Start living your FI Life years before you "reach FI"
Financial independence is powerful, but it does not tell you what to do with the freedom, your time or your life.
Many people reach FI and then realize they never built a vision for what freedom is for. Mindful FIRE helps you get clear early, so you can start living your FI Life years before you hit your FI number.
Recent Episodes
250
Oct. 5, 2026
Define Enough and Design Your Next Chapter with Lance Diaresco (ep. 250)
In this episode: career to calling, meaningful experiments, enoughness, mindful discernment, financial freedom with Lance Diaresco Episode Summary After leading global brands at Disney, Levi’s, and Google, Lance kept asking himself question: “Is this all?” He shares how a sabbatical, mindfulness, volunteering, and small experiments inside Google helped him move toward coaching and purposeful work without one reckless leap. Adam and Lance explore enoughness—balancing drive and contentment—and ho
249
Sept. 28, 2026
Rest in the Simplicity of This Moment (ep. 249)
In this episode: arriving in the present, kind curiosity, breath awareness, beginning again, intentional action with Adam Coelho Resources & Books Mentioned Free FI Life Jumpstart journaling exercise Mindful FIRE Legends community Episode Summary Rest in the simplicity of this moment with a short guided meditation from Adam Coelho. You’ll notice how you’re arriving, settle attention on the breath, and practice returning without judgment whenever the mind wanders. With nowhere to go and nothing
248
Sept. 20, 2026
What Got You Here Won’t Build Your Next Chapter with Jeff Jaworski (ep. 248)
In this episode: financial independence as runway, career reinvention, self-imposed pressure, writing a first book, coaching-driven leadership with Jeff Jaworski Episode Summary Three years after leaving Google, Jeff Jaworski returns to share how FIRE gave him room to build The Shift, write The Leader Shift, and shape work around family and purpose. Jeff and Adam explore why the habits that create success can hold us back in a new chapter—and how to build without recreating the pressure of the
247
Sept. 14, 2026
Visualize Your Ideal Work-Optional Week (ep. 247)
In this episode: visualizing your work-optional ideal week, mindfulness, financial independence, life design, mini experiments Episode Summary In this guided meditation, Adam invites you to settle into the breath and visualize your ideal work-optional week. You’ll explore where you are, who you’re with, what you’re doing, and how that life feels in your body. The practice closes by turning your vision into one small experiment you can try today. Resources & Books Mentioned Mindful FIRE Legends
251
Sept. 10, 2026
Who Am I Becoming? - Meditation (ep. 251)
In this episode: a companion meditation to episode 250 with Lance Diaresco, breath awareness, becoming, connection, contribution with Adam Coelho Episode Summary Who are you becoming, beyond what you are accomplishing? In episode 250, “Define Enough and Design Your Next Chapter,” Lance Diaresco joined me to explore moving from career to calling, defining enough, and creating a life with greater meaning. In this companion episode, I invite you to bring one of the ideas from our conversation int
246
Sept. 7, 2026
Stop Postponing Your Life with Jodi Wellman (ep. 246)
In this episode: mortality as motivation, memento mori, pre-grets, escaping autopilot, one-more-year syndrome, living wider and deeper with Jodi Wellman Episode Summary Jodi Wellman explains how remembering that life is finite can help us stop postponing it. She and Adam explore counting your remaining Mondays, turning “pre-grets” into action, balancing future security with aliveness now, and using small experiments to add vitality, meaning, and connection. Guest Bio Jodi Wellman is an author,