Episode #54: Friday Discussion ~ Nick Kristock

Nick is a native of Novi, Michigan and attended Oakland University on a soccer scholarship, where he played for the Golden Grizzlies from 2010-2013 and won the 2013 Senior CLASS Award for Men’s Soccer as the most outstanding senior student-athlete in NCAA Division 1 Men’s Soccer. Upon graduation he continued his playing career and played two years of professional soccer in both the United States and Australia.

After completing his second season Nick decided to embark on a new journey and start his company Fleece & Thank You with the goal of providing much needed comfort, support, and connection by giving handmade fleece blankets to children facing treatments in hospitals all across the Midwest. In addition to this endeavor, Nick has also started and runs three other companies: Empathy 313, which makes technology solutions for social impact organizations, Crate of Good, a social impact subscription box, and Flockets.com, an apparel site that funds micro-loans for families with a child battling cancer.