How to Train Your Mind to Land Your Dream Job (w/ Adam Coelho)

June 29, 2023·42 min·3 clips

Adam Cuoio was 30 days from losing his job at Google before a mindset shift changed everything.

Adam begins with the if-only trap. He remembers thinking that once he became an entrepreneur and left Google, success would arrive and happiness would come with it. Then the idea got stress-tested. Losing his job would also mean leaving Google, and suddenly the same outcome felt scary instead of liberating. That is where the episode gets useful. Adam pulls visualization out of airy spiritual talk and turns it into something even Google engineers can treat like an experiment. He uses a seed metaphor: get clear through journaling, plant the idea, give it attention, then notice what your mind starts picking up. The career thread stays close. Repeated thoughts can make some options feel open and others feel invisible. Adam gives his own example with the account manager role. By telling himself he did not want that kind of work, he was shutting down something that fit his experience. When he practiced seeing more opportunity around him, he says he became more willing to engage with what appeared. For job seekers, that can change the tone of a recruiter call, the way a hiring manager hears them, or the next move they choose. The advice stays gentle, but it does ask listeners to do the exercise instead of just nodding along. Adam closes by pointing to the Mindful Fire podcast and his free envisioning guide, with the practice framed as something bigger than job hunting.

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A grounded mindset reset for anyone trying to make a job change feel possible.

This episode follows Adam Cuoio through a familiar but useful reset: the belief that leaving Google would fix everything, then the harder realization that losing the job exposed how narrow that story was. The real value is in the practical turn.

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You want practical career and mindset advice from someone who has felt the Google/job-search pressure firsthand.

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