You're listening to the Impact Theory Podcast, your source of empowering ideas and actionable techniques from the world's highest achievers.

Join host Tom Billio, serial entrepreneur and co-founder of the Billion Dollar Brand quest nutrition, on a journey to unlock your potential and realize your vision of success.

Welcome to Impact Theory.

Everybody, welcome to Impact Theory. You were here, my friends, because you believe that human potential is nearly limitless, but you know that having potential is not the same as actually doing something with it.

So our goal with this show and company is to introduce you to the people and ideas that are going to help you actually execute on your dreams.

Alright, today's guest is a force of nature. She is a venture-backed founder, CEO and inventor. She created her first game-changing product at age 19, and she founded Uncharted Play, a renewable energy company at 22, while still attending Harvard.

And instead of dropping out like other high-profile entrepreneurs, she just did both, because well, when you box for fun and consider yourself a cross between Bill and Beyonce, that's just how you roll.

But I'm not sure that even the superhuman that would be, the Beyonce, Bill and I hybrid, could keep up with today's guest.

Despite having no formal training in the hard sciences, not only did she invent a product that turns a soccer ball into a power plant, but her company now holds 15 patents and patents pending.

She also managed to raise $7 million to supercharge her company's growth, the largest raise ever by a woman of color, and she's partnered with Fortune 500 companies to completely rethink how energy is generated and distributed.

Not surprisingly, Inc. Magazine named Uncharted Play one of the 25 most audacious companies in the world, fast company named them one of the 10 most innovative companies in the world, and she personally was named to Fortune's most promising women entrepreneurs list, Forbes 30 under 30, and when Obama needed somebody to represent small businesses, when he signed the Historic America Invents Act, he chose her.

Please help me in welcoming the female innovator who has been called the Elon Musk of kinetic energy, the woman Oprah named to the Super Saul 100, the real life Riri Williams, Jessica O. Matthews.

Jessica, thank you so much for coming.

Thank you.

What a pleasure to have you.

Real life Riri Williams.

Yes, which is why I'm wearing this shirt.

That's so dope.

So I completely really enjoyed doing the research on you, and when I saw it in one of the articles that I was reading that you dressed up as Riri for Halloween, I said, all right.

Yeah, yeah.

I'm a huge woman, I respect that.

So I'm huge in a comic book and really believe that I actually have tremendous power as archetypes, as mythology.

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