The Nikos Show

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 coveredZero Sum GamesFreeismThe Handshake ProblemPareto EfficiencyAlso, 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

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.

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 positive territory. Since then he did 33 cumulative 'green' months for his copiers on eToro.He executes his knowledge by a method called swing trading, it's the fact of taking only a few positions per month in the forex markets for a period ranging from a day to a few weeks.His major asset is not to trade constantly, he waits a long time, often several days, before committing his funds to seize the most likely opportunity following the fundamental and technical analysis of the multiple pairs of currencies that he observes at daily. Another key point of its strategy is its very low risk score trading, which secures much of its own funds as well as those who want to copy him. Checkout his eToro profile or his Youtube

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 free counselling for Veterans over the phone, training session or a pint at a local.

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

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.comhttp://bank4dot0.com/

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 Leicester Square.See: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm4274509/

We learn about his fascinating career: trading in Chicago to his trading carer in London, and his transition into a consultant in the blockchain industry.He also gives us a lowdown on the latest happenings in the industry.His website

In this episode, I talk to Russell Dalgleish, named as one of the 100 most influential British Entrepreneurs. We look at how you can grow a business network and gain from his current market knowledge and a wide range of experiances.He is a Managing Partner of the advisory group, Exolta Capital Partners, www.exolta.com @exoltauk. And Chairman Scottish Business Network, www.sbn.scot @sbnscot. Other roles and accolades include,Member of Board of Trade chaired by Ivan McKee, Minister for Trade, Investment & Innovation.Named as one of the 100 most influential British Entrepreneurs.A member of the Maserati List of business leaders who support the next generation of entrepreneurs.His profile and the Scottish Business Network

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.This episode is truly rich with many advanced topics that could easily make it into a tech podcast, but I wanted to expose the concepts to my listeners here so they can take advantage of them.You can see existing Network Graphs here

Doug talks about he got started as an actor, director and producer. He owns the company Just Make Films. In this episode, he advises how to get started as an actor today in London. Doug also demonstrates his perfect Ali G accent and advising Nikos not to get into stunt acting.We also compare living in London to living in LA.Special thanks to Porsche Mayfair for hosting us to record the podcast.

Here is the legend as a rough guide on what to expect:🔬 Programming, same Learn With Us style you are used to☕Influencer, can be combined with 🎭 actor 👨‍🎤Singer 🗳️(ballet box) Politician 🧬Biology & Biotech + 🧑🏿‍🔬👩🏻‍🔬✝️ Faith & theology🏗️Engineering + 👷🏻‍♂📈 MarketsOther, less frequent🪖Military 💭 Philosophy etcWhen I have a guest on the show I will generally introduce them by name followed by their country and a description of them and/or the topic.This will evolve and change over time as needed.What will follow after this episode is select Influencers Cafe episodes that will be imported (marked as [Legacy]) from the old location of Influencers Cafe, then we will record the new episodes under the Nikos Katsikanis Show.

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Hedley founded PharmaFlow in 2005 and is managing consultant. He is also a passionate advocate of paradigm shifting modernisation in the life science industry, as well as being author of Supply Chain Management in the Drug Industry: Delivering Patient Value for Pharmaceuticals and Biologics, J Wiley & Sons, NJ 2011 and Taming the Big Pharma Monster by Speaking Truth to Power, Filament Publishing 2019.In his previous career, Hedley held senior positions at Bayer UK, British Biotech, Vernalis, Ortho-Clinical Diagnostics (previously J&J), and OSI Pharmaceuticals, (now Astellas). His early career was spent as an industrial engineer in the automotive, consumer durables and FMCG sectors.He graduated from Cardiff University as a production engineer, holds a Diploma in Management Studies from the University of South Wales, and an Executive MBA from Cranfield University School of Management. Affiliations and qualifications include:• Advisory Board Member International Institute for Advanced Purchasing & Supply (IIAPS).• Member 2013 – 15 Expert Industry Panels for CPhI Worldwide.• Editorial Board Member GMP Review.• Former member UK BIAs Manufacturing Advisory Committee.• Former Advisory Board Member of Marken, (now part of UPS).Hedley regularly delivers podcasts, webinars and speaks at international conferences, and was co-chair of the highly regarded FDA/Xavier University sponsored PharmaLink Conference, held in Cincinnati annually, from 2011 to 2014.If you want to leave any feedback you are most welcome to:leave a review on iTunesleave a comment in my Discord server:Comment on my LinkedIn PostFancy hearing me talk about everything else except tech? Come to the Influencers Cafe show.

Jarrod described himself asI'm an early adopter of socially inconvenient truths. He is a printed and published author- under a pseudonym in fiction, and in his name in non.Established entrepreneur, and budding TV and Film Producer.Founder of Wide Awake Media LLC and Awake Dating- dubbed 'The dating app for 'conspiracy theorists', featured in hundreds of top tier outlets in around seven languages- Business Insider, GQ, Elle, Esquire, VICE- to name a few.Founder of Eight Star Consulting (Shenzhen) Limited.Cryptocurrency investor, and advisor to ICO's. Happy husband to Aine', devoted dad to Aiya, Lana, Noela and Kenneth. Pro-Human, Anti-Bully, advocate of truth.ENTJ 165IQIf you want to leave any feedback you are most welcome to:leave a review on iTunesleave a comment in my Discord server:Comment on my LinkedIn PostFancy hearing me talk about everything else except tech? Come to the Influencers Cafe show.

Marcin has 17+ years on the buy-side of financial services (Fund, Asset, Investment and Wealth Management). Double First-Class in Business and Harvard HBX online course in Disruptive Strategy. Expertise in Thomson Reuters, Bloomberg and Lipper.Follow MJ on eToro here: Follow Nikos on eToro here: Sign up to eToro here: (this is an affiliate link and helps me out a lot)If you want to leave any feedback you are most welcome to:leave a review on iTunesleave a comment in my Discord server:Comment on my LinkedIn PostFancy hearing me talk about everything else except tech? Come to the Influencers Cafe show.

Peter is a Passionate, Ambitious and Driven Air Cargo Sales professional with a strong understanding of different geographical cargo markets and aircraft types and an unwavering commitment to customer service excellence over the last 15 years! Catering to your global Aircraft Leasing (ACMI - wet & dry leasing) & Cargo charter logistics requirements.Bespoke Aircraft leasing & air transport solutions that fit your specific needs and always with a smile!If you want to leave any feedback you are most welcome to:leave a review on iTunesleave a comment in my Discord server:Comment on my LinkedIn PostFancy hearing me talk about everything else except tech? Come to the Influencers Cafe show.

Lionel Yeo , is a partner of Wesvault, a consultant tech lead that helps businesses that need a short term high impact tech team to roll out fast.He is the Yii2 and Vue.js expert and specialist in Asia. His area speciality includes data analytics & dashboards, Fintech, Testing systems and sales funnels.If you want to leave any feedback you are most welcome to:leave a review on iTunesleave a comment in my Discord server:Comment on my LinkedIn PostFancy hearing me talk about everything else except tech? Come to the Influencers Cafe show.

Brett King is an Australian futurist, author, and co-founder and CEO of Moven, a New York-based mobile banking startup.If you want to leave any feedback you are most welcome to:leave a review on iTunesleave a comment in my Discord server:Comment on my LinkedIn PostFancy hearing me talk about everything else except tech? Come to the Influencers Cafe show.

Originally posted in my other podcast, due to its highly technical and scientific nature I reposted it here. Also, it helps us to understand more about Covid and the science behind it during these times.Molecular biologist Anjeanette “AJ” Roberts completed her BS in chemistry (graduating with honors) at the College of Engineering and Natural Sciences at the University of Tulsa in 1988 and her PhD in molecular and cell biology at the University of Pennsylvania in 1996. From 1997 to 2001, she conducted postdoctoral research in viral pathogenesis and “proof-of-concept” vaccine studies in Dr. John Rose’s lab at Yale University. She then spent two years in Samara, Russia, in Christian mission work and public health lecturing.In 2003, AJ joined Dr. Kanata Subbarao’s lab at the National Institutes of Health (NIH). There she co-led a SARS research team until 2006. From 2006 to 2013, she served as an assistant professor of graduate education for the University of Virginia’s microbiology faculty and directed the Biomedical Sciences Graduate Program in Microbiology, Immunology, and Infectious Diseases. From 2013 to 2015, she was a visiting fellow with the Rivendell Institute at Yale.Music by my friend David: https://soundcloud.com/david-marshall-taylor

Originally uploaded to my other podcast Influencers Cafe but I decided that its home belongs in Learn With Us do to its highly musical technical nature.Music composition is a huge passion of mine and you will hear more and more of it in my podcast background music.I first learned of Howard when I was listening to lots of retro music for the Sega Genesis, including Sonic and knuckles and Sonic Spinball. He has worked in over 25 movies and is a super talented composer.During the Cafe, I learned a lot from this master of the trade which helped me a lot in my own musical activities.You can see a video of his time at Sega in this documentary.

I've been in my dev cave the last 6 weeks churning out realtime chat.My contact detailsNikos' discord serverMentorCV Discord serverMy twitter GithubLinkedInMy Profile on MentorCv

I had a chat with Joel, the Co-Founder of Bizfluence and host of The Joel Show.

Let's talk about NoSQL, Firebase and my journey from Relational Databases.My contact detailsNikos' discord serverMy twitter GithubLinkedInMentorCv

Let's talk about Vite and the svelte implementation Svite My contact detailsNikos' discord serverMy twitter GithubLinkedInMentorCv

Software development can have a lot of pain that, here's why!Here are my contact details Nikos' discord serverMy twitter GithubLinkedInMentorCv

This will probably trigger some people and others will nod their head in agreement:Here are my contact details Nikos' discord serverMy twitter Github LinkedInMentorCv

Let's talk about the #firebase and emulating fireplace locally, in under 5 minutes.Firebase tools are here: https://github.com/firebase/firebase-tools

More info on cypressMy test recorder:https://github.com/quantuminformation/test-recorder

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Mentor CV - https://mentorcv.com - made with Svelte. My profile on there: https://mentorcv.com/nikosHere is my discord server: https://discord.gg/Qwza5aGThe Svelte podcast by Kev I mentioned: https://www.svelteradio.com/Finally my twitter

Video hereGant Laborde is an owner of Infinite Red, mentor, adjunct professor, published author, and award-winning speaker. For 20 years, he has been involved in software development and continues strong today. He is an “open sourcerer”, team leader, and aspires to one day become a mad scientist. He blogs, videos, and maintains popular repositories for the community.In this talk we discussed one of his open-source projects NSFW.js.

This episode is a panel with Shaun Connor, Director of Amicus Recruitment, and some junior developers and another senior developer.Some of the participants:Severine LegonLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/severine-legon-5b3580167/Github: https://github.com/severine98

First Learn with Us episode branded as Learn EngineeringDavid is a Reliable, Affordable, DBS Checked, Insured, 24hr, Independent Residential and Commercial Locksmith based in Leeds, West Yorkshire -📞07342174094

📹 Watch on YouTube hereDaniel is a software engineer with broad experience across modern web and cloud environments. He's passionate about open source and modern development tooling and likes bringing ideas from different disciplines to software development. These days, Daniel is a developer advocate at Prisma, focusing on next-generation database access for Node.js and Typescript. Outside the software world, Daniel is interested in woodworking and motorcycling.

Alex is currently the lead developer for a startup in China that is pioneering an online spot market platform for the beef and mutton industries. But that's where the somewhat normal resume part stops. Since graduating two years ago from Georgia Tech, Alex has been travelling through Asia with just a book bag of possessions, working as a remote developer. Currently living in Vladivostok, Russia, Alex has set out on a year-long metaphorical journey that might push him to new heights, or spell his destruction.-----------------------------------------------Got feedback for the show? Tweet 🐦 #learnwithuspod and [@nikoskatsikanis](https://twitter.com/NikosKatsikanis) and I will get back to you.Fancy listening to me talk to other fascinating guests in a non tech setting? Why not had over to the Cafe ☕ [https://cafe.nikoskatsikanis.com](https://cafe.nikoskatsikanis.com) or our discord server.Want to help support the show? I am open for new sponsorships, feel free to reach out.

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📹 Watch on YouTube here. Rob has worked with computers for more than 20 years, starting out in the mid 90s as a self-taught web designer. He later moved to ColdFusion and created the ColdFusion on Wheels open source framework (still in active development). In the mid 2000s he moved to Ruby and Rails and now works primarily on RedwoodJS, an open source framework built on React and GraphQL.Find him as @cannikin on Twitter and GitHub.------------------------------------------------Fancy listening to me talk to other fascinating guests in a non tech setting? Why not had over to the Cafe ☕🆕 I made a discord community for my listeners and podcast guests to discuss the shows. Feel free to join here: https://discord.gg/Qwza5aGWant to help support the show? I am open for new sponsorships, feel free to reach out.

📹 Watch on YouTube here.Rob has worked with computers for more than 20 years, starting out in the mid 90s as a self-taught web designer. He later moved to ColdFusion and created the ColdFusion on Wheels open source framework (still in active development). In the mid 2000s he moved to Ruby and Rails and now works primarily on RedwoodJS, an open source framework built on React and GraphQL.Find him as @cannikin on Twitter and GitHub.------------------------------------------------Fancy listening to me talk to other fascinating guests in a non tech setting? Why not had over to the Cafe ☕🆕 I made a discord community for my listeners and podcast guests to discuss the shows. Feel free to join here: https://discord.gg/Qwza5aGWant to help support the show? I am open for new sponsorships, feel free to reach out.

Tim Roven is a musician, composer and sound designer from Brooklyn New York. He started studying classical violin at age 4 and played in orchestras and chamber groups through college. After college he played guitar and violin in various bands in Chapel Hill, North Carolina before moving back to New York.In New York City he started the web design firm Blue Hypermedia which he eventually sold. Throughout this time he was doing studio session work and occasional touring with bands. After his first child was born he kept to the studio where he did composition work for Fortune 500 corporate presentations and annual reports, advertising and documentary films.What Tim says about the origins of Tabletop Audio:Tabletop Audio was a side project which resulted from playing tabletop role playing games with my 2 young boys. Even though my boys are now too cool to play with me I realized that I had stumbled on something which I loved doing and it quickly became my main focus. Working on Tabletop Audio has allowed me to pursue a variety of projects such as audio books, escape rooms and theater sound design as well as doing custom work on exciting new role playing games-----------------------------------------------Got feedback for the show? Tweet 🐦 #learnwithuspod and [@nikoskatsikanis](https://twitter.com/NikosKatsikanis) and I will get back to you.Fancy listening to me talk to other fascinating guests in a non tech setting? Why not had over to the Cafe ☕ [https://cafe.nikoskatsikanis.com](https://cafe.nikoskatsikanis.com)Want to help support the show? I am open for new sponsorships, feel free to reach out.

Another episode spent with Dylan Schiemann after running his first online conferencehttps://halfstackconf.com/online/Got feedback for the show? Tweet 🐦 #learnwithuspod and @nikoskatsikanis and I will get back to you.Fancy listening to me talk to other fascinating guests in a non tech setting? Why not had over to the Cafe ☕ https://cafe.nikoskatsikanis.comWant to help support the show? I am open for new sponsorships, feel free to reach out.

Adrian Coded from scratch a 3-D games engine written an assembly language back in the 90s for Stunt Island. He also ran several games companies and does consulting.His company website is here.-----------------------------------------------Got feedback for the show? Tweet 🐦 #learnwithuspod and @nikoskatsikanis and I will get back to you. Also reviews on iTunes are invaluable if you can find the time to leave one.Fancy listening to me talk to other fascinating guests in a non tech setting? Why not had over to the Cafe ☕ https://cafe.nikoskatsikanis.comWant to help support the show? I'd be super thankful 💚 if you did some Amazon shopping 🛍 here:🇺🇸USA Amazon🇬🇧UK Amazon🇪🇺EU Amazon

Erez created some keyboards that my friends rave about and he founded mem.dev-----------------------------------------------Got feedback for the show? Tweet 🐦 #learnwithuspod and @nikoskatsikanis and I will get back to you. Also reviews on iTunes are invaluable if you can find the time to leave one.Fancy listening to me talk to other fascinating guests in a non tech setting? Why not had over to the Cafe ☕ https://cafe.nikoskatsikanis.comWant to help support the show? I'd be super thankful 💚 if you did some Amazon shopping 🛍 here:🇺🇸USA Amazon🇬🇧UK Amazon🇪🇺EU Amazon

Another episode with I spent the afternoon with Dylan Schiemann talking about how he is dealing with the Tech Conference Armageddon.We also go detail into the Dojo.js Framework.If you want to go to Virtual Half stack you can go here:https://halfstackconf.com/online/Got feedback for the show? Tweet 🐦 #learnwithuspod and @nikoskatsikanis and I will get back to you.-----------------------------------------------Fancy listening to me talk to other fascinating guests in a non tech setting? Why not had over to the Cafe ☕ https://cafe.nikoskatsikanis.comWant to help support the show? I'd be super thankful 💚 if you did some Amazon shopping 🛍 here:🇺🇸USA Amazon🇬🇧UK Amazon🇪🇺EU Amazon

Chris is developer I helped to transition from tech recruitment to professional frontend development.Fancy hearing me talk to other guests about non tech related topics? Why not take a stroll over to my other podcast: Influencers Cafe ☕.

Patrick is a Dad, programmer, gamer, roboticist. Helping developers make games with Firebase.You can see him in action here

Max was the founder of https://spectrum.chat/Now He works at Gatsby. We also talk about the acquisition process he had with Github and about the importance of immediate feedback on start-up ideas.One of his latest startups: https://changefeed.app/

The first conference podcast I have recorded. I talk with industry veterans in the event space about how conferences are moving virtual. Juho Vepsäläinen runs React Finland and Daniel (known more popularly as DanRam) is an igniter. A 5x TEDx speaker, 3x entrepreneur, prolific speaker, and startup coach.