The Mindful FIRE Podcast

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 inclusion in every aspect of life led her to create the program, leading with empathy and to roll it out to leaders at Google.Kerri is also a member of the 2021 class of Stanford University's CCARE in collaboration with ACA's applied compassion training for architects and ambassadors of applied compassion. A Scot from penny cook. She used to read books, watch films, and see a lot of Broadway shows. But these days, mainly anxiously scrolls, Twitter, and comfort eats.  In her life before business, she taught dance sang in piano bars and wrote a dance and education syllabus for Scottish education curriculum. For primary school teachers. Kerri's facilitation style is not to lecture. She shares horror stories and LOL worthy moments from her own life as a manager, parent, and partner, and keeps it as real as one can, when video conferencing from a garage. In this episode, Kerri and I explore what empathy is and why it's more important than ever to bring empathy into our interactions with the people we work with.   And how really small changes, really just being more thoughtful about how we're interacting with those we work with and those that work for us can make a huge difference and making people feel seen, heard, and cared for. Kerri also shares a number of practices that we can use to create greater empathy and connection with those that we work with.And she shares how leading with empathy in this way can really not only impact your relationship with that one person, but can also transform your business and the success you're having as a business.Kerri and I explore how she used to be super skeptical about all of this mindfulness stuff and how she actually came to understand the value of it in her own life when she found herself physically and mentally burnt out from work.  How mindfulness really helped her in her recovery and led her to explore and create more meaning in her life an🔥 Did you know that only 14% of reorgs are successful? That means 86% of reorgs fail to achieve their goals. Shocking! Honestly, after living through 11 reorgs in my last 10 years at Google it kind of makes sense. I created the Ask What's Possible Workshop to help newly formed teams rebuild trust, create psychological safety, and align around a BIG shared vision in hours, not quarters. 🔥 Want to accelerate your speed-to-alignment? Book a no-obligation fit call with me 🔥 What teams walk away with: Rebuilt trust and psychological safety A co-created, ambitious shared vision everyone is energized by Clear alignment between personal goals and team vision A short list of mini-experiments to generate momentum immediately 🔥 What makes this workshop different: Executive-level facilitation with a track record at CEO-level forums, including sessions with 27 Google VPs at Sundar's leadership conferenceOne VP shared: "Adam was masterful as he guided us through exercises to expand our perspective and ambition on our vision of what we could be and do." Neuroscience-backed, mindful conversation practices th...

Welcome to the Mindful FIRE Podcast, where we explore living mindfully on the path to financial independence and beyond. Join me for this guided meditation, designed to support you if you’re feeling burned out by the pandemic.  In many conversations I’m having at work and with friends outside of work, I’m finding that many people are feeling burned out. And you know what, I’m feeling it too. After a year of working full-time from home and parenting full-time as well, and of course dealing with the background environment of the pandemic. It’s a lot. I put together this short practice to allow you to set aside everything going on and to just create space for yourself to sit and rest in the simplicity this moment. I hope you find this supportive. Let me know what you think! Full Show Notes : https://bit.ly/39NdfPhMore Inspiring Interviews : https://bit.ly/3mmAeWmMore Guided Meditations : https://bit.ly/3wqzOTP🔥 Did you know that only 14% of reorgs are successful? That means 86% of reorgs fail to achieve their goals. Shocking! Honestly, after living through 11 reorgs in my last 10 years at Google it kind of makes sense. I created the Ask What's Possible Workshop to help newly formed teams rebuild trust, create psychological safety, and align around a BIG shared vision in hours, not quarters. 🔥 Want to accelerate your speed-to-alignment? Book a no-obligation fit call with me 🔥 What teams walk away with: Rebuilt trust and psychological safety A co-created, ambitious shared vision everyone is energized by Clear alignment between personal goals and team vision A short list of mini-experiments to generate momentum immediately 🔥 What makes this workshop different: Executive-level facilitation with a track record at CEO-level forums, including sessions with 27 Google VPs at Sundar's leadership conferenceOne VP shared: "Adam was masterful as he guided us through exercises to expand our perspective and ambition on our vision of what we could be and do." Neuroscience-backed, mindful conversation practices th...

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, Cara Bradley. Cara is a leading authority of mental fitness having led thousands to her signature strategies to work and play in flow.She shares her 30 years of body brain training with fortune 500 companies, startups and premier college sports teams.  Cara's expertise includes science back tools for optimal performance, including nervous system flow, state, and mindfulness training. In addition to strategies to optimize the gut brain connection.She's the author of the book On The Verge, Wake Up, Show Up and Shine, founder of the award winning verge yoga center and host of the On The Verge Mental Fitness Podcast. On this episode, Cara and I explore the idea of mental fitness, an area she's dedicated most of her career to. We learn what it is and how we can practice it.We also explore the connection between our gut and our brain.And we spend a good bit of time talking about the flow state and Cara shares, how mindfulness and meditation help us to identify our own flow triggers and the activities that put us in a state of flow. And she shares a number of  practices, including breathwork practices.Cara also generously offered to share her mental fitness protocol with our audience. And you can get that at mindfulfire.org/cara.Finally Cara shares her thoughts and experience building a business around the ideas of teaching and sharing mental fitness. And she shares how she used her award-winning yoga studio, which she started just around the time that yoga was becoming mainstream in the United States, as a laboratory for developing a deeper understanding and practice around mental fitness, health, and wellbeing.You can find all of the resources, books and practices shared in this episode mindfulfire.org/22.I really enjoyed this episode with my new friend, Cara Bradley. I hope that you enjoy it as well. Full Show Notes : https://bit.ly/2PpgXaK🔥 Did you know that only 14% of reorgs are successful? That means 86% of reorgs fail to achieve their goals. Shocking! Honestly, after living through 11 reorgs in my last 10 years at Google it kind of makes sense. I created the Ask What's Possible Workshop to help newly formed teams rebuild trust, create psychological safety, and align around a BIG shared vision in hours, not quarters. 🔥 Want to accelerate your speed-to-alignment? Book a no-obligation fit call with me 🔥 What teams walk away with: Rebuilt trust and psychological safety A co-created, ambitious shared vision everyone is energized by Clear alignment between personal goals and team vision A short list of mini-experiments to generate momentum immediately 🔥 What makes this workshop different: Executive-level facilitation with a track record at CEO-level forums, including sessions with 27 Google VPs at Sundar's leadership conferenceOne VP shared: "Adam was masterful as he guided us through exercises to expand our perspective and ambition on our vision of what we could be and do." Neuroscience-backed, mindful conversation practices th...

Join me for this short 10 minute guided meditation on self compassion. We're usually so very hard on ourselves so I hope you'll take this short break to practice a little kindness towards yourself.Full Show Notes : https://bit.ly/3f5ky8pMore Inspiring Interviews : https://bit.ly/3f7BqeWMore Guided Meditations : https://bit.ly/397dOmK#selfcompassion #meditation #guidedmeditation #selfkindness #kindness #lovingkindness🔥 Did you know that only 14% of reorgs are successful? That means 86% of reorgs fail to achieve their goals. Shocking! Honestly, after living through 11 reorgs in my last 10 years at Google it kind of makes sense. I created the Ask What's Possible Workshop to help newly formed teams rebuild trust, create psychological safety, and align around a BIG shared vision in hours, not quarters. 🔥 Want to accelerate your speed-to-alignment? Book a no-obligation fit call with me 🔥 What teams walk away with: Rebuilt trust and psychological safety A co-created, ambitious shared vision everyone is energized by Clear alignment between personal goals and team vision A short list of mini-experiments to generate momentum immediately 🔥 What makes this workshop different: Executive-level facilitation with a track record at CEO-level forums, including sessions with 27 Google VPs at Sundar's leadership conferenceOne VP shared: "Adam was masterful as he guided us through exercises to expand our perspective and ambition on our vision of what we could be and do." Neuroscience-backed, mindful conversation practices th...

"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/3bOTsQU🔥 Did you know that only 14% of reorgs are successful? That means 86% of reorgs fail to achieve their goals. Shocking! Honestly, after living through 11 reorgs in my last 10 years at Google it kind of makes sense. I created the Ask What's Possible Workshop to help newly formed teams rebuild trust, create psychological safety, and align around a BIG shared vision in hours, not quarters. 🔥 Want to accelerate your speed-to-alignment? Book a no-obligation fit call with me 🔥 What teams walk away with: Rebuilt trust and psychological safety A co-created, ambitious shared vision everyone is energized by Clear alignment between personal goals and team vision A short list of mini-experiments to generate momentum immediately 🔥 What makes this workshop different: Executive-level facilitation with a track record at CEO-level forums, including sessions with 27 Google VPs at Sundar's leadership conferenceOne VP shared: "Adam was masterful as he guided us through exercises to expand our perspective and ambition on our vision of what we could be and do." Neuroscience-backed, mindful conversation practices th...

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.🔥 Did you know that only 14% of reorgs are successful? That means 86% of reorgs fail to achieve their goals. Shocking! Honestly, after living through 11 reorgs in my last 10 years at Google it kind of makes sense. I created the Ask What's Possible Workshop to help newly formed teams rebuild trust, create psychological safety, and align around a BIG shared vision in hours, not quarters. 🔥 Want to accelerate your speed-to-alignment? Book a no-obligation fit call with me 🔥 What teams walk away with: Rebuilt trust and psychological safety A co-created, ambitious shared vision everyone is energized by Clear alignment between personal goals and team vision A short list of mini-experiments to generate momentum immediately 🔥 What makes this workshop different: Executive-level facilitation with a track record at CEO-level forums, including sessions with 27 Google VPs at Sundar's leadership conferenceOne VP shared: "Adam was masterful as he guided us through exercises to expand our perspective and ambition on our vision of what we could be and do." Neuroscience-backed, mindful conversation practices th...

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.🔥 Did you know that only 14% of reorgs are successful? That means 86% of reorgs fail to achieve their goals. Shocking! Honestly, after living through 11 reorgs in my last 10 years at Google it kind of makes sense. I created the Ask What's Possible Workshop to help newly formed teams rebuild trust, create psychological safety, and align around a BIG shared vision in hours, not quarters. 🔥 Want to accelerate your speed-to-alignment? Book a no-obligation fit call with me 🔥 What teams walk away with: Rebuilt trust and psychological safety A co-created, ambitious shared vision everyone is energized by Clear alignment between personal goals and team vision A short list of mini-experiments to generate momentum immediately 🔥 What makes this workshop different: Executive-level facilitation with a track record at CEO-level forums, including sessions with 27 Google VPs at Sundar's leadership conferenceOne VP shared: "Adam was masterful as he guided us through exercises to expand our perspective and ambition on our vision of what we could be and do." Neuroscience-backed, mindful conversation practices th...

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/2Nt5B4v🔥 Did you know that only 14% of reorgs are successful? That means 86% of reorgs fail to achieve their goals. Shocking! Honestly, after living through 11 reorgs in my last 10 years at Google it kind of makes sense. I created the Ask What's Possible Workshop to help newly formed teams rebuild trust, create psychological safety, and align around a BIG shared vision in hours, not quarters. 🔥 Want to accelerate your speed-to-alignment? Book a no-obligation fit call with me 🔥 What teams walk away with: Rebuilt trust and psychological safety A co-created, ambitious shared vision everyone is energized by Clear alignment between personal goals and team vision A short list of mini-experiments to generate momentum immediately 🔥 What makes this workshop different: Executive-level facilitation with a track record at CEO-level forums, including sessions with 27 Google VPs at Sundar's leadership conferenceOne VP shared: "Adam was masterful as he guided us through exercises to expand our perspective and ambition on our vision of what we could be and do." Neuroscience-backed, mindful conversation practices th...

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://bi🔥 Did you know that only 14% of reorgs are successful? That means 86% of reorgs fail to achieve their goals. Shocking! Honestly, after living through 11 reorgs in my last 10 years at Google it kind of makes sense. I created the Ask What's Possible Workshop to help newly formed teams rebuild trust, create psychological safety, and align around a BIG shared vision in hours, not quarters. 🔥 Want to accelerate your speed-to-alignment? Book a no-obligation fit call with me 🔥 What teams walk away with: Rebuilt trust and psychological safety A co-created, ambitious shared vision everyone is energized by Clear alignment between personal goals and team vision A short list of mini-experiments to generate momentum immediately 🔥 What makes this workshop different: Executive-level facilitation with a track record at CEO-level forums, including sessions with 27 Google VPs at Sundar's leadership conferenceOne VP shared: "Adam was masterful as he guided us through exercises to expand our perspective and ambition on our vision of what we could be and do." Neuroscience-backed, mindful conversation practices th...

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 thi🔥 Did you know that only 14% of reorgs are successful? That means 86% of reorgs fail to achieve their goals. Shocking! Honestly, after living through 11 reorgs in my last 10 years at Google it kind of makes sense. I created the Ask What's Possible Workshop to help newly formed teams rebuild trust, create psychological safety, and align around a BIG shared vision in hours, not quarters. 🔥 Want to accelerate your speed-to-alignment? Book a no-obligation fit call with me 🔥 What teams walk away with: Rebuilt trust and psychological safety A co-created, ambitious shared vision everyone is energized by Clear alignment between personal goals and team vision A short list of mini-experiments to generate momentum immediately 🔥 What makes this workshop different: Executive-level facilitation with a track record at CEO-level forums, including sessions with 27 Google VPs at Sundar's leadership conferenceOne VP shared: "Adam was masterful as he guided us through exercises to expand our perspective and ambition on our vision of what we could be and do." Neuroscience-backed, mindful conversation practices th...