The Currency of Happiness

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“I Was a Husband, a Father, and a Pastor. But I Wasn’t a Man.” - Mel Mullen

2026-10-2744:23

Can you be a husband, a father, and a leader and still not feel like a man? Pastor Mel Mullen grew up in poverty with four siblings and a father who spent years in a mental institution. His mother raised the family on $27 a month, and whatever food and hand-me-downs neighbours dropped off. His father eventually came home and worked another 35 years, but never knew how to be the dad his kids needed. When Mel was 32, already a husband, a father of two, and a pastor, he got the call that his fa...

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

2026-10-2015:13

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 ...

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

2026-10-1301:23:14

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 con...

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

2026-10-0610:07

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 do...

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

2026-09-2159:43

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'...

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