In this episode: career to calling, meaningful experiments, enoughness, mindful discernment, financial freedom with Lance Diaresco

Episode Summary

After leading global brands at Disney, Levi’s, and Google, Lance kept asking himself question: “Is this all?” He shares how a sabbatical, mindfulness, volunteering, and small experiments inside Google helped him move toward coaching and purposeful work without one reckless leap. Adam and Lance explore enoughness—balancing drive and contentment—and how to define success across ambition, workload, money, and time.

Guest Bio

Lance Diaresco is a former global brand leader at Disney, Levi’s, and Google. He now coaches leaders, facilitates workshops and retreats, and is developing work on discernment.

Resources & Books Mentioned

• Journey to the Heart by Melody Beattie
• The Simple Path to Wealth by JL Collins
• Search Inside Yourself

Guest Contact Information

• Website
• LinkedIn

Key Takeaways

• Let “Is this all?” open a process of curiosity instead of forcing an immediate answer.
• Experiment before leaping: facilitate, volunteer, coach, and learn what creates energy.
• Define enoughness as the balance between ambition and contentment.
• Use financial freedom to design meaningful work, protect time, and contribute without pressure.

In this episode: arriving in the present, kind curiosity, breath awareness, beginning again, intentional action with Adam Coelho

Resources & Books Mentioned

• Free FI Life Jumpstart journaling exercise
• Mindful FIRE Legends community

Episode Summary

Rest in the simplicity of this moment with a short guided meditation from Adam Coelho. You’ll notice how you’re arriving, settle attention on the breath, and practice returning without judgment whenever the mind wanders. With nowhere to go and nothing to accomplish, each inhale and exhale becomes an invitation to experience your life as it is happening now. The practice closes by helping you choose how you want to show up for yourself and others.

In this episode: mortality as motivation, memento mori, pre-grets, escaping autopilot, one-more-year syndrome, living wider and deeper with Jodi Wellman

Episode Summary

Jodi Wellman explains how remembering that life is finite can help us stop postponing it. She and Adam explore counting your remaining Mondays, turning “pre-grets” into action, balancing future security with aliveness now, and using small experiments to add vitality, meaning, and connection.

Guest Bio

Jodi Wellman is an author, speaker, positive-psychology practitioner, and founder of Four Thousand Mondays. After 17 years in corporate leadership and 12 years in executive coaching, she made memento mori—remembering we must die—her life's work.

Resources & Books Mentioned

• You Only Die Once — Jodi Wellman
• Die With Zero — Bill Perkins
• Monday Mornings Left Calculator
• Astonishingly Alive Assessment
• Mindful FIRE Episode 232 with Pete Adeney
• Shay's Warriors

Guest Contact Information

Website · Instagram

Key Takeaways

• Count your remaining Mondays to make time feel scarce and valuable.
• List “pre-grets,” then give each meaningful goal a date and first action.
• Keep useful routines, but add novelty before habit domination turns life into autopilot.
• Assess whether your life needs more width—fun and vitality—or depth—meaning, purpose, and connection.