Ep. 787: Matt Kepnes Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio

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Michael Covel

Investing, Business

4.6 • 730 Ratings

🗓️ 9 August 2019

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

My guest today is Matt Kepnes, an American travel blogger. Kepnes was born in Boston. At 23, he had never left the United States but in 2005 he took a trip to Thailand. The trip convinced Kepnes to quit his job, finish his MBA, and begin traveling the world and blogging about his experiences.

The topic is his book Ten Years a Nomad.

In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:

After meeting some travelers on a trip to Thailand in 2005, he realized that living life meant more than simply meeting society’s traditional milestones, such as buying a car, paying a mortgage, and moving up the career ladder. Inspired by them, he set off for a year-long trip around the world before he started his career. He finally came home after ten years.

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 Coval.
0:24.0	Not filtered, raw, honest.
0:27.4	That's my passion.
0:33.3	My guest today is Matthew Kepness.
0:36.4	Nomadic Matt, as he is known. An American travel expert. New York Times
0:42.6	bestselling author, blogger. He's been featured. And I got to tell you, I'm a little jealous of these features. New York Times, CNN, National Geographic, HuffPost, the Wall Street Journal, BBC, he has been around.
0:56.8	A story I can relate to, except I left a little bit later than Matt.
1:02.5	At age 23, he had not yet left the United States.
1:08.0	But a trip to Southeast Asia, Thailand in particular, convinced him to quit the job,
1:13.8	finished the MBA, and travel. And travel he has. Seven plus years. 70 plus countries. I need to go do a
1:24.3	headcount on countries. I have no earthly idea how many I've been to, but I know it's not 70.
1:31.0	70 is serious, serious time in the air.
1:35.7	Let's jump right into my conversation that will hopefully make all of you out there
1:41.8	that are sitting on your rear, afraid to leave your suburban cookie cutter life to get on a damn plane and go.
1:52.4	I hope you enjoy this conversation with Matthew Kepness. Matt, I've had the chance in the last seven years to spend a significant time outside the states.
2:15.8	And I've heard this word nomad a lot, and I've met a lot of these
2:19.5	digital nomads. Typically, for me, it's been, you know, younger guys in their 20s and 30s who have
2:25.1	found some kind of way to make do. Now, I know you're somewhat in the headspace, but, you know,
2:31.1	a little bit different because it's more focused on travel. But what does this word nomad meet to you?
2:36.9	A nomad is someone who periodically moves around doesn't have a home base.
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