S1 E21: When Your Name Is the Only Thing You Own with Oscar Hedaya

The Future of Trust with Mat Yarger · Mar 3, 2026 · 1h 29m

Trust does not break all at once. For some people, it cracks early, quietly, and permanently reshapes how they move through the world. Oscar Hedaya learned that lesson young.

He grew up in New Jersey in a community that looked stable from the outside. Inside his home, things changed fast. Money disappeared. Certainty disappeared. But what stayed, was responsibility. Oscar started working at twelve, fixing spreadsheets for adults. At fifteen, he took a business owner to court because he wasn’t paid, and there was no one else to fight that battle for him.

That experience did not make him…