This is the Rich Dad Radio Show, the good news and bad news about money.

Here's Robert Kiasaki.

Welcome to the Rich Dad Radio Show, The Good News and Bad News about money. I'm Russell Gray sitting in for

Robert Koesaki and I am super excited to be here in today's show we're gonna be

talking about what I call Mean Street capitalism what it is why it matters and how becoming a Main Street capitalism. What it is, why it matters, and how becoming a Main Street

capitalist is not only a great path to personal wealth and freedom, but why the world

needs you to be a successful Main Street capitalist.

Plus we've got a special guest, a real world Main Street capitalist

whose entrepreneurial journey has some amazing lessons and you're really gonna love that.

But before we get there, let's just talk a little bit about capitalism and kind of what

capitalism is because it's a really misunderstood word in fact to some people it's a

dirty word obviously the word capitalism is rooted in the word capital.

That's probably another misunderstood word.

So we're going to go ahead and throw away the economic textbooks for a minute.

We're just going to use some good old-fashioned Main Street common sense. Capital is just the stuff that we all want.

Goods and services. If you really think about it, we really don't want the money.

When you think about, oh, I want a bunch of money, what you really want is what the money will buy you and so the stuff that you really want to have that's capital so money isn't capital it's just a claim on capital so money is really a store of value somebody goes and

produces something you go and produce something you're not ready to

consume your own production or you don't want your own production because you

want to trade it for somebody else's production, then you use

money and we sometimes mix up money and currency. I'll talk about that in just a

minute, but money is that thing that we use as a medium, used to use as a medium of exchange but no more but we use it as a

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