Wealth On Main Street

345: Policy Loans Explained | 5 IBC Questions Worth Asking

Explore five IBC questions with Mike Smela and Richard Canfield, covering policy loans, funding limits, dividends, marketing and tax considerations.

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344: Why Real Estate Investors Need Liquidity

Building a successful real estate portfolio requires more than finding profitable properties. It also requires maintaining access to capital when circumstances change. For real estate investors, liquidity is the ability to access money when needed without being forced to sell investments or rely entirely on additional borrowing. You might own several properties, have significant equity, and generate rental income. But if an unexpected expense arrives and your accessible cash reserves are limited

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343: How a Life Insurance Policy Loan Helped After a Medical Emergency

Listen on Spotify Additionally, this post shares one Canadian client’s experience for education. However, this is not insurance, financial, legal, or tax advice. Rules and timing vary by insurer, province, and country. Some personal details are left out on purpose; the full episode includes more, as shared by the guest. Policy Loans and Medical Emergencies: A Case Overview David Berry’s income dropped after a medical emergency. He was a Canadian client of advisor Paul Eikeland at Ascendant Finan

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342: Cash Balance Plan vs 401(k), How the Deduction Works for Business Owners

If you own a profitable business, your retirement plan often targets employees, not owners. In Part 2 of our series, Rohit Punyani, co-founder and Chief Solutions Officer of The Owner’s Asset, sits with Jayson Lowe. They explain how a cash balance plan vs 401(k) works and why it behaves differently. Missed the start of the series? Watch Part 1 here. Start with what you already know Rohit teaches cash balance plan vs 401(k) by comparing them to the 401(k). But he’s upfront that this is a teaching

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341: How Business Owners Turn Tax Planning Into an Asset?

Most financial conversations with business owners start the same way: “How much did you make?” Rohit Punyani, Co-Founder & Chief Solutions Officer of The Owner’s Asset, a pension specialist and former Chief Investment Officer, joins Jayson Lowe and Richard Canfield to go a lot deeper than that. Here’s what the conversation actually covers. Why does “cash flow” matter more than “income”? “The words we use determine our wealth,” according to Rohit Punyani. “If you say I want more income, you’re go

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340: Is a DRIP Portfolio Worthwhile With Infinite Banking?

Is Infinite Banking Actually an Investment? In short, Infinite Banking is a capitalization tool, not an investment. Additionally, it builds liquidity. Investment, including a DRIP Investment with Infinite Banking portfolio, is what you do with that liquidity once it’s available. Is a DRIP Portfolio Worth It With Infinite Banking? Yes, for the right person. A DRIP Investment with Infinite Banking solves two problems. Additionally, pairing them deliberately is the point, not a compromise. Infinite

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339: Is Infinite Banking an Investment?

“An investment should only be in something that you know a great deal about. Everything else, I repeat, everything else, is speculation.” That’s Nelson Nash‘s line, and it’s blunter than most people want to hear about their own portfolio. In a recent Wealth on Main Street episode, Kurt Berry joined Richard Canfield. Berry has nearly 30 years in finance. Thus they discuss what that means and why many investors actually speculate. The Real Difference Between Investing and Speculating Most people a

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338: How Much Life Insurance Do I Actually Need?

It’s one of the most common questions people type into Google, ask ChatGPT, and search on YouTube. Richard Canfield breaks down the concept that insurance companies actually use to answer it: human life value. What is human life value? According to Richard, it’s “the economic value associated with your life based on the people that depend on you.” Insurance companies don’t know your family’s full story; what they know is your income and your age, and that’s largely what determines the number the

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337: Am I Too Old for Life Insurance?

No, the majority of people who start whole life insurance or Infinite Banking are between 45 and 65 years old. “I’m in my 50s. I’m in my 60s. Isn’t this going to be too expensive?” It’s one of the most common questions Neil Dietrich, Lead Advisor at Ascendant Financial, hears from clients and in this episode of Wealth on Main Street, he joins Richard Canfield to answer it directly, along with several other real-world “trench stories” from years of helping clients navigate Infinite Banking. At Wh

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336: Financial Planning After Loss | Jeff Treleaven's Story

Money is never just about money. It’s about the people we love and the future we’re all trying to protect, especially in the moments we never see coming. In this episode of Wealth on Main Street, we sit down with Jeff Treleaven, a teammate at Ascendant Financial, for a conversation that goes far beyond typical financial planning. Jeff has walked through grief most people can’t imagine: losing his father at 16, and losing his oldest daughter suddenly in 2023. Through that pain, he found a deeper

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335: Infinite Banking for Business Owners - A Real Example

Karyn Kokeny, 10X business coach, discussing Infinite Banking for business owners on Wealth on Main Street

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334: Nelson Nash's Foundation Lesson in Infinite Banking

How long do you suppose a skyscraper would stand on a weak foundation? That’s the question Nelson Nash, the founder of the Infinite Banking Concept, asked Jayson Lowe the first time they spoke at a conference. Decades later, it’s still the question that separates people who actually understand Infinite Banking from people who are just shopping for a better insurance product. In a recent episode of Wealth on Main Street, teammate Paul Eikeland flipped the format and interviewed Jayson Lowe and Ri

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333: Farming Is One of the Most Capital-Intensive Businesses

When people picture farming, they picture open fields, tractors, and sunsets. What they don’t picture is one of the most capital-intensive businesses on the planet, millions of dollars tied up in land, equipment that can cost as much as a family home, and banks that “somehow always seem to know exactly when your payment is due.” Jayson Lowe and Richard Canfield sit down with Dan Allen, co-author of Growing Your Own Capital, and his clients, Ryan and Brittany, a young farming couple near Strathmo

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332: How Does Infinite Banking Actually Work? A Client-Turned-Advisor Explains

Reading time: 2 minutes Before John Saintloth ever taught the Infinite Banking Concept, he lived it. Before he became an advisor at Ascendant Financial, he was a client. Before either of those things, he was a 14-year-old boy reuniting with his mother in Canada five years after she had to flee Haiti and seek asylum at the American embassy. On a recent episode of Wealth on Main Street, hosts Jayson Lowe, CEO, Ascendant Financial, and Richard Canfield, Bestselling Author and Podcast Host, sat down

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331: How Does Key Person Insurance Work? A Complete Guide for Business Owners

Ever feel like your business is one precarious Monday away from chaos? You’re not alone. Most entrepreneurs spend more time worrying about printer jams and coffee shortages than life’s big curveballs, like, you know, unexpectedly losing the one person who holds the whole operation together (hint: it often isn’t the guy refilling the toner). Welcome back to the “Wealth on Main Street” podcast blog, where money myths go to die, and practical wealth-building is always on tap. I’m Richard Canfield,

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330: How to Build a Career as an Infinite Banking Advisor in Canada | Ashley Doyle's Story

Ashley Doyle trained soldiers in Afghanistan. Real pressure. Not "my Zoom froze" kind of pressure. Today he helps Canadian families build generational wealth through the Infinite Banking Concept. This episode is about leadership. Service. Purpose. And what happens when you stop feeling like a lone ranger.

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329: Josh Bought IULs for Infinite Banking, Here’s What Happened

The short answer is no. The longer answer requires understanding why, because the question is being asked more than ever, and the misinformation circulating on social media around this topic is causing real financial harm to real people. Right now, social media is full of content promoting Indexed Universal Life insurance as “infinite banking 2.0,” an upgraded, modern version of the concept that Nelson Nash created. It is not. And the man who created IBC said so directly, in writing, on pa

328: The Truth About Whole Life Insurance Past Age 100

It is one of the most common questions people ask when they first explore the Infinite Banking Concept, and one of the least talked about in mainstream financial planning. What happens to your dividend-paying whole life insurance policy if you actually live to age 100? Or past it? The short answer is this: the contract becomes more valuable the longer you live. It was literally engineered with extraordinary longevity in mind. But the full answer requires understanding a few key concepts

327: Why Entrepreneurs Lose Money to Banks

The Problem Nobody Talks About in EntrepreneurshipWhat Is the Infinite Banking Concept? (And Why Entrepreneurs Are Asking About It)"I Didn't Know What to Call It, But I Knew Something Else Existed"The Real Reasons People Hesitate and What's Actually Going OnWhat Tara Actually Used IBC For (The Honest Answer)The Mindset Shift That Actually Makes IBC ClickWhat Les Corbett Observes Across Hundreds of ConversationsRaising Kids Who Already Think This WayThe Quote That Stayed with UsListen, Watch, and

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326: Why Entrepreneurs Struggle With Cash Flow and How to Fix It

Many entrepreneurs are good at making money. The harder part is keeping control of it. In this episode of Wealth on Main Street, Ravi Kainth shares a powerful insight from more than 25 years of building businesses across different parts of the world, including Hong Kong and Canada: most business owners focus on income, but not enough on where their money goes after it arrives. Taxes, debt payments, operating costs, expansion, family needs, and lifestyle expenses can create a constant cycle

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