Olympia LePoint

Olympia Ann LePoint is an American author, professional speaker and award-winning aerospace engineer who specializes helping audiences unleash the brain’s power.[1]

Olympia LePoint
Olympia LePoint speaking on stage in Los Angeles, California.
Born
Los Angeles, California
NationalityAmerican
Alma materCalifornia State University, Northridge
OccupationProfessional public speaker, rocket scientist, author
Websiteolympialepoint.com

LePoint is CEO of OL Consulting Corporation & Publishing. She helped design and build space rockets, launching a total of 28 NASA Space Shuttle missions from 1998-2007.[2] In 2007, LePoint discovered and in 2010 trademarked the condition and term Mathaphobia,[3] a learning disability and math fear linked to the amygdala part of the brain. She published the book, Mathaphobia: How You Can Overcome Your Math Fears and Become a Rocket Scientist in 2013.[4]

LePoint coined the term Triabrain and created the Trianbrain Theory of Relativity in her self-help book, Answers Unleashed: The Science of Unleashing Your Brain’s Power in 2018. As LePoint considered her personal experiences in overcoming poverty, gang violence and sexual abuse, she created the Triabrain Theory of Relativity as a method to explain how she rewired her brain to overcome painful memories and succeed. The theory states the brain extends through the entire human body and into an energy field around a human.[5] She has also discussed this topic and the formation of intuition during a TED-style talk at her alma mater in 2018.[6]

Early life and education

LePoint was born in Los Angeles, California and was raised by a single mother in a poverty-stricken area. After a field trip to the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California at the age of six, LePoint decided to become a rocket scientist. At the age of 10, she was stabbed in the face by a gang member which led to her transfer to a gifted magnet school where she began to fail math before a teacher helped turn around her grades.[2][7][8]

After middle school, LePoint was selected to study at Alexander Hamilton Music Academy within Alexander Hamilton High School, a school located near Beverly Hills, California. She graduated from Alexander Hamilton High School at the age of 16, and left home to enter studies at California State University, Northridge.[9]

Shortly after enrollment, LePoint was caught in a collapsing campus residence building where she survived the catastrophic January 17, 1994, Northridge earthquake, which destroyed the university campus, injuring 8,700, and killing her classmate among the 56 others. LePoint continued at California State University, Northridge to study and tutor mathematics receiving the Karen, Leo and Rita Saulter Memorial Award,[10] and graduating as 1 of top 5, of a 6,500 graduating class in 1998.

Following the completion of her undergraduate studies at the age of 21, she was hired as a mathematician for The Boeing Company,[11] where she was a professional rocket scientist for NASA programs from 1998 to 2007. LePoint redirected her focus on the brain’s healing power after her mother experienced a catastrophic brain injury in 2004. In 2017, LePoint explained how her brain reshaped and healed from painful memories with the Triabrain Theory of Relativity.

Career

While at Boeing, LePoint helped launch NASA’s Endeavour, Discovery, Columbia, and Atlantis space shuttles. As a specialist supporting the Mission Control Center, she was responsible for recommending real-time solutions to ensure safe rocket launches and authorized multimillion-dollar rocket engine testing and was the youngest person to present information to NASA on that scale.[2] LePoint helped design and build experimental space rockets, and to launch 28 NASA Space Shuttles from 1998-2007.[1][12]

LePoint's awards include Boeing Company's Professional Excellence Award given by The Chief Technology Office in 2004, the National Black Engineer of the Year "Modern Day Technology Leader" Award in 2003,[13] the Engineers' Council Incorporated 2001 Distinguished Engineering Project Achievement Award, the 2000 Boeing Company Technical Excellence Award, an A-1 Toastmasters International Speech Contest Winner in 2007, the 2009 San Fernando Valley Business Journal "Top 40 Under 40" Business Leaders Award,[14] and the 2010 All Things Girl article entitled "An Inspiring Woman.”[15]

LePoint established the book publishing and educational entertainment company, OL Consulting Corporation in 2010 and holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Mathematics along with a Master of Science degree in Applied Mathematics from California State University Northridge.[14]

In 2007, LePoint made the discovery of mathaphobia and trademarked the term in 2010. Mathaphobia is a fear in the brain which prevents math literacy, basic math calculations and analytical problem-solving. In 2013, Olympia LePoint wrote the book. Mathaphobia: How You Can Overcome Your Math Fears and Become a Rocket Scientist, a self-help, educational book designed to help adults and students to overcome their math fears. In 2017, LePoint wrote the book Answers Unleashed: The Science of Unleashing Your Brain’s Power, where she coins the term brainbrink, which destroys intuition and mental awareness by disconnecting the Triabrain’s striatum from the prefrontal cortex communication.

TV and media

LePoint has appeared in magazines and news publications, including recognition in 2010 as "The New Face for Math Literacy," for her Mathaphobia explanation on Oprah.com.[16] She also appeared on Dr. Drew's Life Changers TV Show in 2012, as well as The Bret Lewis News Hour, Jump Shipp on The Halogen Network, and Christians OnDemand Episodes. In 2014, she presented a TEDx talk, “Reprogramming Your Brain to Overcome Fear”, at TEDxPCC.[17]

In 2015, LePoint appeared on Between the Lines on PBS. In 2017, LePoint was featured in numerous international magazines and newspapers during the motion picture release of Hidden Figures including People Magazine. She has also appeared on the international show Impact Theory[18] and Open Minds.

LePoint is a science contributor for Huffington Post, hosts her talk show Answers Unleashed, and is regularly featured as a guest math and science expert on TV, radio, and social media.

Bibliography
  • LePoint, Olympia (2017). Answers Unleashed (Answers Unleashed: The Science of Unleashing Your Brain's Power). CA: OL Consulting Corporation & Publishing. pp. 314 pages. ISBN 978-0-9885376-2-0.
  • LePoint, Olympia (2013). Mathaphobia (Mathaphobia: How You Can Overcome Your Math Fears and Become a Rocket Scientist). CA: OL Consulting Corporation & Publishing. pp. 208 pages. ISBN 978-0988537637.

References
  1. Boroughs, Mick, Boeing News Now Special Feature article, “Olympia LePoint: A Most Promising Engineer”, The Boeing Company Publications, February 12, 2003.
  2. "Modern-Day 'Hidden Figure' Shares Her Inspiring Journey as a Female Rocket Scientist: 'I Wanted to Own the Fact That I Was a Woman'" People. Retrieved 2018-02-20.
  3. "USPTO Issues Trademark: Mathaphobia" High Beam. Retrieved 21 February 2013.
  4. "Mathaphobia" ISBN Search. Retrieved 20 February 2013.
  5. "The Triabrain And Answers Unleashed" HuffPost. Retrieved 2018-02-20.
  6. "CSUN Alumna Olympia LePoint Hosts TED-Style Talk" CSUnshine Today. Retrieved 2018-02-20.
  7. Richard, Joanne (March 5, 2017). "Boldly Celebrating Women Every Day; Dr. Olympia LePoint proves gender parity isn't rocket science". Winnepeg Sun.
  8. Bain, Julie (January 12, 2015). "Olympia LePoint showed courage on her path from poverty to rocket scientist". Christian Science Monitor. Retrieved July 21, 2020.
  9. Chiang, Sharline, Daily News, Article ”Graduating to the next Level: Student figures out her calling,” Wednesday, May 27, 1998.
  10. "CSUN Awards” CSUN News: Graduating Student Awards News. Retrieved 17 February 2013.
  11. “CSUN Awards” California State University Alumni Magazine, Alumni Notes, Summer 2003 Edition, page 25.
  12. LePoint, Olympia, Mathaphobia: How You Can Overcome Your Math Fears and Become a Rocket Scientist, Los Angeles, California, OL Consulting Corporation, 2013, page 29.
  13. "The 2003 National Black Engineer of the Year 'Modern Day Technology Leader' Award" Boeing News. Retrieved 17 February 2013.
  14. Kareem, Nadra, "Top 40 Under 40" Business Leaders Award article, "Age Places No Barriers to Business Ownership," San Fernando Valley Business Journal, February 18, 2008.
  15. Ravenel, Roxanne. (August 12, 2010). “Inspiring Woman: Olympia LePoint” All Things Girl. Retrieved 20 February 2013.
  16. "Olympia's Audition" OWN Channel. Retrieved 20 February 2013.
  17. "Reprogramming Your Brain to Overcome Fear" TEDxPCC. Retrieved 2018-02-05.
  18. "How to Go From Failing Student to Rocket Scientist" Impact Theory. Retrieved 2018-02-20.
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