"It's a story that everyone will relate to, and it will certainly make you laugh. The story also reminds us that we shouldn't hold someone's mistakes against them, especially when made in their youth."
Frank W. Abagnale
Author, security consultant, and former con man, as depicted in Catch Me If You Can, starring Leonardo DiCaprio and directed by Stephen Spielberg
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One of the most notorious graduates of the Athol Murray College of Notre Dame, author, entrepreneur, and humanitarian Christos Kalogirou's story is one of a classic comeback. A former alumni board member and the recipient of the 2014 National Alumnus of the Year, Christos dedicates his time to his various businesses and raises valuable resources for nonprofits, including the Mandi Schwartz Foundation and Hockey Gives Blood.
Christos delivers honest, funny, and pointed advise on a wide variety of topics from the point of view of someone who 'messed it all up' and come back to 'make it all right.'
His interviews are a mix of savvy business advise, entrepreneurial fuel for success, and life lessons that enthrall audiences. Here are just a few of the topics he covers:
The growing economies in the import/export world and how they are creating a new type of entrepreneur.
Making a career out of candy, gas, and liquor - the legal and profitable way!
80's Music Expert - get into an extensive discussion on this era of music with unique insights that your audience will hear for the first time.
Why registering as a bone marrow donor is so important.
How to make your history of wrongs right in the future - a discussion on redemption, taking action, and having gratitude.
Meet Christos
Christos has worked as a dishwasher, carpenter, a laborer, a baker, a restaurant host, and a liquor store manager. All of this, after getting expelled from a prestigious boarding school in Canada for running businesses illegally on campus.
Today, Christos has an entrepreneurial legacy that defies the odds. Setting city records for liquor store sales at almost half a million a month (legally this time), he went on to start his own candy distributor business on an international scale.
Christos enjoys finding and capitalizing on opportunities in obscure, relatively untapped areas and industries. He is a self-taught stock trader and angel investor, closely examining the consumer world around him, gaining insight into directions of various stocks and securities.
Upholding the Notre Dame creed—"A Man for Others", Christos' altruist endeavors are many, and they are at the heart of what truly energizes him in helping others achieve their own success. His considerable focus is on the Mandi Schwartz Foundation (honoring a schoolmate who died of leukemia) and Hockey Gives Blood.
Wild Dogs, his Wall Street Journal best-selling memoir, chronicles his time at Athol Murray College of Notre Dame, the good and the bad, how he managed to get reinstated after expulsion, and how his path to redemption has shaped his life.
Not a fan of social media, Christos spends his mornings drinking coffee, working out, and focusing on his health which has always been fragile. His afternoons are spent focusing on his growing business empire and charitable work.
His hope is that Wild Dogs encourages thousands of people to register as bone marrow donors and/or enroll in Athol Murray College.
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