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 (https://mindfulfire.org/podcast-episode-11-nicholas-whitaker?utm_source=podcast-feed&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=episode_12&utm_term=nicholas&utm_content=cross-promo) . It’s one you don’t want to miss.
Nicholas has an incredible story of going from living in poverty, with housing insecurity and just scraping by, to changing his mindset and his entire life to ultimately be working at Google for the last 10 years.
For the past decade, Nicholas has leveraged the scale and resources of Google to support the journalism industry through high impact educational products, programs, and strategic partnerships, reaching more than half a million journalists worldwide.
Throughout his time at Google, Nicholas has also managed stress and anxiety through an active mindfulness practice, extensive study of emotional intelligence, resilience, and the impact of technology on well being as well as regular therapy.
He spends a portion of his time facilitating mental health talks, meditations, host experts in the industry to talk about mindfulness and resilience, and facilitate team development experiences to help teams and colleagues manage stress, cultivate trust and psychological safety, and learn more mindful ways to communicate. I'm also coaching a limited number of clients outside of Google.
In Part 2 of our conversation Nicholas and I dive into:
• How Nick thinks about Financial Independence Retire Early with what he calls a “modified FIRE approach”
• How and why Nick places a huge value on where he is spending his attention.
• Quote: “Attention is the cash value of time” - Sam Harris
• Nick’s practical advice for living in alignment with your values and using your attention wisely.
• The importance of becoming aware of the stories we’re telling ourselves
• Why Nick says everyone can benefit from therapy.
• How you can take an inventory of where you’re spending your attention with a time audit
• Why making sure you’re getting eno
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2. If you're at or nearing FI, but feel stuck and unable to move forward to your next chapter, let's chat. (https://mindfulfire.org/chat)
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