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G. I. Tax Service - Interview with Glenn Sandler

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Founded in 2013 by Glenn Sandler, CPA , G. I. Tax Service is America’s premier provider of year-round tax preparation and financial services including tax planning and small business formation assistance. G.I. Tax also reaches out to military vets with turn-key franchise opportunities. G. I. Tax Service believes in corporate responsibility and is active in a variety of local charities that help military families. How does G.I. Tax Service stay ahead of the competition? That's an easy one. We work every single day at being better tomorrow than we are today. What has been the biggest accomplishment for G.I. Tax Service to date? We have figured out how the tax preparation business is supposed to work—how we can be number one in the market, how to take care of our customers, and how to present our message to America. As of January of 2019, franchising G.I. Tax is the biggest accomplishment. We will be visiting some of the largest shows across the country beginning w...

Preparture - Interview with Iyobosa Ero

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Iyobosa Ero is the Lead Cybersecurity Engineer at a Global PR Firm. He is a member of the ISC2 and ISACA which are international organizations focused on cyber-security and it's implementations and has served as the Organizer of the SIEM MeetUp group in Chicago. He has 12+ years in IT and Cyber Security. Iyobosa's greatest strengths are his solution driven, creativity, drive and leadership. He thrives on challenges, particularly those that expand the company’s Cyber Security reach. Iyobosa holds a Bachelors of Engineering degree from Finland and an M.Sc from DePaul University and now pursuing his Doctorate in Cyber Security. In his free time, he is a backup singer at his church, Iyobosa loves to travel while spending quality time with his wife. We have conducted an interview with him. What inspires this startup idea 'Preparture'? I must admit, people have different stories of what catapulted/promoted them into starting a new venture. Mine, however, started wit...

Interview with filmmaker Roberta Cantow

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Roberta Cantow is a longtime filmmaker with a body of work that includes: Accordions Rising (2015) ; Not a Still Life (2013) ; Bloodtime Moontime Dreamtime: Women Bringing Forth Change (a Trilogy) and Clotheslines , 1982, Emmy Award winning 30-minute documentary. We have conducted an interview with her. How did you develop this style of filmmaking? How did you make your films personal and also poetic? What do you incorporate into your films/scripts? The first film that I "fell in love with" was Fellini's La Strada, different in so many ways than any film I had seen before. Even though it is considered to be in the category of 'neo-realist,' it is intensely poetic visually, even in terms of the characters who take on mythic proportions. I found that I was drawn to European cinema in general, the anti-thesis of Hollywood at the time. So the development of my "poetic" style was the product of all that interested me at the time including travel, ...

Social Work Helper

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Deona Hooper, MSW is Social Worker in the US. She has created an online magazine and professional network at www.socialworkhelper.com helping professionals and students. We have conducted an interview with her: Your website is very impressive and professional. Can you explain how a social worker came to the idea to start such an IT based project? I consider myself to be a geek with social skills. Life experiences stirred me towards social work. Otherwise, I would have been an engineer or systems designer. Social work is how I choose to exercise my civic duty to advocate for the less fortunate. How would you describe the current situation of social workers in the US? What were the biggest challenges that made you to open an online forum for them? I think social workers in the US are facing many of the same issues social workers around the world are facing. Currently, austerity measures threaten the existence of human services in the majority of our most developed...