The Mindful FIRE Podcast

"Liberating masculinity is not a product. It's a process of growing up and a process of growing down. Growing up is having life experiences. Growing down as finding deeper meaning and involvement." - Ed AdamsWelcome 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 Ed Adams and Ed Frauenheim, the authors of the book, Reinventing Masculinity, The Liberating Power of Compassion and Connection.On today's episode, we explore something a little bit different. We explore what it means to be a man and how the idea of masculinity is changing and how that benefits both men and women alike.While today's conversation isn't directly about financial independence or mindfulness, although we do touch on both of those topics, it really explores what it means to show up fully in our life. Are we carrying the beliefs and ways of being that society is telling us to do, rather than truly getting in touch with who we really are and what it means to be human. I really enjoyed this conversation with Ed Frauenheim and Ed Adams, and I hope that you enjoyed it as well. Subscribe to receive new episodes and guided meditations every Tuesday.Full Show Notes : https://bit.ly/3lj68CVMore Inspiring Interviews : https://bit.ly/3eJvU1WMore Guided Meditations : https://bit.ly/3bOTsQUPS: Introducing the… 🔥 FIRE Starter Group Coaching Program Connect with your big vision for the next chapter of your life and start living it in 10 weeks or less using envisioning and the power of your mind. Interested? Let's chat.​ 🔥 WHO I'm creating this for: I'm creating this for YOU if you are feeling stuck & frustrated after saving and investing for years to create "financial freedom" only to find yourself: Unclear or unsure about what you want Overwhelmed by all the options created by financial freedom Not sure how to move forward to start living the next chapter of your life 🔥 WHAT we’ll do together over 10 weeks: In this small group coaching program, you will: Finally answer “What do I actually want?” Come up with a BIG vision for your next chapter of life Learn what envisioning is and the brain science that makes it work Learn how to use your mind to start living your new vision right away 🔥 Sound interesting? If you’re ready to start living the life you’ve saved for all these years, grab one of the few remaining spots for a no-pressure curiosity call with me to learn more.

This is a practice that invites you to stop and meet yourself in the only moment you have to live your life, right here, right now. In this moment. I hope you like it.PS: Introducing the… 🔥 FIRE Starter Group Coaching Program Connect with your big vision for the next chapter of your life and start living it in 10 weeks or less using envisioning and the power of your mind. Interested? Let's chat.​ 🔥 WHO I'm creating this for: I'm creating this for YOU if you are feeling stuck & frustrated after saving and investing for years to create "financial freedom" only to find yourself: Unclear or unsure about what you want Overwhelmed by all the options created by financial freedom Not sure how to move forward to start living the next chapter of your life 🔥 WHAT we’ll do together over 10 weeks: In this small group coaching program, you will: Finally answer “What do I actually want?” Come up with a BIG vision for your next chapter of life Learn what envisioning is and the brain science that makes it work Learn how to use your mind to start living your new vision right away 🔥 Sound interesting? If you’re ready to start living the life you’ve saved for all these years, grab one of the few remaining spots for a no-pressure curiosity call with me to learn more.

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, Paul Summers, Paul and I met seven years ago when I was on a work trip for Google in Australia. As you'll hear in the interview, Paul and I bonded over Portuguese chicken, one of my favorites. I'm really excited to bring you this conversation with Paul today because Paul has a really interesting way of looking at life. I've always found him to be just a very carefree go with the flow, takes things as they come, type of person. Always very interested in learning, growing, learning from other people's perspectives.We cover a lot of ground including:Paul’s career progressionHow he knew it was time to leave GoogleWhat Paul is now up toWhat Public value is and why it’s important?How there are actually many different types of value beside financial valuePaul’s thoughts about the epidemic of overstressed and overworked people This conversation did not disappoint and I hope that you enjoy it. Please subscribe to receive new episodes and guided meditations every Tuesday.PS: Introducing the… 🔥 FIRE Starter Group Coaching Program Connect with your big vision for the next chapter of your life and start living it in 10 weeks or less using envisioning and the power of your mind. Interested? Let's chat.​ 🔥 WHO I'm creating this for: I'm creating this for YOU if you are feeling stuck & frustrated after saving and investing for years to create "financial freedom" only to find yourself: Unclear or unsure about what you want Overwhelmed by all the options created by financial freedom Not sure how to move forward to start living the next chapter of your life 🔥 WHAT we’ll do together over 10 weeks: In this small group coaching program, you will: Finally answer “What do I actually want?” Come up with a BIG vision for your next chapter of life Learn what envisioning is and the brain science that makes it work Learn how to use your mind to start living your new vision right away 🔥 Sound interesting? If you’re ready to start living the life you’ve saved for all these years, grab one of the few remaining spots for a no-pressure curiosity call with me to learn more.

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. We spend so much time and energy DOING. This short meditation is a practice of JUST BEING. Give it a try. :)May you be healthy and safe. May you live your life with ease. AdamHost of The Mindful FIRE PodcastFull Show Notes : https://bit.ly/3pG4Fa5More Inspiring Interviews : https://bit.ly/37gpClyMore Guided Meditations : https://bit.ly/2Nt5B4vPS: Introducing the… 🔥 FIRE Starter Group Coaching Program Connect with your big vision for the next chapter of your life and start living it in 10 weeks or less using envisioning and the power of your mind. Interested? Let's chat.​ 🔥 WHO I'm creating this for: I'm creating this for YOU if you are feeling stuck & frustrated after saving and investing for years to create "financial freedom" only to find yourself: Unclear or unsure about what you want Overwhelmed by all the options created by financial freedom Not sure how to move forward to start living the next chapter of your life 🔥 WHAT we’ll do together over 10 weeks: In this small group coaching program, you will: Finally answer “What do I actually want?” Come up with a BIG vision for your next chapter of life Learn what envisioning is and the brain science that makes it work Learn how to use your mind to start living your new vision right away 🔥 Sound interesting? If you’re ready to start living the life you’ve saved for all these years, grab one of the few remaining spots for a no-pressure curiosity call with me to learn more.

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 back on the podcast today to check up with him, to check in with him on everything that's happened. Since we last spoke over the last year, Keith made a ton of progress in growing his community, the mindfulness community.com, where he helps people stick to their meditation practice and learn more and go deeper with their practice.  Keith also recently launched his own podcast called Keith and the mindfulness community, which you can find wherever you get your podcasts in this conversation, he shares his motivation for creating this, what it's all about and what he hopes to achieve with the podcast. We check in on how Keith's mindfulness practice has evolved over the last year and how he's taken the steps to get help from a coach to reinvigorate and deepen his mindfulness practice.  I really enjoyed this conversation with my friend, Keith Horan, and I hope that you enjoyed as well. Please subscribe to receive new episodes and guided meditations every Tuesday. Get in touch with Keith at KeithHoran.com Full Show Notes : https://bit.ly/3jS8ms4 Previous Episode with Keith - Episode 1 : https://bit.ly/3jT2grB More Inspiring Interviews : https://bit.ly/37gpCly More GuidePS: Introducing the… 🔥 FIRE Starter Group Coaching Program Connect with your big vision for the next chapter of your life and start living it in 10 weeks or less using envisioning and the power of your mind. Interested? Let's chat.​ 🔥 WHO I'm creating this for: I'm creating this for YOU if you are feeling stuck & frustrated after saving and investing for years to create "financial freedom" only to find yourself: Unclear or unsure about what you want Overwhelmed by all the options created by financial freedom Not sure how to move forward to start living the next chapter of your life 🔥 WHAT we’ll do together over 10 weeks: In this small group coaching program, you will: Finally answer “What do I actually want?” Come up with a BIG vision for your next chapter of life Learn what envisioning is and the brain science that makes it work Learn how to use your mind to start living your new vision right away 🔥 Sound interesting? If you’re ready to start living the life you’ve saved for all these years, grab one of the few remaining spots for a no-pressure curiosity call with me to learn more.

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 guided meditation trains your mind to be ready to see opportunities everywhere and to take action to move your life in the direction you want. I do this practice everyday and it’s impact on my life cannot be overstated. During a time when I was at one of the lowest points in my adult life this practice helped me train my mind to be ready to see opportunity and to take action to move my life forward. I’ll share more about the full story of that in the near future.  Today’s meditation is an affirmations practice, which I think of as practicing the thoughts & beliefs that I want to embody in my life. This type of practice can be used to practice any thoughts or beliefs we want to show up with in our lives, as we did in another affirmations practice I shared previously.  In this particular meditation we will focus on practicing the thoughts: The world is abundant with opportunity. My life and work are abundant with opportunity. I take action in my life, which leads to learning progress and growth.   This practice takes advantage of the fact that our brains are predictive. Our brains are constantly predicting what is most likely to happen and setting in motion the thoughts, perceptions, emotions and even physiological responses for what is expected.  I like to think of it this way...We’re telling ourselves stories about how our life is going to be and then acting out those stories. The good news is that we can use this feature of our brain to be intentional about the stories we tell ouPS: Introducing the… 🔥 FIRE Starter Group Coaching Program Connect with your big vision for the next chapter of your life and start living it in 10 weeks or less using envisioning and the power of your mind. Interested? Let's chat.​ 🔥 WHO I'm creating this for: I'm creating this for YOU if you are feeling stuck & frustrated after saving and investing for years to create "financial freedom" only to find yourself: Unclear or unsure about what you want Overwhelmed by all the options created by financial freedom Not sure how to move forward to start living the next chapter of your life 🔥 WHAT we’ll do together over 10 weeks: In this small group coaching program, you will: Finally answer “What do I actually want?” Come up with a BIG vision for your next chapter of life Learn what envisioning is and the brain science that makes it work Learn how to use your mind to start living your new vision right away 🔥 Sound interesting? If you’re ready to start living the life you’ve saved for all these years, grab one of the few remaining spots for a no-pressure curiosity call with me to learn more.

“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 part 1 of our conversation we dove into his story of coming to the United States from Portugal at age 24, meeting my mother while working on the cruise ships and how they eventually started a business that provided a financially secure life for our family. If you haven’t listened to that yet, I recommend checking it out, since it provides context for what we discuss in this episode. In this episode, Val and I explore the lessons about money he learned growing up in a family in Portugal during a very tumultuous time for the country. We also explore the money lessons he tried to teach my brother and I. We even discussed one of my first big purchases, a $600 sound system with two 12-inch subwoofers for my tiny GMC Sonoma truck.  We also get his thoughts on the FIRE (financial independence retire early) movement. I was eager to hear his thoughts on this, since he and my mother are still working as small business owners and are hoping to retire soon, around regular retirement age. In the discussion, he brought up a great point about privilege and the fact that most people don’t have the luxury of thinking about retirement at all, since they’re focused on surviving under very difficult circumstances.  Val also shares: His top advice for those early on the path to financial independence His advice for those getting started with mindfulness One thing he’s grateful for His philosophy that “What other people think of me is none of my business” I really enjoyed the second part of my conversation with my dad, Val CoelPS: Introducing the… 🔥 FIRE Starter Group Coaching Program Connect with your big vision for the next chapter of your life and start living it in 10 weeks or less using envisioning and the power of your mind. Interested? Let's chat.​ 🔥 WHO I'm creating this for: I'm creating this for YOU if you are feeling stuck & frustrated after saving and investing for years to create "financial freedom" only to find yourself: Unclear or unsure about what you want Overwhelmed by all the options created by financial freedom Not sure how to move forward to start living the next chapter of your life 🔥 WHAT we’ll do together over 10 weeks: In this small group coaching program, you will: Finally answer “What do I actually want?” Come up with a BIG vision for your next chapter of life Learn what envisioning is and the brain science that makes it work Learn how to use your mind to start living your new vision right away 🔥 Sound interesting? If you’re ready to start living the life you’ve saved for all these years, grab one of the few remaining spots for a no-pressure curiosity call with me to learn more.

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 of feelings and emotions in my body. When I practice being aware, through this practice of the body scan, I find that I’m more in tune with what I’m feeling when things happen in my life. For example, I can notice myself getting nervous before a presentation. The more I practice this the more easily I notice feelings. When I’m aware of them, I can use that information. In the example above, if I notice that I’m feeling nervous, I can take a few deep breaths to calm myself down. The ability to bring a kind awareness to our body, especially to emotions in the body, is an incredibly powerful skill. Like all skills it can be developed with practice. When we practice being aware of sensations and emotions in our body, we gain access to rich information that will allow us to navigate our emotions rather than being driven blindly by them.  In today’s practice I share a 15 minute guided body scan practice. We begin by settling the mind on the breath. Then we slowly scan our bodies with an attitude of openness, curiosity and kindness, feeling whatever sensations we feel, from the feet to the top of the head. I hope you find this practice helpful I’d love to hear how it was for you and if you find it easy or hard to sense emotions in your body? Each Tuesday I release a guided meditation or inspiring interview on the topic of mindfulness and the financial independence retire early (FIRE) movement. Subscribe for future meditations and episodes! More Meditations: https://bit.ly/3cbYc3C Inspiring Interviews:  https://bit.ly/3oqYI0pPS: Introducing the… 🔥 FIRE Starter Group Coaching Program Connect with your big vision for the next chapter of your life and start living it in 10 weeks or less using envisioning and the power of your mind. Interested? Let's chat.​ 🔥 WHO I'm creating this for: I'm creating this for YOU if you are feeling stuck & frustrated after saving and investing for years to create "financial freedom" only to find yourself: Unclear or unsure about what you want Overwhelmed by all the options created by financial freedom Not sure how to move forward to start living the next chapter of your life 🔥 WHAT we’ll do together over 10 weeks: In this small group coaching program, you will: Finally answer “What do I actually want?” Come up with a BIG vision for your next chapter of life Learn what envisioning is and the brain science that makes it work Learn how to use your mind to start living your new vision right away 🔥 Sound interesting? If you’re ready to start living the life you’ve saved for all these years, grab one of the few remaining spots for a no-pressure curiosity call with me to learn more.

“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 because she was interested in becoming a facilitator of the popular course search inside yourself, which is an emotional intelligence course at Google, which teaches emotional intelligence through mindfulness. I'm excited to bring you this interview with Julia, because she's at a point in her life where she's about to make a big move. She's about to leave Google and switch into a totally different space of sustainability.  And this conversation goes into a lot of different areas, but it really. Points to the importance of creating sustainability within your own life. Being intentional and thoughtful about how you're spending your time and figuring out what's important to you and where you want to go with your life.  Julia share some really practical tips and practices for envisioning the future that you want to live, including thinking about how you want to feel in the future and how we can start to bring those feelings and practices into our life right now. Julia and I are planning on recording another episode, maybe five or six months down the road, once she's taken this time off and started thinking about embarking on her next chapter in the sustainability space. So definitely subscribe so that you can see that future episode as well. And see what Julia is up to in the future. In this episode we explore:  How Julia and I know each other How her interest in mindfulness led Julia to work at Google.  Julia’s intentional approach to work and her time at Google.  HowPS: Introducing the… 🔥 FIRE Starter Group Coaching Program Connect with your big vision for the next chapter of your life and start living it in 10 weeks or less using envisioning and the power of your mind. Interested? Let's chat.​ 🔥 WHO I'm creating this for: I'm creating this for YOU if you are feeling stuck & frustrated after saving and investing for years to create "financial freedom" only to find yourself: Unclear or unsure about what you want Overwhelmed by all the options created by financial freedom Not sure how to move forward to start living the next chapter of your life 🔥 WHAT we’ll do together over 10 weeks: In this small group coaching program, you will: Finally answer “What do I actually want?” Come up with a BIG vision for your next chapter of life Learn what envisioning is and the brain science that makes it work Learn how to use your mind to start living your new vision right away 🔥 Sound interesting? If you’re ready to start living the life you’ve saved for all these years, grab one of the few remaining spots for a no-pressure curiosity call with me to learn more.

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're setting is infusing every cell of our body. We practice feeling the intention in our body, making it alive in us, now in the present moment, at a physiological level. Then we practice visualizing ourselves living out that intention in our lives. Finally we finish the practice with a short self compassion practice of loving kindness and then send that compassion out to all beings in the world. I hope you enjoy the practice and welcome your feedback. Please write a 5 Star review on Apple Podcasts! It REALLY helps more people find out the show. Full Show Notes at MindfulFIRE.org PS: Introducing the… 🔥 FIRE Starter Group Coaching Program Connect with your big vision for the next chapter of your life and start living it in 10 weeks or less using envisioning and the power of your mind. Interested? Let's chat.​ 🔥 WHO I'm creating this for: I'm creating this for YOU if you are feeling stuck & frustrated after saving and investing for years to create "financial freedom" only to find yourself: Unclear or unsure about what you want Overwhelmed by all the options created by financial freedom Not sure how to move forward to start living the next chapter of your life 🔥 WHAT we’ll do together over 10 weeks: In this small group coaching program, you will: Finally answer “What do I actually want?” Come up with a BIG vision for your next chapter of life Learn what envisioning is and the brain science that makes it work Learn how to use your mind to start living your new vision right away 🔥 Sound interesting? If you’re ready to start living the life you’ve saved for all these years, grab one of the few remaining spots for a no-pressure curiosity call with me to learn more.