Michael Covel's Trend Following

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Ep. 1060: Amy Herman Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio Mar 21, 2022

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My guest today is Amy Herman, a lawyer and an art historian who uses works of art to sharpen observation, analysis, and communication skills. She developed her Art of Perception seminar in 2000. She subsequently adapted the program for a wide range of professionals and lead sessions internationally for the New York City Police Department, the FBI, the French National Police, the Department of Defense, Interpol, the State Department, Fortune 500 companies, first responders, the military, and the intelligence community.

The topic is her book Fixed.

In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:

How art can help solve problems
How the pandemic caused us to take a break and pause
Assess, analyze, articulate and act
Looking at art and how it was created and the obstacles it confronted helps us become better thinkers
Art is inspiration
Her cancer diagnosis and how she was inspired
Is everybody creative?

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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. 1059: Wake Up and Think with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio Mar 18, 2022

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Please enjoy my monologue Wake Up and Think with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio. This episode may also include great outside guests from my archive.

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Ep. 1058: Mary-Frances O'Connor Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio Mar 14, 2022

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My guest today is Mary-Frances O'Connor, a grief expert and neuroscientist. She is an Associate Professor of Clinical Psychology and Psychiatry at the University of Arizona and the Director of Clinical Training. Her research focuses on the physiological correlates of emotion, in particular the wide range of physical and emotional responses during bereavement, including yearning and isolation. She thinks that a clinical science approach to grieving can help improve treatment for prolonged grief disorder, which was added to the new DSM-5.

The topic is her book The Grieving Brain: The Surprising Science of How We Learn from Love and Loss.

In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:

Groundbreaking discoveries about what happens in our brain when we grieve
The difference between grief and grieving
Analyzing and interpreting a patient's brain when it's grieving by using Neuroimaging
The path of becoming a Neuroscientist

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Ep. 1057: Commodities Explode Up with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio Mar 11, 2022

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Please enjoy my monologue Commodities Explode Up with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio. This episode may also include great outside guests from my archive.

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Ep. 1056: Max Lugavere Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio Mar 07, 2022

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My guest today is Max Lugavere, a filmmaker, health and science journalist, and the author of the New York Times best-seller Genius Foods: Become Smarter, Happier, and More Productive While Protecting Your Brain for Life, published in 8 languages around the globe. He is also the host of the #1 iTunes health podcast The Genius Life. Lugavere appears regularly on the Dr. Oz Show, the Rachael Ray Show, and The Doctors. He has contributed to Medscape, Vice, Fast Company, CNN, and the Daily Beast, has been featured on NBC Nightly News, The Today Show, and in The New York Times and People Magazine.

The topic is his book Genius Kitchen.

In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:

Obesity epidemic
Nutrition and healthy eating
Boosting body, autonomy, and metabolic resilience
Diet, and exercise
His mom and the difficulties she faced
Parkinson's disease, Alzheimer's disease and dementia
Important role of food in our mental health
Stress management
Alcohol consumption

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Ep. 1055: Trend Following Flagship with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio Mar 04, 2022

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Please enjoy my monologue Trend Following Flagship with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio. This episode may also include great outside guests from my archive.

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Ep. 1054: Mark Gjormand Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio Feb 28, 2022

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My guest today is Mark Gjormand, aka Coach Pudge, the Head Baseball Coach at James Madison High School in Vienna, Virginia. During the offseason, Gjormand concentrates his efforts on Directing the MVP Baseball School located in Reston, Va. as well as MVP International Athletics; Sending athletes from across America overseas to compete and see the world through athletics. He is a 2020 member of the National High School Baseball Coach Association's Hall of Fame.

The topics are baseball and life.

In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:

#3 nationally ranked high school baseball team
Number one team in Virginia history
Pressure following a big season
Travel opportunities
MVP Dreams Foundation

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Ep. 1053: Fundamental Bullshit with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio Feb 25, 2022

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Please enjoy my monologue Fundamental Bullshit with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio. This episode may also include great outside guests from my archive.

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Ep. 1052: Jane McGonigal Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio Feb 21, 2022

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My guest today is Jane McGonigal, a future forecaster and designer of reality games created to improve real lives and solve real problems. She is also the author of two New York Times bestselling books, Reality Is Broken: Why Games Make Us Better and How They Can Change the World and SuperBetter: The Power of Living Gamefully. She is the Director of Games Research & Development at the Institute for the Future, a non-profit research group in Palo Alto, California, currently teaches the course "How to Think Like a Futurist" at Stanford University.

The topics are psychology and neuroscience.

In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:

Build our collective imagination so that we can dive into the future and envision, in surprising detail, what our lives will look like ten years from now
Develop the courage and vision to solve problems creatively
Take actions and make decisions that will help shape the future we desire
Access "urgent optimism," an unstoppable force within each of us that activates our sense of agency

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Ep. 1051: They Are Coming for the Market with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio Feb 18, 2022

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Please enjoy my monologue They Are Coming for the Market with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio. This episode may also include great outside guests from my archive.

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