Happy Money: Why Earning More Never Fixed the Stress — with Ken Honda | Ep 84

It's Not What You Think with Celinne Da Costa · Sep 17, 2026 · 1h 31m

For the leader who has made the money, still feels the squeeze every time it moves, and suspects the number was never the variable. Ken Honda learned about money from his father from around the age of five, started investing at twenty, and semi-retired at twenty-nine to raise his daughter. By most measures that is where a money problem ends. He has spent the decades since studying happiness and money. And arguing that the amount was never the problem in the first place. The distinction he draws is between money that makes you smile when it arrives and when it leaves, and money that arrives…