The Currency of Happiness
The Currency of Happiness is a podcast for people who want to win with money without losing themselves in the process.
If you’re balancing career, leadership, family and ambition, this show gives you practical systems for building financial clarity, stronger habits and intentional leadership at work and at home. We go beyond tactics to talk about how money, discipline, purpose and values actually intersect in real life.
Hosted by Andrew Rocha, a banking leader, real estate investor, and father, each episode blends personal finance, leadership development, and life design through honest solo episodes and meaningful conversations.
This isn’t about chasing more. It’s about building a life that’s truly worth it.
Episodes
40 episodes
You're Running Two Races Every Day (And You Only Trained for One)
Are you actually done when you walk through your front door, or does it just feel that way because you're exhausted?Justin Whitmel Earley finished a 10K Tough Mudder dead last among his peers, sixty seconds behind a twenty-two-year-old ...
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Our Filmmaker Breaks Down Every Step of Making Currency of Happiness - Behind the Scenes Dion Wiebe
Ever wonder what actually happens before and after we hit record on this show?For this episode, I sat down with Dion Wiebe, the filmmaker behind The Currency of Happiness, to pull back the curtain on how this podcast really comes togeth...
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Why Successful People Are Secretly Unhappy (3 Questions That Explain It)
Are you happier now than you were ten years ago? Not richer. Not further along. Happier.Harvard professor Dr. Arthur Brooks has spent years studying that question, and his research reveals something uncomfortable: the people with the be...
Addiction Recovery in Canada: What Actually Happens Inside a Treatment Centre - Darryl Wilkie CEO
What do you do the night you've decided this is either going to be the night you get help, or the night you don't wake up?Darryl Wilkie is the executive director of the Red Deer Dream Center, a residential addiction recovery facility bu...
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Brandon Turner's Story: How He Left BiggerPockets and Built Something Bigger
What do you need to let go of to get to the next level of your life?There's a kid in Washington state lying in the dark, listening for the sound of the front door. Waiting for his dad to come home from work. His dad was a good man who w...
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Small Business Marketing Strategy: Why Your Marketing Isn't Working and How to Fix It - Peter DeWit - Edge Marketing
Most small business owners aren't bad at marketing. They're doing random acts of marketing, spending before strategizing, chasing trends, trying things without a plan, then wondering why none of it sticks. The problem almost never is the budget...
Walt Disney Lost Everything and Created Mickey Mouse: The Leadership Lesson Nobody Talks About
What is the one thing you would not give up, even if it meant losing everything you have built?In February 1928, Walt Disney sat across a table in New York from Charles Mintz, expecting to negotiate a bigger budget. Instead, he learned ...
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Kettlebell Keith: The Action Comes Before the Motivation
Have you ever waited to feel motivated before you did the hard thing? Keith Weber says that's backward.Keith Weber, known to most as Kettlebell Keith, found his first kettlebell in a bodybuilding magazine before the internet existed. He...
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Ambition vs Ego: How to Know Which One Is Actually Driving You
Have you ever worked as hard as you possibly could for an entire year and ended up exactly where you started?I was staring at a spreadsheet at the end of the year, twelve months of work laid out in rows and columns, and the ranking hadn...
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How the Red Deer Food Bank Became a Social Enterprise Nobody Saw Coming - Mitch Thomson
What happens when you stop treating a food bank like a food bank and start running it like a business?Mitch Thompson has spent five years turning the Red Deer Food Bank into something most people wouldn't recognize. What used to be a du...
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A 3-Year-Old Asked Why. Her Father Spent 3 Years Answering. This Is What Happened. - Edwin Land
In 1943, a three-year-old girl asked her father why she couldn't see a photograph right away. He didn't have an answer. So he spent three years finding one.Edwin Land grew up the son of a scrap metal dealer, dropped out of Harvard twice...
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Grief and Losing a Brother: An Honest Conversation About What Remains - Stephen Van Santen
What do you say to someone who just lost a brother, when you've buried one yourself?Almost a year after losing his brother Simon, host Andrew sits down with his friend Stephen VanSanten, who lost his own older brother Phil to addiction ...
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How to Set Goals That Actually Change Your Life: The SMARTER Framework
What would you find if you dug up a list of goals you wrote down ten years ago and forgot about?I was cleaning out a closet and found a notebook from my early 20s. Inside was a list of things I wanted before turning 30. Some practical, ...
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America's #1 Parenting Coach on What Most Parents Don't Know | Pastor Jonathan Brozozog
What if the biggest gift you gave your kids this year wasn't a toy, but a letter telling them exactly who you see them becoming?Pastor Jonathan Brozozog and his wife Joanne are raising eight children, ages 5 to 20, and have spent years ...
Meaningful Father's Day Ideas: How to Make Your Kids Feel Truly Seen
What happens when a beautiful idea for your kids completely misses who your kids actually are?A few years ago, Andrew heard a speaker describe a Father's Day tradition that stopped him cold: writing each of his kids a letter every year,...
Red Deer Mayor Cindy Jefferies on Leadership, Loss, and the Long Game
What does it take to run for the same job twice, lose the first time in front of your entire community, and come back twelve years later to win it?Cindy Jefferies is the mayor of Red Deer, elected in October 2025 after nearly three deca...
I Failed at 6 Businesses Before This One. Here's What Each One Built in Me.
What if the years that feel like nothing are actually the years doing the most work?In 1948, David Ogilvy arrived in New York with $6,000, no clients, and no advertising experience. Before that, he had been expelled from Oxford, cooked ...
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96% of Abused Kids Know Their Abuser. This Building Was Built to Stop the Cycle. - Mark Jones CEO of Central Alberta Child Advocacy Centre
What do you do when a child discloses abuse, and the next step is making them repeat that story to four different people?Mark Jones is CEO of the Central Alberta Child Advocacy Centre, now housed inside the Sheldon Kennedy Centre of Exc...
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How to Retire Your Wife Before 30: Real Estate, Sacrifice, and Keeping Your Promise
What does it actually cost to keep a promise you made on your wedding day, years after everyone stopped expecting you to?When Andrew and Emily got married, Emily had a goal: financially free by 23, done working for money on her own term...
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Stop Fighting About Money. Fix the Order You Spend It In. - Ryan Gaunce
Most people don't feel stuck with money because they're lazy. They feel stuck because they're overwhelmed and afraid of making the wrong move.Ryan Gonce is the founder of Bridgeline Wealth Strategies, a financial planner who has spent h...
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He Lost the Ship, the Mission, and Still Brought Everyone Home (Shackleton's Story)
What if the thing falling apart in front of you right now is actually what saves you?In November 1915, Ernest Shackleton stood on the Antarctic ice and watched his ship, the Endurance, get crushed and swallowed by the frozen sea. He had...
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How to Rebuild Your Life as a Single Parent When Everything Falls Apart - Steve Moser
What do you do when life hands you a season you never signed up for?Steve Moser was a single father raising two toddlers alone, working midnight shifts so he could spend his days with his kids. No plan beyond the next week. No mother fi...
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We Bought a House While My Wife Was in Labor. Here's What It Taught Me About People.
What if the way you look at a rundown house is the same way you should be looking at people?While Emily was in labor with their third child, Andrew got a text from his realtor: a property that fit exactly what he was looking for. He ran...
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A Child Psychiatrist on the Age Kids Stop Listening to Their Parents (It's Not What You Think)- Dr. Kene Ezeibe
More kids are anxious, overwhelmed, and struggling than ever before. What if the real issue isn't just what's happening to our kids, but what's happening around them?Dr. Kenechukwu Ezeibe, known as Dr. Kenny, is a child and adolescent p...
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Why Reading Is the Highest-Leverage Habit You're Not Taking Seriously
What if the years that feel like nothing are actually building everything?Years ago, Andrew spent a summer repairing windshields in a parking lot, sitting under a neon orange tent waiting for cars to pull in. To pass the slow hours, he ...
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