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

The Moment I Realized… I Won’t Be Here Forever

4 Dec 2025 · 1 min

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A short personal anecdote in which the speaker (Richard Canfield) recounts telling his daughter—a second-year university student named Lucy—that he will not be around forever. The moment made both of them emotional and clarified the speaker's desire to leave his children a lasting memory and "storage of wealth," framing his role as wanting to be a hero for them.

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I was saying to my daughter, who's like, in second year university right now, and I, I was talking to her about this process again, and I said, lucy, I don't want to bring it down, be a downer here, but I'm not going to be around forever. I really want you to understand this and use it to your full, because I won't be here. And I saw a little tear coming around kind of thing. I was like, oh, wow. I didn't realize. I didn't mean to be that, like, sentimental or and but it became clear that I want to leave her with this and my other kids, too, with this kind of memory and storage of wealth. And so that's who I want to be a hero to is them for sure. And maybe sound obvious, but that's who it is.