Welcome to the mindful fire podcast where we explore living mindfully on the path to financial independence and beyond. I'm your host, Adam Coelho, and I'm so glad you're here. On today's episode. I'm joined by my friend, Kerri Jacobs. Who's actually a former manager of mine. I'm really excited to have her on the podcast. Kerri Jacobs has been leading high performing teams at Google in London, New York city, and now the Bay area for over 12 years. Her obsession...
Apr 13, 2021•1 hr 1 min•Ep 24•Transcript available on Metacast Welcome to the Mindful FIRE Podcast, where we explore living mindfully on the path to financial independence and beyond. Join me for this guided meditation, designed to support you if you’re feeling burned out by the pandemic. In many conversations I’m having at work and with friends outside of work, I’m finding that many people are feeling burned out. And you know what, I’m feeling it too. After a year of working full-time from home and parenting full-time as well, and of course dealing with th...
Apr 06, 2021•19 min•Ep 23•Transcript available on Metacast Welcome to the mindful fire podcast, where we explore living mindfully on the path to financial independence and beyond. I'm your host, Adam Coelho and I'm so glad you're here. On today's episode, I'm joined by my new friend, Cara Bradley. Cara is a leading authority of mental fitness having led thousands to her signature strategies to work and play in flow. She shares her 30 years of body brain training with fortune 500 companies, startups and premier college sports tea...
Mar 31, 2021•52 min•Ep 22•Transcript available on Metacast Join me for this short 10 minute guided meditation on self compassion. We're usually so very hard on ourselves so I hope you'll take this short break to practice a little kindness towards yourself. Full Show Notes : https://bit.ly/3f5ky8p More Inspiring Interviews : https://bit.ly/3f7BqeW More Guided Meditations : https://bit.ly/397dOmK #selfcompassion #meditation #guidedmeditation #selfkindness #kindness #lovingkindness PS: Introducing the… 🔥 FIRE Starter Group Coaching Program Conne...
Mar 23, 2021•13 min•Ep 21•Transcript available on Metacast "Liberating masculinity is not a product. It's a process of growing up and a process of growing down. Growing up is having life experiences. Growing down as finding deeper meaning and involvement." - Ed Adams Welcome to The Mindful FIRE Podcast, where we explore living mindfully on the path to financial independence and beyond. I'm your host, Adam Coelho and I'm so glad you're here. On today's episode, I'm joined by Ed Adams and Ed Frauenheim, the authors ...
Mar 16, 2021•1 hr 1 min•Ep 20•Transcript available on Metacast This is a practice that invites you to stop and meet yourself in the only moment you have to live your life, right here, right now. In this moment. I hope you like it. PS: Introducing the… 🔥 FIRE Starter Group Coaching Program Connect with your big vision for the next chapter of your life and start living it in 10 weeks or less using envisioning and the power of your mind. Interested? Let's chat. 🔥 WHO I'm creating this for: I'm creating this for YOU if you are feeling stuck &...
Mar 09, 2021•22 min•Transcript available on Metacast Welcome to the mindful fire podcast, where we explore living mindfully on the path to financial independence and beyond. I'm your host, Adam Coelho. And I'm so glad you're here. On today's episode, I'm joined by my friend, Paul Summers, Paul and I met seven years ago when I was on a work trip for Google in Australia. As you'll hear in the interview, Paul and I bonded over Portuguese chicken, one of my favorites. I'm really excited to bring you this conversation...
Mar 02, 2021•1 hr 18 min•Ep 18•Transcript available on Metacast Welcome to The Mindful FIRE Podcast, where we explore living mindfully on the path to financial independence and beyond. I’m your host Adam Coelho and I’m so glad you’re here. We spend so much time and energy DOING. This short meditation is a practice of JUST BEING. Give it a try. :) May you be healthy and safe. May you live your life with ease. Adam Host of The Mindful FIRE Podcast Full Show Notes : https://bit.ly/3pG4Fa5 More Inspiring Interviews : https://bit.ly/37gpCly More Guided Meditation...
Feb 23, 2021•21 min•Transcript available on Metacast Welcome to the mindful fire podcast, where we explore living mindfully on the path to financial independence and beyond. I'm your host, Adam Coelho. And I'm so glad you're here. As I mention in today’s episode, I’d love to hear from you. Please subscribe to my email list and reply to my weekly email with any insights, feedback or questions I can potentially help with. On today's episode, I'm joined by my friend, Keith Horan, who joined me on episode one of the podcast . ...
Feb 16, 2021•1 hr 8 min•Ep 17•Transcript available on Metacast Welcome to the Mindful FIRE Podcast, where we explore living mindfully on the path to financial independence and beyond. I’m your host Adam Coelho and I’m so glad you’re here. One way to speed up your journey to financial independence is to train yourself to spot opportunities and to take action when you find them. This could be a new job, reconnecting with an old friend or colleague or trying a side hustle. When your mind is ready to see opportunities, the possibilities are endless. Today’s gui...
Feb 09, 2021•21 min•Transcript available on Metacast “One of the best things that you can do for your financial independence is to look at what's out there that is sustainable, that you can make a good living at, and that you can make a difference in.” - Val Coelho Welcome to the Mindful FIRE Podcast, where we explore living mindfully on the path to financial independence and beyond. I’m your host Adam Coelho and I’m so glad you’re here. On today’s episode I’m again joined by my dad, Val Coelho for part 2 of our conversation. As a reminder, i...
Feb 02, 2021•44 min•Ep 16•Transcript available on Metacast Our body is constantly giving us rich information (raw data) about what’s going on inside us; what we’re feeling. If we pay attention, we can use that information to guide our thinking and actions more effectively. Unfortunately most of the time we are unaware of all of this information because we simply aren’t paying attention. We haven’t trained ourselves to tune into the body and to our emotions in the body. For me personally this has always been a challenge. I’m just not naturally very aware...
Jan 26, 2021•16 min•Transcript available on Metacast “There's also this idea of neuroplasticity. It's something we talk a lot about in mindfulness, which is that you have the power to change your brain based on what you pay attention to.” - Julia Li Welcome to the Mindful FIRE Podcast, where we explore living mindfully on the path to financial independence and beyond. I’m your host Adam Coelho and I’m glad you’re here. In this episode, I'm joined by my friend, Julia Li. Julia and I met a few years ago when a mutual friend of ours in...
Jan 19, 2021•1 hr 10 min•Ep 15•Transcript available on Metacast Intentions are incredibly powerful when set clearly and practiced often. They allow us get clear on what we want and how we want to show up in our lives. By setting intentions we orient our minds in a particular direction, which makes it much more likely that we will show up in that way. Join Adam Coelho for this guided meditation practice where we set our intention for 2021 and then practice sitting in that intention. What I mean by "sitting in the intention" is imagining that the int...
Jan 12, 2021•21 min•Transcript available on Metacast “We have the knowledge we need and want. We just need to trust it.” Morgan Bricca Welcome to The Mindful FIRE Podcast, where we explore living mindfully on the path to financial independence and beyond. I'm your host, Adam Coelho. I'm so glad you're here. On today's episode. I have a bonus for you. I've invited back my friend Morgan Bricca, who joined us on episode 6 and 7 of the podcast. And I've invited her back to share her approach to year-end reflection and pla...
Jan 06, 2021•1 hr 2 min•Ep 14•Transcript available on Metacast Join Adam Coelho for this short guided meditation focused on mindfulness and gratitude as we approach the end of 2020. Wishing you and yours a happy, healthy and wonderful new year ahead. Thank you so much for supporting the show by listening and sharing with your friends. Show notes at mindfulfire.org PS: Introducing the… 🔥 FIRE Starter Group Coaching Program Connect with your big vision for the next chapter of your life and start living it in 10 weeks or less using envisioning and the power o...
Dec 29, 2020•19 min•Transcript available on Metacast “Life is what happens to you when you are busy making other plans” - Val Coelho (my dad) Welcome to the Mindful FIRE Podcast, where we explore living mindfully on the path to financial independence and beyond. I’m your host Adam Coelho and I’m glad you’re here. On this episode I’m joined by my dad, Val Coelho, on his birthday, November 15th. That day was also my 10th anniversary of working at Google so it was a good day to have a reflective conversation. I’m breaking our conversation into 2 part...
Dec 22, 2020•44 min•Ep 13•Transcript available on Metacast Join Adam Coelho in this short guided meditation practice on gratitude & compassion. We begin by calming the mind and then bring up a feeling of gratitude and direct it at our body and mind. Then we finish the session by sending compassion to ourselves and to all those suffering during this challenging year 2020. Full Show Notes @ MindfulFIRE.org PS: Introducing the… 🔥 FIRE Starter Group Coaching Program Connect with your big vision for the next chapter of your life and start living it in 1...
Dec 15, 2020•20 min•Transcript available on Metacast Welcome to the Mindful FIRE Podcast, where we explore living mindfully on the path to financial independence and beyond. I’m your host Adam Coelho and I’m glad you’re here. Today we dive into part 2 of my conversation with my friend, Nicholas Whitaker. If you haven’t yet listened to Part 1 of our conversation where we dig into Nick’s backstory of going from poverty to working at Google, you can check it out here . It’s one you don’t want to miss. Nicholas has an incredible story of going from li...
Dec 08, 2020•52 min•Ep 12•Transcript available on Metacast Need I say more? 2020 is brutal and life is crazy. One thing is for sure. You deserve a break! Yeah YOU! Here it is. Press play. Subscribe for new meditations and inspiring interviews about mindfulness and financial independence every Tuesday. I hope you enjoyed this practice. If you do, please share it with your friends...I bet one or two could really use it right now. Please write a 5 Star review on Apple Podcasts ! It REALLY helps more people find out the show. PS: Introducing the… 🔥 FIRE St...
Dec 02, 2020•16 min•Transcript available on Metacast “What are my values and what are my goals? Am I moving myself in that direction. If I'm not moving myself in that direction, what am I doing?” - Nicholas Whitaker Welcome to the Mindful FIRE Podcast, where we explore living mindfully on the path to financial independence and beyond. I’m your host Adam Coelho and I’m glad you’re here. Today we talk to my friend, Nicholas Whitaker. Nicholas has an incredible story of going from living in poverty, with housing insecurity and just scraping by, ...
Nov 24, 2020•43 min•Ep 11•Transcript available on Metacast PS: Introducing the… 🔥 FIRE Starter Group Coaching Program Connect with your big vision for the next chapter of your life and start living it in 10 weeks or less using envisioning and the power of your mind. Interested? Let's chat. 🔥 WHO I'm creating this for: I'm creating this for YOU if you are feeling stuck & frustrated after saving and investing for years to create "financial freedom" only to find yourself: Unclear or unsure about what you want Overwhelmed by...
Nov 17, 2020•22 min•Transcript available on Metacast “Anytime we connect with others, if we're open to the possibility, we can find ways to benefit each other” - Valerie Poon Welcome to the Mindful FIRE Podcast, where we explore living mindfully on the path to financial independence and beyond. I’m your host Adam Coelho and I’m glad you’re here. On this episode I’m joined by my friend Valerie Poon, who I met through a Grow with Google coaching session a few months back. Val and I connected about our shared interest in mindfulness and financia...
Nov 10, 2020•48 min•Ep 10•Transcript available on Metacast Feeling stressed or worried about tomorrow’s presidential election? You’re not alone. That’s why I created a special mindfulness and compassion guided meditation practice and am releasing it a day early. Please share it! #ShareKindness No matter who you support in this election, Biden or Trump, blue or red, I made this meditation for you and you’re welcome here. I hope you find it supportive during this stressful time. It starts with a simple mindfulness practice of checking in with yourself and...
Nov 02, 2020•26 min•Transcript available on Metacast “I found that work was an ability for me to bring out my spiritual teachings and share my values with other people.” Welcome to the Mindful FIRE Podcast, where we explore living mindfully on the path to financial independence and beyond. I’m your host Adam Coelho and I’m glad you’re here. Today we talk to my friend, Colm Dolan who was one of the first people I met when joining Google back in 2010. Colm is a former Googler and founder of Publift - an adtech business that helps online publishers b...
Oct 27, 2020•1 hr 11 min•Ep 9•Transcript available on Metacast In this 18 minute guided meditation, Adam Coelho leads us through the practice of visualizing how we’d like to show up in our lives. I generally consider this an affirmations practice, one in which I’m affirming the belief or way of being I’d like to cultivate in my life. It’s also a great meditation to try if you enjoyed the last episode of the podcast with Frazer Kirkman on Brain Programming . This session begins with a simple mindfulness of breath practice, simply resting in awareness of the ...
Oct 20, 2020•19 min•Transcript available on Metacast Welcome to the Mindful FIRE Podcast, where we explore living mindfully on the path to financial independence and beyond. I’m your host Adam Coelho and I’m glad you’re here. Today we talk to my friend, Frazer Kirkman, a very interesting character who I met teaching meditation at work. Frazer is now a software engineer but has an incredibly interesting story which includes him traveling the world teaching mindfulness and positive thinking for 10 years while living an incredibly minimalist lifestyl...
Oct 13, 2020•1 hr 17 min•Ep 8•Transcript available on Metacast Welcome to the Mindful FIRE Podcast, where we explore living mindfully on the path to financial independence and beyond. In this 20 minute guided meditation, Adam Coelho leads us through the practice of Open Awareness. This practice is a bit different than what we’ve practiced in past weeks but I think you’ll really enjoy it. As you may know, meditation is not something mystical or magical, it’s simply mental training. It’s literally exercise for your brain, specifically the mental muscles of at...
Oct 06, 2020•21 min•Transcript available on Metacast Welcome to the Mindful FIRE Podcast, where we explore living mindfully on the path to financial independence and beyond. I’m your host Adam Coelho and I’m glad you’re here. In this episode, I’m again joined by my friend Morgan Bricca for Part 2 of our conversation. Today we explore the idea of “Craftsmanship”, which I think of pursuing and getting better at something for its own sake. For Morgan, her primary focus for craftsmanship is painting beautiful murals that make an impact but she has als...
Sep 29, 2020•37 min•Ep 7•Transcript available on Metacast Join Adam Coelho for a 20 minute guided meditation in which we practice a Tibetan practice called Tonglen in which we imagine ourselves transforming suffering into love and kindness and sending that love and kindness out into the world. During this practice we begin by calming the mind and then transition to the Tonglen practice in which we imagine ourselves breathing in suffering, transforming it into love and kindness and sending it back out into the world. We close by practicing embodying hop...
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