The Currency of Happiness

Andrew Rocha
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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.

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

    4d ago

    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 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. Time magazine called him the most sought-after wizard in advertising. He became known as the Father of Advertising. And when people asked how he did it, he pointed back to the years that looked like nothing and said none of it was wasted. Andrew believes him. Because over the last decade he has started a merchant services company, a financial blog he stopped at five articles, a vehicle wrap business called Dryvr that signed up over a hundred drivers and never found a single paying client, a solar domain name venture that earned him a hundred dollar deposit and a lesson, a follow-up email business that worked but wasn't worth building, and two Amazon number one bestsellers that felt significant and then quietly faded. This episode goes back through every one of those failures, not for the story but for what each one actually built. The skill, the self-knowledge, the judgment, and the internal capacity that made everything that followed possible, including this podcast. What season are you in right now that feels like a detour? What if it isn't? Money isn't the main currency of a good life. This podcast gives you the tools to build a life of meaning and fulfillment. Free Ultimate Goal Setting Framework → thecurrencyofhappiness.com  Subscribe on YouTube → youtube.com/@thecurrencyofhappiness  Instagram → instagram.com/thecurrencyofhappiness Listen on Spotify and Apple Podcasts → Search "The Currency of Happiness" If this episode hit home, share it with one person. Every share helps build what comes next. Support the show

    13 min

  2. May 18

    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 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, a 66,000 square foot, three-storey building on Red Deer Polytechnic's campus, now being called a North American first in integrated child advocacy and youth mental health services. The second floor is named the Lindsey More Youth Mental Health and Addiction Hub. This is not a story about a building. It's a story about what grief becomes when someone decides not to let it stop at grief. Andrew sits down with Mark Jones, CEO of the Central Alberta Child Advocacy Centre, to talk about what it actually cost to build something this ambitious, what most people still get wrong about child abuse, what happens when a child walks through the doors of the CACAC, and the question nobody has publicly asked him: what it was like to keep building when Sheldon Kennedy temporarily removed his name from the project. In 2023 alone, the CACAC conducted 400 forensic interviews. That number says something about what's happening in Central Alberta and about what Mark Jones refused to look away from. Money isn't the main currency of a good life. This podcast gives you the tools to build a life of meaning and fulfillment. Free Ultimate Goal Setting Framework → thecurrencyofhappiness.com  Subscribe on YouTube → youtube.com/@thecurrencyofhappiness  Instagram → instagram.com/thecurrencyofhappiness  Learn more about the CACAC → centralalbertacac.ca  Listen on Spotify and Apple Podcasts → Search "The Currency of Happiness" If this episode hit home, share it with one person. Every share helps build what comes next. Support the show

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

    May 11

    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 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 dollars in debt, living beneath our means for years, delivering Skip the Dishes after full days at the bank, building a real estate portfolio one property at a time, and slowly getting to a point where Emily's salary was no longer a necessity. Then showing up on her last day of work with a limousine, her parents, thirty of our closest friends, and a sledgehammer with the word Freedom engraved on the side. But this isn't a story about money or real estate. It's a story about a promise and what it actually costs to keep it. The sledgehammer moment was one day. What made it possible was years of ordinary decisions that most people watching from the outside couldn't see or understand. For any husband listening: what did you promise her? And what would change in your marriage if you took that seriously? Money isn't the main currency of a good life. This podcast gives you the tools to build a life of meaning and fulfillment. Free Ultimate Goal Setting Framework → thecurrencyofhappiness.com  Subscribe on YouTube → youtube.com/@thecurrencyofhappiness  Instagram → instagram.com/thecurrencyofhappiness  Listen on Spotify and Apple Podcasts → Search "The Currency of Happiness" If this episode hit home, share it with one person. Every share helps build what comes next. Support the show

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

    May 4

    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. 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. Andrew and Ryan get into what's really behind financial avoidance, why willpower fails with money and systems don't, what separates people who build real financial stability from those who stay busy but never move forward, and how to build a plan that accounts for being human rather than just looking good on a spreadsheet. They also tackle the harder question most financial conversations skip entirely: why do people tie their self-worth to their net worth, and what does financial peace actually look like? This isn't about stock tips or get-rich strategies. It's about clarity, consistency, and how normal people make real progress with their finances over time. Money isn't the main currency of a good life. This podcast gives you the tools to build a life of meaning and fulfillment. Free Ultimate Goal Setting Framework → thecurrencyofhappiness.com  Subscribe on YouTube → youtube.com/@thecurrencyofhappiness  Instagram → instagram.com/thecurrencyofhappiness  Listen on Spotify and Apple Podcasts → Search "The Currency of Happiness" If this episode hit home, share it with someone who needs to hear it. Every share helps build what comes next. Support the show

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

    Apr 27

    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 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 Shackleton's Endurance expedition, told alongside a real estate deal that collapsed one hour before closing after two months of fighting to make it happen. Both stories ask the same question: what kind of person are you when the thing you built, planned, and believed in goes down in front of you? Andrew unpacks why Shackleton consistently appears on lists of the greatest leaders who ever lived despite never completing his mission, what he understood about morale and human nature that most leaders never figure out, and why the mission falling apart is sometimes the thing that keeps you safe. It just takes time to see it that way. The ship is going to go down. The question isn't whether you can stop it. The question is what you say when it does. Money isn't the main currency of a good life. This podcast gives you the tools to build a life of meaning and fulfillment. Free Ultimate Goal Setting Framework → thecurrencyofhappiness.com  Subscribe on YouTube → youtube.com/@thecurrencyofhappiness I nstagram → instagram.com/thecurrencyofhappiness  Listen on Spotify and Apple Podcasts → Search "The Currency of Happiness" If this episode hit home, share it with one person. Every share helps build what comes next. Support the show

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

    Apr 20

    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 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 what it actually looked like to raise two young kids alone after their mother left, what kept him from closing off during the hardest years, what it took to trust again and build something new, and what led him and his wife to open their home through fostering and adoption. They also get into the harder question underneath all of it: what determines whether suffering hardens a person or deepens them? This isn't a conversation about toxic positivity or bouncing back fast. It's about what it looks like to stay open, stay present, and keep choosing something better when life hands you something you never asked for. Money isn't the main currency of a good life. This podcast gives you the tools to build a life of meaning and fulfillment. Free Ultimate Goal Setting Framework → thecurrencyofhappiness.com  Subscribe on YouTube → youtube.com/@thecurrencyofhappiness  Instagram → instagram.com/thecurrencyofhappiness  Listen on Spotify and Apple Podcasts → Search "The Currency of Happiness" If this episode hit home, share it with someone who needs to hear it. Every share helps build what comes next. Support the show

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

    Apr 13

    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 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 philosophy about potential. You find something overlooked, undervalued, or neglected. You do the work to bring out what was already there. Then you capture the value that work created and go do it again. But the longer I've been doing this, the more I've realized that the way I look at a rundown house is the same way I try to look at people. This episode breaks down each stage of BRRRR and what it actually teaches you about leadership, relationships, and building something that compounds over time. Because the slow build is where everything worth having actually comes from. Is there something in your life right now, a person, a project, a part of yourself, that you've been walking past because all you can see is the surface problems? What would change if you stopped and asked what it could become? Money isn't the main currency of a good life. This podcast gives you the tools to build a life of meaning and fulfillment. Free Ultimate Goal Setting Framework → thecurrencyofhappiness.com  Subscribe on YouTube → youtube.com/@thecurrencyofhappiness  Instagram → instagram.com/thecurrencyofhappiness  Listen on Spotify and Apple Podcasts → Search "The Currency of Happiness" If this episode hit home, share it with one person. Every share helps build what comes next. Support the show

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

    Apr 6

    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 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 heavier for kids today, where well-meaning parents unintentionally make things harder, what emotional resilience really looks like and how it develops, the relationship between discipline and emotional safety, and what a home environment that lowers anxiety instead of raising it actually looks like in practice. This isn't a conversation about perfect parenting. It's a conversation about becoming a safer, healthier presence for the kids already in your home. Money isn't the main currency of a good life. This podcast gives you the tools to build a life of meaning and fulfillment. Free Ultimate Goal Setting Framework → thecurrencyofhappiness.com  Subscribe on YouTube → youtube.com/@thecurrencyofhappiness  Instagram → instagram.com/thecurrencyofhappiness  Listen on Spotify and Apple Podcasts → Search "The Currency of Happiness" If this episode hit home, share it with another parent who needs to hear it. Every share helps build what comes next. Support the show

    39 min
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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.

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  • Creator
    Andrew Rocha
  • Years Active
    2025 - 2026
  • Episodes
    24
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © 2026 The Currency of Happiness
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    The Currency of Happiness