Ep. 882: Steve Herz Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio
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Michael Covel
4.6 • 732 Ratings
🗓️ 6 July 2020
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
My guest today is Steve Herz, the President and Founding Partner of IF Management, Steve Herz is one of the most influential voices in the broadcast space, as well as a respected business leader.
The topic is his book Don't Take Yes for an Answer: Using Authority, Warmth, and Energy to Get Exceptional Results.
In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:
- Don't Take Yes for an Answer
- Confidence and Strength
- Using Authority
- Changing Communication Behaviour
- Energy Definition
- Speaking and Listening
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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 Covel, not filtered, raw, honest. |
| 0:27.4 | That's my passion. |
| 0:33.6 | Steve Hers is one of those guys that I wish I met when I was 16. |
| 0:41.2 | I wish I could have had his understanding at a very young age. |
| 0:46.2 | So I learned all of these things that he's about to teach us early. |
| 0:51.7 | So I didn't have to get all the scars. |
| 0:54.1 | I did not have to learn through the school of |
| 0:55.7 | hard knocks. Now, of course, it's probably my personality to learn through the school of hard |
| 1:00.5 | knocks. But guys like Steve are really valuable because they really get into the nitty |
| 1:07.2 | gritty of showing how to present yourself. I mean, if you meet anybody, how do you |
| 1:14.7 | present yourself? The appearance, the voice, the tone, everything. It all matters. First impressions |
| 1:22.8 | count. If you're a slovenly big slob with a terrible attitude, you're going to get nothing. |
| 1:32.0 | Now, I know that is often celebrated in modern society, but the reality is for the achievers, |
| 1:39.1 | they know that that behavior, not good, just not the way to go. |
| 1:45.1 | Steve Hers is one of the nation's premier talent agents, career advisors. |
| 1:49.4 | So he's got some perspective here. |
| 1:51.8 | He's worked with all the broadcast professionals that we all see on TV. |
| 1:56.7 | He knows something about how that system works. |
| 2:01.8 | And he knows something about how people work. |
| 2:05.7 | Our presentation. |
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