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The Jesse Mecham Show

Money Is the Medium, Money Is You | Jesse Live from Fan Fest Minneapolis 2025

The Jesse Mecham Show

YNAB

Kids & Family, Education

4.71.1K Ratings

🗓️ 9 October 2025

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

In June 2025 at YNAB Fan Fest Minneapolis, Jesse gave a talk about how money is a medium -- not just of exchange, but, ultimately, of you. When you really examine what it is that money does in the world, it is a thing which translates your energy and effort (required to earn the money) into tangible goods and services. When you draw a throughline between your work and your spending, money just falls away. It's simply a medium for you to express yourself in the world.

 

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Howdy Wynabbers? Welcome back to the Jesse Meekam show. My name is Trent, and I'm the producer of this show.

0:19.8

Today we're going to do something a little bit different.

0:23.1

Back in June of this year, June 2025, for those of you all listening in the future,

0:28.6

Jesse gave a presentation at Fanfest Minneapolis on how money is a medium.

0:34.9

It's a medium of exchange, but it's also a medium, ultimately, of you. Money is

0:42.7

you. So that's what you'll be listening today is Jesse's presentation at that event. If you're

0:49.6

curious about fan fest and you're interested in attending in the future, go to whineab.com slash events

0:55.8

and you will see all future fan fest that are currently planned along with more information

1:01.2

about where they will be held and links to go and purchase tickets. So check that page from

1:06.3

time to time if you're interested and you will see updates posted there. All right, let's get to the show.

1:14.2

Well, you've got to love this wind up wins. Never gets old. You know, who does get old,

1:20.7

though? Jesse. And I can say that because I am technically two years older than him, which he pointed out in our very first interview before I was hired.

1:33.8

So we also apparently did not have an HR department then.

1:39.1

Yeah, sometimes I guess I forget he's been doing this for 20 years.

1:42.8

Oh, oh, you forgot?

1:45.0

Allow me to show you.

1:46.0

I have some evidence.

1:48.0

And I just want to, I don't even want to rush this part because I want to give you guys a chance to kind of soak it in.

1:59.0

There's so many options. There's so many options.

2:08.2

So join me in welcoming to the stage with arguably one of his best haircuts of all time.

2:15.5

The father of this method that has changed so many of our lives, one of the most genuine

2:21.9

wise and hilarious people I've ever known, Jesse Meekam.

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