Ep. 436: Tom Bilyeu Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio
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Michael Covel
4.6 • 732 Ratings
🗓️ 28 March 2016
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
My guest today is Tom Bilyeu, an American Entrepreneur. He is best known as the co-founder of Quest Nutrition and the co-founder and CEO of Impact Theory.
The topic is entrepreneur.
In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:
- Discipline and practice
- The Quest belief system
- Escaping the Matrix
- Tom Bilyeu's ultimate reading list
- Being authentic
- Obesity
- Autopilot thought process
- Letting go of being right
- Reaching your true fans
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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Transcript
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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 Coval. |
| 0:24.0 | Not filtered, raw, honest. |
| 0:27.4 | That's my passion. |
| 0:33.1 | My guest today is Tom Bill You. |
| 0:36.1 | He is the co-founder and president of Quest Nutrition. |
| 0:40.7 | Recently, number two on Inc.'s 500 fastest growing companies. |
| 0:46.9 | He's also the consummate entrepreneur of not starting with all that. |
| 0:53.7 | He started from scratch, self-made, so many lessons that we can all take from someone that has |
| 1:02.9 | started here and got there. |
| 1:05.9 | I will never get bored with the people that create the stories, create the narratives of |
| 1:12.9 | entrepreneurial greatness. |
| 1:15.7 | I just love it. |
| 1:17.6 | I hope you enjoy this conversation with Tom Bill You. |
| 1:25.5 | Tom, seriously, I want to understand your beginning. |
| 1:31.0 | You're a guy that was born with a silver spoon. |
| 1:33.6 | Everything was handed to you. |
| 1:35.0 | There was no hard work, no deliberate practice. |
| 1:38.1 | That makes it easy. |
| 1:39.2 | What can we learn from a guy born with a silver spoon? |
| 1:43.5 | Yeah, that is the most hilarious way to introduce how I started. |
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