On October 3rd, my dad finally passed away from natural causes.

And on October 7th, just a couple days ago, we had his funeral. So in this real talk Friday episode I want to share

with you some lessons that I learned from going through this experience.

And before I say more, I just want to welcome you back to the Legendary Light Podcast.

In case you don't know, my name is Ted Rice. I'm a coach, speaker. I work with high-performing professionals,

executives, entrepreneurs, and what we do on the Legendary Life podcast is we break down science-based

information on how to lose fat, prevent disease, and live a longer, healthier, legendary life.

But on Real Talk Fridays, we have a real conversation and I can't think of any more real conversation that we can have than about death, about mortality, about what we will

all go through with our parents if we live long enough and what our children will go through.

In fact, that's the natural cycle of things, isn't it? So'm not even sure how to kick this off, but I'll say it like this. I want to share a bit of the story in case you're new to the show or missed a couple of the episodes but my father's health has been

declining over the past year. I've been in Asia for two years and came back at the end of 2019 only to find him I came back with

all these hopes about taking a trip and doing some spending some quality time only to find

that he was really in bad shape he was strung out on opiates. He was suffering from these blisters that would burst and cause ulcers on his legs and he was getting nurses coming in taking care of him and instead of becoming

about hey dad what are cool things we can do let's go to let's go to eat at your

favorite restaurant cobalt in the Vero Beach Hotel I think it's called that anyway

great restaurant by the way if you're ever in Vero Beach, Florida. And instead of it being about going out to eat, sharing meals,

sharing conversations, planning trips together because our business, my business, has finally taken off to the point where we could do those things.

It became about focusing on his health. And I spent a week with him, got things in order, then took off to Columbia, as many of you know, and spent from February 2nd got there on my birthday until

May 30th when I got a call from my father that he was in the emergency room and not doing well.

Even in spite of all the team of people that were coming to his place every week

to help him.

I rushed home, rushed back to see him that day, was on a flight, within a few days, a humanitarian

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