The Currency of Happiness

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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, and wondering why none of it seems to stick. 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 marketing strategist with 25 years of experience working almost exclusively with small and medium businesses, and a marketing instruc...
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  Walt Disney Lost Everything and Created Mickey Mouse: The Leadership Lesson Nobody Talks About 03.08.2026 12min

  In February 1928, Walt Disney walked into a meeting in New York expecting a bigger budget. He walked out, having given up his only successful creation, most of his team, and his only reliable income. On the train ride back to Los Angeles, he started sketching. That sketch became Mickey Mouse. Most people tell this story as a resilience story. Disney lost something and bounced back. That version fits neatly on a motivational poster. It's also not what actually happened. Disney didn't lose Oswa...
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  Physiotherapist Explains: How to Build a Body That Carries You Through Life - Keith Weber aka "Kettlebell Keith" 27.07.2026 53min

  Before Keith Weber was a physiotherapist, before he became one of the first Russian Kettlebell certified trainers in Canada, before he appeared on the Joe Rogan Experience and released fitness programs distributed internationally, he was planting trees in the forests of British Columbia. That chapter doesn't show up on his resume. It shows up in everything else. Keith is the owner of Weber Physiotherapy in Red Deer, a clinic he built with his wife, April, in 2001, that now carries a simple bu...
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  Ambition vs Ego: How to Know Which One Is Actually Driving You 20.07.2026 11min

  I spent a full year working as hard as I ever had. Pouring everything into the team, the outcomes, the work. Then I sat down for my year-end review and looked at the ranking. Exactly where we had been twelve months earlier. So I made the wrong decision. I decided to work harder. Not because I had a better strategy or a clearer direction. Because I needed to prove something. And that decision didn't just cost me another year of results. It slowly cost me the joy in the work, and eventually the...
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  How the Red Deer Food Bank Became a Social Enterprise Nobody Saw Coming - Mitch Thomson 13.07.2026 31min

  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-cans and a greenhouse. They just added a mushroom farm. They run a market where clients choose their own products because the data shows it cuts waste by 30 percent. They serve a region of 20,000 square kilometres, six days a week. What kind of business...
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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, 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 complete sincerity and no assumption that the current reality is the only possible reality. Land couldn't stop thinking about it. Three years later, he unveiled the instant camera. At its peak, Polaroid was enabling people to make about a billion photograp...
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  Grief and Losing a Brother: An Honest Conversation About What Remains - Stephen Van Santen 29.06.2026 56min

  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 interview. It is two people who have loved someone they could not save sitting down to tell the truth about what that actually costs. Phil and Stephen were 1.5 years apart. They grew up close, partied together, and genuinely bonded. Stephen moved to Red Deer and...
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  How to Set Goals That Actually Change Your Life: The SMARTER Framework 22.06.2026 12min

  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 had done all of them. Including the rental properties, everyone told me a young person couldn't afford. Including the book. Including the Jeep, which turned out to be a bad financial decision. I had written the list down, forgotten about it, and my life had ...
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  America's #1 Parenting Coach on What Most Parents Don't Know | Pastor Jonathan Brozozog 15.06.2026 52min

  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...
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  Meaningful Father's Day Ideas: How to Make Your Kids Feel Truly Seen 08.06.2026 11min

  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...
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  Red Deer Mayor Cindy Jefferies on Leadership, Loss, and the Long Game 01.06.2026 44min

  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...
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  I Failed at 6 Businesses Before This One. Here's What Each One Built in Me. 25.05.2026 12min

  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...
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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 18.05.2026 38min

  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,...
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  How to Retire Your Wife Before 30: Real Estate, Sacrifice, and Keeping Your Promise 11.05.2026 10min

  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...
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  Financial Planning for Real Life: How to Stop Feeling Stuck With Money - Ryan Gaunce 04.05.2026 50min

  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...
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  His Ship Sank. All 27 Men Survived. Here's What That Says About Leadership. 27.04.2026 14min

  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...
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  How to Rebuild Your Life as a Single Parent When Everything Falls Apart - Steve Moser 20.04.2026 34min

  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...
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  I Bought a House While My Wife Was in Labour. Here's What It Taught Me. 13.04.2026 10min

  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...
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  How to Raise Emotionally Resilient Kids: A Child Psychiatrist Explains - Dr. Kene Ezeibe 06.04.2026 38min

  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 ...
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  Why Reading Is the Highest-Leverage Habit You're Not Taking Seriously 30.03.2026 16min

  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...