Flat-Fee Fiduciary Advisory
Your money should buy you time.
Not the other way around.
Wealth In Yourself is a flat-fee, fiduciary financial life planning firm for entrepreneurs and real estate investors. No commissions. No AUM fees. Just honest advice built around the life you want to create.
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Why This Exists
I watched advisors take off their fiduciary hat and put on their sales hat in the same conversation.
I spent a decade watching advisors legally switch between fiduciary and broker-dealer mode mid-conversation. They called it “taking off your IA hat and putting on your BD hat.” It's legal. It's common. And almost nobody outside the industry knows it's happening.
So I built a firm where fiduciary isn't a hat you put on when it's convenient. Where your fee doesn't grow just because your account did. Where the person sitting across from you is building businesses, owning real estate, and designing their own life — not just managing yours.
That's Wealth In Yourself. The standard here is FIAT — Fiduciary In All Things.
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Read “The Hat Trick Nobody Talks About”The Life Architecture · Virtual Family Office
The planning infrastructure of the ultra-wealthy. Without the eight-figure price tag.
A Virtual Family Office coordinates your tax strategy, investments, estate plan, and business structure into one system — bringing in outside specialists when your situation calls for them. We call the coordinated system The Life Architecture. Typically reserved for $50M+ families. We built it into every client engagement.
Tax Strategy
Proactive tax planning, not just filing. We find the money your CPA leaves on the table.
Investment Planning
Low-cost, evidence-based portfolios. No proprietary products. No commissions.
Life Planning
We start with what you want your life to look like. The financial structure exists to serve that vision, not the other way around.
Estate & Risk Review
Estate documents that reflect your values. Coverage reviewed so nothing is overlooked.
Business Structure
Entity optimization, retirement plan design, and cash flow strategy for business owners.
One Flat Fee
All of this, coordinated. No AUM percentage. No hidden costs. One transparent monthly fee.
Your Team Under One Fee
You don't coordinate the team. We do.
Your flat fee covers the coordination. You pay partners directly only when their service is engaged. No markups. No middlemen.
Altruist
Custodian — where your investments are held, safely and independently.
RightCapital
Financial planning software — powers your projections, scenarios, and retirement models.
Encore Estate Plans
Estate planning — wills, trusts, and powers of attorney coordinated with your financial plan.
Valur
Advanced tax strategies — Charitable Remainder Trusts, OZ funds, and more.
Monarch Money
Cash flow tracking — real-time visibility into your income, spending, and net worth.
Services coordinated through Wealth In Yourself. You pay the partner directly only when their service is actively engaged. No additional advisory fees.
Who We Work With
Built for people who refuse to do things the conventional way.
Business Owners
Uneven income, entity structuring, tax complexity, exit planning. You need an advisor who actually understands what you're building.
Hypothetical composite for illustrative purposes only. Results based on specific client circumstances and are not a guarantee of future results.
Real Estate Investors
1031 exchanges, depreciation strategies, entity structures, passive vs. active rules. Your portfolio is complex. Your planning should match.
Hypothetical composite for illustrative purposes only. Results based on specific client circumstances and are not a guarantee of future results.
FIRE Followers
You didn't grind for years to white-knuckle a 4% rule. Roth ladders, tax-efficient withdrawals, coast strategies, and a plan that lets you actually live.
Hypothetical composite for illustrative purposes only. Results based on specific client circumstances and are not a guarantee of future results.
What AUM fees actually cost you.
(Free PDF)
A 1% AUM fee looks small. Over 20 years it compounds into six figures — sometimes seven. This PDF shows you the exact math.
Transparent Pricing
A fee that goes down as your wealth goes up.
AUM advisors charge more as you succeed. Our declining flat fee means the wealthier you get, the less you pay as a percentage. That's how incentives should work.
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Free Resources
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Free guides built for the people we work with. No fluff. No email spam. Just the questions your advisory team should be answering.
For RE Investors
Tax Strategy Checklist
16 questions about 1031 exchanges, cost segregation, entity structure, and depreciation.
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For Business Owners
Wealth Extraction Roadmap
Valuation, QSBS, entity structure, and the full team you need before you exit.
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For W-2 Professionals
W-2 Escape Plan
Runway math, health insurance, entity setup, and 13 questions before you make the leap.
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Latest Writing
Recent essays and insights.
What Financial Therapy Actually Is
It's not therapy about money. It's not financial advice with feelings. It's the missing piece between the spreadsheet and the life — and most advisors have never heard of it.
Money Is a Tool. Most People Treat It Like a Scoreboard.
The wealthiest people I work with didn't get happier when the number went up. They got happier when they figured out what the number was for.
The Life You're Designing vs. The Life You're Defaulting Into
Most people never make an active choice about how they live. They optimize, accumulate, and grind — and wake up at 55 wondering whose life they built.
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