Ep. 1102: Colin O'Brady Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio

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Michael Covel

Investing, Business

4.6 • 730 Ratings

🗓️ 15 August 2022

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

My guest today is Colin O'Brady, an American professional endurance athlete, motivational speaker, and adventurer. He is a former professional triathlete, representing the United States on the ITU Triathlon World Cup circuit, racing in 25 countries on six continents from 2009 to 2015. Colin is a four-time world record holder. In 2016 he set the Explorers Grand Slam (Last Degree) and Seven Summits speed records, the latter of which has since been broken. He became the fastest person to complete the adventurer's challenges in 139 days and 131 days respectively. In the summer of 2018, he set the speed record for the 50 US High Points in 21 days. On December 26, 2018, he completed a solo crossing of the land mass of Antarctica, excluding the ice shelves, using the South Pole Traverse (SPoT) vehicle road during the last 366 miles (589 km) of the journey.

The topic is his book The 12-Hour Walk: Invest One Day, Conquer Your Mind, and Unlock Your Best Life.

In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:

What led Colin to begin his adventure?
An incredible experience on Mt. Everest
A horrible fire in Thailand
How did he recover from third-degree burns and ligament damage?
Winning the Chicago triathlon
Pain management strategies
How do change your life and move it in the direction of you living your best life?
Limiting self-beliefs
The volatility and fascinating experience of trading in 2008

Jump in!

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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.

To start? I’d like to give you a great piece of advice you can use in your life and trading journey… cut your losses! You will find much more about that philosophy here: https://www.trendfollowing.com/trend/

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Transcript

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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 Coval.
0:24.0	Not filtered, raw, honest.
0:27.4	That's my passion.
0:33.3	My guest today is Colin O'Bradie.
0:35.6	He is a professional endurance athlete.
0:39.0	Pretty good motivational speaker as well. And quite the adventurer.
0:44.0	You name it. He's done it. Triathlons. A sled across Antarctica.
0:49.1	Climbing Everest. Wow. It just makes me think, I've done nothing when I look at his physical feats. And on top of all that, a severe injury to overcome that I don't think most of us would have been able to get to the physical places that he went to.
1:28.2	Look, if you've got the excuses in your life, if you say you can't do this, you say you can't do that, you don't have this, you don't have that, whatever nonsense you've got, whatever excuse you've got. Give this episode a listen.
1:32.7	Because if you still have excuses, after listening to Colin,
1:38.5	maybe it's time to go get a government job at the DMV and just check in for retirement.
1:42.8	Without any further delay, let's jump right into my conversation with Colin O'Brien.
2:07.3	I want to know, give me a point, give me a date, give me an age. When did you know that calling your own shots was really important?
2:11.9	And we'll probably have to discuss perhaps why we both think it's important.
2:15.7	But I want to know, when did you know that calling your own shots was really important?
2:18.0	Because look, I can look at your background and, okay, you went to Yale. I mean, this is a track life. I mean, you go to Yale. It's like you go
2:23.5	for McKinsey or Boston consultant or Goldman Sachs. You can just go down this path. You're not supposed
2:29.1	to go do something entirely different. We're going to talk about some of these awesome adventures you've been on,
2:35.0	but it started somewhere early. I want to know what that early point was. I love the starting point.
2:39.9	Funny you should mention, yeah, I was going to direct there anyways in my mind when you asked the
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