Ep. 1238: Will Cady Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio
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Michael Covel
4.6 • 732 Ratings
🗓️ 4 December 2023
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
My guest today is Will Cady, Reddit's Global Brand Ambassador and founding Head of Creative Strategy. In his role as strategist, Cady has leveraged his uniquely blended approach of creativity and mysticism to counsel business leaders toward impactful, empathetic marketing of power house brands in tech, including Apple, Google, Samsung, T-Mobile, AT&T, and Adobe. He has worked with major household brands such as Toyota, LEGO, McDonald's, Chipotle, and Coca-Cola.
The topic is his book Which Way Is North: A Creative Compass for Makers, Marketers, and Mystics.
In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:
- Creativity and its origins
- Balancing authenticity and delegation
- Creativity with constraints and maximal control
- The intersection of mysticism, marketing, and making
- Letting go of attachments
- Modern Western culture and individualism
- Productivity and time management
- Relationship of anxiety and creativity
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. |
| 0:21.1 | I am your host, Michael Covel, not filtered, raw, honest. |
| 0:27.3 | That's my passion. |
| 0:33.4 | My guest today is Will Katie. |
| 0:36.1 | He is Reddit's global brand ambassador and has a really strong |
| 0:41.0 | insight into creative strategy. His new book, Which Way is North, a creative compass for makers, |
| 0:48.5 | marketers and mystics. Look, maybe you just got a nine to five job and you just clock in and you don't care. |
| 0:57.3 | Okay, why are you listening to this podcast? |
| 1:00.1 | But if you've got a creative bone in your body and you want to maximize your life |
| 1:05.4 | and you want to figure out how to invent something, to write something, to create something, to trade something, |
| 1:11.9 | to code something. |
| 1:13.8 | My guest today, Will Katie, brings a certain perspective, a certain sensibility that will |
| 1:20.2 | help you to get into the headspace. |
| 1:23.1 | Without any further buildup for me, without any further delay, let's jump right into my guest |
| 1:27.1 | today. |
| 1:27.9 | Will Katie. I hope you enjoy. |
| 1:38.7 | Here's what I'll jump in with. Just to share it a little bit of background on me. |
| 1:43.7 | When I start to think about creativity, I think where my creativity started. And I want to share a little bit of background on me, when I start to think about creativity, I think where my creativity started. |
| 1:47.7 | And I want to share this with you, get your comment, and I'm going to go into you and perhaps your start. |
| 1:52.4 | For me, I can always think back as a kid. |
| 1:54.4 | I would tell people that, what do you, what do you be when you grow up? |
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