The Mindful FIRE Podcast Adam Coelho

In this episode: Money as a Tool, Retirement and Autonomy, Awareness and Choice, Community and Belonging, Coast FI and Slow FI with Diania Merriam

Note from Adam
I hope you are well.  I know I've been MIA for the last few weeks, without any new episodes.
I've had some incredible things happening in my life, all thanks to envisioning. I can't wait to share them with you and share a resource I'm creating for you to think BIG about your own life and vision, so you can create similar amazing results for yourself. If you'd like to get early access to that, click here and sign up.

Episode Summary:
In this episode, Diania Merriam discusses her journey to financial independence and early retirement. She shares how she discovered the FIRE (Financial Independence, Retire Early) movement and how it transformed her relationship with money.

Diania explains the concept of "Coast FI" and "Slow FI" and how she retired from her corporate career at the age of 33.

She also talks about the importance of clarity and comfort in managing finances and how financial independence allows for greater creativity and time abundance.

Connect with Diania Merriam
10% off her FIRE conference, Econome with code “mindful”Website: EconomeConference.comAbout our guest, Diania:
Diania Merriam is a retired corporate professional and the host of a daily podcast about money. She is passionate about helping others achieve financial independence and creating a life they never want to retire from. Diania is also the founder of The Econome Conference, a gathering for like-minded individuals in the FIRE community.

Key Takeaways:
Money is a tool, not a goal. It should be used to create time and space in your life.Retirement is not about not working, but about separating your finances from your work and having full autonomy over how, when, and where you work.Awareness and choice are essential in achieving financial independence. Understand your income, expenses, and the gap between them.Community and a sense of belonging are important for overall well-being, especially in the FIRE movement."Coast FI" involves front-loading retireWhenever you are ready, here are 2 ways I can help you:
1. Download my free One-Page Envisioning Exercise to think BIGGER about your life and what's possible for you.

2. If you're at or nearing FI, but feel stuck and unable to move forward to your next chapter, let's chat.

My 8-week small group coaching program starts May 17th.

We’ve got a great group coming together and only a couple spots left.
By the end of the 8 week program, you will:
Have a clear and exciting vision for the next chapter of your life Be able to point to specific and tangible ways you’re already living that vision If you’re ready to finally start living the next chapter of your life, let's chat.

Book a no-pressure curiosity call

In this episode, we will explore a 12-minute guided meditation to find peace, ease, and a sense of refuge in the present moment.

Today's meditation focuses on creating space in our lives. Amidst the challenges and difficulties happening in the world, such as war, layoffs, and economic instability, we will cultivate a space of refuge. This space allows us to leave everything behind and simply be with ourselves.

To begin, we intentionally let go of our worries and concerns, and we tune into our body, mind, and heart to understand how we are feeling in this moment.

After spending some time in this space of refuge, we will transition into a practice of loving-kindness and compassion. We will first direct these qualities towards ourselves and then extend them to all beings in the world.

I hope you find joy in this meditation practice.
Whenever you are ready, here are 2 ways I can help you:
1. Download my free One-Page Envisioning Exercise to think BIGGER about your life and what's possible for you.

2. If you're at or nearing FI, but feel stuck and unable to move forward to your next chapter, let's chat.

My 8-week small group coaching program starts May 17th.

We’ve got a great group coming together and only a couple spots left.
By the end of the 8 week program, you will:
Have a clear and exciting vision for the next chapter of your life Be able to point to specific and tangible ways you’re already living that vision If you’re ready to finally start living the next chapter of your life, let's chat.

Book a no-pressure curiosity call

In this episode: Engineering Serendipity with Tony Wilkins

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Episode Summary: In this episode, Tony Wilkins joins the Mindful Fire Podcast to discuss the concept of engineering serendipity. They explore the idea of how seemingly chance encounters and events can lead to meaningful connections and opportunities in life. Tony shares his personal journey and experiences with serendipity, highlighting the importance of setting goals while remaining open to unexpected possibilities. They also discuss the concept of "enoughness" and how it relates to financial independence and finding fulfillment in life.

Guest Bio: Tony Wilkins is a self-described neighborhood kid who has achieved escape velocity. Growing up on the south side of Chicago, Tony always had goals in mind and pursued them with determination. Throughout his life, he has experienced numerous instances of serendipity, where failed plans led to even greater opportunities. Tony is now focused on being sustainably impactful, helping others while maintaining his own personal sustainability.

Connect with Tony Wilkins:
LinkedIn: Tony WilkinsTony Wilkins' TEDx Talk: "Engineering Serendipity”
Resources & Books Mentioned:
Tony Wilkins' TEDx Talk: "Engineering Serendipity”Key Takeaways:
Engineering serendipity involves actively creating opportunities for chance encounters and unexpected connections."Enoughness" is the concept of recognizing when one has reached a point of contentment and sufficiency in various aspects of life.Financial independence allows individuals to pursue their passions and make an impact in a sustainable way.Aligning personal values, goals, and financial resources is crucial in determining what is enough and finding fulfillment.Balancing personal sustainability and helping others is key to leading a fulfilling and impactful life.Reflecting on what truly brings joy and engagement can guide individuals towards their highest and best use of time.Whenever you are ready, here are 2 ways I can help you:
1. Download my free One-Page Envisioning Exercise to think BIGGER about your life and what's possible for you.

2. If you're at or nearing FI, but feel stuck and unable to move forward to your next chapter, let's chat.

My 8-week small group coaching program starts May 17th.

We’ve got a great group coming together and only a couple spots left.
By the end of the 8 week program, you will:
Have a clear and exciting vision for the next chapter of your life Be able to point to specific and tangible ways you’re already living that vision If you’re ready to finally start living the next chapter of your life, let's chat.

Book a no-pressure curiosity call

With so much suffering happening all around us it's easy to get overwhelmed by difficult thoughts and emotions.
Unfortunately, mindfulness isn't a magic solution to remove the suffering in the world. But it does offer a different way of relating to the suffering and difficult emotions we are experiencing within ourselves.
​Today's guided meditation offers a chance to create some space within ourselves to allow whatever we're feeling to be there and to keep coming back to the simplicity of the breath.
Then we shift to practicing some compassion for ourselves and the millions of people suffering around the world.
Whenever you are ready, here are 2 ways I can help you:
1. Download my free One-Page Envisioning Exercise to think BIGGER about your life and what's possible for you.

2. If you're at or nearing FI, but feel stuck and unable to move forward to your next chapter, let's chat.

My 8-week small group coaching program starts May 17th.

We’ve got a great group coming together and only a couple spots left.
By the end of the 8 week program, you will:
Have a clear and exciting vision for the next chapter of your life Be able to point to specific and tangible ways you’re already living that vision If you’re ready to finally start living the next chapter of your life, let's chat.

Book a no-pressure curiosity call

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 wo
Whenever you are ready, here are 2 ways I can help you:
1. Download my free One-Page Envisioning Exercise to think BIGGER about your life and what's possible for you.

2. If you're at or nearing FI, but feel stuck and unable to move forward to your next chapter, let's chat.

My 8-week small group coaching program starts May 17th.

We’ve got a great group coming together and only a couple spots left.
By the end of the 8 week program, you will:
Have a clear and exciting vision for the next chapter of your life Be able to point to specific and tangible ways you’re already living that vision If you’re ready to finally start living the next chapter of your life, let's chat.

Book a no-pressure curiosity call

Whenever you are ready, here are 2 ways I can help you:
1. Download my free One-Page Envisioning Exercise to think BIGGER about your life and what's possible for you.

2. If you're at or nearing FI, but feel stuck and unable to move forward to your next chapter, let's chat.

My 8-week small group coaching program starts May 17th.

We’ve got a great group coming together and only a couple spots left.
By the end of the 8 week program, you will:
Have a clear and exciting vision for the next chapter of your life Be able to point to specific and tangible ways you’re already living that vision If you’re ready to finally start living the next chapter of your life, let's chat.

Book a no-pressure curiosity call