Ep. 1212: Kyle Buckett Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio
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Michael Covel
4.6 • 732 Ratings
🗓️ 4 September 2023
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
My guest today is Kyle Buckett, a retired US Navy SEAL. He led the advanced training for both junior and seasoned Navy SEALs, ranked number one of nine highly competitive Platoon Chiefs, and has been instrumental in the business development of numerous Navy SEAL-founded businesses. He runs Culture Force, a consulting company with Chris Mefford, and is also regularly involved in numerous charities supporting veterans from the special forces communities.
The topic is his co-authored book Leadership Is Overrated: How the Navy SEALs (and Successful Businesses) Create Self-Leading Teams That Win.
In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:
- Teamwork and discipline in Navy SEALs
- Cultural Adaptation
- Afghanistan and Unconventional Warfare
- Adapting to Leaderless Organizations
- Gratitude and Perspective
- Differences in work ethic across cultures
- Importance of proactive maintenance and self-care
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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. |
| 0:33.5 | My guest today is Kyle Bucket. |
| 0:35.9 | He is a retired Navy SEAL. His new book, Leadership is overrated, how the Navy SEALs and successful businesses create self-leading teams that win. One of those fun conversations that I am quite lucky to have. Now, there's going to be a few beeps here in the beginning |
| 0:55.3 | because just through the random act of being alive, Kyle and I actually had a mutual connection, |
| 1:04.3 | even though today was the first time that we have ever spoken. How cool is that? Look out for those |
| 1:10.5 | beeps. You'll never get to know what's behind |
| 1:12.6 | them. With no further delay from me, let's jump right in with Kyle Buckett and talk some leadership. |
| 1:19.0 | Leadership that's often overrated. I was living in San Diego from 2008 to 2012. Then I came to Asia. |
| 1:39.3 | Nice. I was there. What part were you in? I was living at... Dude, I was at... I don't know if you remember the... |
| 1:49.0 | Yes. |
| 1:50.0 | That's where my wife and I were living at the time. So you and I were literally neighbors, three blocks |
| 1:55.0 | away. |
| 1:56.0 | I will not reveal any names, but I have a sneaky suspicion given the close proximity. A close associate |
| 2:04.3 | of yours was actually living in my building. Who are your buddies from San Diego? Seal wise? |
| 2:09.8 | Mm-hmm. I haven't seen in a long time. He's a good mug. That's awesome. Small world. |
| 2:17.2 | It's funny because he was living in my |
| 2:18.6 | building and I do these trading books. I've actually introduced him to a bunch of traders and I think |
| 2:23.1 | he's followed up. I had no earthly idea about any of his background and he was hanging out with |
| 2:28.1 | somebody in my building and then we were just hanging out that place across the street. |
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