Mindful FIRE : Life Design for Financial Independence

Listen to the full episode 77 with Jenny Wood

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“How do I know it’s time to switch roles in your career?”

Jenny Wood of Google's Own Your Career program

Has been asked 1000+ times. Her advice👇

Don’t switch roles . . . F L I P roles

Ask your self honestly:

F - Fun - Am I having fun?

L - Learning - Am I truly learning?

I - Impact - Does my work make an impact?

P - Personal - Does my work match the lifestyle I want?

On next week's episode 76, Jenny Wood shares how she’s used the FLIP model in her own career.   

Full episode drops next week (follow Adam Coelho on Linkedin)

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

Today in part two of my conversation with Sarah, we discuss how we can use money to unlock our full potential and why dreaming and enjoyment are critical to living in this way.

We also talk about the flip side, how frugality and being afraid to engage with money actually cuts off our creative energy and prevents us from reaching our full potential.

And things get pretty personal. I share a lot with Sarah about my own struggles, including how I've recently realized that I'm hesitant to invest in my own projects and in myself in general.

Sarah share some really good advice with me. And I learned a ton about how I can evolve, how I think about money and investing in myself and my projects.

I absolutely love this conversation with Sarah and I'm so excited to share with you.

ICYMI : Part 1 of our conversation

In Part 2 of our conversation we discuss:

• Sarah’s thoughts on enough
• What Sarah has learned from the energy of money about enough
• Where Adam struggles with enough
• The risk of being too frugal or unwilling to spend on things that might benefit us
• How being frugal can lead to you being selfish and losing track of the bigger picture
• Sarah shares her vision for her current company Love To, a financial product that supports humanity

Connect with Sarah McCrumb

• Sarah McCrum’s Personal Website
• Liberate Humanity
• Love To
• Sarah’s Book Love Money, Money Loves You

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• More Inspiring Interviews
• Free Guided Meditations

Books I recommend

• Sarah’s Book Love Money, Money Loves You
• The Simple Path to Wealth

On today's episode, I have a special treat for you. Today, instead of me leading the guided meditation, our practice will be led by Sarah McCrumb, who joined us last week on episode 73.

 Sarah was kind enough to share with us, one of her money activations, meditation of sorts.

This money activation explores the link between enjoyment and the energy of money.

If you enjoy today's practice, make sure to check out my interview with Sarah now available wherever you're listening to this as episodes 73 and 75.

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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 excited to bring you a really special guest. Sarah McCrum. Sarah was introduced to me by a former guest Morgan Bricca. Morgan joined us on episode six, seven and fourteen of the podcast.

Sarah is an author educator and business innovator. She's the founder of Liberate Humanity, which is a place for learning and sharing the skills for liberation of the human spirit. Sarah has spent more than 20 years teaching and coaching business owners and their families.

She is the creator of the innovative program “Thank You Money” based on the principles of her book, Love Money, Money Loves You.

My conversation with Sarah was so interesting that we talked for almost two hours so I wanted to break this episode into bite sized chunks for you.

On part one of my conversation we cover a whole lot, including her journey with money, which led her to write the book, Love Money, Money Loves You.

She shares how she had to put these principles into practice in her own life when she moved from the UK to Australia, with her husband, and essentially had to start over from zero. And how she used these principles to grow her wealth and her business after starting over.

I absolutely love this conversation with Sarah and I'm so excited to share with you.

In today's conversation we discuss:

• Sarah’s journey and what she’s up to in the world
• Sarah’s journey with money and how the book love money, Money loves you came into the world
• Money as currency of connection between humans and connection and creativity
• How money flowing from one person to another is a connecting and loving energy
• How we can maximize our value by changing the way we relate to money.
• How do we find that balance between, being open to receiving and having a vision for our life, but not getting so caught up in one or the other that we really lose the balance.
• Enjoyment as a kind of barometer of success
• How we can cultivate the capacity for enjoyment
• What piece of advice Sarah would give to someone early on their path to financial independence
• What piece of advice Sarah would give to someone getting started with meditation and or mindfulness
• How people can connect with Sarah online and learn more about her book and her workshops

Connect with Sarah McCrumb

• Sarah McCrum’s Personal Website
• Liberate Humanity
• Love To
• Sarah’s Book Love Money, Money Loves You

More from The Mindful FIRE Podcast

• More Inspiring Interviews
• Free Guided Meditations

Books I recommend

• Sarah’s Book Love Money, Money Loves You
• The Simple Path to Wealth

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

Today’s guided meditation is all about creating space within your busy life to invest in yourself.

Something powerful happens when we slow down, sit down and turn our attention inward.

Like a snow globe being set down on a table, we allow our mind and body to settle and we can start to see more clearly what’s going on inside.

I hope you enjoy.

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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 I'm joined by my friend, Sean Alexander Hickle, entrepreneur and founder of SimpleApproach.US, an online personal training program.

In this episode, Sean and I explored the idea of thinking about our health and our fitness as an area of investment equal to that, of our finances or any other area of our life that we invest in.

Over the last five years, Sean has trained all kinds of people from actors and models to business people, and even billionaires on how to develop their physical fitness.

In today's conversation we discuss:

• How Sean and I met randomly on a plane
• Sean's backstory and fitness journey
• How to think about health and fitness as an area of investment for your life
• The Centenarian Olympics and thinking long term
• How getting started with fitness doesn't need to be complex
• Applying the Pareto principle (80/20 rule) to health & fitness
• How Ockham's razor applies to health & fitness
• How investing in your physical fitness affects other areas of your life
• How building this habit impacts both self-confidence and work ethic?
• How getting your reps in and thinking long term mirrors a meditation practice
• Practicing solitude
• Sean’s advice to people early on path to FI
• Sean’s advice to people new to meditation

Connect with Sean Alexander Hickle

• Website: SimpleApproach.us
• Sean on Instagram (@seanalexanderr)
• Sean on TikTok (@seanalexanderrrr)
• Sean on LinkedIn

Books From The Episode

• The Simple Path to Wealth by JL Collins
• Miracle Morning by Hal Elrod
• The Elements of Investing by Charles D. Ellis
• Solitude by Michael Harris (Available for free on Hoopla)

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

In this guided meditation we envision what we want our ideal life to look like and how we want to show up in our life 3 years out.

I hope you enjoy it.

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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, we’re diving into Part 2 of my conversation with FIREy Philanthropist, our first anonymous guest. FIREy Philanthropist wanted to remain anonymous because they practice stealth wealth, which means they don't tell their neighbors, friends, and really anyone outside of a close group of friends that they're rich and have retired early.

Today, in Part 2, FIREy and I discuss some of the specific money and finance strategies he took to speed up his path to financial independence retire early (FIRE). Below are a list of articles that FIREy shared, which go into the concepts in more detail. Make sure to do your own research and consult financial professionals you work with.

In Part 1, we learned about FIREy Philanthropist’s journey to reaching Financial Independence (FI) and retiring in his early forties from a career in tech. We hear the mindsets that helped him get there and what he’s been up to in the world of philanthropy since retiring.

In today's conversation we discuss:

• The money moves FIREy Philanthropist used to speed his path to FIRE
• The mega backdoor Roth explained
• FIREy’s thoughts on holding the stock given to you by your company
• Why was designing your home important to you and how did you make that happen?
• Donor Advised Fund (DAF) as a powerful tool for philanthropy that saves taxes
• Potential tax advantages to of donating money to a non profit using a DAF
• Interesting ways to minimize capital gains
• What piece of advice would he would give to somebody early on their path to financial independence
• What piece of advice would you give to someone getting started with meditation or mindfulness
• How you can contact FIREy with your questions on FIRE ([email protected]

I really enjoyed this conversation with fiery philanthropists and I learned so much about the ins and outs of financial independence, how to know when you're at the point where it's okay to retire early and to feel confident in that decision.

Connect with FIREy Philanthropist

• Email questions to [email protected]

More from The Mindful FIRE Podcast

• More Inspiring Interviews
• Free Guided Meditations

Books I recommend

• The Simple Path to Wealth

Disclaimer: This should not be taken as financial advice.

Important Note: It’s important that I call out that none of this conversation is or should be considered financial advice. It’s for entertainment and education purposes only. Make sure to explore these concepts on your own and with financial professionals you work with.

With so much going on in the world right now, it’s easy to feel overwhelmed. Each and every one of us is affected by what’s happening.

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

Today’s meditation is a practice of creating space in our lives. We practice cultivating a space of refuge in our busy lives amidst all the challenging and difficult things happening in our world. In this space of refuge we can just leave everything at the door and just be with ourselves in this moment.

We begin this meditation by intentionally leaving everything at the door and we connect with how you are feeling in this moment in your body, mind and heart.

After some time resting in this space of refuge we transition into some loving kindness, compassion practice for ourselves, those affected by the recent gun violence and then all beings.

I hope you find it helpful. Please subscribe for more meditations and inspiring interviews.

This guided meditation was recorded during our weekly community meditation on Fridays at 2:30 pm ET. We’d love for you to join us live for a short meditation and time to connect and ask questions. You can sign up at mindfulfire.org/meditate.

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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, we're doing something a little different. We're having our first anonymous guest, FIREy Philanthropist.

This guest wanted to remain anonymous because they practice stealth wealth, which means they don't tell their neighbors, friends, and really anyone outside of a close group of friends that they're rich and have retired early.

FIREy had a lot of great wisdom to share from his experience retiring early and we chatted for almost 2 hours. I have edited our conversations into two 45 minute episodes.

The first part, this episode, focuses on his journey to retiring early from a 21 year career in tech in his early 40s, how he made it happen, what was the experience like and what’s he up to afterwards.

I really enjoyed this conversation with FIREy Philanthropists and I learned so much about the ins and outs of financial independence, how to know when you're at the point where it's okay to retire early and to feel confident in that decision.

In today's conversation we discuss:

• What things really helped FIREy Philanthropist to reach fire in his early forties
• Acknowledging unearned privilege, its impact and achieving fire
• FIREy’s thoughts on avoiding lifestyle inflation
• How he knew when he had enough to retire early
• How he knew when to pull the trigger and retire early.
• What are you spending your time doing and what makes you happy in this post-fire life
• Which causes FIREy Philanthropist dedicates his time, energy and money to
• Volunteering as a tax preparer

Connect with FIREy Philanthropist

• Email questions to [email protected]

More from The Mindful FIRE Podcast

• More Inspiring Interviews
• Free Guided Meditations

Books I recommend

• The Simple Path to Wealth

Disclaimer: This should not be taken as financial advice.

None of what we discuss in this episode should be considered financial advice. You should always do your own research and talk to professionals that you work with.

Having said that, I found it really helpful to get the perspective of someone who's traveled the path and reach financial independence and gave me a lot of things that I'm going to explore in my own research and with the professionals that I work with and I recommend you do the same.