Ep. 152: Dan Andrews Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio
Michael Covel's Trend Following
Michael Covel
4.6 • 732 Ratings
🗓️ 26 August 2013
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Summary
My guest today is Dan Andrews, the founder of The Lifestyle Business podcast. He is the host of the Tropical MBA.
The topic is entrepreneurship, travel and lifestyle.
In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:
- Location independence
- Optimizing for time and mobility
- Andrews' beginnings as a teenager to where he is today
- Artists and entrepreneurs
- Andrews' beginnings
- How being in an entirely different atmosphere can bring out your creativity
- How Paris in the 1920's relates to the creative explosion in Asia
- The importance of having a blog and telling your story
- Why people need stories and ideas to follow
- Telling a story with your business
- The importance of "starting" and the iterative process
- Your brand, and the nature of how you interact with people
- Thinking you know how to "do it" before you know how the "soup" is made
- How hard work means so much more than talent
- Self-control, self-discipline
- "Failing forward" and getting used to taking emotional risks
- Hyper-globalization of small businesses
- The revolution of podcasting
- Distractions, laziness, and doing an inventory on your time
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. |
| 0:24.0 | Not filtered, raw, honest. |
| 0:27.4 | That's my passion. |
| 0:33.3 | Today on the show I have Dan Andrews. |
| 0:36.7 | Dan runs a very popular podcast called TropicalMBA.com. |
| 0:43.5 | I think you'll enjoy this. |
| 0:45.2 | Something a little different, and we actually did this in person in Saigon. |
| 0:49.7 | But fun stuff. |
| 0:51.0 | Enjoy. |
| 0:59.1 | Thank you. fun stuff. Enjoy. So I like this phrase that you use, this location independence. |
| 1:05.1 | Is this you interview me right now? |
| 1:06.2 | Of course. This is cool. Location independence entrepreneur. I think if I was wise enough, I would |
| 1:15.0 | have invented that statement. I've pretty much lived it for a long time. Yeah. So where'd you, |
| 1:20.2 | where'd you hit that from? It wasn't me. I think I stole it from a woman named Leo Woodward. |
| 1:26.6 | She started a domain called locationindependent.com. |
| 1:29.3 | And this is kind of this phenomenon that happened right on the back of the four-hour work week, |
| 1:34.0 | which is, I mean, of course, for wealthy people, the idea of sort of being wherever you want is, you know, been there, done that. |
| 1:41.6 | But for the working classes, I mean, that this is a revolution |
| 1:44.8 | that you could actually earn a living wage and do it from anywhere on the planet. So, |
| 1:49.1 | location independence is the term that's sort of been used to describe that. What does it mean to |
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