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Jan. 25, 2022

60: Envisioning Meditation with a Twist with 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. Thanks for joining me for today's guided meditation about envisioning the life you want. This practice begins by practicing mindfulness. After we calm our min, we practice visualizing how we envision our ideal life to be. Then we shift our attention in a way that may surprise you. Today's meditation was recorded during ou...
Guest: Adam Coelho
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Nov. 2, 2021

51 : Meditation : Practicing Awareness & Gratitude

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're extremely grate...
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Oct. 12, 2021

48 : Choosing Who You Want To Be with Mounira Latrache

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 of leadership experie...
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Sept. 14, 2021

44 : Creating Space to Design Your Life Through Mindfulness & FIRE Anna Kozenkova

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 recruitment, Anna takes an activ...
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Aug. 10, 2021

40 : Meditation : Dropping Into This Moment

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 calmer, quiete...
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Aug. 3, 2021

39 : The Art of Self Improvement Through Deliberate Practice with Dan Arwady

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 doing life right he's a m...
Guest: Dan Arwady
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July 27, 2021

38 : Start Again Meditation

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 aware ag...
Guest: Adam Coelho
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July 20, 2021

37: Conscious Living, Envisioning The Life You Want and Elderhood with Martie Adler

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. And I knew I had t...
Guest: Martie Adler
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June 29, 2021

34: Meditation : Resting In The Simplicity of This Moment

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, jobs to do,...
Guest: Adam Coelho
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June 23, 2021

33: Developing Resilience, Creating Opportunity & Interning at Google with Stephanie Nuesi

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 York city in Calif...
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May 25, 2021

30 : Mental Health, Mindfulness and Money with Joyce Marter

Grab a copy of Joyce's new book The Financial Mindset Fix today. 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 sh...
Guest: Joyce Marter
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May 11, 2021

28 : Co-Creating a Community-Driven Mindfulness Movement at Google and Beyond with Ruchika Sikri

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 accessible mindfulness, compassion an...
Guest: Ruchika Sikri
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May 4, 2021

27 : Start Here Meditation - A guided introduction practice (15 mins)

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 with an ...
Guest: Adam Coelho
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April 13, 2021

24 : Leading with Empathy with Kerri Jacobs

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 with empathy and leadership and i...
Guest: Kerri Jacobs
Feb. 23, 2021

Meditation - Practice Just Being

We spend so much time and energy DOING. This short meditation is a practice of JUST BEING.
Guest: Adam Coelho
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Feb. 16, 2021

17: Checking in with Keith Horan and The Mindfulness Community

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. I'm excited to bring Keith...
Guest: Keith Horan
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Jan. 19, 2021

15 : Leaving Google For a Career In Sustainability and a 3 Month Break with Julia Li (Part 1)

“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 introduced us bec...
Guest: Julia Li
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Jan. 6, 2021

14 : Year End Reflection & Planning with Morgan Bricca

“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 planning. I've compil...
Guest: Morgan Bricca
Dec. 29, 2020

Meditation - Mindfulness & Gratitude at Year End 2020

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
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Nov. 24, 2020

11 : From Poverty to Google with Nicholas Whitaker (Part 1)

“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, to ch...
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Nov. 10, 2020

10 : Living Intentionally in a World Full of Uncertainty with Valerie Poon

“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 financial ind...
Guest: Valerie Poon
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Sept. 29, 2020

7: Craftsmanship & Discovering Enough with Morgan Bricca (Part 2)

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...
Guest: Morgan Bricca
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Sept. 15, 2020

6: Don't Wait To Live Your Life with Morgan Bricca (Part 1)

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 I’m joined by my friend, Morgan Bricca, a mural artist, meditator, blogger, author and podcaster in the San Francisco Bay Area. Morgan discovered Financial Independence early on in life and immediately applied the principles in her life, which allowed her to reclaim her time and ultimately leave a job that was unfulfil...
Guest: Morgan Bricca
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Sept. 1, 2020

Retiring at 40 with Laurie Stephens (Part 2) - The Mindful FIRE Podcast - Episode 5

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 today’s episode I’m joined by my friend Laurie Stephens, the Executive Director of Hood River Education Foundation a non profit helping students in Hood River, Oregon. We had a great conversation exploring how they made it happen and how they went about designing their life both before and after retiring early including w...