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Meosha: Hi everybody
welcome to another episode of creators to Creators
today, today we have a very special guest
Lydie: Lydie Livolsi
Meosha: welcome! haha I’m so happy that you’re here, um
cause I you know I love talking to,
just just hearing people’s journey
I think you know everyone has a story and I just
it always fascinates me just to go
I like to go back to the beginning
uh just a little bit
um so tell me a little bit
a little bit about your childhood
and kind of how did you
find your way into what you’re doing right now.
Lydie: well, hi everybody
my name is Lydie Livolsi I’m here in Los Angeles
the sunny Los Angeles um
I’m the CEO and founder of My Dental Wig
and I’m an inventor and innovator
and basically, I’m the inventor of the dental AI patent
which is very simple
but it’s going to transform humanity
uh because it’s going to make a lot of changes
we’re going to be able to collect data
from the entire body 24 7
and use the data in the AI to really tract uh
serious diseases like cancer stroke
diabetes seizures
Alzheimer’s or autism
etcetera things that have not been done yet so yeah
I grew up
I was born and raised in Africa in Cameroon and I mean
basically, I grew up
I’m coming from a big family where
my dad was very ahead of his time
he knew that uh women
must have a good education
even though I didn’t live a long time with my dad
because after graduation from kindergarten
my dad fell sick, I’m sorry,
and you know it was from the
poisons from bombing um
in my area with the war, you know
Cameroon was like I wasn’t born yet
you know 15 years in wars
um against uh
British and French because Cameroon has both
one side is British
the other side is French like in Canada. So, my parents
they were very active against um
being occupied by foreign countries.
So, they fought a lot and so he got sick after my uh
kindergarten graduation and so mom
where mom stays on his bedside
in the hospital from my first grade to fifth grade
So, in January 1st you know.
New Year Day 1975 my dad passed away.
So, the last time I saw my dad
was when I was in kindergarten
however, during the small amount of time that I spent
with my dad
I only have good memories
He’s the one who taught me how to read
how to count, a
B c,
the whole alphabet it’s my dad because my mom uh
she didn’t have any
have any education.
So, my dad was the one who did it for me
and so, what happened was that my dad
on January 1st, 1975 in the morning in the hospital
this is what my mom told us
and she saw he got a surgery that didn’t work well
after the surgery my mom
she saw that her husband wasn’t doing good, well.
and she thought she really understood that that was,
this time he’s not going to
to stay. So, she asked him
listen when we left home almost five years ago
you said, because I’m the last child,
and he said she said
you said to lydie that you will be back
and now it’s not going to happen,
what do you want me to tell her
what am I going to say?
and my dad that was his last words
he said,
just say to everybody who loves me
to allow her to have a good education
and that was it.
and this is based on these last words of our dad
that my siblings my older siblings
they sent me to France in a private dentist school
very expensive but
and when I completed my education
I started my business in France
I had the one location in a Reims
the city of champagne and the other one in Paris
and I decided to leave France
and move to Los Angeles
especially because of prejudice
you know even being married to a Caucasian
it was very very hard
and I told him you know what
I can’t take it anymore um
let’s move to the United States
and this is how I came here in Los Angeles
straightforward in 2010 so I had to go back uh
learn English because English is my fourth language
you know
go back to college learn English all this
and I took some classes like leadership in college um
public speaking
or classes that I knew will be helpful for my business
and today I’m here with this patent
that consists of embedding chips
inside the dental devices
to collect data from the entire body
24/7 wow
Meosha: that’s incredible like how did
how did you come up with that
like like do
were you sitting down and just like
just came to you like this is what I wanna do?
Lydie: basically, you know
one of the reasons why I went to France
to learn how to make the dental devices
the main reason was that my grandmother
because I saw only one grandparent,
my grandmother from my mom’s side,
all grandparents were killed by the war
and so, my grandmother
she had only two teeth
in her mouth
and so
I was blessed because one of my sisters was dentist
I say was because now she retired.
and I remember one day in the village
in our village Batie my grandmother she said
she asked my sister, you know
who is dentist, I heard that you make teeth
please can you make my teeth
so that I can enjoy chewing crunchy
roasted peanuts? oh
you know and you know
when she asks something like that
you don’t realize
because seeing my grandmother with only,
only two teeth as a little girl in my mind
it’s just normal hmm
you know and it’s when she asked my sister like this
I was already in university
you know because I wanted to become a
a physician I was doing uh
chemistry and biology in university when there it hit me,
oh my God yeah
of course, I always saw her on her knees on the stones
you know try to uh uh
to crush the roasted peanuts
because she doesn’t have her teeth okay.
and this is how my sister
she said you know what uh
we are planning to send lydie uh
in Europe to learn how to make teeth
so that she can come back and make your teeth
and that was how the reason why I was sent to France
however
it was 4 years program and during my second year
I received a call that my grandmother passed away
and that same summer I went back home
I flew back for vacation and you know
I didn’t even want to get go inside because she was
she was buried in her house, in our tribe
we buried people in our house yeah
we are the descendant of ancient Egyptians,
and then I went home
and I pledged on my grandmother grave
I said listen grandma
I went in Europe to learn how to make teeth
So, I can come back here and make your teeth
but now you’re gone and I say
you know what I promise you
that I will do everything
that is legally possible
to replace the teeth of all people in the world
to honor you and that was beginning of my quest
you know.
So, my first patent was the dental impression kit
because during that process of research
I understood that legally
the only thing stopping me was the dental impression
then I said now
I need to figure out a way to have access
legally to those dental impressions
and I came out with the dental impression kit
I patented
you know companies like Smile Direct Club you know
smile Direct club?
they sent kits out to people to take the impressions,
send back so they can make the clear aligner
that’s my patent
nice
that kit that is sent out is my patent
even byte.com is another company
all these come any company out there
sending out dental impression kit to people
to do anything it’s my patent.
I use my patent to make what I’m great at
which is making teeth
you see and that’s why those company
they have those limitations because they are not uh
dental device manufacturer like I am
that is really my skill
I can make full denture, partial denture
I can make crowns, bridges, implants
I can make all this and I was like now
I’m embedding this logo in my dental wig
what if I embedded chip the sensors hmm
you see and I was like yes
the sensor, the sensor uh
the smaller chips are like 1 cm by 1 cm, no 1 millimeter
which is very small tiny yeah
and it can take a lot of data and I was like
oh my god I said look at this one
you see I have the room,
enough room to put to any size of chips
even many chips I have room here on the dental wig,
this is at the bridge 3 teeth
I have room here even inside
we have room even inside the gum here of the bridge
we can embed chips you see what I mean
I was like this is it and then I start writing
typing
my patent application and I contact my lawyer
patent attorney here locally
and he was like oh my God this is so amazing yeah
so, the good thing is that it’s patented
and we just need to raise capital
so that we can launch and scale
and also
really provide this amazing service to human beings
we need that.
Meosha: I love that I have I have this is I mean
I this is incredible
and I’m sure all the listeners are gonna be like
holy crap this is amazing um
I have a one question I love asking this question
there’s no wrong answer
but the three levels of influence money
power and respect
and if you could choose only one of those things
which one would you choose and one
Lydie: money
yeah
I like that that’s a good answer
I mean I got the respect right
I got the money is power
when you have that power people will respect
you just how it is
Meosha! I love it you know
Lydie: like right now we are
we are trying to go out with another
one of the purposes of this interview
is to broadcast about this dental AI
and we need more money to do that
we need investment people
people and we have these investment
where people can even invest $1,000
and we need to even
to explain to people how lucky they are
that now it’s legal in the United States
or even none
accredited investors to invest in a startup
to take that risk right
Meosha: you know so money is
money is power definitely power absolutely
that’s a great answer I love it
uh where can people find you on social media
and to get involved in everything on social media
yeah, I mean
Lydie: go to mydentwig.com um
it’s mostly the company I mean
if you send me an email or hello@mydentwig.com
or respond right away
and social media Facebook
but the thing is that
you know how they use bots or this
it’s crazy how AI is because people rely on it
but I don’t because you know
when you pay for ad
they send books to like your page or
or to come to
to write things or it’s not real person
right behind that I’ve done it
I went through that
that’s why an interview like this is more powerful
because it’s so you are talking to me
it’s not like fake uh
somebody took your voice and took mine and put together
you see what I mean
Meosha: absolutely yeah
yeah,
Lydie: so yes
just go to mydentalwig.com
uh there is a contact form
form fill out that form
and that for sure it will land into our mailbox
and even if we check
we regularly check our spam box that belongs to us
social media does not belong to us
Meosha: absolutely absolutely right
thank you so much it was a pleasure talking to you
and you know I
I for all the listeners
I want them to follow follow
follow follow
get involved as much as you can
this is incredible I appreciate your time
this is great I Learned a lot
I Learned a lot today so thank you
thank you so much again for coming on
Lydie: it’s my pleasure Moesha and er I
I can’t er
I’m so grateful and I thank you er
thankful for you
your time for this interview and all of you
guys who are listening just take this advantage
of becoming an early-stage investor
because this is how we build wealth we build power
Meosha: thank you so much thank you so much
and thank you all for listening
and always remember to live
love laughs
we’ll see you guys next time bye bye!