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. 3d ago

    Meaningful Father's Day Ideas: How to Make Your Kids Feel Truly Seen

    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 year old was never in. I stopped reading to a room that had already moved on and sat there in the quiet feeling something I hadn't expected. That moment sent me back to the drawing board. And what came out of it was the Father's Day Awards: printed invitations delivered weeks in advance, a living room set up with their favourite snacks, Oscar music playing when they walked in, a slideshow on the TV, and award certificates decorated with unicorns and dinosaurs and sports. Each child nominated alongside their favourite stuffed animals. Each one called up to the stage to receive their award while I gave a short, honest, specific speech about who I had watched them become that year. They were locked in. They were proud. I went to bed that night feeling more fulfilled as a father than I had in a long time. Not because I got something. Because I gave something that actually landed. Father's Day has quietly become a day about dads. The sleep in, the breakfast in bed, the round of golf. And there's nothing wrong with being appreciated. But the days our kids remember are rarely the days we rested. They're the days we made them feel seen. What's the one word you'd use to describe each of your kids this year? And have you told them? 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, send it to one dad who needs to hear it. Every share helps build what comes next. Support the show

    12 min

  2. Jun 1 ·  Video

    Red Deer Mayor Cindy Jefferies on Leadership, Loss, and the Long Game

    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, and ran again. She co-founded 100+ Women Who Care Red Deer, which has raised over $640,000 for local charities. She became a grandmother in 2024 and ran for mayor six months later. This is not a political interview. It's a conversation about what it looks like to build something slowly, persistently, and with genuine heart over 30 years. About what keeps someone coming back after a loss. About relational leadership and what that actually means in practice. About homelessness, economic development, and what Red Deer deserves. And about the personal life underneath all of it, including what it cost, and what it means to finally be sitting in the chair. 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

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

    May 25 ·  Video

    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

  4. May 18 ·  Video

    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
  5. 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
  6. 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
  7. 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
  8. 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
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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
    26
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © 2026 The Currency of Happiness
  • Show Website
    The Currency of Happiness