Today's guided meditation is focused on creating space within your busy life to invest in yourself. When we slow down, sit down, and turn our attention inward, something powerful happens. It's like a snow globe being set down on a table; our mind and body settle, and we can start to see more clearly what's going on inside. I hope you enjoy the meditation. 🔥 Whenever you’re ready, here are 4 ways I can help you: 1. Complete my Free Envisioning Guide to get clear on what you truly want 2. Con...

In this episode: Teaching Kids Financial Independence, Allowance, Rob’s road to FI and more. In this episode of the Mindful Fire Podcast, Rob Phelan, a high school math and personal finance teacher, shares his passion for teaching about money and raising a financially responsible generation. He discusses his own journey into personal finance and how to equip children with better decision-making skills for their future. He also emphasizes the importance of personal finance and the role of teache...

In this episode: 12 minute guided meditation to find peace, ease and a space of refuge in this moment. Today’s meditation is a practice of creating space in our lives. We practice cultivating a space of refuge in our busy lives amidst all the challenging and difficult things happening in our world (war, layoffs, the economy, etc). In this space of refuge we can just leave everything at the door and just be with ourselves in this moment. We begin this meditation by intentionally leaving everyt...

In this episode: "Trying Life On", 5 Freedom Principles, Purposeful Work, & more with Maurice Philogene. Adam Coelho talks to Maurice Philogene, a former senior executive at an IT consulting firm and a retired federal agent, who is now a full-time real estate investor. They discuss Maurice's philosophy of "trying life on" and how he has been able to mesh together his different interests and careers. They also talk about the importance of envisioning, reducing big dreams into achievable goals, a...

Today's meditation explores the question: What is enough? This is one of the core questions that drove me to create this podcast. So many of us in the financial independence retire early community are trying to grow our wealth so we can reach some arbitrary number, assuming that once we get there, we will achieve freedom and everything will change. But the question is, what is enough? So often, when people reach their desired number, they think they need more or just a little more time, what...

Derk de Korver joins The Mindful Fire podcast to share his journey to becoming a professional Ironman Triathlete, reaching the World Championships several times. He recalls his time in Dublin, where he and Adam Coelho, the host, bonded over side hustling and partying. Derk talks about his transformation to becoming a healthier person, and how his goals shifted from just wanting to finish his first marathon, to wanting to qualify for Kona, and eventually winning his age group overall. He also ...

Take a moment to appreciate how far you come in your life with this new guided meditation by Adam Coelho. So often people race from thing to thing trying mightily to reach their goal... But once they get there... They just look immediately past that goal to the next goal Never stopping Never fully appreciating: How far they've come All the things they've learned All the things they've overcome To be who they are Right here. Right now This practice invites us to take in the good and ap...

“I'm not leaving Google, I'm actually joining another company and in order to join the other company, I've got to move” - Jeena James In this episode of The Mindful Fire Podcast, Adam Coelho interviews Jeena James. Jeena shares her incredible journey of growing up in India, working at Google for 13 and a half years, and then transitioning to a startup environment. She talks about the challenges of making the transition and why she felt the need to push beyond her comfort zone. Jeena also offers ...

This guided meditation is all about creating space for possibility in the face of challenging situations in your life. While we all have challenging situations in life, I created this meditation for my 12,000 Google colleagues who were laid off last Friday and the thousands of other people affected by layoffs in the tech sector. I am grateful to still have my job but so many of my friends do not. Friday was a wake up call - a reminder of why it's so important to be intentional about your life ...

In this podcast episode, Adam Coelho and Ashanti Branch talk about Ashanti's move from engineering to teaching. Ashanti explains the moment he made the decision to switch and how he had to keep himself from constantly thinking about the money he could have made if he had stayed in engineering. They also discuss the five F’s and strategizing for success and how it can help us achieve our goals. Key Takeaways: Ashanti Branch is an educator who left engineering to pursue teaching. He saw a news r...

Today’s guided meditation is all about cultivating and sharing kindness. We’ll begin by checking in with ourselves and observing our breath. Then, we'll take some time to gather and multiply kindness within ourselves. Then we will practicing sending kindness out to others. Finally, we open to receiving kindness from others. I hope you enjoy this practice 🔥 Crafting a LIFE YOU LOVE starts with getting clear on the VISION of what you actually want. 🔥 Download my Free Envisioning Guide to ge...

On today's episode, Adam Coelho is joined by his good friend Susie Ade. Susie works as a global program manager for driving mental health and wellbeing programs for Google's data centers and is a certified professional coactive coach. Together, they discuss the FIRE movement, designing your life and career in a way as if you've already reached financial independence. Key Takeaways Developing a FIRE mindset can help you change your life Design your life and career in a way as if you've alr...

9 months into my dream job I get called into my boss' office He says my team is going away and I have a few months to find a new job or leave Google 30 days before the deadline...👇 I have a grand total of ZERO job offers This is rock bottom. If was to survive, something needed to change My mindset needed to change At rock bottom, I CHOOSE two NEW MINDSETS 1. The world is abundant with opportunity. 2. I don't worry about doing things right or wrong. I take action, which leads to learning,...

Welcome to the Mindful FIRE Podcast, a show about crafting a life you love and making work optional, using the tools of mindfulness envisioning and financial independence. Today we explore what it means to live and work mindfully with my new friend Jonathan Reynolds. I'm your host, Adam Coelho (Connect & DM me on LinkedIn) and I'm so glad you're here. On today's episode of the podcast, I'm joined by my new friend, Jonathan Reynolds. Jonathan Reynolds is the founder and CEO of mindful life min...

Welcome to the Mindful FIRE Podcast, a show about crafting a life you love and making work optional using the tools of mindfulness, envisioning and financial independence. On today's episode of the podcast I'm joined again by my new friend, Jenny Wood. Jenny Wood is the founder of Google's Own Your Career program, which helps Google employees increase their impact and influence in their current role and or land their next role. In just a few months, the program scaled from 153 users to tens o...

Welcome to the Mindful FIRE Podcast, where we explore living mindfully on the path to financial independence and beyond. On today's episode of the podcast I'm joined by my new friend, Jenny Wood. Jenny Wood is the founder of Google's Own Your Career program, which helps Google employees increase their impact and influence in their current role and or land their next role. In just a few months, the program scaled from 153 users to tens of thousands of users across Google's global offices...

Welcome to the Mindful FIRE Podcast, where we explore living mindfully on the path to financial independence and beyond. Today in part two of my conversation with Sarah, we discuss how we can use money to unlock our full potential and why dreaming and enjoyment are critical to living in this way. We also talk about the flip side, how frugality and being afraid to engage with money actually cuts off our creative energy and prevents us from reaching our full potential. And things get pretty per...

On today's episode, I have a special treat for you. Today, instead of me leading the guided meditation, our practice will be led by Sarah McCrumb, who joined us last week on episode 73. Sarah was kind enough to share with us, one of her money activations, meditation of sorts. This money activation explores the link between enjoyment and the energy of money. If you enjoy today's practice, make sure to check out my interview with Sarah now available wherever you're listening to this as episodes...

Welcome to the Mindful FIRE Podcast, where we explore living mindfully on the path to financial independence and beyond. On today's episode of the podcast, I'm excited to bring you a really special guest. Sarah McCrum. Sarah was introduced to me by a former guest Morgan Bricca. Morgan joined us on episode six, seven and fourteen of the podcast. Sarah is an author educator and business innovator. She's the founder of Liberate Humanity, which is a place for learning and sharing the skills for li...

Welcome to the Mindful FIRE Podcast, where we explore living mindfully on the path to financial independence and beyond. Today’s guided meditation is all about creating space within your busy life to invest in yourself. Something powerful happens when we slow down, sit down and turn our attention inward. Like a snow globe being set down on a table, we allow our mind and body to settle and we can start to see more clearly what’s going on inside. I hope you enjoy. More from The Mindful FIRE P...

Welcome to the Mindful FIRE Podcast, where we explore living mindfully on the path to financial independence and beyond. On this episode I'm joined by my friend, Sean Alexander Hickle, entrepreneur and founder of SimpleApproach.US, an online personal training program. In this episode, Sean and I explored the idea of thinking about our health and our fitness as an area of investment equal to that, of our finances or any other area of our life that we invest in. Over the last five years, Sean h...

Welcome to the Mindful FIRE Podcast, where we explore living mindfully on the path to financial independence and beyond. In this guided meditation we envision what we want our ideal life to look like and how we want to show up in our life 3 years out. I hope you enjoy it. FOLLOW for more guided meditations and inspiring interviews. More from The Mindful FIRE Podcast More Inspiring Interviews Free Guided Meditations Shoter Version of previous weekly sit pr-reoll

Welcome to the Mindful FIRE Podcast, where we explore living mindfully on the path to financial independence and beyond. On today's episode, we’re diving into Part 2 of my conversation with FIREy Philanthropist, our first anonymous guest. FIREy Philanthropist wanted to remain anonymous because they practice stealth wealth, which means they don't tell their neighbors, friends, and really anyone outside of a close group of friends that they're rich and have retired early. Today, in Part 2, FIREy...

With so much going on in the world right now, it’s easy to feel overwhelmed. Each and every one of us is affected but what’s happening. Welcome to the Mindful FIRE Podcast, where we explore living mindfully on the path to financial independence and beyond. Today’s meditation is a practice of creating space in our lives. We practice cultivating a space of refuge in our busy lives amidst all the challenging and difficult things happening in our world. In this space of refuge we can just leave ev...