Mindful FIRE : Life Design for Financial Independence

On today's episode, Adam Coelho is joined by his good friend Susie Ade. Susie works as a global program manager for driving mental health and wellbeing programs for Google's data centers and is a certified professional coactive coach. Together, they discuss the FIRE movement, designing your life and career in a way as if you've already reached financial independence.

Key Takeaways

• Developing a FIRE mindset can help you change your life
• Design your life and career in a way as if you've already reached financial independence
• Pull in from the future what you think you want and bring it into your life right now
• Live every day and align with what's most important and brings you the most joy and connection.
• Find joy in maximizing your savings rate by optimizing for what brings you the most joy.

Guest Bio

Susie Ade joined Google eight and a half years ago and has had a career across sales, marketing, trust and safety, and learning and development. She is currently working towards becoming a certified professional coactive coach and coaches people at Google and outside of Google. She is also a facilitator for Search Inside Yourself, a leadership and emotional intelligence course that teaches emotional intelligence through mindfulness. Susie and her husband are working towards achieving financial independence through a mixed strategy of taking high risks and investing in low cost index funds.

Resources & Books Mentioned

• Your Money or Your Life
• The Simple Path to Wealth

Connect with Susie

Susie Ade on LinkedIn

9 months into my dream job I get called into my boss' office

He says my team is going away and I have a few months to find a new job or leave Google

30 days before the deadline...👇

I have a grand total of ZERO job offers

This is rock bottom.

If was to survive, something needed to change

My mindset needed to change

At rock bottom, I CHOOSE two NEW MINDSETS

1. The world is abundant with opportunity.
2. I don't worry about doing things right or wrong. I take action, which leads to learning, progress and growth

Everyday, I began to PRACTICE these new mindsets with this simple affirmations practice

1. State the new mindset outloud
2. Envision in your mind when this was true in the PAST
3. Envision in your mind how this is true in the PRESENT
3. Envision in your mind how this is will be true in the FUTURE

🎧 Link to Affirmations Meditation  in comments 🎧

Incredible things started to happen:

- Job opportunities came from everywhere
- I took tons of creative action like emailing the CEO of a startup

I ended that 30 days with two job offers:

- one internal at Google
- one external at a startup (yep, that one)

Check out my profile (+ follow me) to see which one I chose 😉

That's right.

Thanks to envisioning, I'm about to celebrate 12 years Google

Heres the thing though:

- It's NOT magic.
- It IS using the power of your predicting brain 🧠
- It IS planting & watering the seeds (ie. affirmations) of the future you want to create 🌱

🧠 Each of us has the power to create our own reality by cultivating our mindset intentionally

🧠 What new mindset are you choosing for 2023?

     🔥 Join the conversation - Connect with me on LinkedIn

🎧 Practice your new mindset with this affirmations meditation

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Welcome to the Mindful FIRE Podcast, a show about crafting a life you love and making work optional, using the tools of mindfulness envisioning and financial independence.

Today we explore what it means to live and work mindfully with my new friend Jonathan Reynolds.

I'm your host, Adam Coelho (Connect & DM me on LinkedIn) and I'm so glad you're here. 

On today's episode of the podcast, I'm joined by my new friend, Jonathan Reynolds. Jonathan Reynolds is the founder and CEO of mindful life mindful work, Inc. A San Francisco based leadership development company, providing services that address the intersection of self-awareness and team performance. 

Since 1997, Jonathan has trained extensively in the discipline of mindfulness and his work with leaders emphasizes simple and practical ways to improve performance efficiency and workplace cultures by integrating mindfulness sensibilities. 

 In this conversation, Jonathan and I explore what it means to live and work mindfully. 

And I have to say it was one of my favorite episodes to not only record, but also to edit. And I listened to it a few more times so I know it's going to have a lot of value for you, and I'm really excited to share it. 

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Getting in Touch with Jonathan: 

• Connect with Jonathan Reynolds on LinkedIn
• Mindful Life, Mindful Work's Website

Listen to Full Episode : mindfulFIRE.org/78

How does building the skill of mindfulness help you become a more effective negotiator?

Jonathan Reynolds & I dive into this topic, which he uses everyday as CEO of Mindful Life, Mindful Work.

🔥 What's your favorite negotiation tactic?

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Listen to Full Episode : mindfulFIRE.org/78

Listen to Full Episode : mindfulFIRE.org/78

What does it mean to live your life in concentric circles?

Jonathan Reynolds joined me on the podcast.

He shared his “3 Ps” approach to living and working mindfully.

Jonathan’s 3 Ps are:

• Personal
• Professional
• People

Let’s dive a bit deeper.

Jonathan said:

“

I reserve a time each day where I'm alone

Sometimes that’s reading, sometimes that's meditation, sometimes that's yoga

Most days it's all 3

My practice ripples out on my family and my community & ultimately the world

As this ripples out I have my family and my community

And then to my culture and my world

If the core isn't strong, if the core isn't nourished and resourced, then the ripple isn't going to actually have maximum, length, distance or impact.

So the focus is making sure that the core is strong, which means that your practice is strong.

“

🔥 What practice are you investing in to impact your ripple? 

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Getting in Touch with Jonathan: 

• Connect with Jonathan Reynolds on LinkedIn
• Mindful Life, Mindful Work's Website

Listen to Full Episode : mindfulFIRE.org/78

What in heck is “networking without asking”?

Jonathan Reynolds has had 6000 calls in the last 15 years. 

On today’s “SPARK” episode, he shares his approach to networking without ever asking for anything. Link in comments.

Here’s what Jonathan said👇

Jonathan’s approach:

“

Vision is where it starts and then everything flows from there.

Ultimately we wanna get to executing on managing this vision and manifesting it.

A lot of that is around networking and relationship building. Talking to people.

Many people don't like networking because they feel like they're always asking for something.

So I actually do something I call networking without asking.

You never have to ask for anything.

You should just be sharing your vision and what you care about.

When there's alignment, the conversation continues on

When there's not alignment, you cordially thank each other and then move on.

I see relationships as the whole driver of all of this.

“

🔥 What’s your top networking tip? 🤝

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Getting in Touch with Jonathan: 

• Connect with Jonathan Reynolds on LinkedIn
• Mindful Life, Mindful Work's Website

Welcome to the Mindful FIRE Podcast, a show about crafting a life you love and making work optional using the tools of mindfulness, envisioning and financial independence.

On today's episode of the podcast I'm joined again by my new friend, Jenny Wood.

Jenny Wood is the founder of Google's Own Your Career program, which helps Google employees increase their impact and influence in their current role and or land their next role.

In just a few months, the program scaled from 153 users to tens of thousands of users across Google's global offices & continues to grow like a rocket ship.

In today's conversation we discuss:

• Jenny’s FLIP model for knowing when it’s time to change jobs
• How Adam might be failing the FLIP test
• Weighing comfort vs being bold on the path to financial independence
• The 3 benefits of getting a new job
• Jenny’s PAVE model for building thought leadership

Connect with Jenny Wood

LinkedIn : Jenny Wood

Website: ItsJennyWood.com

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Welcome to the Mindful FIRE Podcast, where we explore living mindfully on the path to financial independence and beyond.

On today's episode of the podcast I'm joined by my new friend, Jenny Wood.

Jenny Wood is the founder of Google's Own Your Career program, which helps Google employees increase their impact and influence in their current role and or land their next role.

In just a few months, the program scaled from 153 users to tens of thousands users across Google's global offices & continues to grow like a rocket ship. 

In today's conversation we discuss:

• What owning your career actually means
• Practice tips to figure out where you want to take your career
• Jenny’s thoughts on the role work plays in building a life
• How Jenny applies the Own Your Career tips in her own career
• Jenny’s advice to people early on the path to financial independence
• Jenny’s advice to people new to meditation and/or mindfulness
• How to connect with Jenny

Connect with Jenny Wood

• LinkedIn : Jenny Wood
• Website: ItsJennyWood.com

More from The Mindful FIRE Podcast

• More Inspiring Interviews
• Free Guided Meditations

Books I recommend

• The Simple Path to Wealth

Full episode with Jenny Wood drops tomorrow.

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Free Journaling Guide

If you're looking to craft a life you love and make work optional.

I invite you to go to mindfulFIRE.org/start to get a

free journaling guide with

the first 3 questions I recommend you ask yourself.

To find out what the questions are & get the free guide

go to mindfulFIRE.org/start.