Nik Halik

Nik Halik

Nik Halik (* 15. May 1969 in Melbourne as Nikos Halikopoulos ) is an Australian financial entrepreneur, motivational speaker and adventurer. In 2008 he was a substitute for the American-British entrepreneur Richard Garriott , who flew to the International Space Station (ISS) from October 12 to 24, 2008 .

Life

Earlier life

Halik was born in Melbourne, Australia, the youngest son of the Greek immigrants Konstantinos and Dionisia Halikopoulos. He grew up in Port Melbourne. In previous years he was very interested in music, inspired by his father who was a recognized musician. As a teenager, he attended the Musicians Institute in California , a privately owned, nonprofit music college.

Business interests

Halik is the founder and CEO of companies such as Financial Freedom Institute, Lifestyle Revolution, LLC, Money Masters Global, The Thrillionaires and co-founder of iCoach Global.

He loves to portray himself as a global wealth strategist, entrepreneur, international speaker, civilian astronaut , high-adrenaline adventurer, and best-selling author who has become a multimillionaire and amassed great wealth through savvy investments in property and the stock market in his late twenties. He has financially educated his group of companies and looks after more than 300,000 individuals worldwide. In addition to his other companies, Nik Halik is also a stakeholder in a number of companies around the world, including Vertex Media, a Hollywood television and film production company . Halik has homes in the Greek islands, Morocco , the United States and Australia.

adventure

In the footsteps of the entrepreneurial adventurers Steve Fossett and Richard Branson , Halik dived to the wreck of the RMS Titanic , was active as a mountaineer and participated in a civilian flight of the Mig25 aircraft built in the Soviet Union . Halik paid to attend cosmonaut training for the Russian Soyuz TMA-13 flight to the International Space Station in 2008 as a backup . If the intended space tourist Richard Garriott hadn't been able to take the flight, Halik would have taken his place.

Works

Thrillionaire ( ISBN 978-1-920997-10-6 ), written by Halik and published in 2008, is both a biography and a manual for strategic wealth. After working with wealth strategists and motivational speakers around the world, Halik combines his tips for financial freedom with stories from his life.

Halik's spaceflight training is also covered in the book Australia's Astronauts: Countdown to a Spaceflight Dream , published in 2009 by Colin Burgess .