Richard CanfieldPodcast Host and IBC Advisor, Ascendant Financial · Authorized Infinite Banking Practitioner | Author of 4 Books

Rick Goldring on Reinventing Success

27 Feb 2025 · 1 min

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A short excerpt from a YouTube interview in which Richard Canfield asks former mayor Rick Goldring about re-entering the financial industry after two terms in municipal office. Goldring describes the difficulties of his first year unelected — feeling publicly fired, used to being "coddled" with staff handling logistics, and the challenge of returning to self-directed business life.

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How did the time, the two terms you spent in with your marital duties, how did they relate to leaving that environment and now shifting yourself back into the financial industry that you'd spent the bulk of your life doing?
I must say, it was a challenging very first year of being unelected, being fired publicly and going back into business after being coddled. For the eight years that I was mayor, yeah, I had three full time staff members. You know, they arranged my calendar. If I had an IT issue, I wouldn't know about it because it would be handled by somebody else. When you have everything handled a certain job to do, you had to meet with people and be at meetings and prepare for meetings and so on. I was coddled.