SUMMARY
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Adam Coelho is the host and executive producer of 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. He is also a father, husband, entrepreneur, speaker and facilitator. For the last twelve years, Adam has worked in Sales at Google, where he has an additional role teaching mindfulness to Googlers all over the world.

Today, Adam joins the show to discuss the role mindfulness plays in our financial lives, what it means to engineer serendipity, and why he’s rethinking the ‘RE’ portion of the FIRE Movement.

TAKEAWAYS
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00:58 – Jonathan introduces today’s guest, Adam Coelho, who joins the show to discuss early lessons he learned about entrepreneurship, both the highs and lows, from his parents
05:28 – Adam expounds on his money origin story
07:58 – How Adam’s parents’ relationship with money impacted his own relationships
09:35 – Adam’s career journey and the power of envisioning
16:49 – Adam’s introduction to mindfulness and meditation
25:19 – What does mindfulness have to do with money?
28:22 – Engineering Serendipity
34:25 – How Adam was introduced to the FIRE Movement, and why he calls it Financial Independence, Reprioritize Early
40:37 – Adam dissects what he teaches in one of his typical programs
47:01 – One thing we can do to today to have better outcomes in our lives and one thing to completely avoid
50:17 – One thing Adam has recently changed his mind about and his thoughts on what matters most in life
53:46 – Jonathan thanks Adam for joining the show and lets listeners know where to connect with him

QUOTES
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“For me, it’s really important that my wife is fully on board, understanding, educated, and able to manage [finances] independent of me. One, for our general wellbeing. But, if I get hit by a bus, she needs to know what we have, how it works, what to do so that she’s not preyed upon by someone who doesn’t have her best interests at heart.” (08:56) (Adam)

“The thing that I find funny is I almost envisioned myself out of a job. And then it was also envisioning that helped me through that difficult time and resulted in this whole new chapter of my life where I became a mindfulness facilitator...” (10:44) (Adam)

ABOUT MINDFUL MONEY
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Do you struggle with money? You’re not alone.
Money is a means, not an end. It’s a necessity of life for sure, but more money does not always guarantee a “good life”. Money enables many aspects of modern life, but as a dominant consideration it becomes destructive.
The paradox is that more time and energy spent on personal finance does NOT create better outcomes. Unlike many other parts of life, we can’t create better outcomes by being smarter, spending more time, or putting in more effort.
Join Mindful Money author and experienced 40-year investor Jonathan DeYoe as he shares stories from artists, authors, entrepreneurs, and other advisors about how they mindfully minimize their need to think about money and get more out of life.
If you aren’t happy with your finances, feel like money takes more time that it should, or want to place your financial decisions into the broader context of your life, this show is for you.
Each episode will draw the line between the “enough” activities that the academics tell us are additive to family outcomes, and those “little bit more” efforts that take time and sap energy, but do NOT improve outcomes.

GUEST RESOURCES
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Adam’s LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/adamcoelho/
Mindful FIRE Podcast Website: https://www.mindfulfire.org/
Mindful FIRE Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/themindfulfirepodcast/
Mindful FIRE YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnhUYm_y5e-YO2I2UpHZW5A
Mindful FIRE Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/themindfulFIREpodcast
Link to Adam’s Free Envisioning Guide: https://pages.mindfulfire.org/free-envisioning-guide?utm_source=mindul+money+podcast&utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=&utm_content=podcast-guesting
Link to Tony Wilkins’ Ted Talk:https://www.ted.com/talks/tony_wilkins_engineering_serendipity_for_an_even_better_future_tha
Link to Choose FI: https://www.choosefi.com/listen/choose-fi-podcast/
Link to The Simple Path to Wealth: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=the+simple+path+to+wealth+jl+collins&hvadid

MINDFUL MONEY RESOURCES
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Monthly Coaching Membership: https://courses.mindful.money/mindful-money-membership
Jonathan’s Book – https://www.amazon.com/Mindful-Money-Practices-Financial-Increasing/dp/1608684369
Website - https://mindful.money/
Jonathan DeYoe on LinkedIn - http://linkedin.com/in/jonathandeyoe
Mindful Money on Twitter - https://twitter.com/MindfulMoney_Ed
Mindful Money on Facebook - http://facebook.com/MindfulMoneyPlan
Mindful Money on Instagram - http://instagram.com/mindfulmoneyplan
Mindful Money on YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/c/MindfulMoney🎙️
Podcast Production by FullCast: https://fullcast.co/sn