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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.

Joshua St. Laurent, CFP, CFT — Founder of Wealth In Yourself

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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 at Fidelity 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.

Not ready to book a call? Read Josh's most popular essay.

Read “The Hat Trick Nobody Talks About”

The 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, insurance, estate plan, and business structure into one system. 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.

Insurance & Estate

Coverage that actually protects your family. Estate documents that reflect your values.

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 Wealth In Yourself Experience

Most advisors send PDFs. We built you a portal.

Your dashboard, journey map, and wins tracker — live from Day 1. No PDFs. No guessing where you stand.

Dashboard

Welcome, Sarah

Your next meeting is April 22

Net Worth

$3.2M

Phase

Build

Action Items

Sign estate documents

Fund Solo 401(k)

My Plan Journey

Ground

3/3

Design

4/4

B

Build

2/3

E

Evolve

0/3

My Wins
$

S-Corp Election Savings

Saved $18,400 in self-employment tax

March 2026

$

Roth Conversion Ladder

Converted $85K at 12% bracket

February 2026

Estate Plan Complete

Trust, will, POA, and healthcare directive

January 2026

Clients only. Existing clients log in at portal.wealthinyourself.com.

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

Altruist

Custodian — where your investments are held, safely and independently.

RightCapital

RightCapital

Financial planning software — powers your projections, scenarios, and retirement models.

Encore Estate Plans

Encore Estate Plans

Estate planning — wills, trusts, and powers of attorney coordinated with your financial plan.

Valur

Valur

Advanced tax strategies — Charitable Remainder Trusts, OZ funds, and more.

Monarch Money

Monarch Money

Cash flow tracking — real-time visibility into your income, spending, and net worth.

Interactive Brokers

Interactive Brokers

Secondary custodian — institutional-grade access for complex portfolios and alternative strategies.

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.

Real Estate Investors

1031 exchanges, depreciation strategies, entity structures, passive vs. active rules. Your portfolio is complex. Your planning should match.

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.

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.

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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.

$1M net worth
~$833/mo(1.00%)
$3M net worth
~$1,417/mo(0.57%)
$5M net worth
~$1,750/mo(0.42%)
$10M net worth
~$2,583/mo(0.31%)

$0

in commissions. Ever.


100%

fiduciary, always.


1

flat fee. All services included.

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