Episode 319 - Getting REAL About The Money with Jodee

Has money been given a job it was never meant to do — proving your worth?

In this solo episode of Circle Up and Get Real, Jodee Bock explores money as a tool and an exchange of value, while questioning the meaning we attach to salaries, prices, rates, achievement, and someone else's willingness to pay. She shares the personal path from a Midwestern 'work harder' mindset through corporate leadership, accidental entrepreneurship, free speaking engagements, undercharging, and the gradual separation of worth, value, and cost.

The conversation ultimately shifts from transaction to stewardship: using the time, talents, relationships, and resources entrusted to us in service of something greater.

In this episode:

• Why working harder eventually reaches a limit

• How salary, pricing, and external validation can become tangled with worth

• What free talks and $100 gigs taught Jodee about value

• Why money can represent exchange without measuring humanity

• Moving from achievement and transaction toward stewardship

• What organizational culture makes possible when humans are treated as humans

• The question that can change how we earn, spend, save, and give

Reflection: If money no longer had to prove your worth, what might change?