Ep. 873: John O'Leary Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio
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Michael Covel
4.6 • 732 Ratings
🗓️ 5 June 2020
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
My guest today is John O'Leary, internationally acclaimed speaker, bestselling author, and renowned podcast host, John helps hundreds of thousands of people to live inspired each year, sharing his insights and inspiring message with emotional storytelling and unexpected humor.
The topic is his book In Awe: Rediscover Your Childlike Wonder to Unleash Inspiration, Meaning, and Joy.
In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:
- Making Excuses
- Asking Questions
- Expectancy
- Adventure Awaits
- Placebo Effect
- Multitasking
- Freedom
- Covid-19 and Unemployment
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/
You can watch a free video here: https://www.trendfollowing.com/video/
Can't get enough of this episode? You can choose from my thousand plus episodes here: https://www.trendfollowing.com/podcast
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Hope you enjoy my never-ending podcast conversation!
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 Covel, not filtered, raw, honest. |
| 0:27.4 | That's my passion. |
| 0:33.3 | I don't want to give away too much in the introduction, |
| 0:36.7 | but my guest today is an inspiration, |
| 0:40.6 | a massive inspiration. John O'Leary, bestselling author, today we go into his newest book, |
| 0:49.6 | titled In Awe, Rediscover Your Childlike Wonder to Unle to unleash inspiration, meaning, and joy. |
| 0:57.6 | I got to tell you, when you hear John's story, and maybe you know it already, |
| 1:03.2 | but this guy has overcome more than I can imagine. |
| 1:09.0 | And I'm sure he's overcome more than you can imagine too. |
| 1:12.6 | The physical pain that he went through and pushed through to reach the levels that he has reached, |
| 1:22.1 | wow, I've got it easy compared to him. |
| 1:26.4 | And you know, I'm sure he would say he's met people who've had it worse than he's had it. |
| 1:32.1 | So it's not the point to try and say that John's got it worse than me or I've got it worse than you. |
| 1:37.2 | That's not the point. |
| 1:38.4 | The point is the inspiration. |
| 1:40.8 | And John is damn inspiring. |
| 1:44.6 | Without any further delay, let's jump right into my conversation with John O'Leary. |
| 2:04.3 | When you finish a podcast, what do you hope your audience gets? |
| 2:11.3 | An insight, a feeling, some honesty, some authenticity, some truth. |
| 2:13.2 | Usually that does it. |
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