Ep. 893: Drag Racing, Billions and Guns with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio
Michael Covel's Trend Following
Michael Covel
4.6 • 732 Ratings
🗓️ 14 August 2020
⏱️ 123 minutes
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Summary
Please enjoy my monologue Drag Racing, Billions and Guns with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio. This episode may also include great outside guests from my archive.
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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. |
| 0:33.6 | Feeling a little bored, a little down, need a little inspiration during the summer of COVID. |
| 0:41.0 | Three episodes for you today. Going back in time. |
| 0:45.4 | John Force, Denise Schull, and Lanny Bassam. |
| 0:51.3 | John Force, an American NHRA, Drag Racer, 16-time champion. The guy has won so many races. |
| 1:00.3 | We're talking drag racing. This guy has got balls of steel. Next up, Denise Schull. |
| 1:08.0 | She is the inspiration for one of the main characters in The Billions Show. |
| 1:15.4 | Now that's just a side tangent. Her real gig, she is a performance and decision coach for |
| 1:22.1 | traders and athletes. And last but not least, Lanny Bassam, an Olympic gold medalist rifle shooting. |
| 1:29.4 | He's got the attitude. |
| 1:30.8 | He's got the mindset that we can all learn from. |
| 1:34.9 | Now, how diverse is this setup? |
| 1:38.1 | Drag racing, performance coach, rifle shooting. |
| 1:43.8 | It sounds all very different. |
| 1:47.5 | In my mind, they're all the same. |
| 1:50.3 | In my mind, they're actually connected to what I do also with my books and trend following. |
| 1:56.1 | Because it's all about mindset. |
| 1:58.4 | If you got the right mindset, you're going to kick ass in whatever you do. |
| 2:04.8 | Without any further delay, let's jump right into John top, big picture, why you, what is propelled you? |
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