Mindful FIRE : Life Design for Financial Independence

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26 : Embracing The Unhustle Mindset with Milena Regos Apr 27, 2021

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Welcome to The Mindful FIRE Podcast, where we explore living mindfully on the path to financial independence and beyond.
On this episode of the Mindful Fire Podcast, I’m joined by my new friend Milena Regos, the founder of Unhustle. Milena tells us all about Unhustle, which she founded to help people avoid burnout in their work and fall in love with their job once again.
The topics discussed on this episode are:
The problem of “hustle culture”
How an internet-free trip helped her realize she didn’t need to work as much to be successful
How you can shift your mindset from the hustle mindset to the unhustle mindset
How most Americans hate their job and how the US compares to happy nations such as Finland
How to start your day with an unhustle morning ritual and SUNRISE steps
How Milena has built a business around the idea of Hustle
Milena’s free e-book
You can check out Milena’s website Unhustle.com where you can download the free e-book which features 7 cases of people who adopted the Unhustle mindset path which led to improved well being and success in work and business.
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25 : Meditation : Compassion Practice for Dealing with Gun Violence Apr 19, 2021

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Welcome to the Mindful FIRE Podcast, where we explore living mindfully on the path to financial independence and beyond.
Join me for this guided loving kindness meditation practice where we send kind well wishes to first ourselves and then to a series of other people and groups of people.
Ultimately we send love and kindness to those people affected by gun violence, which is really all of us, at least in the US. None of us can truly live without some level of fear that it could happen to us or in our community.
I hope you find this supportive and would love to hear what you think! Send me a message at mindfulfirepodcast@gmail.com.
#enoughisenough #compassion #meditation #guidedmeditation #gunviolence #kindness #lovingkindnessmeditation #lovingkindness #loveandkindness
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24 : Leading with Empathy with Kerri Jacobs Apr 13, 2021

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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 and her work through this leading with empathy program.
Now more than ever before the demand is so great for this, she's finding herself being reached out to by people outside of Google, and it started leading trainings outside for other companies and organizations as well.
I really enjoyed this conversation with my friend, Kerri Jacobs. It was such a treat to be able to have a conversation with a leader that I've actually worked for. I hope that you enjoy it as well.
Kerri’s Website - LeadingWithEmpathy.com

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23 : Meditation : Pandemic Burnout Apr 05, 2021

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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!
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22 : Mental Fitness, Flow, Entrepreneurship and The Gut-Brain Connection with Cara Bradley Mar 31, 2021

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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.
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Cara's Book: On The Verge, Wake Up, Show Up and Shine

Meditation : Self Compassion (10 min) Mar 23, 2021

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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.
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20 : Reinventing Masculinity with Compassion and Connection with Ed Adams & Ed Frauenheim Mar 16, 2021

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"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 Adams
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 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.
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19 : Meditation : Meeting Yourself Where You Are Right Now With Self Compassion Mar 09, 2021

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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.

18 : Life after Google, Private vs Public Value & Portuguese Chicken with Paul Somers Mar 01, 2021

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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 progression
How he knew it was time to leave Google
What Paul is now up to
What Public value is and why it’s important?
How there are actually many different types of value beside financial value
Paul’s thoughts about the epidemic of overstressed and overworked people

This conversation did not disappoint and I hope that you enjoy it.
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Meditation - Practice Just Being Feb 23, 2021

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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.

Adam

Host of The Mindful FIRE Podcast
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