The Happy Money Podcast – Financial Wellness & Money Mindset
Jul 26, 2026 · 3 min · 7 segments
What is money, really? Most people spend their entire lives chasing money without ever understanding what it actually represents. In this episode, Gino Barbaro challenges one of the biggest…
Gino BarbaroHost
What better place to start this program than trying to define what money is? When you hear the word money, I want you to gauge your reaction.

How do you feel when you hear the word money? Money is simply a medium of exchange.

To me, throughout my journey with money and with earning money and creating businesses, my feelings towards money, the way I've looked at money has changed dramatically.

Now to where I am right now, to where you wanna become financially independent, you really need to think of money as a tool.

There's supposed to be abundance around money, where a lot of us have scarcity and fear around money.

The better you get at your job, the more value that you create Ultimately, the more money shows up.

The place to focus your efforts, honestly, is to create the value, to solve a problem.

What's also really interesting about money is it's just an easy way for that medium of exchange.

What better place to start this program than trying to define what money is? When you hear the word money, I want you to gauge your reaction.

How do you feel when you hear the word money? Money is simply a medium of exchange.

To me, throughout my journey with money and with earning money and creating businesses, my feelings towards money, the way I've looked at money has changed dramatically.

Now to where I am right now, to where you wanna become financially independent, you really need to think of money as a tool.

There's supposed to be abundance around money, where a lot of us have scarcity and fear around money.

The better you get at your job, the more value that you create Ultimately, the more money shows up.

The place to focus your efforts, honestly, is to create the value, to solve a problem.

What's also really interesting about money is it's just an easy way for that medium of exchange.
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