The Nikos Show

☕ ✝️ [Legacy] Joshua Wanggaard 🇺🇸Life among the hurting in Minneapolis

I continue my conversation with Joshua and he shares about his friendships with Muslims as a follower of Jesus.

☕ [Legacy] Carl C Simms 🇺🇸 Retired Rochester Police Officer, and member of SWAT Designated Marksman Team 👮🏿‍♂️

Carl C Simms is a retired designated marksman for a Rochester SWAT police unit. He still servers by mentoring junior officers and contributes to this community.

☕ [Legacy] Black history aspects in America 🇺🇸 Dr. Byron Burkhalter - Sociologist

Dr. Byron Burkhalter earned his doctorate in sociology from UCLA and has been focused on issues of race, biracial identity, whiteness and multiracial political coalitions in US history for more than 30 years. He has taught at the university level, spoken at large public rallies and published numerous pieces on these issues. His writings have examined racial and sexual discrimination in the workplace, the relevance of race in interracial relationships and racial and ethnic identities in onlin...

☕ [Legacy] Dimitris Lagios 🇬🇷 Life in Greece / Tourism / Multiculturalism in Greece

A catchup with my friend who runs a coffee shop in Athens Contents: Tourism: 19:30 Multiculturalism: 47:30

☕ [Legacy] Joshua Wanggaard 🇩🇰 🇺🇸 Minneapolis, life in the epicentre of the riots ⚔️🔥

Josh Lives one mile from where George Floyd was killed. He runs several businesses in the district where the riots are going on.

☕ ✝️ [Legacy] Fazale Rana 🇺🇸 Transhumanism Post CoronaVirus 🦠 Author of Humans 2.0 🦾

Fazale Rana is the vice president of research and apologetics at Reasons to Believe. He is the author of several groundbreaking books, including Humans 2.0, Who Was Adam, Creating Life in the Lab, and The Cell’s Design. He holds a PhD in chemistry with an emphasis in biochemistry from Ohio University.

☕ [Legacy] Geoff & Zoe Thatcher 🇺🇸 father and daughter company 👨‍👧 Creative Principals 💡

Grab Jeff and Zoe's new book here: https://www.creativeprincipals.com/ceotimemachine GEOFF THATCHER is Founder and Chief Creative Officer of Creative Principals. He’s had a long career creating brand experiences, visitor centers, museums, theme parks and live events, before launching his own experience design firm in 2017. His eclectic background always delivers a fresh perspective. His experience includes everything from the grand opening of Warner Bros. World Abu Dhabi to the renovated A...

☕ [Legacy] Jon Nastor 🇨🇦 The art and science of Podcasting 🎙

Jon Nastor is an SEO and Marketing Consultant and is the author of Hack the Entrepreneur: How to Stop Procrastinating, Build a Business, and Do Work That Matters. You can also hear the podcast episode I raved about here.

☕ [Legacy] Wyn Masters 🇳🇿 Pro Mountain Biker 🚵‍♂️

Wyn is living the dream, Rides for GT Factory Racing and does do wheelies all over the 🌎

☕ ✝️ [Legacy] Alan Ross 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Secular Humanism 🗿

☕ [Legacy] Michael Cobley 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Sci-Fi & Epic Fantasy Author 🚀👾🐉

Michael wrote a smashing novel I read around 2016 called Seeds of Earth. A fascinating book with so many interactive alien species with intergalactic political issues and huge scope and interlocking plots. Mike told me this to describe himself: I'm half Scottish, half-English science fiction and fantasy writer, living and working in Ayrshire, Scotland. Born 1959, went to Clydebank High School, then on to Strathclyde University, studying production engineering (didnt graduate) - also wrote ...

☕ [Legacy] Jack (Qi) Cao 🇨🇳 🇳🇿Lawyer ⚖ Public Defence Service

Jack is a Criminal defence lawyer at the Public Defence Service, practicing at the Manukau District Court. He has also served at the U.S. Department of State as a diplomat. Music by my friend David:  https://soundcloud.com/david-marshall-taylor Fancy something more tech focused? Why not check out my software podcast called Learn With Us.

☕ 🧑🏻‍💻 [Legacy] Kyle Evans 🇺🇸 Bandleader of Echo Bloom 🎸Software Tech Lead

During the day Kyle is a technologist, focusing on bringing clarity to complicated problems. He has worked in finance, technology startups, music, public radio, film, and advertising. During the night he writea and perform with the band Echo Bloom. They've released 6 albums, gone on 3 world tours, and have driven countless miles in cramped tour vans. Kyle's song we played on the show:  Music by my friend David:  https://soundcloud.com/david-marshall-taylor Fancy something more tech focus...

✝️ [Legacy] Prophetic Insights from World Crises 🦠 📉 Clem Ferris 🇺🇸 Alan Ross 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Clem operates in the office of Prophet which is a core theme of the New Testament. He is a modern prophet, in that he has a prophetic ministry that takes him to various places around the world today and now, where he encourages people with words that God shows him. He also has a YouTube channel. Alan also operates in the office of Prophet and travels around the world extensiely He also has a YouTube channel.

☕ ✝️ [Legacy] Daniel Sunne 🇺🇸 Mobilising the Churches in the USA during the Crisis

Daniel is a Policy Liason at the Family Leader. The family leader is a fascinating and influential organisation in the USA. Their aims are to strengthen families, by inspiring Christ-like leadership in the home, the church, and the government. Live videos from Daniel's church are posted here: https://www.facebook.com/ShepherdOfTheValleyLutheranChurchWdm/ Music by my friend David:  https://soundcloud.com/david-marshall-taylor Fancy something more tech focused? Why not check out my softwar...

☕ 🎸 [Legacy] Peter Cook 🇪🇺 🇬🇧 Academia, Business Leader, The Academy of Rock

Peter Cook leads  Human Dynamics, offering Business and Organisation Development. He also delivers keynotes around the world that blend business intelligence with parallel lessons from music via The Academy of Rock. Author of and contributor to eleven books on business leadership, acclaimed by Tom Peters, Professors Charles Handy, Adrian Furnham and Harvey Goldsmith CBE.  His three passions are science, business and music, having led innovation teams for 18 years to develop life-saving drugs...

☕ 🧑🏻‍💻 [Legacy]  Mark Nadal 🇺🇸 Designing Ethical Systems 💵 ⚖

Another fascinating episode with a very smart man: Mark. He is political activist, autodidactic philosopher, neon visionary, wanderlust logician, artistic renegade. Also, check out this video called OPT-OUT OF MONEY: FOR FUN & PROFIT! Previous episode: https://cafe.nikoskatsikanis.com/episodes/mark-nadal Music by my friend David:  https://soundcloud.com/david-marshall-taylor

☕ 🕴️ [Legacy]  Mike Robbins 🇺🇸 - Author & Speaker - Leadership in the CoronaVirus Crisis 🦠

Mike Robbins is the author of five books, including his brand new title, WE’RE ALL IN THIS TOGETHER: Creating a Team Culture of High Performance, Trust, and Belonging, which comes out May 5th.  For the past 20 years, he’s been a sought-after speaker and consultant who delivers keynotes and seminars for some of the top organizations in the world.  His clients include Google, Wells Fargo, Microsoft, Genentech, eBay, Harvard University, Gap, LinkedIn, the Oakland A’s, and many others.   He an...

🎭 🎥 [legacy] John Di Domenico 🇺🇸 Navigating the changes in the events and entertainment industry

We discuss the changes in the events industry brought on about CoronaVirus. We also contrast Zoom and Discord for conferences. You can contact him on his website here: http://johnnyd.net/ Some of my favourite appearances of John: Trump vs Kim Jon Un Joe Piscopo Show (you have to watch the Austin Powers intro)   Music by my friend David:  https://soundcloud.com/david-marshall-taylor

☕ 🧑🏻‍💻 [Legacy]  Marc Smith 🇺🇸 Sociologist - Societal Changes Post Coronavirus 🦠

Second time appearance, Marc is one of the worlds leading sociologists on the subject for network graphs of people. Marc and his team have created the most fantastic platform NodeXL used within the social media research foundation for people to utilise the Twitter social graph. They can use it to find the top influencers for given Hashtags. Node XL also all allows you to visualise the social network of these hashtags giving you the change to see what kind of structure the network has. His ...

☕ [Legacy] James Good 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Recovered Gaming Addict 🎮 🕹️ 👾

James has a fascinating life story where he used to be a chronic games addict but managed to escape the clutches of this downward spiral. Recently he has moved to Thailand to where he's been working for the renowned Game Quitters. He also contributes to the Gaming the System podcast which has personally beneficial to me. Also, his youtube channel and see his interview at the UK parliament https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-47457761

☕ 🕴️ [Legacy]  Dan Ram 🇦🇪 🇮🇳 Event MC | 5x TEDx Speaker | Executive Coach

Daniel (known more popularly as DanRam) is an igniter. A 5x TEDx speaker, 3x entrepreneur, prolific speaker, and startup coach, his clients range from individual founders to national governments. His eclectic background growing up in 10 countries on 4 continents, his multi-continent education including Yale University and Trinity College, as well as his work in diverse industries from the UN to Consulting to Private Equity to Startups ensures that his clients are at the cutting edge of innov...

☕ 🎼 🧑🏻‍💻 [Legacy] Devin Roth 🇺🇸 Movie Composer

Canadian composer and programmer, Devin Roth, has contributed to the music for a number of noteworthy films and television shows including Guillermo del Toro’s Netflix series Trollhunters, Hotel Transylvania 2, The Book of Life, Crazy-Ex Girlfriend, and Emmy nominated Elf: Buddy’s Music Christmas (NBC). Devin has collaborated with multi-Oscar winning composer, Gustavo Santaolalla; composer and co-founder of Devo, Mark Mothersbaugh; Emmy nominated composer and orchestrator, Christopher Guardi...

☕ 👩‍⚕️ [Legacy] Lorna Main 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Difficult Ethics of Cancer Treatment

Lorna Main is a nursing thought leader in the UK, teaches nursing at the University of Greenwich and is completing a doctorate. Scientific papers referenced (and relevant) in the podcast: Bowles, N. (1995) Story telling: a search for meaning within nursing practice Nurse, Education Today (15) 365-369 Creswell, J.W. (2014) Research Design. Qualitative, Quantitative and Mixed Methods Approaches 4 th Ed. Sage Publications. London Crotty, M. (1998) The Foundations of Social Research Meaning ...

☕ 🧑🏻‍💻 [Legacy] Eric Newman 🇺🇸 Future Media Mogul- Living in the US vs UK (especially healthcare)

I sit down with my buddy from NYC who is a super talented Podcast host of Pull Request  

☕ 🕴️ [Legacy] Alain Hunkins 🇳🇱 🇺🇸 Cracking the Leadership Code

I learned so many gems of leadership in this. Alain has a fresh, natural and trustworthy approach to making the world a better place through leadership. Cracking the Leadership Code  now available for preorder on Amazon One of the most practical books on the planet when it comes to leadership and how to make a difference."   --Barry Z. Posner, PhD, Professor of Leadership Leavey School of Business, Santa Clara University, Co-author, The Leadership Challenge Sign up for the 'Building Stro...

☕ 🦠 👩🏻‍🔬 [Legacy] Anjeanette Roberts - CoronaVirus and Virus Biology in Detail

☕ [Legacy] Daniel Sunne 🇺🇸 Policy Liason at the Family Leader ( influential organisation in the USA)

The family leader is a fascinating and influential organisation in the USA. Their aims are to strengthen families, by inspiring Christ-like leadership in the home, the church, and the government. We also cover an introduction to US politics.

☕ 📡 [Legacy]  David Campanale 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 His Experience on Standing for Parliament

I had a catchup meal with David, now its the 2nd time he has been on the show. He stood for the Liberal Democrats in the General election.  

☕ 🧠 [Legacy] Mara Klemich 🇦🇺 Forensic Neuropsychology

As well as being co-founder of Heartstyles with her Husband Stephen Klemich, Mara is also a clinical and neuropsychologist. She uses her grounding in neuroscience to inform her work as a facilitator. In the process she's helped thousands of people gain a deeper understanding of their behaviors and better their lives. With Above The Line, she's relishing the opportunity to take the painstakingly-developed Heartstyles methodology to an even wider audience. When she’s not delving into the dep...

☕ ✝️ [Legacy] Clem Ferris 🇺🇸 Prophetic Minister

Clem operates in the office of Prophet which is a core theme of the New Testament. He is a modern prophet, in that he has a prophetic ministry that takes him to various places around the world today and now, where he encourages people with words that God shows him. He also has a YouTube channel. We also touch on Titles in the Body of Christ and end time predictions. 

☕ ✝️ ⚽ [Legacy] Paul Salina 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Football referee and Church Deacon

I've known Paul since I was a teenager and his is also a close friend of Boyd, who I had on the show. He referee's Semi-Pro games in Scottish Football and manages the selection of guest ministers at a local church in my Hometown East Kilbride I frequent when I visit there. Its called Westwood Hill.  

☕ ✝️ 🧬 🦾 [Legacy]  Fazale Rana - Transhumanism

We tackle one of Hollywood's favourite themes presently in Blockbuster movies and one of sciences most controversial topics. Fazale (Fuz) Rana, the son of a Muslim scientist, serves as the vice president for science apologetics at Reasons To Believe. His research in biochemistry provided him with the initial evidence that life must have been created. A personal challenge daring him to read the Bible led him to the scriptural evidence that the Creator is the God of the Bible. Fuz attended W...

☕ [Legacy]  Jenny Rossiter - Helping Burnt out CEOs and Decision Makers

Jenny coaches executive leaders, managers and teams to institutionalise empathy and connection, form and nurture better relationships with team members, and allow ‘whole-brain’ thinking to create thriving workplaces. Jenny Rossiter is a leading coach, author, human behaviour specialist and founder of Feel Good Leadership. With for more than 27 years of experience in business and leadership, she has delivered practical strategies and techniques to inspire new thinking and form healthy habits...

☕ 💪🏻 [Legacy] Ivor Ivanov - Elite Personal Trainer

After 12 years working in the fitness industry, Ivan still gets excited about discovering new training philosophies and studying the latest research surrounding fat loss and wellbeing. The scientific side of fitness is a passion of his. You can see his testimonials here https://www.trueperformance-fitness.co.uk/

☕ ✝️ [Legacy] Dr Hugh Ross 🇨🇦 Astrophysicist 🌌 Big God Questions

Astronomer and best-selling author Hugh Ross travels the globe speaking on the compatibility of advancing scientific discoveries with the timeless truths of Christianity. His organization, Reasons to Believe, is dedicated to demonstrating, via a variety of resources and events, that science and biblical faith are allies, not enemies.

☕ [Legacy] Boyd Finlay 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Nikos former Youth Leader and Semi Conductor Expert

Boyd was a big influence to me in my teen years having been a youth leader at my local church in East Kilbride, Westwood Hill. Boyd in 2004 won Scottish engineer of the year and has had a high-profile career spanning some of the world largest companies in the world that manufacture semiconductors and processors. While he was working in these companies he had challenging health issues and spent many years with both American and UK healthcare and he gives us his opinion of them both and expe...

☕ 🎭 [Legacy]  John Di Domenico 🇺🇸 Character Actor (inc Trump, Sean Connery)

We cover his origins as an Actor and the wild rollercoaster ride he has had since Trump announced his cadency.  He also teaches me to do Donald Trump impressions on the show. We also have a comedy rap with me as Sean Connery talking to the President. You can contact him on his website here: http://johnnyd.net/ Some of my favourite appearances of John: Trump vs Kim Jon Un Joe Piscopo Show (you have to watch the Austin Powers intro)

☕ 🕴️ [Legacy]  Stephen Klemich 🇦🇺 Leading from the Heart

Stephen Klemich is the co-founder of Heartstyles and the co-creator of the Heartstyles Indicator, a tool that measures effective and ineffective thinking and behaviour, with his wife Dr. Mara Klemich. Stephen founded his first people development consultancy in 1987 and has over 30 years’ experience transforming people and culture in organisations through character development. He believes that that people are capable of radical transformation and development when change comes from the heart....

☕ ✝️ [Legacy]  Becket Cook 🇺🇸 From Showbiz to Walking with God

Becket Cook shares how he found God after realising life at the top of the Hollywood wouldn't satisfy him and left him feeling empty inside. We also discuss spiritual principles that help us connect to God personally in a world filled with constant media bombardment.   

☕ 👨🏼‍🍳 [Legacy]  Dimitris Lagios 🇬🇷 Life in Greece Pre-Euro, Post-Euro and Post Financial Crisis

Dimitris is a lifelong friend of me and one of my first port of calls when I visit Greece. He has a wide variety of life experiences in Greece as well as working experience on a British Blueberry farm. I have seen the effects of the Euro and the financial crisis in Greece but I wanted to get Dimitris perspective, having lived the vast majority of his life in Athens.   I first had Dimitris on my YouTube channel back in the day.

☕ 🧑🏻‍💻 [Legacy]  Mark Nadal - Political Activist

A fascinating episode with a very smart man: Mark. He is political activist, autodidactic philosopher, neon visionary, wanderlust logician, artistic renegade. In this episode we also covered Zero Sum Games Freeism The Handshake Problem Pareto Efficiency Also, check out this video called OPT-OUT OF MONEY: FOR FUN & PROFIT! For a more techy discussion head over to my other podcast to hear him talk about the dWeb : https://learnwithus.simplecast.com/episodes/mark-nadal

☕ 🪖 [Legacy] Jon Macaskill 🇺🇸 Navy Seal

Jon Macaskill is a US Navy SEAL Commander turned mindfulness coach. He has served in the SEAL Teams since 2003 and is now coaching corporate teams in mindfulness practices to improve their productivity and focus while also serving as the Deputy Executive Director for Veteran’s PATH, a nonprofit organization that introduces the practices of mindfulness and meditation to military veterans in safe environments. We also talk about Nikos interest in Science Fiction.

☕ 📈[Legacy] Olivier Danvel 🇫🇷 Elite Pro Fx Trader on eToro

Elite Trader Popular Investor OlivierDanvel, with over 7000 copiers and more than 65,000 followers, he mainly focuses on currency trading. This French popular investor focuses on safe trading. Olivier Danvel is a finance professional. He has managed financial assets for more than 20 years. He specialized in currency trading 10 years ago where he develops original strategies such as the one he trades on the eToro platform when he started with early 2017, namely to perform each month in posi...

☕ 🪖 [Legacy] Brian Kelly 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Royal Artillery Veteran

Brian Kelly served several tours with the British army in Iraq and Afghanistan.  During his service he  received medals for Operation Herrick, Operation Telic and Rosette for war fighting. Having experienced a living hell in Afghanistan he was diagnosed with PST and went through many years of challenges post service. However, he received some help and managed to turn things around becoming a successful manager in several companies and running a personal training business. He also offers fr...

☕ ✝️ 🎭 [Legacy] Warren Furman 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 The Gladiator for the Gospel - aka Ace

What a fun episode this was, I grew up in my childhood watching the Gladiators on Saturday night TV in the 90s. Warren is also known as the Gladiator Ace has had some dramatic changes in his life which we will go into in great uncensored detail. Prepare to be blown away by this Celebrity Success story that goes far beyond the typical trappings of success we often see associated with celebrity culture. Warren also helps run a Christian Charity: https://aceactive.org

☕ ✝️ 🎭[Legacy] Warren Furman 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 The Gladiator for the Gospel - aka Ace

What a fun episode this was, I grew up in my childhood watching the Gladiators on Saturday night TV in the 90s. Warren is also known as the Gladiator Ace has had some dramatic changes in his life which we will go into in great uncensored detail. Prepare to be blown away by this Celebrity Success story that goes far beyond the typical trappings of success we often see associated with celebrity culture. Warren also helps run a Christian Charity: https://aceactive.org

☕ 📡 [Legacy]  David Campanale - International Broadcast Journalist, Politician and Activist - From Behind the Iron Curtain to Westminster

☕ 🕴️ [Legacy] Brett King - Future impacts of AI - Futurist & Author of Bank 4.0

Brett is a futurist, an author, hosts a globally recognized radio show, runs a $100m startup called Moven and in his spare time enjoys flying as an IFR pilot, scuba diving, motor racing, gaming (mostly FPS) and Sci-Fi. He has advised the Whitehouse on the Future of Banking, and has spoken on the future in 40 countries in the last 3 years. One day soon he may get a full night sleep… His website and book site: http://brettking.com http://bank4dot0.com/

☕ 🎭 [Legacy] Launching a Singing and Acting Career - Johnny K Palmer

We discuss how his past leading up to his great success at “STARMANIA” (austrian TV show similar to the GotTalent franchise) and then onto his scongwirtting careeer and more recently a role in a film which got him on to the red carpet at the films premier in Lecestie Square. We discuss his past leading up to his great success at Austria's got talent and then onto his songwriting career and more recently a role in a film which got him on to the red carpet at the premiere of the film in Leice...