Ep. 1284: Kevin Kelley Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio

Michael Covel's Trend Following

Michael Covel

Investing, Business

4.6 • 730 Ratings

🗓️ 13 May 2024

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

My guest today is Kevin Kelley, strategy and design firm principal. He has over 35 years working in the areas of retail, food and places of public gathering and commerce. Skilled in Architecture, Brand Strategy, Retail Strategy, Retail Design, Business Model Innovation, Consumer Behavior, Consumer Psychology and Management. Kevin is a frequent lecturer at conferences around the U.S. and in Asia.

The topic is his book Irreplaceable: How to Create Extraordinary Places that Bring People Together.

In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:

Place and connection
Design and architecture
Human experiences
Retail and consumer behavior
Creativity and innovation
Human decision-making process
Importance of natural interactions
Extracting insights from clients
Understanding human senses
Novelty and unique experiences

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/

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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.
0:24.0	Not filtered, raw, honest.
0:27.3	That's my passion.
0:33.5	My guest today is Kevin Kelly.
0:35.4	He is an architect.
0:36.5	He is a retail design expert. His firm,
0:40.3	quite famous, shook Kelly out of Los Angeles. A wide-ranging conversation that in my humble
0:47.2	opinion is applicable to every last person on this planet. Because what we are talking about
0:53.8	today is all about place. It's about
0:57.2	connection. It's about us. It's about novelty. It's about memory. It's about experience. It's about the
1:04.7	stuff that makes us alive and makes us human. If you're not human, you won't enjoy this conversation.
1:12.7	If you're human, you're going to relate and you're going to be interested in my guest today,
1:18.8	Kevin Kelly.
1:20.0	Without any further delay from me, let's jump right in, and I hope you enjoy.
1:37.8	Kevin, I've got a little bit of an interesting story that you might not be aware of.
1:39.8	I think I should share it to start.
1:45.0	First off, I'm calling you, talking to you from Saigon Vietnam. Oh, wow.
1:46.0	Never expected to be here.
1:49.0	Fantastic.
1:50.0	Happily existing in San Diego in 2013.
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