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. 4d ago ·  Video

    C.S. Lewis Says Most Men Never Get Past This One Stage of Friendship

    Is your monthly guys' group actually friendship, or is it something else that just looks like it? C.S. Lewis has a word for the card nights, the golf trips, the group chats: Companionship. In The Four Loves, he's careful to say it isn't the same thing as Friendship, even though we treat the words as interchangeable. Companionship is what forms when people share an activity. Friendship only starts in the moment one person turns to another, mid-activity, and says something true, and the other one recognizes it: "You too? I thought I was the only one." In this episode, we walk through why that distinction matters more than most men realize, and why it's so easy for a group of guys to log years of consistent hangouts without ever crossing into real friendship. 🔹 THE LEAST NECESSARY LOVE — Why Lewis says Friendship is the one love you could skip entirely and never notice, and why that's exactly what makes it worth protecting 🔹 THE BUILT-IN ALARM — Marriage, kids, and work all come with consequences if you neglect them. Friendship has none, which is why it's usually the first thing to go 🔹 THE TRUE THING — The difference between "I'm good, just busy" and actually telling someone what you're carrying 🔹 THE THIRD THING — Why Lewis says real Friendship needs something outside the two people involved, and how to spot whether your group has one We also cover why the first time you say something honest in a group that's only ever run on Companionship, it can land awkwardly, and why that's not a sign it failed. By the end, there's one specific thing to try this week: saying the true thing first, before someone else does. ⏱️ What's Inside: 00:00 – Card games, e-scooters, and the word Lewis uses for it — Companionship vs. Friendship: the exact line between them — Why Friendship has no built-in alarm — What "the true thing" actually sounds like — The third thing every real friendship needs — This week's practice If this one meant something to you, subscribe so you don't miss what's next. #Friendship #CSLewis #TheFourLoves #Brotherhood #FaithAndFamily Support the show

    C.S. Lewis Says Most Men Never Get Past This One Stage of Friendship

  2. Oct 13 ·  Video

    He Built Other People's Businesses to the Top 1%. Then He Walked Away to Build His Own. Richard Oostra

    What does it take to spend two decades building other people's success before you finally build your own? Richard Oostra's public story starts with the highlights: top 1% in the network marketing industry, teams of thousands, stages across four continents, 25+ countries, six of them home. But his real timeline, the one buried in his own LinkedIn history, tells a slower story. Nine years he sums up in three words: failing forward. A stretch selling insurance in Alberta. A run of freelance consulting he wasn't quite ready to name yet. Then four unlisted years where the actual climb happened, before he finally, in June 2024, closed one chapter to build something entirely his own. In this episode, we go back to the beginning and walk the whole arc with him. 🔹 THE QUIET DECADE — What "failing forward" really meant during nine years most people never hear about 🔹 THE CLIMB — Insurance, freelance consulting, and the years of network marketing that got him to the top 1%, more than once 🔹 THE TURN — Why 2024 was finally the moment to stop building someone else's vision and start building the Self Image Formula and the High Performance Brotherhood 🔹 THE FOUNDATION — What faith actually looks like for him day to day, not just the line on his Instagram bio We also get into what most men get wrong about discipline, what a real shift in self-image looks like in practice, and what it cost him personally to leave behind the version of success he'd already built. By the end, we land on the question that closes every episode of this show, one he answers without the polish of a stage or a slide. ⏱️ What's Inside: — The quiet decade: what actually failed between 2005 and 2015 — Insurance sales to freelance consulting to the top 1% — The unlisted years and the climb no one asked him about — Why that was finally the moment — Faith, discipline, and the man behind the coach — What happiness looks like to him now If this conversation gave you something to sit with, subscribe so you don't miss what's next. Support the show

    He Built Other People's Businesses to the Top 1%. Then He Walked Away to Build His Own. Richard Oostra

  3. Oct 6 ·  Video

    The Millionaire Who Went to Prison for Money He Didn't Need

    Have you ever hit a goal you worked years for, and felt almost nothing? I remember the exact night our net worth crossed our biggest milestone. I sat there waiting for something to hit me, relief, pride, some kind of internal celebration. Instead I opened a new tab and started calculating the next number. Two minutes, and my brain had already moved the finish line. That pattern has followed me my whole adult life. Paying off $60,000 in debt. Closing on the first rental property. Reaching door number ten. Every milestone felt enormous right up until I touched it, and then it just became the new floor. In this episode, I unpack why that happens, using a story from Morgan Housel's The Psychology of Money about Rajat Gupta, a self-made multimillionaire and Goldman Sachs board member who had, by any measure, already won. He went to federal prison anyway, trading on inside information for a few million dollars he didn't need. Not because he was short on money. Because some part of him couldn't stop reaching, even after enough had already arrived. 🔹 THE TRAP - Why chasing a number teaches your brain that satisfaction is always one milestone away 🔹 THE FEAR - How "enough" started to feel dangerous to me, like settling instead of peace 🔹 THE FIX - Why Emily and I stopped defining enough with a number and built it around the Six Fs instead This isn't about giving up ambition. It's about deciding, in advance, what a full life actually looks like, so that when you hit the number, you're actually able to feel it instead of already calculating the next one. ⏱️ What's Inside: 00:00 - The night the number finally hit - Paying off $60K and building the next spreadsheet by Monday - Rajat Gupta: the man who had enough and lost it anyway - Why more convinces you that enough doesn't exist - The Six Fs: redefining enough beyond your net worth - This week's exercise If this episode gave you something to think about, subscribe so you don't miss what's next. #PersonalFinance #Mindset #MoneyAndMeaning #FaithAndFamily #Enough Support the show

    The Millionaire Who Went to Prison for Money He Didn't Need

  4. Sep 21 ·  Video

    She Spent 16 Years Climbing the Ladder. Then She Pivoted. Dr. Tristin Brisbois

    What does it actually cost to walk away from something you spent eighteen years building? Dr. Tristin Brisbois has spent her whole career, in wildly different settings, chasing the same underlying question: what makes people well? It started with her PhD at the University of Alberta, a clinical trial giving cannabis to cancer patients to see if it could restore something chemotherapy had taken from them: the simple pleasure of tasting food. From there, she spent over a decade inside PepsiCo's Global R&D organization, climbing from scientist to Chief of Staff to director, optimizing that same pleasure at a global scale. Then, this April, just five months after winning a seat on Red Deer's city council on her first try, she left PepsiCo to focus on civil service. In this episode, we go back to the beginning and walk the whole arc: 🔹 THE SCIENCE — What her cannabis-and-appetite research actually taught her about pleasure and quality of life 🔹 THE CLIMB — PepsiCo Canada to New York, and the version of success she was chasing along the way 🔹 THE LETTING GO — What it means to continue adapting to a career This isn't a policy interview, and it isn't a résumé. It's a conversation about ambition, appetite, and what's actually left once you stop chasing the next rung. ⏱️ What's Inside: 00:00 – A hometown kid who climbed a global ladder — The PhD: cannabis, cancer, and the pleasure of eating again — The climb: PepsiCo Canada to New York — The five months of carrying both worlds — The week she chose to serve her community — What happiness looks like to her now If this conversation meant something to you, subscribe so you don't miss what's next. #TristinBrisbois #RedDeer #Happiness #CareerChange #Purpose Support the show

    She Spent 16 Years Climbing the Ladder. Then She Pivoted. Dr. Tristin Brisbois

  5. Sep 14 ·  Video

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

    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 why that image says something uncomfortable about most driven men: we've trained our whole lives for one race: career, deadlines, deals, spreadsheets, and completely neglected the second one waiting at home. Somewhere around 6 p.m., we cross what feels like a finish line. But to our families, that front door was never the finish line. It's the starting gun. We talk about why "work-life balance" is the wrong framing from the start, because it treats work and family as competitors instead of what work was actually supposed to be: the tool you use to invest in the people you love. 🔹 THE SIXTY SECONDS — A short driveway practice to transition from producer to servant before you walk inside 🔹 THE FIRST FIVE MINUTES — Why picking up three things off the floor teaches your kids more than any lecture on leadership 🔹 THE REFRAME — Why "I'm too exhausted" is often immaturity dressed up as fatigue, not the truth By the end, you'll have one small, concrete practice you can try tonight — before you even walk through your own door. ⏱️ What's Inside: 00:00 – The Tough Mudder finish line — The two races every man is running — Why "balance" is the wrong goal — The 60-second driveway prayer — The first five minutes set the tone — This week's practice If this episode resonated with you, subscribe so you don't miss what's next. #Fatherhood #Marriage #Presence #Purpose #FaithAndFamily Support the show

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

  6. Sep 7 ·  Video

    Our Filmmaker Breaks Down Every Step of Making Currency of Happiness - Behind the Scenes Dion Wiebe

    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 ask in prep to the way an episode gets cut together at the end. We walk through both sides of the process: what it takes on the production side to plan, shoot, and edit an episode, and what it takes on my side as the host to prepare, show up, and have a real conversation instead of just reading questions off a page. 🔹 STORYFINDING - Why Dion refuses to pick up a camera until he understands the story space and finds the right people to carry it 🔹 THE PRODUCTION SIDE - What goes into planning, shooting, and editing an episode before you ever see it 🔹 THE PREP SIDE - How I get ready to host a conversation that actually goes somewhere, instead of following a script 🔹 WHY IT MATTERS - The difference between a podcast that just gets made and one that's built to mean something If you've ever been curious about what's happening off-camera, or you're thinking about starting something like this yourself, this one pulls back the whole process. ⏱️ What's Inside: 00:00 - Why we wanted to show this side of the show - Storyfinding: listening before creating - The production side, start to finish - The prep side: how I get ready to host - What makes an episode actually work 🔔 Subscribe for more conversations on purpose, meaning, and building a life worth living. Support the show

    Our Filmmaker Breaks Down Every Step of Making Currency of Happiness - Behind the Scenes Dion Wiebe

  7. Aug 31 ·  Video

    Why Successful People Are Secretly Unhappy (3 Questions That Explain It)

    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 episode, we break down Brooks' framework into three questions that can change how you see your own life: 🔹 COHERENCE — Why did things happen the way they did in your life? 🔹 PURPOSE — Why are you moving in the direction you're moving in? 🔹 SIGNIFICANCE — Why does your life actually matter? We start with the story of Leo Tolstoy, a man with more wealth, fame, and legacy than almost anyone in history, who nearly ended his own life because none of it answered the one question underneath it all. Then we walk through what these three questions look like in real life: in your career, your marriage, your parenting, and the moments that felt pointless at the time but built something you can only see now, looking back. We'll also cover the four "idols" Brooks says people mistake for real meaning: money, power, pleasure, and fame. And why were none of them ever built to carry that weight? By the end, you'll have three questions to actually answer for yourself. Not in your head. Written down. ⏱️ What's Inside: 00:00 – Are you happier than 10 years ago? — Coherence: The Tolstoy story — Purpose: Following the next rung vs. choosing your direction — Significance: Who has your life actually mattered to? — The four idols: money, power, pleasure, fame — This week's exercise If this episode meant something to you, subscribe so you don't miss what's next. Support the show

  8. Aug 24 ·  Video

    Addiction Recovery in Canada: What Actually Happens Inside a Treatment Centre - Darryl Wilkie CEO

    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 his career studying why some people get free from addiction and others don't, and he brings a perspective most professionals in his field can't: he's lived it himself, and he's currently walking through it as a father watching his own son fight the same disease. In this conversation, Darryl breaks down what actually drives addiction (it starts biologically, long before the first drink or drug), why "it's just a choice" is both true and dangerously incomplete, and why the average person goes through seven treatment programs before recovery finally sticks. Andrew shares the story of an addict who loaded a gun and set it on the table the night he decided to get help, what it was like to sit across from his own son during a relapse, and why he believes the addiction that nearly destroyed his life turned out to be the thing that taught him how to love himself. 🔹 THE DISEASE — Why the predisposition exists before someone ever uses 🔹 CHOICE — What "it's just a choice" gets right and where it falls apart 🔹 THE BOTTOM — Why rock bottom looks different for every single person 🔹 HIS STORY — Growing up unseen, hitting public exposure, and rebuilding from zero 🔹 HIS SON — What it's like to apply everything you teach to your own child 🔹 RECOVERY — Why it's a process, not an event, and why relapse isn't failure Connect with the Red Deer Dream Center: Website → rddc.ca Instagram → instagram.com/rd_dreamcentre Facebook → facebook.com/rddreamcentre ⏱️ What's Inside: 00:00 - Inside the building that used to be a nightclub 02:12 - What actually introduces addiction into someone's life 06:55 - Can you find out you're predisposed before you ever use? 08:17 - Why "it's just a choice" is dangerous half-truth 13:18 - The client who loaded a gun and gave himself one night 16:24 - Can other people show you where your bottom is? 22:05 - How his own son's addiction changed his work 36:54 - Darryl's story: growing up unseen and hitting rock bottom in public 48:06 - The one message he'd leave his kids 50:17 - What does happiness look like to you? 51:01 - How to support the Red Deer Dream Center 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. #AddictionRecovery #MentalHealth #Sobriety #RecoveryJourney #FaithBasedRecovery #RedDeer #AddictionTherapy #HopeAndHealing #TheCurrencyOfHappiness #RoadToRecovery Support the show

    Addiction Recovery in Canada: What Actually Happens Inside a Treatment Centre - Darryl Wilkie CEO
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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
    44
  • Rating
    Clean
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    © 2026 The Currency of Happiness
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