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Ep. 280: Joey Reiman & John Brenkus Interviews with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio Oct 04, 2014

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My guests today are Joey Reiman and John Brenkus.

Reiman, who runs Brighthouse, has been called the "father of ideation". He's emerged as the subject matter expert in the area of purpose inspired leadership, marketing, and innovation. His breakthrough purpose methodology and frameworks have been adopted by the likes of the Boston Consulting Group, Procter & Gamble, The Coca-Cola Company, McDonald's, KPMG, and many other Fortune 500 companies across the globe. As an adjunct professor at the Goizueta School of Business at Emory University, he teaches tomorrow's executives his revolutionary theories and applications for purpose-inspired profit.

Brenkus is the host of the ESPN show, Sport Science. Sport Science is an ongoing television series that explores the science and engineering underlying athletic endeavors.

The topics are marketing and sports science.

In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:

Covel and Reiman discuss Reiman's background and mission in life; looking for meaning; figuring out your "why"; the process of teaching, and the areas where certain people may get tripped up; looking back to your beginnings; the destructiveness of outside voices; calmness and contemplation; solitude vs. aloneness; "money doesn't create ideas–ideas create money"; why daydreaming isn't necessarily a bad thing; creativity and environments; changing the world through changing your routine; routine and creativity; thinking with your heart as much as your mind; Apple vs. Google; raw talent, creativity, and environment; lucky people and "yes" people; the power of "slow"; and the importance of storytelling.
Anything about statistics and science has the potential to inspire Covel and with John Brenkus, he goes straight into it; Also discussed: what triggered the science and sports connection in Brenkus' brain; science and martial arts; measuring human performance; why success doesn't follow a straight line; Brenkus' college experiences and how they are relevant to his work today; the idea of physical limits being reached; why Brenkus became a crash test dummy; the advantage of applying science to any aspect of life; and the Iron Man competition.

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I'm MICHAEL COVEL, the host of TREND FOLLOWING RADIO, and I'm proud to have delivered 10+ million podcast listens since 2012. Investments, economics, psychology, politics, decision-making, human behavior, entrepreneurship and trend following are all passionately explored and debated on my show.

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Ep. 279: Mark Broadie Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio Oct 03, 2014

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My guest today is Mark Broadie, the Carson Family Professor of Business and Vice Dean at the Columbia Business School. His research focuses on quantitative finance and sports analytics. His golf research has appeared in academic journals and many golf publications. He developed the new strokes gained approach to analyze the performance of amateur and professional golfers and worked with the PGA Tour on their implementation of the strokes gained putting stat.

The topic is his book Every Shot Counts: Using the Revolutionary Strokes Gained Approach to Improve Your Golf Performance and Strategy.

In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:

How he became, in Covel's words, the "Bill James of golf"
How Broadie connected his finance work to the sport of golf
Why certain golfers win
Why approach shots are the most important
"Drive for show, putt for dough"
How Broadie started, the software he used, and how he got better data
Whether Broadie had any sense of where the data might go when he first collected it
Power as a separator
The connection between sports analytics, business analytics, and investing
The psychology of golf
First putts vs. second putts
The world golf rankings, and how these can be fixed

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Ep. 278: Larry Swedroe Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio Sep 29, 2014

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My guest today is Larry Swedroe, a Buckingham Asset Management principal. He is also a principal and co-founder of BAM Advisor Services, LLC, and serves as the director of research for both entities. Swedroe has authored or co-authored fourteen books and comes at investing from an evidence-based approach.

The topic is outside the box market perspectives.

In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:

Forecasters and prediction
The three types of forecasters
Confirmation bias
How your political affiliation might change your willingness to listen to forecasts
Value perspective vs. momentum perspective
The anomaly of momentum
The evidence-based thinking approach
Momentum trading in 2008
How Swedroe prepares for the unexpected
Not treating the unlikely like it's impossible
Managing your risk
Process vs. outcome
The equity risk premium and bear markets
Commonplace crises
Planning ahead
Diversification attempts to get outside of equities

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Ep. 277: A Million Words and Justifications with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio Sep 26, 2014

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Please enjoy my monologue A Million Words and Justifications with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio. This episode may also include great outside guests from my archive.

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Ep. 276: Richard Lewis Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio Sep 22, 2014

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My guest today is Richard Lewis, a cross-cultural expert who has been studying language and communication his entire career. He's traveled to 130+ countries and speaks eleven different languages.

The topics are his books When Cultures Collide: Leading Across Cultures and When Teams Collide: Managing the International Team Successfully.

In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:

How Lewis' love affair with language started
The best way to start learning a language
Travel as a "magic elixir" of sorts
The Lewis model
Cultural differences in language, and what Lewis means by linear-active, multi-active, and reactive
The idea of losing face in the context of cross-cultural communication
Microculture and macroculture
Cross-cultural teams vs. homogenous teams
Normal and abnormal in a cultural context
Paperwork and punctuality in different cultures
Why the linear-active person confronts with logic, the multi-active person confronts emotionally, and the reactive person is never confronting
Why there's much more to making a deal than just quantity and price

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Ep. 275: Joel Mokyr Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio Sep 19, 2014

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My guest today is Joel Mokyr, an economic historian at Northwestern University. He focuses on technological progress, and how it affects growth. From Mokyr's perspective, we haven't seen anything yet. He's not trying to predict what will happen next; he's just confident and ready that big things will continue to happen.

The topic is technology.

In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:

Define technology
The notion of playing God with technology
How technology and economic growth are intertwined
Why screwing up is part of technology
The acceleration of technology
New ways of measuring growth
Anesthesia and antibiotics as technologies and imagining new technologies as revolutionary as them
Moving from a wheat and steel economy into an information economy
The factory, the separation between firm and household, and the Industrial Revolution
The death of distance
Why technology is often not reflected in the GDP
Solving the language barrier through technology
Why the global acceptance of the English language is driven by technology
Why innovation isn't natural to us
The declining respect of the writings of previous generations
Why the median age will continue to increase
Why we are moving into a mass-customization society
Changes in material science
The best way to think about the future

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Ep. 274: Guy Kawasaki Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio Sep 15, 2014

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My guest today is Guy Kawasaki. For those of you that pay attention to being an entrepreneur, Kawasaki's books have been invaluable over the last decade. Currently, he is the chief evangelist of Canva, an online graphic design tool. Formerly, he was an advisor to the Motorola business unit of Google and chief evangelist of Apple.

The topic is entrepreneur.

In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:

Why being a consultant or an investment banker are two of the worst first jobs you can get
Working in sales, and Kawasaki's early experience in the jewelry business
Some of the most valuable attributes of a good salesman
Marketing, social media, and why you'd want to have a rabid fan with fifteen followers rather than just another blurb on the back of your book from the so-called big name
Why a book review in The New York Times isn't as important as it used to be
The Amazon and Hachette conflict, and why Amazon is still the best thing to happen to authors in a long time
The two types of people in the world–baker vs. eater
How Kawasaki manages his time
Looking at your social media presence as core to your existence
Disruptive high growth opportunities
Introversion and getting better at standing on stage

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Ep. 273: Rande Howell Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio Sep 12, 2014

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My guest today is Rande Howell. Howell has a therapeutic background combined with personal coaching in the fields of human potential and leadership. He has fifteen years of practice as a licensed professional counselor with a Masters in Counseling.

The topic is counseling.

In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:

What the performance mind is in regards to trading
Trading, emotions, and uncertainty
Why irrational pessimism is deadly in trading
Emotional regulation and mastering emotions
The blurry line between the casino and trading, particularly in Asia
Euphoria vs. fear in a trading context
Why what you're afraid of owns you
Jungian archetypes
The Myers-Briggs instrument
Biological threat vs. psychological discomfort
The mistake of using trading to measure your worth
Getting your emotions right but your strategy wrong
Why success in one endeavor doesn't necessarily mean success in trading
The importance of patience
The panther vs. the African lion

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Ep. 272: The Health and Longevity Episode with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio Sep 08, 2014

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Please enjoy my monologue The Health and Longevity Episode with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio. This episode may also include great outside guests from my archive.

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Ep. 271: The S&P 500 Trading System with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio Sep 05, 2014

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Please enjoy my monologue The S&P 500 Trading System with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio. This episode may also include great outside guests from my archive.

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