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Private, professionally written legacy memoirs...

A legacy memoir is a privately commissioned, professionally ghostwritten account of a client’s life, leadership, and impact, written for family, heirs, or future successors. It captures the pivotal choices, values, and lessons that planning documents alone cannot express. It turns numbers and graphs into a living human being with dreams, hopes, fears, and wishes.

... designed to complement your work in wealth management, estate planning, and leadership transition.

This Page Is For Advisors Who:

  • Serve founders, CEOs, investors, philanthropists, and other high-achieving clients.
  • Regularly discuss legacy, transition, or multigenerational planning.
  • Understand that wealth and legal structures alone don’t capture values, wisdom, or intent.
  • Want a discreet solution they can confidently offer when the moment is right.
Schedule a brief advisor-only conversation

Prefer email? Contact us directly at Barry@Taylor-Fox.com.

How a Private Memoir Supports Your Work

For Wealth & Family Office Advisors

Your clients devote their lives to building and preserving generational wealth. 

But the reasons behind their decisions—the values, motivations, stories, pivotal turning points—often remain undocumented. And memories of the people behind the choices fade as the years pass. 

A legacy memoir keeps the stories and values alive forever. 

For a husband-and-wife team who built a $2 billion company, we created a two-volume boxed memoir set. The goal was to ensure that future generations would know who they were and what they had achieved.   

Help your clients preserve more than their capital. A memoir expresses vision, values, and intent, deepening succession and multigenerational planning.

A memoir is a legacy document clients pass down with purpose.

For Estate & Trust Attorneys

While legal structures protect assets, a memoir preserves meaning.

When your clients are planning their estates, they are often also questioning what they truly want to pass forward.

While your work ensures the legal integrity of their legacy, the memoir ensures the emotional and philosophical continuity behind it.

For a client who had served in the C-suites of two different Fortune 500 companies, we crafted a legacy memoir specifically designed to pass on lessons on living your best life to his four children. 

Legal structures protect assets. A memoir clarifies intention. It supports heirs in understanding why choices were made, reducing future ambiguity.

A memoir is a thoughtful complement to estate planning documents.

For Executive Coaches & Transition Specialists

At this stage in life, your clients are not simply stepping away from leadership: They’re redefining what comes next.

A memoir provides a structured process for reflection, identity transition, and closure.  

The memoir supports strategic repositioning, renewal, or meaningful legacy development.

The founder/CEO of a major plastics company was wrestling with transitioning out of the business. We ghosted a legacy memoir that emphasized and allowed him to carefully weigh his views on politics and religion, and what his next steps might be. 

During transition, clients seek meaning beyond achievement. A memoir helps them reflect, reposition, and define their next chapter with clarity.

A memoir provides a structured path from legacy to future purpose.

What We Do

We, Barry Fox and Nadine Taylor, are legacy and memoir ghostwriters with decades of experience and praise from high-level clients and publishing VIPs.

We work with high-achievers who are ready to explore and articulate the deeper meaning behind their life and leadership. Who want to speak heart-to-heart to their families, friends, and associates, as well as to future generations.

Many of the memoirs we create are never published. Instead, they are privately developed for family, heirs, future leaders, or for the client’s own reflection and clarity. 

The work is deeply collaborative, confidential, and aligned with the legacy planning already underway.

What Clients & Publishing VIPs Have Said About Us

"Working with Barry became a journey of self-discovery, resulting in a much better book than I ever could have written on my own…"
Bruce KrysiakFormer President and Board Member, Toys “R” Us
“Nadine became a writer, therapist, literary critic, and friend, all rolled into one. Writing the book with Nadine was a wonderful experience that we recommend to all!”
Kay and William J. DoréFounder and former CEO, Global Industries
“I read the final manuscript and was utterly charmed. You have achieved just the right tone of affection and intimacy—congratulations.”
Helen GummerEditorial Director, Simon & Schuster UK
“Barry Fox has an uncanny ability to understand what’s important and what’s not; to make you think more deeply about your life and come up with insights you didn’t know you had; and to transform your stories, ideas and feelings into writing that is not only beautiful but highly readable.”
Steven FriedmanVice Chairman and CEO, United Steel Service
“Thanks, Nadine, for encouraging me, for keeping me on track, and especially for your friendship. You have made this journey fun.”
Denise DudleyFounder and former CEO, SkillPath Seminars
“I loved it! These few chapters [you just turned in] are so overwhelmingly inspirational that I wanted to get back to you as soon as possible.”
Dan OlmosEditorial Director, Hay House
“Barry has the unique ability of ensuring that a writer’s collection of thoughts can be weaved together with stories, images, and frameworks into one well-thought-out whole.”
Mitch WasdenFormer CEO, OHSU Healthcare
“Deciding to work with Nadine…was the best decision I have made in a long time. Her attention to detail, professionalism, and writing skills are superb.”
Lorna Myers, Ph.D.Executive Director, Epilepsy Free Foundation
“Congratulations! You’ve done a fantastic job here."
Diana BaroniV.P. and Executive Editor, Grand Central Publishing
"Barry thinks big, is incredibly creative, insists on maintaining a high quality bar, and is a consummate professional. I loved working with Barry and hope to do so again in the future!"
Lindi TardifInternational Tax Manager at Amazon
“…the bonus was that the lengthy discussions about the stories in the book felt like therapy… I missed them once it was over.”
Jesmane BoggenpoelFormer Head of Business Engagement, Africa, World Economic Forum
“Working with Barry was a wonderful experience! He has an excellent sense of what matters and what can be set aside; keeps both the big picture and the details in mind simultaneously; keeps pushing the bar higher; and helps you turn your accumulated learning and experience into a clear and compelling book.”
Robert HerbstFounder/CEO, Progressive Achievement Associates
"Barry is not only a great writer, but he is professional, kind, creative, genuine, honest, patient, and an all-around excellent guy. Barry helped me dig deep into my stories and ideas to produce a more complex, nuanced book than my wife and I could have ever imagined. The experience was a great one, and I would highly recommend Barry Fox to anyone looking to have their story brought to life."
Kent ByronFounder/CEO of Acadiana Plastics Moulding
“Thank you so much for all your hard work. I think this is a fabulous book.”
Heather JacksonExecutive Editor, Crown Publishing
“Working with Barry Fox…has been a pleasure. He is hard-working, detail-oriented, and very respectful of the process.”
Kris PuopoloSenior Editor, Broadway Books

Process & Time Commitment

  • Introductory Conversation
    A private, no-cost conversation with you, your client, or both, to determine whether a memoir is appropriate and what form it might take.

  • Legacy Mapping Session
    A structured session to identify major themes, turning points, values, and intended audience (family, heirs, internal leadership, etc.).

  • Interview Series
    A series of confidential, recorded conversations designed to explore the story in depth without requiring your client to write a word. The time spent on the interviews depends on the complexity of your client’s story.

  • Manuscript Development
    We craft the narrative in your client’s “memoir voice” and refine it through a collaborative review process.

  • Delivery 
    The completed manuscript is delivered digitally and/or in private print editions. 

  • Cost
    The fee for ghostwriting a standard legacy memoir is $150,000. There may be additional costs for creating the physical book(s) or audio, depending on your client’s desires.

Discretion, Fit, and Capacity

This work is intentionally low-visibility.

  • Most memoirs circulate only within family or internal circles.
  • No content is shared publicly without explicit, written permission.
  • Your client, and your client alone, is the author of the memoir.
  • We limit the number of projects to give each client the focus they deserve.
Not every client is a good fit

The best results come when someone is genuinely reflective, ready to discuss both successes and failures, and open to exploring the meaning behind their experience.

If you’re unsure whether a particular client is ready, we can have a brief, advisor-only conversation to explore that first.

How Referrals Work

Step 1 – Quiet Introduction

You send a brief introductory email or message connecting your client to us, with as much or as little information about the memoir as you feel appropriate.

A referral fee is available upon request.

Step 2 – Exploratory Conversation

We speak with your client (and you, if you wish) to explore their goals and answer questions. 

There is no obligation, no pitch, and no follow-up beyond what they request.

Step 3 – Your Role & Involvement

If your client chooses to proceed, you can stay involved, step back, or check in periodically. 

You may also wish to review the outline for alignment with larger legacy plans.

Advisor Resources

For advisors who want something discreet, professional, and easy to share when the moment is right.

We can provide:

  • A one-page overview of the memoir service tailored for legacy-minded clients

  • Sample introductory language you can adapt for quiet conversations

  • A brief process summary, customized to reflect your advisory role

Download advisor briefing materials

Start with a Brief Advisor Conversation

If you’d like to speak before introducing this to a client, we can begin with a brief, confidential discussion.

We can explore:

  • When a memoir may be appropriate, and when it’s not.

  • How to introduce the idea naturally.

  • What level of involvement you may want going forward.

If you’d like to chat, please fill on the adjacent form.