Introducing the series Before & After Leaving Google to Pivot Into a Career in Sustainability with Julia Li. Subscribe now to receive the next part of the series in 2 weeks. Last year around this time, my good friend, Julia Li told me she was getting ready to leave Google after six years and switch careers into the field of sustainability. What you'll hear in today's episode is the conversation Julia and I had before she left Google; how she came to the decision, what preparations ...
Nov 30, 2021•1 hr 12 min•Ep 54•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 of the podcast, because it's Thanksgiving week in the United States, we're going to do a meditation on thankfulness. We're going to cultivate awareness of all the blessings we have in our life. And we're going to practice resting and a feeling of gratitude or than...
Nov 23, 2021•16 min•Ep 53•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, Wendy Thomas. Wendy Thomas is the founder of Wendy Thomas Coaching , which helps individuals and teams excel in work and life by learning to harness the power of mindset. An early stage breast cancer diagnosis gave Wendy the courage and perspective t...
Nov 09, 2021•34 min•Ep 52•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 this week's guided meditation practice, we practice a simple mindful awareness practice. In this shorter practice we practicing bringing a kind, curious awareness to the experience of breathing, moment by moment and breath by breath. We finish the practice by bringing to mind someone or something we&...
Nov 02, 2021•16 min•Ep 51•Transcript available on Metacast "I want Mindful FIRE to create opportunity for people to live meaningful and fulfilled lives, aligned with their values and purpose, by connecting them with the ideas of mindfulness and financial independence. " - Adam 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 of the podcast, I'm excited to bring you my ...
Oct 26, 2021•22 min•Ep 50•Transcript available on Metacast Hey you! Yeah you! When was the last time you took a break for yourself? NOW is the time! You deserve it and, let's be honest, you probably really NEED it. I'm excited to remaster and reshare one of my favorite and most popular early meditations. In this 15 minute guided meditation practice, I invite you to take a well deserved break. When I first released this in Dec 2020 the pandemic was raging around the world and we still knew relatively little about it. Now we're ...
Oct 19, 2021•16 min•Ep 49•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 Mounira Latrache. Mounira is the founder of Connected Business, which helps companies and individuals develop self-leadership and co-leadership, which empowers them to live more meaningful, connected, and compassionate lives. Mounira brings 15 plus years...
Oct 12, 2021•1 hr 18 min•Ep 48•Transcript available on Metacast Are you listening to what you body is telling you? In this guided meditation we practice bringing a kind curious, loving awareness to our body. We begin by checking in with ourselves to see how we are arriving. Then we practice a guided body scan, bringing loving awareness to feeling each part of the body. Finally we finish by bringing loving kindness (compassion) to our body, which makes our entire existence possible. Full Show Notes | https://bit.ly/3ovTt35 More Inspiring Interviews | https://...
Oct 05, 2021•23 min•Ep 47•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...
Sep 28, 2021•52 min•Ep 46•Transcript available on Metacast One of the most important parts of living a fulfilled and happy life is answering the question "What is enough?". It seems simple but in our culture of "more, more, more" this question looms large for all of us; not just with our money but with our time, energy, effort, and so much more. We may feel like we don't have enough, that we're not doing enough or even that we, ourselves, are not enough. I know I've felt all of these and am still reflecting to learn mo...
Sep 21, 2021•22 min•Ep 45•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, Anna Kozenkova. Anna joined Google people operations six plus years ago and she's based in Prague Czech Republic. Previously, she worked for over 10 years in executive search consulting across Europe. At Google in addition to her core role in recru...
Sep 14, 2021•1 hr 4 min•Ep 44•Transcript available on Metacast Impermanence - the fact of life that everything is constantly changing and nothing stays the same for long - can be best observed and experienced within our own body. I took this picture in November 2017 on the last day of my 10 day silent Vipassana meditation retreat in Northern California. It was at this retreat that I truly observed the impermanence of life, not on an intellectual level but on an experiential level. At this retreat we practiced body scan meditation, being aware of each part o...
Sep 07, 2021•15 min•Ep 43•Transcript available on Metacast "Imagine that your body and even your mind are rooted, grounded, planted here in this spot while the crazy world just keeps on spinning." - Adam Coelho This quote captures what this grounding meditation practice is all about. A lot of the time, especially theses days, it feels like we're caught in a strong storm. It feels like we're being blown in many different directions and it's hard to maintain our balance and stability. Mindfulness helps us to regain our stability b...
Aug 24, 2021•21 min•Ep 42•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 of the podcast. I'm joined by my new friend, Jessi Shuraleff. Jessi spent 13 and a half years at Google leading and coaching sales teams using authenticity value-based selling and storytelling to drive impact in revenue for her customers. She's worked with brands both big an...
Aug 17, 2021•54 min•Ep 41•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. Often our busy minds feel like the choppy waves of the ocean during a storm. But even during a storm, if you drop below the surface just 10-15 feet, the water is calmer and quieter. I like to think of meditation as a practice of dropping in, dropping below the busy and tumultuous waves of my mind, into the c...
Aug 10, 2021•21 min•Ep 40•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. I am so thrilled to bring you today’s episode with my good friend, Dan Arwady. Dan works at YouTube and heads up Partner Engineering for the YouTube Music Labels operations team. On the side, he's an engineering student, a drummer, a music producer, and an amateur woodworker, and when he's really d...
Aug 03, 2021•1 hr 8 min•Ep 39•Transcript available on Metacast In life it's easy to get pulled off course despite the best intentions. I find that meditation and the cultivation of mindfulness offers a moment by moment experience of this fact of life. Despite our best intentions to focus our awareness on our breath, our attention wanders away into distraction, story, planning, etc. It can be minutes before we even notice we've been pulled away. But the beautiful thing about the practice is that once we notice our mind has wandered, we are already ...
Jul 27, 2021•22 min•Ep 38•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, Martie Adler, a consultant coach, and end of life, doula, who I met at the wisdom 2.0 conference. Among a conference of thousands of people, Martie and I ended up in a community gathering breakout room on zoom and really connected on a number of topics....
Jul 20, 2021•1 hr 6 min•Ep 37•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. This guided meditation is a practice of offering kindness and compassion to those who are suffering. With so much suffering happening in the world, the question of how I can help often leaves me feeling overwhelmed. But this simple practice of Metta, or loving kindness, which I learned from Sharon Salzberg a...
Jul 13, 2021•21 min•Ep 36•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 of the podcast, I’m joined by my new friend JG Larochette, the founder of Mindful Life Project, a direct service mindfulness non-profit teaching mindfulness and compassion to over 11,000 kids across 25 schools in the San Francisco Bay Area and across the US. I am so blown away by the work that JG and Min...
Jul 07, 2021•59 min•Ep 35•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. This guided meditation practice is an invitation to set everything in your busy life to the side for a little while and to rest in the incredible simplicity of this moment. We all have so much going on in our lives: things to do, things to plan, things we’re worried about, kids and family to take care of, jo...
Jun 29, 2021•20 min•Ep 34•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, Stephanie Nuesi. Stephanie Nuesi is the founder and CEO of Max Up, a career coaching firm, whose mission is to maximize the potential of future leaders of the nation. She has interned in various top accounting firms, tech companies, and banks in New...
Jun 23, 2021•1 hr 3 min•Ep 33•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 we transition seasons from Spring to Summer, what are you carrying that is no longer serving you? It may be the weight of things you said you would do or change when at the start of the year. It may be obvious or it may be more subtle. I know that I personally have been noticing a story in my head about a...
Jun 15, 2021•18 min•Ep 32•Transcript available on Metacast “It forced me to be intentional about every choice that I make and that every choice can have a consequential impact. Obviously not everything is gonna be life-changing, but at least treat every decision, every moment that life presents you with the attention it deserves.” - Eric Sanabria 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. In today’s episode I’m joined by m...
Jun 08, 2021•53 min•Ep 31•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 and I'm so glad you're here. On today's episode, I'm joined by my new friend, Joyce Marter, a psychotherapist entrepreneur, author, and speaker who has helped millions take control and lead abundant and joyful lives. Joyce is a licensed clinical professional counselor for over 20 years. And she's the founder of urban balance, a c...
May 25, 2021•1 hr 8 min•Ep 30•Transcript available on Metacast Welcome to the Mindful FIRE Podcast, where we explore living mindfully on the path to financial independence and beyond. On today's guided meditation we practice sending compassion and loving kindness to the people of India who are suffering terribly under the overwhelming 4th wave of COVID-19. This practice of sending them well wishes nourishes your own heart and combats a feeling of helplessness. It may not immediately solve the issue but it orients your mind towards compassion, towards h...
May 18, 2021•27 min•Ep 29•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 Ruchika Sikri. Ruchika is the founder of Mandala Ventures. After a successful corporate career of 25 plus years at Google, Microsoft and Cisco, she was following her life's purpose and mission to create a better world by supporting globally accessibl...
May 11, 2021•45 min•Ep 28•Transcript available on Metacast Have you been thinking about giving meditation a try? Meaning to try it? Or have you tried it and meant to get back to it? To establish a regular practice? If so, this practice is for you. I recorded this practice, a guided introduction, as an invitation to anyone who wants to try meditation and mindfulness, whether they've tried it in the past. I chose to keep it incredibly simple since after all, mindfulness is really simple. It's really just paying attention to the present moment wi...
May 04, 2021•17 min•Ep 27•Transcript available on Metacast Welcome to The Mindful FIRE Podcast, where we explore living mindfully on the path to financial independence and beyond. On this episode of the Mindful Fire Podcast, I’m joined by my new friend Milena Regos, the founder of Unhustle. Milena tells us all about Unhustle, which she founded to help people avoid burnout in their work and fall in love with their job once again. The topics discussed on this episode are: The problem of “hustle culture” How an internet-free trip helped her realize she did...
Apr 27, 2021•1 hr 3 min•Ep 26•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 loving kindness meditation practice where we send kind well wishes to first ourselves and then to a series of other people and groups of people. Ultimately we send love and kindness to those people affected by gun violence, which is really all of us, at least in the US. None of us can truly live without some level of fear that it could happen to us or i...
Apr 19, 2021•19 min•Ep 25•Transcript available on Metacast 
