The Currency of Happiness

Episode

• America's #1 Parenting Coach on What Most Parents Don't Know | Pastor Jonathan Brozozog 15.06.2026 52mnt

  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, father of eight, and author of Raising Parents alongside his wife Joanne. His central argument is that the most important variable in how you parent is how you were parented, and that most parenting books focus on child behaviour when the real work happens in...
• Meaningful Father's Day Ideas: How to Make Your Kids Feel Truly Seen 08.06.2026 11mnt

  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 do. So I tried it. I wrote from the heart. I got a little emotional putting it together. Then Father's Day morning arrived and I looked at my audience. A four year old, a two year old, and a baby. The four year old lasted about ninety seconds. The two ye...
• Red Deer Mayor Cindy Jefferies on Leadership, Loss, and the Long Game 01.06.2026 44mnt

  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 starts. But the real story started decades earlier. Cindy has served Red Deer for nearly 30 years across school board, city council, and now the mayor's chair. She ran for mayor in 2013 and lost. She went back to the council chamber, worked another decade, a...
• I Failed at 6 Businesses Before This One. Here's What Each One Built in Me. 25.05.2026 12mnt

  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 a hotel kitchen preparing meals for customers' dogs, selling stoves door to door in the Scottish Highlands, farming with the Amish in Pennsylvania, and failing at most of it. Eleven years after opening his agency, he had every client on his wish list. T...
• Child Abuse Prevention in Canada: Building a $29M Centre That's Changing Everything - Mark Jones CEO of Central Alberta Child Advocacy Centre 18.05.2026 38mnt

  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 education, decided he had to do something. What followed was seven years of coalition building, fundraising, institutional battles, and refusing to stop. On May 16, 2024, he stood at the grand opening of the Sheldon Kennedy Centre of Excellence in Red Deer,...
• How to Retire Your Wife Before 30: Real Estate, Sacrifice, and Keeping Your Promise 11.05.2026 10mnt

  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 it did something to me I didn't have words for at the time. So I made a decision. I was going to retire my wife. I didn't tell her how serious I was. I just got to work. This episode is the story of what that actually looked like: paying off seventy thousand dollar...
• Financial Planning for Real Life: How to Stop Feeling Stuck With Money - Ryan Gaunce 04.05.2026 50mnt

  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. Ryan Gaunce is a financial advisor and wealth planner who helps people build plans that actually fit their real lives. He's spent years sitting across from capable, intelligent people who are avoiding their finances, and he understands exactly why. And...
• His Ship Sank. All 27 Men Survived. Here's What That Says About Leadership. 27.04.2026 14mnt

  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 rescue coming, and no plan left to follow. What he said in that moment, and what he did over the next nineteen months, is one of the most extraordinary leadership stories in human history. And almost nobody knows it. This episode is the story of Shackleto...
• How to Rebuild Your Life as a Single Parent When Everything Falls Apart - Steve Moser 20.04.2026 34mnt

  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 to children who needed one. In this conversation, he doesn't talk about joy as a feeling or a mood. He talks about it as a decision, made repeatedly, in the middle of seasons that had every reason to produce bitterness instead. Andrew and Steve talk through wh...
• I Bought a House While My Wife Was in Labour. Here's What It Taught Me. 13.04.2026 10mnt

  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 days later and found carpet stains, layers of wallpaper stacked like geological sediment, and a bathtub in a shade that hasn't existed since 1974. It was not good. And I loved it. The BRRRR method, buy, renovate, rent, refinance, repeat, is at its core a phi...
• How to Raise Emotionally Resilient Kids: A Child Psychiatrist Explains - Dr. Kene Ezeibe 06.04.2026 38mnt

  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 who has spent over a decade working with kids, teens, and families. He doesn't just see the symptoms. He sees the patterns behind them. And in this conversation, he brings those patterns into the open. Andrew and Dr. Kene talk through what's actually getting ...
• Why Reading Is the Highest-Leverage Habit You're Not Taking Seriously 30.03.2026 16mnt

  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 information. It changes how you think. And that's a completely different thing. In this episode, Andrew Rocha makes the case that consistent reading is one of the highest-leverage things you can do with your time, and unpacks why knowing that hasn't been eno...
• Success Doesn’t Fix What’s Broken Inside - Garret Cook 23.03.2026 51mnt

  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 is often the opposite. Success has a way of amplifying what is already there. Andrew sits down with Garret Cook, a high-performing real estate professional and leader at eXp Realty, who has been open about his personal journey navigating mental health while building ...
• How We Paid Off $60,000 of Debt in 7 Months 16.03.2026 7mnt

  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. Not through luck or extreme sacrifice, but through a clear decision and a system that supported it long enough to work. This conversation focuses less on tactics and more on what actually makes debt payoff stick. Clarity. Alignment. Momentum. And removing emotio...
• Why So Many People Are Searching For God Again? - Jachin Mullen 09.03.2026 52mnt

  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 now. More people are asking deeper questions about faith, identity, healing, and what actually lasts. Andrew sits down with Jachin Mullen, Lead Pastor of Home Church, to talk about what he is seeing on the front lines of that search. As a leader focused on formation...
• How I Bought My First Rental Without Feeling Ready 02.03.2026 6mnt

  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 his first rental property without feeling ready. Not confident. Not experienced. And not sure he knew what he was doing. This is not a tactical real estate breakdown. It is a conversation about fear, identity, and how confidence is built through action, not pr...
• Leading When There Are No Perfect Options with Chad Krahn 23.02.2026 36mnt

  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 challenge of making decisions when resources are limited, and what stewardship looks like when every option has tradeoffs. Chad shares openly about the parts of leadership most people never see, how family and identity shape his decisions, and why excellence m...
• The Five Things Money Can Do 16.02.2026 6mnt

  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 unconsciously send the majority of their income. Not because they are irresponsible, but because they never stopped to decide what their money was for. Drawing from his own life and years of sitting across from thousands of people, Andrew explores why more money does not...
• Leadership Has a Cost: Responsibility, Stewardship & Legacy (Mike Bolton) 09.02.2026 55mnt

  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. From the outside, that looks like success. But leadership always carries weight. In this conversation, we talk about responsibility, stewardship, the long arc of calling and what it means to build something that actually lasts. We also go back to Mike’s early...
• Debt Looks Like Freedom… Until It Starts Controlling Your Life 02.02.2026 7mnt

  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 were doing everything right financially and still ended each month with almost nothing left. Not because of recklessness, but because their financial system was designed for survival, not freedom. This conversation is not about hustle or shame. It is about ...