Feb. 9, 2021

Meditation : Train Your Mind To Spot Opportunity & Take Action

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...
Guest: Adam Coelho
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Feb. 2, 2021

16 : My Dad's Thoughts on Money & the FIRE Movement with Val Coelho (Part 2)

“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, in par...
Jan. 26, 2021

Meditation : Guided Body Scan (15 Minutes)

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...
Guest: Adam Coelho
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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
Jan. 12, 2021

Meditation : Sitting In Your Intention For 2021

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 intention we...
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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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Dec. 22, 2020

13 : Embarking on Adventure & Opportunity in America with Val Coelho (Part 1)

“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 pa...
Guest: Val Coelho
Dec. 15, 2020

Meditation : Gratitude & Compassion in 2020

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
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Dec. 8, 2020

12 : A Mindful Approach to Financial Independence Retire Early with Nicholas Whitaker (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. 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 go...
Dec. 2, 2020

Meditation - You Deserve a break! Yeah YOU!

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.
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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
Nov. 2, 2020

Meditation: 2020 US Election Guided Mindfulness & Compassion Meditation

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 ...
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Oct. 27, 2020

9 : Entrepreneurship as a Spiritual Practice with Colm Dolan

“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...
Guest: Colm Dolan
Oct. 20, 2020

Meditation: Visualizing How You’d Like to Show Up In Your Life (18 Minutes)

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 s...
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Oct. 13, 2020

8: Brain Programming & Pursuing FIRE with Frazer Kirkman

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. 6, 2020

Meditation: Observing Your Experience with Open Awareness

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 ...
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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
Sept. 24, 2020

Meditation: Transforming Suffering & Embodying Hopefulness (20 Minutes)

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 ho...
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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. 9, 2020

Meditation: Mindfulness & Compassion (20 Minutes)

Join Adam Coelho for a 20 minute guided meditation practice focusing on developing mindfulness and compassion, both for yourself and others. These are challenging times and we can all use a break and a reset I hope you find this guided practice to be supportive. I will be releasing a new guided meditation practice every other week, alternating with a new podcast episode (Hit the Subscribe button!). Since this podcast is all about developing mindfulness and living the life that is ours to live, h...
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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...