Ep. 1176: George Mumford Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio
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Michael Covel
4.6 • 732 Ratings
🗓️ 1 May 2023
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
My guest today is George Mumford, a globally recognized speaker, teacher, and coach. Since 1989, he's been honing his groundbreaking performance and mindfulness techniques with people from locker rooms to board rooms, Yale to jail. Michael Jordan credits George with transforming his on-court leadership, while Mumford has also worked with Kobe Bryant, Shaquille O'Neal, and countless other NBA players, Olympians, executives, and artists. Mumford's first book The Mindful Athlete: Secrets to Pure Performance is a memoir and instruction guide to accessing your inner masterpiece.
The topic is his book Unlocked: Embrace Your Greatness, Find the Flow, Discover Success.
In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:
- Basketball life
- The Chicago Bulls
- Michael Jordan
- Kobe Bryant
- Mind-body process
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.
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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. |
| 0:33.4 | My guest today is George Mumford. |
| 0:35.6 | He is a world-renowned psychologist and mindfulness performance expert or coach. And he has coached some really interesting students, Michael Jordan, Kobe Bryant, Shaquille O'Neal, to name a few. |
| 0:51.2 | George's story is one of up and down in chaos like all of our lives. It's not a |
| 0:58.0 | straight line, lots of down moments and lots of up moments. But all of those moments make George |
| 1:04.3 | who he is today. And put it this way, if you want to be unlocked, which is his term and the title of his new book, this is |
| 1:13.8 | the type of conversation that I promise you will have a nugget somewhere that will resonate |
| 1:20.2 | with you and probably motivate you. Without any further delay, let's jump right into my conversation |
| 1:26.4 | today with George Mumford. |
| 1:28.3 | I hope you enjoy. |
| 1:42.6 | You're a guy that's good enough to play college basketball. You get to the University of Massachusetts, right? |
| 1:44.3 | Yeah. You're good enough. You happen to the University of Massachusetts, right? Yeah. |
| 1:45.0 | You're good enough. You happen to have injuries, and you can speak to that, but some injuries, |
| 1:50.2 | can't go as far as you'd like. But you do have a quite interesting roommate at UMass. |
| 1:56.4 | Exactly right. Dr. Jay, do you serving. |
| 1:59.5 | That's just kind of an initial meeting for you or interesting person in your life |
| 2:04.4 | at high levels of basketball. Speak to that experience. Is there anything you took away |
| 2:09.3 | from that early experience and meeting someone like that in his formative stages, too? |
| 2:14.0 | Was there something that you took away from those early meetings with him? |
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