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
31 episodes
How the Red Deer Food Bank Became a Social Enterprise Nobody Saw Coming - Mitch Thomson
They run a commercial kitchen with Red Seal Chefs. They operate food trucks and a catering company that books nearly 300 events a year. They have a culinary classroom open to the public. They grow their own produce year-round in hydroponic sea-...
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A 3-Year-Old Asked Why. Her Father Spent 3 Years Answering. This Is What Happened. - Edwin Land
In 1943, Edwin Land was on a family trip in New Mexico when his three-year-old daughter Jennifer asked why she couldn't see the photographs he had been taking. Not in a frustrated way. In the way that only small children ask questions, with com...
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Grief and Losing a Brother: An Honest Conversation About What Remains - Stephen Van Santen
Stephen Van Santen lost his brother Phil to a drug overdose on November 11, 2022. Andrew lost his brother Simon in July 2025. A few weeks after Simon passed, Stephen called. That conversation is why this episode exists.This is not an int...
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How to Set Goals That Actually Change Your Life: The SMARTER Framework
I was cleaning out my closet when I found a notebook from my early twenties. A list of things I wanted to accomplish before I turned 30. Practical things, specific things, personal things. Some of them felt impossible when I wrote them.I...
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America's #1 Parenting Coach on What Most Parents Don't Know | Pastor Jonathan Brozozog
Most people become parents and then figure it out as they go. Jonathan Brozozog has spent over 20 years arguing that there is a better way.Jonathan is America's #1 Christian parenting coach, Lead Pastor of Creative Church in Minnesota, ...
Meaningful Father's Day Ideas: How to Make Your Kids Feel Truly Seen
A few years ago I heard a speaker describe how he writes a letter to each of his kids every Father's Day. A reflection of who he saw them becoming over the past year. I thought it was one of the most intentional things I'd ever heard a father d...
Red Deer Mayor Cindy Jefferies on Leadership, Loss, and the Long Game
On October 20, 2025, Cindy Jefferies found out she had been elected Mayor of Red Deer by watching a TV screen at a press conference. The people who had run against her were standing in the same room.That moment is where this conversation...
I Failed at 6 Businesses Before This One. Here's What Each One Built in Me.
In 1948, David Ogilvy arrived in New York City with $6,000, no clients, no credentials, and no experience writing advertisements. He was 38 years old. What came before that moment was seventeen years of getting expelled from Oxford, working in ...
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Child Abuse Prevention in Canada: Building a $29M Centre That's Changing Everything - Mark Jones CEO of Central Alberta Child Advocacy Centre
In September 2015, a 22-year-old named Lindsey More died by suicide. She had been close friends with Mark Jones's daughter. She had spent time in his home. And when she was gone, Mark, a former teacher and principal with 35 years in public educ...
How to Retire Your Wife Before 30: Real Estate, Sacrifice, and Keeping Your Promise
Before Emily and I were married, she had a goal. Free by 23. Financially free before her twenty-third birthday, done working for money, living life on her own terms.Twenty-three came and went.I watched that dream get quieter. And ...
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Financial Planning for Real Life: How to Stop Feeling Stuck With Money - Ryan Gaunce
Most people don't feel stuck with money because they're lazy or irresponsible. They feel stuck because they're overwhelmed. They don't know where to start, they're afraid of making the wrong move, and the longer they wait, the heavier it feels....
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His Ship Sank. All 27 Men Survived. Here's What That Says About Leadership.
November 21st, 1915. Antarctica. Ernest Shackleton is standing on the ice watching his ship sink. The expedition is over before it ever started. Twenty-seven men are stranded over a thousand miles from any other human being with no radio, no re...
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How to Rebuild Your Life as a Single Parent When Everything Falls Apart - Steve Moser
Most people think joy is something you find when life finally gets easier. Steve Moser learned it's something you choose when it doesn't.Steve has walked through betrayal, single parenthood, rebuilding, remarriage, and opening his home t...
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I Bought a House While My Wife Was in Labour. Here's What It Taught Me.
My wife was in active labour with our third child. My phone buzzed. It was my realtor.I waited a reasonable amount of time before looking. Maybe two minutes. We made an offer before the baby arrived. I walked through the front door a few...
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How to Raise Emotionally Resilient Kids: A Child Psychiatrist Explains - Dr. Kene Ezeibe
More kids are anxious, overwhelmed, and struggling than ever before. But what if the real issue isn't just what's happening to our kids, it's what's happening around them?Dr. Kene Ezeibe is a child and adolescent mental health physician ...
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Why Reading Is the Highest-Leverage Habit You're Not Taking Seriously
I spent a summer repairing windshields in a parking lot. No plan. No vision. Just heat, slow days, and eventually, books. That summer didn't look like much. Looking back, it was the beginning of everything.Reading doesn't just give you ...
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Success Doesn’t Fix What’s Broken Inside - Garret Cook
In this episode of The Currency of Happiness, we explore the tension between hustle culture, high performance, and mental health.Many people chase success, believing achievement will fix what feels broken inside. But the reality i...
How We Paid Off $60,000 of Debt in 7 Months
Sixty thousand dollars.That is how much debt my wife Emily and I were carrying early in our marriage.In this episode of The Currency of Happiness, Andrew Rocha shares how they paid off sixty thousand dollars of debt in seven months. ...
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Why So Many People Are Searching For God Again? - Jachin Mullen
In this episode of The Currency of Happiness, we explore why so many people across cultures are searching again for meaning, purpose, and something solid to build their lives on.There is a growing spiritual hunger happening right ...
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How I Bought My First Rental Without Feeling Ready
Most people wait to feel ready before they do something meaningful. More confident. More prepared. More certain. But that moment almost never arrives.In this episode of The Currency of Happiness, Andrew Rocha shares the story of buying h...
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Leading When There Are No Perfect Options with Chad Krahn
Leadership is easy in theory. It gets complicated in real life.In this episode I sit down with Chad Krahn, Red Deer City Councillor, husband, father, and author of Welcome to Monday. We talk about the real weight of responsibility, the c...
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The Five Things Money Can Do
Money is just a tool. So why does it so often feel like a trap instead of support?In this episode of The Currency of Happiness, Andrew Rocha breaks down the five things money can actually do and the one direction most people unconsciousl...
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Leadership Has a Cost: Responsibility, Stewardship & Legacy (Mike Bolton)
Leadership looks like influence from the outside. But real leadership carries weight, responsibility, and consequences.Dr. Mike Bolton advises companies, sits on boards, coaches leaders, and helps shape organizations around the world. F...
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Debt Looks Like Freedom… Until It Starts Controlling Your Life
Debt rarely feels dangerous at first. It feels like relief. Progress. Momentum. But over time, it quietly begins to shrink your life.In this episode of The Currency of Happiness, Andrew Rocha shares the season when he and his wife Emily ...
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Building Legacy Through Real Estate - A Conversation with Bryce Kander
In this episode of The Currency of Happiness, we explore what it really looks like to build legacy through real estate, family, leadership, and influence.Most people meet Bryce Kander and see the realtor, the investor, and ...
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