4.6 • 730 Ratings
🗓️ 28 February 2022
⏱️ 57 minutes
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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:
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| 0:00.0 | This is trend following radio where great thinking comes alive. |
| 0:10.9 | Nobel Prize winners, legendary traders, bestselling authors, and the pros that know what drive us irrational human beings. |
| 0:21.2 | I am your host, Michael Covel, not filtered, raw, honest. |
| 0:27.4 | That's my passion. |
| 0:33.8 | This is a fun conversation for me. |
| 0:37.4 | With a old friend of mine, someone I've known since we're |
| 0:41.5 | teenagers. |
| 0:43.2 | Mark Jorman, the head baseball coach at James Madison High School in Vienna, Virginia. |
| 0:51.4 | Mark is affectionately known as Pudge. |
| 0:54.0 | Though when I was a kid, I always called him Mark, |
| 0:55.9 | so I think Pudge came later, or I never called him that. Maybe he would kick my butt for not referring |
| 1:01.9 | to him as Pudge. I know everyone else pretty much does. But Mark is a damn accomplished high school |
| 1:08.0 | baseball coach. We're talking three state championships in the state of |
| 1:12.6 | Virginia. We're talking the Hall of Fame. High school Hall of Fame for baseball coaches. |
| 1:18.7 | That's insane. That's awesome. He has been coaching for 26, 27 years. Young guy, early 50s. |
| 1:27.4 | Just getting started. I take Mark around all kinds of |
| 1:31.4 | interesting issues because not only has he had all the success as a coach, he's developed |
| 1:37.3 | this entrepreneurial side business, this travel business that has gone well beyond baseball, something near and dear to me, |
| 1:46.8 | seeing the world, helping fellow Americans see the world. |
| 1:50.6 | So many of us Americans like to just stay inside the borders. |
| 1:55.4 | And Mark has done a hell of a job in his way of changing that. |
| 2:03.8 | It will help today if you got a little bit of a baseball understanding. But I think, if anything, you'll feel the passion. The passion for me, the passion |
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