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

The Danger of Listening to Financial Entertainers ⚠️😱

27 Oct 2023 · 1 min

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Richard Canfield warns against taking financial advice from short media clips (30-second or 2-minute TikTok-style sound bites) or radio call-in shows, arguing such formats and hosts ("financial entertainers") lack the context to provide tailored financial plans and may give harmful on-the-spot recommendations (e.g., advising callers to cancel life insurance).

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I don't think you should be receiving accepting and implementing 30 second sound bites of advice or 2 minute TikTok sound bites of advice. That is not a financial plan or a strategy. So please don't do that. Recognize that people who call into radio programs and radio programs are designed to be marketing oriented tools of their own, of their own nature. But if you're asking a few questions and the person who's taking those questions doesn't know anything about you and your circumstances, they are not equipped to be providing you any advice and what happens. And I've heard this on several programs for said said financial entertainers. They will take very small snippets of information and they will recommend, right there, live on a call, on the spot, publicly, for people to cancel life insurance policies.