Mindful FIRE : Life Design for Financial Independence

In this episode: financial independence, life design, envisioning, mini experiments, asking what you actually want with Adam Coelho
Episode Summary
Adam explores the deeper question that comes after building financial freedom: what do you want that freedom to make possible? Through three anonymized stories, he shows how FI can create options, but clarity comes from envisioning, experimenting, and choosing a new story before life defaults into “one more year syndrome”
Resources & Books Mentioned
Free FI Life Jumpstart Exercise
Ask What’s Possible Workshop
“The Predicting Brain” by Regina Pally

In this episode: the hidden grief of job loss, rebuilding your identity, five-question career clarity, relationship-first job searching, financial resilience with Michelle Schafer
Episode Summary
Losing your job may be a business decision, but it creates a deeply human loss. Career transition coach Michelle Schafer reveals the shock, shame, betrayal, and identity struggles people rarely discuss—and explains how to move from emotional recovery to career clarity, strategic networking, and new possibilities.
Guest Bio
Michelle Schafer is an Ottawa-based career transition coach, author, and certified grief companion. After experiencing two restructurings, she built a coaching practice that helps people recover from job loss, identify energizing work, and navigate their next move with purpose.
Resources & Books Mentioned
Cultivating Career Growth: Navigating Transitions with Purpose by Michelle Schafer
Michelle’s Career Focus Framework
Calm meditation app
Ask What’s Possible exercise
Guest Contact Information
Website
LinkedIn
Key Takeaways
Job loss is disenfranchised grief; acknowledge the emotions and find support before rushing into tactics.
Updating your résumé is premature until you define a target using Michelle’s five career-reflection questions.
Relationships, recruiters, and focused outreach are more effective than sending hundreds of applications.
Taking a bridge job is not failure; set a timeline and keep pursuing work aligned with your priorities.
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In this episode: mindful awareness, breath meditation, returning from distraction, letting go, daily intention
Episode Summary
Adam Coelho leads a seven-minute practice for resting in present-moment awareness. Using the breath as an anchor, listeners practice noticing distraction with kindness, beginning again, and setting an intention for the day.
Resources & Books Mentioned
Mindful FIRE Legends community

In this episode: women and money, defining enough, Rich & Radiant, Splendor Week, building wealth without burnout with Liz Carroll
Episode Summary
Liz Carroll returns to share Rich & Radiant and her mindful approach to helping high-performing women turn income into wealth. She and Adam explore money safety, enoughness, values-based life design, and intentional scheduling.
Guest Bio
Liz Carroll is a financial coach, life coach, yoga/meditation teacher, and founder of Mindful Money Coaches. After reaching FI at 48, she helps high-performing women redefine wealth with calm, clarity, and intention.
Resources & Books Mentioned
Rich & Radiant by Liz Carroll
Free to Focus by Michael Hyatt
Mindful FIRE episode 200
BeRichAndRadiant.com
Calendly, Mindvalley, Headspace, Insight Timer
Mindful FIRE Legends
Free Envisioning Guide
Guest Contact Information
Website: mindfulmoneycoaches.com
Instagram: @mindfulmoneycoaches
LinkedIn: Liz Carroll
Key Takeaways
Liz starts money work with body safety and mindfulness before spreadsheets.
“Enough” must be defined personally before calculating a FIRE number.
Her Splendor Week protects Grandma Thursdays, client slots, and white space.
Adam’s coaching moment reframed burnout as a schedule-design problem.
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In this episode: guided meditation, visualizing an ideal day, setting an intention with Adam Coelho
Episode Summary
A short guided meditation recorded with the Mindful FIRE Legends community. You’ll start by settling into the body and breath, noticing how you’re arriving, and practicing returning kindly when the mind wanders. Then you’ll shift into a visualization: imagine an ideal day where you’re financially independent and free to choose how you spend your time. You’ll explore what you’re doing, who you’re with, and how you want to feel—then close by choosing one small intention to live into today.
Resources & Books Mentioned
Free Envisioning Guide - mindfulfire.org/start
Join Mindful FIRE Legends - MindfulFIRE.org/join
Key Takeaways
Use three deep breaths to arrive, then “begin again” each time distraction appears.
“Financial independence” can be used as a visualization container to explore values, not just numbers.
Make the ideal day vivid by tracking sensations: where you are, who you’re with, and how you feel.
End with one concrete intention: a single action you can try today that aligns with the vision.