About Nicholas
Nicholas grew up in a small, midwest, blue-collar town in Ohio. He stayed out of trouble, was a good athlete, and did well in school. He had the good fortune to attend and graduate from Indiana University.
He enjoyed the arts growing up. According to some of his teachers, he had talent but was too obsessed with his athletics to pursue creative interests.
Funny enough, he was a business major in college but his only A+s in college was folk music and piano. He graduated with an accounting degree and got a job as an auditor at Price Waterhouse. For the next thirty-odd years Nicholas pursued a host of interests as an investment adviser, startup founder, self-help author and strategic alliance director.
Nicholas and his ex-wife struggled to start a family and eventually had twins via IVF but unfortunately their babies had to be delivered at only 25 weeks gestation. In 2009 he founded Graham’s Foundation in memory of his son, supporting thousands of parents of premature babies throughout the United States. In 2025 Nicholas is launching Divorced Dad Support to help other divorced Dads find the support necessary to maintain strong, healthy relationships with their kids.
Nicholas had the experience of building two custom homes (with the help of architects and contractors) in Hermosa Beach, CA and Perrysburg, OH. Both were built with the right intention with an emphasis on being proportional and aware of the surroundings.
Throughout much of his adult life, Nicholas had grand visions of being a benevolent philanthropist. As he’s grown older, and hopefully wiser, he has learned that his desires for personal and professional success led to unhealthy expansions of everything in his life. The pursuit of more of everything is why he suspects so many of us feel disconnected from our inner voice, intuition, and spirit.
Nicholas is intentionally shrinking his footprint, continually challenging his minimalist ways to be a more thoughtful and conscious human being, supplying his community with an abundance of love and acceptance.
Nicholas has become far more clear about his principles, values, and beliefs. As a citizen of the United States, he feels an obligation to do his part to help improve the trajectory of our planet.
After moving around the country, he is currently based in Bloomington, Indiana in a wonderfully quaint 1950s mid-century inspired ranch. He hosts house concerts, play gigs, creates art in his studio, rents his walkout basement studio on AirBnB and has a fun little side projected of men’s pocket squares and boutonnieres made from 100% recycled ties called Pocktie.
Currently Nicholas is creating art, writing songs and working on a one-man show called Confessions of a Failed Self-Help Guru. Who knows what I’ll do next!?!