The Currency of Happiness

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  You're Running Two Races Every Day (And You Only Trained for One) 14.09.2026 7min

  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 who collapsed into a chair the moment he crossed the line. But Earley didn't get to stop. His kids ran up. One of them said, "Now it's the kid race, Dad," and he picked his son up and ran the whole course again on his shoulders. In this episode, we unpack wh...
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  Our Filmmaker Breaks Down Every Step of Making Currency of Happiness - Behind the Scenes Dion Wiebe 07.09.2026 24min

  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 together. Dion isn't just running a camera. His whole approach starts with something he calls Storyfinding, a process of listening and understanding before a single frame is shot. That mindset shapes everything about how this show gets made, from the questions we a...
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  Why Successful People Are Secretly Unhappy (3 Questions That Explain It) 31.08.2026 19min

  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 best jobs, the nicest homes, and the most real accomplishments are often privately struggling the most. Not because they lack success, but because they're missing the third "macronutrient" of happiness that success alone can never provide: meaning. In this epi...
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  Addiction Recovery in Canada: What Actually Happens Inside a Treatment Centre - Darryl Wilkie CEO 24.08.2026 55min

  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 built inside a former downtown nightclub, the same kind of building where many of his clients first tried the drugs that would go on to define years of their lives. With over 35 years of experience as a mental health and addictions therapist, Darryl has spent h...
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  Brandon Turner's Story: How He Left BiggerPockets and Built Something Bigger 17.08.2026 15min

  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 worked hard and provided for his family. But the job owned him. The schedule owned him. And that kid made himself a quiet promise, the kind you make before you're old enough to know how hard it is to keep: I will be there for my kids. Whatever it takes. That ...
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  Small Business Marketing Strategy: Why Your Marketing Isn't Working and How to Fix It - Peter DeWit - Edge Marketing 10.08.2026 34min

  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. It's that the strategy was never there to begin with. Peter DeWit is the owner of EDGE Marketing and Design, a strategist with 25 years of experience working almost exclusively with small and medium businesses, and a marketing instructor at Red Deer ...
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  Walt Disney Lost Everything and Created Mickey Mouse: The Leadership Lesson Nobody Talks About 03.08.2026 12min

  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 Universal Pictures now owned Oswald the Lucky Rabbit, his hit character, and that Mintz had already signed away most of Disney's own animators behind his back. He had two options: take a pay cut and keep working on Oswald under someone else's control, or walk...
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  Kettlebell Keith: The Action Comes Before the Motivation 27.07.2026 53min

  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 ordered a VHS tape and a book, waited months for the bells to ship to Canada, and taught himself the basics before becoming one of the first people in Canada to travel south for Russian kettlebell certification. That early obsession turned into a physiothera...
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  Ambition vs Ego: How to Know Which One Is Actually Driving You 20.07.2026 11min

  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't moved an inch from where it sat twelve months earlier. My response was to work even harder. Not because I had a new strategy. Because I needed to prove something to the people around me, and to myself. That decision cost me a year of joy before it taught ...
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  How the Red Deer Food Bank Became a Social Enterprise Nobody Saw Coming - Mitch Thomson 13.07.2026 31min

  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 dusty stove and a handful of community barbecues is now a food distribution hub with three Red Seal chefs, a 40-foot hydroponic growing container, a mushroom farm, a culinary kitchen, and a fleet of food trucks that generate revenue to fund the mission itself. ...
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  A 3-Year-Old Asked Why. Her Father Spent 3 Years Answering. This Is What Happened. - Edwin Land 06.07.2026 11min

  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, and snuck into labs at Columbia at night to test his own theories because no one would fund them. He had no degree, no institution, and no financial backing. He also held 535 patents by the time he died, built the optics used in the U2 spy plane, and invent...
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  Grief and Losing a Brother: An Honest Conversation About What Remains - Stephen Van Santen 29.06.2026 56min

  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 in 2022. Instead of a typical interview, they flip the format and interview each other, asking the questions they wish someone had asked them. Stephen shares what it was like watching Phil, once the captain of his high school basketball team, slowly lose him...
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  How to Set Goals That Actually Change Your Life: The SMARTER Framework 22.06.2026 12min

  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, like owning a home. Some specific, like a certain net worth. Some personal, like writing a book or owning a Jeep Wrangler. Every single item on that list had happened, including the real estate goal everyone told me was out of reach for someone my age. What ...
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  America's #1 Parenting Coach on What Most Parents Don't Know | Pastor Jonathan Brozozog 15.06.2026 52min

  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 teaching parents around the world how to lead a home without losing themselves in the process. His book Raising Parents flips the usual parenting question on its head: instead of asking how to raise good kids, he asks what kind of future parent you're actuall...
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  Meaningful Father's Day Ideas: How to Make Your Kids Feel Truly Seen 08.06.2026 11min

  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, reflecting on who they were becoming. Andrew decided to do the same. He wrote from the heart, got emotional as he put the words on paper, and gathered his family on Father's Day morning, ready to read them aloud. His audience was a four-year-old, a two-year...
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  Red Deer Mayor Cindy Jefferies on Leadership, Loss, and the Long Game 01.06.2026 44min

  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 decades of public service. She served nine years on the local school board, nine years on city council, and ran for mayor in 2013, a race she lost. In this conversation, she walks through what that loss actually felt like, the shame and grief she carried for almo...
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  I Failed at 6 Businesses Before This One. Here's What Each One Built in Me. 25.05.2026 12min

  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 meals for dogs at a Paris hotel, sold stoves door to door in Scotland, tried farming with the Amish, and failed at that, too. At 38, broke and uncertain, he opened an agency anyway. Eleven years later, he had signed every client on his wish list and became kn...
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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 18.05.2026 38min

  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 Excellence in Red Deer. After the 2015 suicide of Lindsey Moore, a close friend of his daughter, and years of watching kids get passed between police, children's services, and the courts, Mark helped build something different: a single building where every partn...
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  How to Retire Your Wife Before 30: Real Estate, Sacrifice, and Keeping Your Promise 11.05.2026 10min

  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 terms. Her 23rd birthday came and went, and the dream got quieter. Watching that happen did something to Andrew he didn't have words for at the time, so he made a decision. He was going to retire his wife. They had just paid off $70,000 in debt. Nobody handed th...
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  Stop Fighting About Money. Fix the Order You Spend It In. - Ryan Gaunce 04.05.2026 50min

  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 his career helping people build a plan instead of guessing their way through money. Ryan started investing at age 10 under his uncle's direction, and years later paid off $140,000 of debt with his wife Kathy before launching the career that grew out of that st...