Ep. 421: Steve Kamb Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio
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Michael Covel
4.6 • 732 Ratings
🗓️ 5 February 2016
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
My guest today is Steve Kamb, the founder of Nerd Fitness and leader of this rag-tag group of misfits. He is an American fitness instructor, publisher and writer best known for promoting health and wellness at the website and fitness center NerdFitness.com.
The topic is his book Level Up Your Life: How to Unlock Adventure and Happiness by Becoming the Hero of Your Own Story.
In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:
- Traveling domestic and internationally
- The hero's journey
- Marketing yourself
- Marketing to a niche
- What is a nerd?
- Tailoring your fitness needs
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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| 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. |
| 0:20.9 | I am your host, Michael Covel. |
| 0:24.0 | Not filtered, raw, honest. |
| 0:27.4 | That's my passion. |
| 0:33.1 | I love good stories of entrepreneurism. |
| 0:37.9 | Good niche stories of entrepreneurism. Good niche stories of entrepreneurship |
| 0:41.3 | in the 2015 to 2016 era. |
| 0:48.9 | How does one man go from nothing to something. |
| 0:55.5 | One man that doesn't happen to have the prestigious Ivy League education. |
| 1:02.4 | One man that perhaps doesn't have the silver spoon. |
| 1:05.8 | Not that there is anything wrong with the silver spoon |
| 1:08.3 | and not that there is anything wrong with the Ivy League |
| 1:10.9 | education. But when you have those things, sometimes you have a little bit of a head start, |
| 1:18.7 | arguably. And that's a long philosophical debate. But you get my point. One guy is not expected to take on and slay the dragon. |
| 1:32.6 | One guy is not expected unless he has the quote training and the quote this and the quote that to launch to win. |
| 1:45.6 | My guest today reminds me of myself in many ways. |
| 1:51.8 | His subject area entirely different than mine. |
| 1:56.3 | He specializes in nerd fitness. |
| 1:59.6 | His new book is called Level Up Your Life. Steve Cam. |
| 2:05.3 | Steve is not in the same space as I am, at least in terms of product or content. |
| 2:13.7 | We are in the exact same space when it comes to being an entrepreneur in a niche. |
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