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6 Months Ended
Feb. 28, 2021
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Note 7: Related Parties

J. Stephen Holmes, our non-employee sales manager, is an advisor to and significant stockholder of the Company. The Company incurred $180,000 and $360,000 in professional fees for services provided by Mr. Holmes in each of the three and six month periods ended February 28, 2021, and February 29, 2020, respectively.

 

During the three and six month periods ended February 28, 2021, we made one-time payments to certain of our employees totaling approximately $53,000 and $600,000, respectively, in connection with their agreement to relocate from California to our new principal executive offices in Miami, Florida. Included among these were payments to the following related parties, in the amounts indicated: (i) Mr. Absher, $160,000;  (ii) Amanda Murphy, our Director of Operations and a member of our Board, $80,000; (iii) David May, a member of our business development team, and the son-in-law of Mr. Absher, $80,000; (iv) Phil Eastvold, the Executive Producer of ShiftPixy Productions, Inc., and the son-in-law of Mr. Absher, $88,000; and (v) Hannah Absher, an employee of the Company and the daughter of Scott Absher, $18,000.