Hey, everyone. Welcome to the What Is Money Show. I'm sitting down today with Mr. Neil Pissero.

Neil, welcome to the show.

Hey, Robert. Great to be here. Great to have you, man. We're just talking offline how you put together a very robust outline for us to start exploring money as a conversation and a little bit about how we live in relation to money or who am I in relation to money, as you put it.

So maybe we just open with a question there.

Who am I in relation to money?

What does that question mean to you?

Well, money is language. Money is language.

Money is defined by words and money has meaning out there in the world.

But for me and for us, money is related to the language we're using about it. Conversations with ourselves,

conversations with each other about what it is, how we use it, what it means, especially

from our past. We're human beings and humans are our historical

beings. And so our past and our relationship to what has happened with money in the past may

very well be our future, especially if we don't consider the language they were using

around that topic. So really what I'd like to offer is that we create a future in relationship to

money in terms of the language that we use.

Yeah, interesting.

I like, you know, it's been called the language of value by a lot of great thinkers.

And I've explored a bit of this in my writing with this connection between the logos,

which is a very ancient idea. You know, if you translate the logos from Greek, it means word or ratio.

So the connection I was trying to tease out or in words, like typically they have meaning relative to each other, right?

It's the context and the grammar in which we're

using these tools, these psychotechnologies to communicate. But with money, its main feature,

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