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What if transforming our relationship with money is just as important as redistributing it? Marian Moore joins Erin Axelrod to explore what it takes to build a more just economy through trust, community, and shared humanity.

Marian has spent more than three decades exploring the relationship between money, wealth, and social transformation. As a coach, facilitator, writer, and co-creator of initiatives, her work brings together wealth holders, movement leaders, and communities to rethink how money can serve collective liberation.

Marian reflects on her own journey as an inheritor of wealth and how decades of inner work shaped her understanding of money, privilege, and responsibility. They explore why transforming economic systems requires more than new financial models and the role of trust, relationship-building, and personal transformation in creating lasting social change.

Marian and Erin also unpack how cross-class relationships, trust-based philanthropy, and honest conversations about money can help build a more regenerative economy. Marian also shares stories of hope, healing, and unexpected collaboration and invites listeners to rethink assumptions about wealth and consider how each of us can contribute to a more connected and equitable future.

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What You’ll Learn:

Discover how Marian's journey led her to question the meaning of money. [0:01:50]
Explore why inner transformation is essential for creating economic change. [0:06:39]
Learn what led her to Trust Web and how it reimagines wealth redistribution. [0:08:00]
Uncover why cross-class relationships are central to building a just economy. [0:13:32]
Hear how conversations across class challenge the systems that protect wealth. [0:19:38]
Understand why changing consciousness comes before changing systems. [0:29:26]

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Memorable Quotations:

“The underlying truth is: it is about the money, it’s not about the money, and it’s about who are you and what is the gift you are bringing, and who do you want to invite into it.” — Marian Moore [0:07:08]

“There’s actually a movement that’s been growing over decades with wealthy people that actually want to transform and are honest about the challenges of it.” — Marian Moore [0:22:02]

“It takes a village to help support the transformation of a wealthy person.” — Marian Moore [0:22:23]

“Don’t be scared to talk about money; try it.” — Marian Moore [0:39:47]

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Links Mentioned in Today’s Episode:

Marian Moore – Website: https://justeconomyinstitute.org/speakers/marian-moore/

Just Economy Institute – Website: https://justeconomyinstitute.org

Free the People to Free the Money to Free the People – Book Link: https://bookshop.org/p/books/free-the-people-to-free-the-money-to-free-the-people-an-organize-the-rich-anthology-marian-moore/23115004

Lead with Land – Website: https://globetrotterfoundation.org/leadwithland/

Jubilee Gift – Website: https://jubilee.gift/

Jubilee Justice – Website: https://www.jubileejustice.com/

Threshold Foundation – Website: https://www.thresholdfoundation.org/

Traces of the Trade – Documentary: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1157728/