Ep. 874: Mark Victor Hansen and Crystal Dwyer Hansen Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio
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Michael Covel
4.6 • 732 Ratings
🗓️ 8 June 2020
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
My guests today are Mark Victor Hansen and Crystal Dwyer Hansen.
Mark is the co-author for the Chicken Soup for the Soul book series and brand, setting world records in book sales, with over 500 million books sold. He is also a prolific writer with 307 books authored or co-authored, including The Aladdin Factor, The Power of Focus, The Richest Kids in America, The Miracles in You, You Have a Book in You, and the One Minute Millionaire series.
Crystal is a business strategist and successful entrepreneur, speaker, and author in the US and China. Crystal, also known as the "celebrity coach," is a certified life coach and wellness/nutrition expert, whose personal coaching, speaking, CD and video programs, books, and articles have helped people all over the world.
The topic is their book Ask!: The Bridge from Your Dreams to Your Destiny.
In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:
- Modern America
- Unworthiness
- Life Happens Inside Out
- Asking the right questions
- 7 Roadblocks to Asking
- Destiny
- Energy and Success
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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. |
| 0:21.2 | I am your host, Michael Covel, not filtered, raw, honest. |
| 0:27.4 | That's my passion. |
| 0:33.4 | One of my more popular guests on this podcast is an investor named Brad Rotter. |
| 0:40.1 | And apparently Brad knows everybody. |
| 0:43.6 | He happens to know my two guests today. |
| 0:46.7 | And he happens to have made the connection for me. |
| 0:50.2 | And for you guys to hear my guest today. |
| 0:53.0 | My guest today are Mark Victor Hansen and Crystal Dwyer Hansen, |
| 0:57.0 | husband and wife team. |
| 0:58.8 | Now, you might recognize that name Mark Victor Hanson. |
| 1:02.7 | That would be the Mark Victor Hansen, |
| 1:04.1 | who is the co-author of the Chicken Soup for the Soul book and series. |
| 1:09.7 | I don't know how many books have been sold exactly under the chicken |
| 1:13.8 | soup for the sole umbrella, but it's hundreds of millions. Seriously, that's insane. Absolutely |
| 1:20.8 | nuts. Today, Mark and Crystal and I go through all kinds of subjects, but we wanted to focus today on their new book, Ask, the Bridge from Your Dreams to Your Destiny. |
| 1:37.2 | I must say that it's one of those topic areas. If I did not have the ability to ask, I would be some guy sitting there working for a federal |
| 1:48.2 | agency and the Washington, D.C. area, fatter than a house, in bad clothes, sitting at the cafeteria, |
| 1:58.0 | and waiting for retirement. |
| 2:02.2 | That's what would happen to me. |
| 2:04.2 | But I started asking. |
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