Greetings readers of Blazing Minds, I’d like to bring you a Blogger Interview and this time it’s with blogger Todd Walton from The Hip Hop Democrat, which incidentally relaunches on June 15th, so let’s get on with the interview

Please tell my readers a little something about yourself?

First off, I would like to say thank you for reaching out to me and adding me on Twitter, it’s a privileged to engage with you and everything your doing with Blazing Minds. To formally introduce myself my name is Todd, but I also go by Fokus which is my stage name. I would consider myself to be a “Social” Entrepreneur, being that a lot of the things I’m involved with I see to be ultimately for the greater good of someone other than myself. Well, not everything I do is directly for other, but I would say most, lol. I started out in music back in 2005 putting out a project entitled Fokus: Presents Chicago’s Kid Vol. 1. which had a pretty good turnout for a premiere independent release. Music from the project was also used for commercial/publishing purposes including some music I did for Playboy, which was fun, lol.

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Please tell my readers a little something about yourself?

I come from a rural Vermont town growing up on a small homesteading type farm.  We didn’t raise animals or produce to earn money for our family but to put food on the table, this was the foundation to who I am today. Homesteading is a lot of hard work; hand milking cattle, churning butter, splitting wood, harvesting, canning, working the fields, culling and processing meats for the winter months, it all takes a lot of time. However there were nice parts, like having my own horse to ride whenever my chores were done plus experiencing my early years living in such a bucolic place.

I have maintained an organic gardening all of my adult life and look forward to each new season. After leaving the farm I began weight training, yoga and cardio as my source for physical activities. At this time I am moving away from my career in accounting as I expand my knowledge base to study web design, programming and IT management, this has been a lifetime interest of mine.

So tell me about your blog, when and why you started it and how you came up with the name for it?

The name BodynSoil started with my first web design class over ten years ago, that course required me to design a page reflecting my personal interests. The roots of the name are a simple combination of my two main hobby’s of fitness and gardening. In 2008 I started my first blog on blogspot.com also using the name bodynsoil, that is a part of who I am at this point, in 2009 I registered my domain as bodynsoil.com.  March 2011 was when I moved my blog from blogspot.com to a self hosted WordPress site, initially I was overwhelmed with all I needed to learn but now feel more confident with the process. I write about my personal interests of fitness, nutrition, organic gardening, green living, my travels and any points of interest I might happen upon any given day.

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Welcome to another interview in my new series, as mentioned before each week I will be interviewing a fellow blogger who has kindly answered my blogging questions. This week I bring you an interview with DiTesco aka Francisco Perez, so let’s get on with it…

Please tell my readers a little something about yourself?

My real name is Francisco, also known as DiTesco, my online persona. I am a proud father of two wonderful kids, born in the Philippines, raised in Brazil, lived in a lot of places and now in between Europe and Brazil. I have a degree in Business Administration and mastered Finance at IMD (International Management Division – Switzerland). I have occupied several management roles in the past, such us, COO of American International Group in Europe, CEO of Sensormatic Sysytems, CFO of Banesto Group (banking), Auditor Supervisor of PriceWaterHouseCoopers, etc. Presently, I am an online business entrepreneur, while still managing (offline) my small Business and Management Consulting Company.

So tell me about your blog, when and why you started it and how you came up with the name for it?

I started to blog some three years ago because I had some friends who were doing it and said that there was money to be made, lol. I have to be honest that having the opportunity to make money online was the one that motivated me most and while this is so, over time, I found that it was also a great medium to build relationships, make friends, learn a lot of stuff, share my views and opinions, experience, and yes, identify some additional business opportunities. The domain name has no history behind it as at that time I was not so sure what I was doing. It was all new to me. I looked for available names and iblogzone.com was available That said, and since I mainly provide resources to help like minded individuals to build a successful online business, I call my website “Home Based Business Resources“. That’s right, its for people who are serious and prefer to work from the comfort of their homes, not the beach
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Welcome to another interview in my new series, as mentioned previously each week I will be interviewing a fellow blogger who has kindly answered my blogging questions, so let’s get on with it…

Q: Please tell my readers a little something about yourself?
A: Hey karen first of all thanks for the interview and it’s a pleasure to write something for your readers. I am Devesh, a 17 year old blogger from India. I started blogging back in 2010 just to make some money but later I found passion in this field. You can see my work on Technshare, WP Kube and Blokube.

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Welcome to another interview in my new series, as mentioned previously each week I will be interviewing a fellow blogger, Lauren from Think Spin who has kindly answered my blogging questions, so let’s get on with it…

Q: Please tell my readers a little something about yourself?
A: I’ve been married for twenty-five years, accumulatively, to the same man, have a twenty-one year old son in college, as well as two dogs, and a cat (not in college but they are street smart). We live on the east coast of the U.S. in Ridgefield, Connecticut (about an hour from NYC) on top of a mountain with very few streetlights and no public sewage or water system. We have a well and a septic tank. Luckily, everything runs downhill.

My humorous essays have been published online and in several earthly publications, two of which have folded. I swear I had nothing to do with their demise. I also had a dark short story published in Shroud Magazine. Bottom line, I love to write.

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Yes folks it’s time for another Blogger interview. This weeks interview is with The Struggling Blogger himself Roy, so sit back and please enjoy the Blogger interview and please don’t forget to pay a visit to his blog …

Q: Please tell my readers a little something about yourself?
A: I am Roy, a 42 year-old blogger from the Philippines, and father to three wonderful children. I can call myself a lot of names – a self-proclaimed poet, an entrepreneur-wannabe, a frustrated writer, an aspiring songwriter, and a dreamer. It is through blogging that I am able satiate all those frustrations, as I shared my poetry, my business experiences, attempted short story writing, sang my original compositions, and tell of my other dreams and aspirations. After three years of active blogging, my passion never waned and I am still looking as to how far this so called “love for writing” will take me.

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The Blazing Minds Blogger Interviews are now back, yes folks, some bloggers have kindly agreed to have themselves interviewed here on my blog, there are some great bloggers lined up on the next few weeks, to start I’m interviewing Mitch Mitchell, so let’s get on with it…

Q: Please tell my readers a little something about yourself?
A: I am an independent businessman and consultant that’s been blogging for 6 years or so. I have 4 blogs, one of them brand new, one of them very successful, and I have a lot of fun with them all.

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