A narrative podcast by Bryan Yach, CFP®
Money tells the story of civilization.
Stories About Money.
History That Still Shapes Us.
Money's the Matter explores the history, psychology, economics, and ideas behind the financial world through stories about trust, markets, ambition, fear, innovation, and the strange agreements that connect us.
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Season One · Episode Two
The Story of Coins
Trust Moves with Us
Travel to ancient Lydia, where a small piece of stamped metal changed commerce. The story of the first coins is also a story about authority, civilization, and what happens when trust no longer has to travel with the person who earned it.
About the show
Why does money work at all?
We earn it, save it, spend it, invest it, fear losing it, and rarely stop to ask where it came from—or what it has asked humanity to believe.
Money's the Matter is a narrative podcast exploring financial history, psychology, economics, markets, and the ideas that still shape everyday life. Each episode begins with a story and follows the people, places, and ordinary frustrations behind familiar financial systems.
Bryan Yach, CFP® is a financial planner and storyteller with fifteen years of experience helping families navigate money and major life decisions. The podcast grew from his curiosity about the history and human behavior hidden beneath the numbers.
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