Ep. 1158: Frank Fumich Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio
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Michael Covel
4.6 • 732 Ratings
🗓️ 27 February 2023
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
My guest today is Frank Fumich. He's a business owner and ultra-endurance athlete/adventurer who believes the human spirit soars when challenged. To that end he's been traveling the world for 20+ years searching for the most difficult physical challenges out there. He's not a professional athlete, but the numbers of marathons, ultra-marathons, triathlons, mountain climbs, bike rides and other adventures he's completed are almost too numerous to count.
The topic is a life of adventure.
In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:
- How did he start running?
- The typical recovery process
- Raising funds for charity
- South Pole expedition
- Physical confidence as self confidence
- A future Mt. Everest climb
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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Hope you enjoy my never-ending podcast conversation!
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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. |
| 0:33.5 | This is one of those conversations that I did not expect to have. So I go back to America for |
| 0:41.1 | around Christmastime 2022. I end up at a place called the Vienna Inn, which is quite famous in |
| 0:48.0 | the Washington, D.C. area. And I met with seven or eight high school friends. One of them was a guy named Frank |
| 0:55.2 | Fumick, my guest today. My first high school friend to have on this podcast. Now, you might be |
| 1:02.3 | thinking I'm a homer, I'm just having my friend on. No, no, no, no. Not that at all. Frank is an |
| 1:08.4 | adventurer. Frank runs marathons. |
| 1:12.1 | Frank runs ultra-marathons. |
| 1:14.8 | Frank skis the South Pole. |
| 1:17.2 | Frank climbs mountains. |
| 1:19.4 | Frank does pretty... |
| 1:21.6 | He's not going to describe it as insane. |
| 1:24.1 | I guess I don't describe it as insane after talking with him. But for the average person, Frank does pretty insane. I guess I don't describe it as insane after talking with him, but for the average person, |
| 1:30.8 | Frank does pretty insane shit. And you know what? There's something to be learned from somebody |
| 1:37.1 | that can endure the pain, that can achieve these crazy endurance goals. Without any further delay, without any further buildup for me, |
| 1:46.7 | let's jump right into a conversation with a friend of mine, |
| 1:49.6 | Frank Fumick, and talk about his adventurizing across this planet. |
| 1:55.0 | I hope you enjoyed this conversation with Frank Fionnick. |
| 2:11.1 | Frank, tell me back in time. |
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