkedin under you know Yvette Kindle if you want to reach out there which I do a lot of business there and as far as my books um, not to sound hollywood but if you Google me.
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Yvette Kendall
You'll find out all the books that I have but all my books are on a Amazon they're on Barnes and noble books a million target. So if you want to is on I have books on audible as well. So got maps I have heart cover soft cover.
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Yvette Kendall
And ebooks and audibles so you can go to Amazon and either just put in Evette Kindle which is spelled y v e t t e k e n d a l l and it will pull up all the books in my library or you can just put in the god maps. That's maps in the search bar and it will pull up the different versions for you as well.
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wonderful you bad? that's wonderful hey you bad thank you once again for joining us today and it's certainly been a real pleasure. Please come back and check on us soon.
Yvette Kendall
I will. It's been awesome and I can't wait to hear your other interviews I'll definitely be tuning in.
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A thank you for that then I look forward to speak with you once again, take care.
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