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Indecisive Traveler

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Rease Kirchner from St. Louis (Missouri) is a freelancer running a successful travel blog www.indecisivetraveler.com . We have conducted an interview with her. When you quit your good paying job, what were your first thoughts about forgoing the good salary? I knew it seemed irresponsible, but I had always been such a good saver. I had thousands saved up and I knew I could make it for awhile without a job. I just kept telling myself "Money alone doesn't make you successful, you need to be happy too" I wasn't ready to settle at the age of 22. Was there a time after you quit, that you feel insecure as a freelancer? When and how exactly did you overcome it? When I first went freelance, I obsessively checked job listings, handed out business cards, and marketed myself. I got several jobs right when I moved back to the US from Argentina, but I didn't feel like it was enough. After a couple months, I realized that the clients were coming in ju...

The Moose Method

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Moose from New York runs a website www.themoosemethod.com that contains blogs on Relationship Advice for Men. We have conducted an interview with him: Do you really think women enjoys sex more than men? Why do you think so and how different do you think women are from men in this aspect to show their enjoyment? Women are more into quality as appose to quantity, men tend to want quantity over quality. Men are naturally imprinted to think of sex constantly which drives us to do all sorts of crazy things for sex, this is part of the reason why we have 7 billion people on this planet. Those two factors are important to understand because they can be easily be confused, because you enjoy something more often does not necessary means that you enjoy it more. The reason why I know women enjoy sex more is because they usually tend to make preparations such as removing body hair, fixing their hair, doing their nails and of course putting on sexy lingerie all leading up to th...

Down Home Sound

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Chuck Sailer lives in Philadelphia, PA. He is spinning up a new eCommerce site that will cater to the Home, Project, and Commercial Recording Studio consumer. We have conducted an interview with him: How did you get into Recording and Engineering? What is so special about what you do? I have always been fascinated with musicians. Yes, I play various instruments and I am fairly proficient at Guitar, however; I am more of a vocalist. I’m no Gladys Knight or Eddie Van Halen by any stretch of the imagination but I am passable. I grew up in Titusville, FL and all my friends played something. Some were actually quite good, in fact some were down right exceptional. I wasn’t exceptional but what I did have going for me was the love of music coupled with my awe of people who could actually play. How I got into recording is kind of a crazy story. I was about 14 or so. This was the 1970’s I had no idea about multi-tracking or mixers or anything really. I wanted to play g...

Get my Mom a Job

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Michele lives in Arizona. She started a company Get My Mom a Job which is a resource for Telecommute positions and is geared towards women who want a career, but still be able to be home with their family. We have conducted a short interview with her: What was the inspiration behind Get My Mom a Job? The inspiration behind Get My Mom a Job is really simple, it is the combination of all the experiences I have had. About 2 years ago, like a lot people, I was figuring out a way where I could help my family financially, and still have the balance and flexibility in life. So I set out to find a work from home job. Have you ever googled "work from home" before? There are millions upon millions of results. Here is the worst part none of them pertained to having a job that you could work from home. I have heard people for years talk about working from their company from their home office, yet I was never able to find any of those positions, where were they?...

Don't Be a Penguin

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We are doing an interview with Nish Bey, author of the new book: Don’t be a Penguin: Live life like an Alien . He was kind enough to speak with us today to learn more about him and the book. How did you end up using this title about the contrast of an alien and a penguin? The theme of the book is to become a free thinker and not just follow what everyone else in society is doing. As an analogy, I thought about how penguins all form in a line when they are traveling. This gave me the idea of them one by one walking off an iceberg and being eaten by sharks. Even though they can see the shark and they know they will die if they jump off the iceberg, they have to follow along with what everyone else is doing. That is where I came up with "Don't be a penguin" The analogy behind the alien is that one day a super intelligent smart alien may visit our planet and will observe the actions of our specie. I do not believe they would be to impressed with some of the ...

The Next Galaxy

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Ssaint-Jems is a writer from the US. he is the author of The Next Galaxy . This book is related to spirituality and he talks about an encounter with a God. We have conducted a short interview with him: What inspired you to write about "The Next Galaxy"? To explain what 'inspired' me would be difficult, it was a, all-of-a-sudden, kind of occurance, that suddenly captured my soul; I explain this in the begining text of the book, where I say "by a sudden stroke of something that place me there." I was in the process of writing other books, and all of a sudden The Next Galaxy came out of no where. I was influence by greater forces to write this book. Instead of me seeking it, it sought me. How long did you take to write from its conceptualization to the final product? It took about two years, thinking of how to present the otherworldy information TNG contains. What is the most fascinating about trinity? The Trinity is fascinating becau...

Interview with Nelson Cabán

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Nelson Cabán is a visual artist based in Hong Kong and New York City. We have conducted an interview with him about his artwork, recent exhibitions: How did you cope with two bases: in New York City and Hong Kong? Is it difficult to shuttle between the two locations? New York and Hong Kong both have their benefits. New York will always maintain a certain caché in the international arts market, although I feel that it is far from its creative peak of the 1980s. Hong Kong is the 3rd largest market for art in the world and its close proximity to mainland China makes it impossible to ignore for an emerging artist. The trip definitely takes a toll, every two months approximately, 16 hour direct flight but these trips allow me the time and the space to come up with ideas for shows and products..or just plain old sleep! Where can we see your recent exhibitions? What is the theme of your recent artwork? My most recent show was at City Hall in Philadelphia and will ...

The Generalist

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Thomas Duder is the writer of The Generalist novella series. We have conducted a short interview with him: Why did you name "The Generalist" novella series 'Taboo'? OH, oh no~! The novella series is called "The Generalist," but I'm a horrible freak for what I consider cool and badassed. With that stated, the episodes are called "Taboo" instead of something like "Files" or just flat-out "Episodes." There are secret organizations in your novella, how did you come about this idea? Secret organizations? What secret organizations? There is no conspiracy here, carry on citizen. Naw, seriously - everything's better with secret organizations. In a world where reality itself can be screwed with in such a myriad of ways, and Artifacts and monstrosities run rampant, there's going to be those groups who believe they can utilize these powers, creatures, and items in order to gain influence and power th...

The Tanlay Food Group

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Layton Mills is the co-founder of a company called "The Tanlay Food Group". Their special product is a lactose free UHT flavoured milk called Cranky Cow. We have conducted a short interview with him: How will you market your product or educate consumers on the different milk offerings available? Educating a consumer is very hard because a person will only seek to learn something new if they really want to. So you can’t make them learn if they aren’t ready, and forcing someone is just detrimental to your brand. So instead of educating them on the different options they have available and why we feel ours is better, we just try to show consumers that we are an honest, fun brand. We aren’t a multi-national and we actually care about our product and our consumers and that’s why we decided to make it lactose free, so everyone can enjoy it. We try to offer value to our consumers though humour and honesty. We aren’t going to lie to you about why we are better or how we...

Loving Life Therapy

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Yvonka De Ridder is a masters (MS) level marriage and family therapist intern in the state of FL. She is a specialist in marriage counseling, sex counseling, sexual trauma, divorce mediation, separation mediation, LGBT counseling, and life coaching. We have conducted an interview with her:  What does the distance therapy includes? Why is it called Concierge Therapy? Distance therapy can generally go hand in hand with Concierge Therapy if needed. However, they are also two separate packages, depending on what you need for therapy. Distance therapy can be priced per hour which include skype sessions or a phone sessions for those who aren't able to travel to the office or live in an outside city. Concierge therapy is more for clients who are in crisis or generally have more demanding needs. Concierge therapy is a monthly fee and this gives each client access to me throughout the business day and certain hours over the weekends through text, e-mail, or phone whenever t...

West Berkeley-Yes On Measure T

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Deborah Matthews from Berkeley (CA) is a Real Estate Broker, City Commisioner and Activist. We have conducted an interview with her on the project Yes on Measure T : How do you balance your life as an activist as well as a real estate broker? Balance my life, activist, real estate...Actually for me personal life activism and real estate are hand in hand. Because my personal life is centered in supporting quality equitable family living, participating in actions for neighborhood safety, seniors affordable housing and protecting our youth with safety and awareness on street corridors there is little separation in personal business. As an expert in the real estate industry I understand the correlation between safe community, pride of homeownership and excellent community schools these key areas translate to the highest home values for any community. What is "Measure T" about? Why is it named so? Measure T is called that because of the placement on...

DemonTech Hosting

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Magnus is 29 years old from Sweden. He is the CEO of DemonTech Hosting www.demontech.net that provides High Qaulity hosting service worldwide with English and Swedish support. We have conducted a short interview with him: In Sweden, what is the most important element in terms of quality in hosting services? Robust Servers with good access time. And understanding Support. What are your customers' expectations? It varies, Some come to us for the outstanding support, And some for our High Quality servers. How does your company help fulfill them? We help our Clients get thier Goal or Dream come true. What kind of value-added services do you render that makes you exceptional from your competitors? We offer High Quality CDN Service with Free Setup. Instant account activation when payment is verified. Many unlimited features in Every Hosting plan. Security Cerificates for only $29.95/ per year. Script Installtions for only $39.95. Affordable Website Service with no m...

Lets Fly Academy

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Matthew Martino is a model, actor and also the author of Lets Fly . He has designed an iPhone and iPad app about flying. We have conducted a short interview with him: Being a model and actor, how did you find time to create the "Let's Fly" app? I always had the passion to create the app and I found the time, I believe that where there is a will there is a way, I have learnt to utilize every second of my time. Can you briefly tell us how does a day in your life is like? A day in my life, thats a tricky one. I could go from a meeting in Glasgow to a flight lesson in London. What I can say is I love it all. On a typical weekday I go to the gym, read a lil, and I take time to catchup with my social media, I then proceed to either a flight lesson, photoshoot or I head into different towns and talk to people about my book. What is this "Let's Fly" app about? Who will benefit from using this app which you designed? Lets Fly app is for aspiri...

Creative Spark Solutions

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Umesh Sethi, is owner at Head of web development at Creative Spark Solutions , a company which is in the field of e-commerce and web solutions since last 8 years. We have conducted a short interview with him: What is the most important element of a great e-commerce website? A great e-commerce website is one which is user friendly, is secure, attracts traffic and is search engine friendly. An impressive design will be also be helpful. You will notice I have given more importance to user friendliness, security and attracting traffic because practically speaking these would be the most important elements. The main goal of the e-commerce website is attract those who are searching to buy your type of product to your site, provide them with the choices and the offers and convert it into a sale. It is these practical aspects we consider when implementing e-commerce solutions. For start-ups, what are the services you offer? And what value do they get if they engage your serv...