Wealth Building Strategy Beyond Traditional

Hello, Carol. Register here. If you're ready

to unlock your wealth identity, you want to be here today. You

want to hear Laurel Langemeyer. I'm going to tell you a little

bit about her and who she is. Let's dive right in, Laurel. If

you are wanting to help somebody with wealth, with what you were

just sharing with me, I'd love to hear the question you have

about invisible pain.

Yes, where is your invisible pain? There's a

lot of gaps in most people's life. What I teach differently,

I wrote the Millionaire Maker series. Carol will talk more

about that. This is version two that we put out in 2025, and

most people have a lot of what I call invisible pain points.

Taxes usually number one. People just overpay tax. They kick the

responsibility out to their tax strategist or CPA. And worse, if

they're doing their own taxes, they're not even in the game I'm

playing yet because you don't do your own taxes. And most people

just continue to overpay.

Oh, I love that! Let me share a little bit about

you, Laurel. This is such an interesting bio about the way

you started, and the fact that you're the CEO of several

alternative asset companies. I love that word, alternative.

Since 1996, Miss Langmeyer Miss Langemeyer has been involved in

multiple areas of finance, mentoring, real estate

investing, business acquisitions and development, and gas oil. If

you're wanting to learn some higher level thinking in terms

of your wealth, she's the one you're going to want to be

listening to today, and I'm so excited to have you. I think

it's really interesting how following your graduations with

a bachelor's degree in physiology, studying bachelor's

degree in business administration and finance, and

master's degree in exercise physiology. That's super

interesting, and that was from the Wesleyan University of

Nebraska and the University of Nebraska Omaha. Then getting

picked up by Chevron to teach health, fitness, and nutrition

to workers on oil rigs off the coast of New Orleans. Now that

must have been so incredibly interesting. And then at age 24,

you entered a new contract. She entered a new contract with

Chevron, and built over 272 fitness centers on offshore

rigs. And then you partnered with a professor of engineering

and a team of students at LSU, Louisiana State University, and

rose to a senior level position with a Fortune five with the

Fortune 500 company of Chevron in San Francisco, and then you

spent five years in corporate America. Now you've established

Live Out Loud, a mentoring company in Novato, California,

and to date, she's published six New York Times best-selling

books and produced over 1000 CDs and videos. She grew Live Out

Loud into a multi-international million-dollar company. So this

is the energy you want to be

multi

multi multi, and you did it multi multi years.

Yeah, I mean incredible. And then you spread out like in

Australia, you had offices there, Africa, Canada. You

launched your part chart topping podcast, real money talks, and

then you created a networking and fulfillment company called

Integrated Wealth Systems, that presently is grossing over 5

million, and it's a highly sought after money management.

She is a highly sought-after money management expert and has

appeared in USA Today, The Wall Street Journal, The New York

Times, CNN, CNBC, Fox News Channel, Dr. Phil, Face the

Nation, and on the web at ABCNews.com, Forbes.com, and

BusinessWeek.com. Welcome, Laurel. Thank you for being

here. I'm really honored.

Thank you. It's great to be here. And yeah,

it took more than five. I bet this. We've been doing this.

I've been doing mentoring and mastermind. Started what's got

called the Big Table, first one ever. One thing, which is making

millionaires. So in 2002, I started the. I'm sorry, 2001, I

started the Big Table. This was our 25th anniversary. We redid

the Millionaire Maker book, and in 2022, probably my passion

project, which was how to make your kids millionaires.

I love it. So

we've been doing this in all of that, and

then our YouTube channel is prevalent, which is Laurel

Langmar, the Millionaire Maker, and you know it's been

interesting, Carol, because prior to 2021, in fact, March

7th, 2020, I was at Eric Swans's event, who introduced us

together, and flew home from Houston, Texas, to every stage

in TV being canceled, and it just was a whole new

restructuring, as it was for almost every company, and we

reset. And now I'm almost 100 online, and we do our own events

still with a big table. And I speak every once in a while for

very special groups, but I stay right here mostly in my studio.

I love this. I love it so much. And you know

you're known as a millionaire maker, as you referred to. What

inspired your accelerator coaching program?

Just teaching people, really studying for

myself. At 17 years old, I got the book Think and Grow Rich.

Soon after that, Bob Proctor was one of my first mentors, and

I've mentored with all the greats from Zig to Matt Jim

Rohn, Brian Tracy, Mark Victor Hance, all of them. Like I've

and I've worked with them. I've been business partners with the

majority of them, and so just the study of millionaires. And

you know, a lot of people say they're the millionaire makers.

Like, well, I got the book and the brand. So, and I've had it

since 2025. Actually, when McGraw hired me to write this in

2025, it was a three-book series on how to become millionaires,

how to create your cash machine, which is your business, and then

how to invest the money that you make. Because millionaires'

patterns was making and investing money, not making and

spending incorrectly, which is why you have tax problems. So,

what inspired it is you know there had to been a formula, and

it can't be that hard to crack, and I feel like we've cracked

it. And I think what I'm known for is just teaching work, like

what I call common sense, practical application versus the

theory. And so many gurus just talk about the theory. They

might have done one transaction. I have done an enormous amount

of transactions. I've run hundreds of companies, and it's

it's been a fun ride.

I love that so much. I'm neuroscience based, so

we do really go into the mindset work, which I know you also

cover to set the foundation for the practical application and

the strategy. But they're a both ends. They they work together,

and it's really important with your experience to be able to

bring the actual application to the table, so people know what

steps to follow in order to unlock their wealth identity.

Right, and so I think it's really important that you bring

that out. What what do you think makes your approach to wealth

building different from other money experts? I mean, I

mentioned one right now, but what are some other ways?

Well, it's it's my biggest distinction is

integration. The financial services world is extremely

segregated by design, so a CPA has a license, real estate

agents, brokers have licenses, insurance have licenses,

financial planners, and financial planners. Their base

class is less time than it takes to go to school to cut hair. Is

how pathetic the training is. Yeah, and so everyone has a

license that's segregated, payment and fees and

commissions. So

yeah, their employees. So why would they?

Yeah, sorry to interrupt. They're

employees mostly that they're mostly

employees that earn a fixed amount. They're not millionaires

who are running your business, right? And they don't talk

intentionally. They're not integrated intentionally. So

then you have an estate lawyer that's creating this massive

estate plan and asset protection, not talking to your

tax team, and to find somebody who can what I call quarterback

and really advocate. I just saw this huge gap. So early, early

in 2020, in the like 20 oh 203, I would just tell people these

are the people you need on their team. They go out and get them,

and then I found myself training experts who had absolutely no

interest in talking, and I said, "Well, I'm going to do this

differently. I'm going to go out and find, I'm going to find the

experts and lay down some very rules of our community, and

everybody's going to stay in their lane, and we're going to

operate on behalf of the client. The client's agenda wins, and we

work for the client. So, you you will get paid in a different

way, but you're not going to be paid in your traditional ways.

The thing you're going to get, though, is my volume of clients.

So, people come through the integrated wealth systems

process. We in chapter three of the book, and I'm going to give

everyone an ebook copy of this book. So, if people go to let me

see what the link is, asklaurel.com, a s k l o r a

l.com forward slash. Carol register, you will get this and

a couple tickets to one of my events that I do once a month.

That sets up how do you become a million or even 100,000 there.

Just get yourself in a better financial situation because most

people don't.

It's so true, and you know I even noticed

speaking to what you just said that I had an international tax

expert. Well, I still do, but he once he graduated from

Georgetown with his legal degree, the IRS forced him to

choose CPA or law. He couldn't do both, and so that was very

interesting finding out that distinction, and just being able

to educate ourselves along the lines you were talking about.

Who's advising us? Who's guiding us? Is it an employee that's

making far less in your making, like you mentioned? So, what are

the important steps that you recommend then for someone who

really wants to start building wealth quickly,

well, quickly is you got to learn to make

money. So we're taught. I teach a concept called living

corporate life, which means the way you make money, the way

wealthy people make money, is inside a company. And there's

corporate structure all over the world, as you said. I've been in

every continent. The difference is America has the strongest. It

has four different kind of corporate structures. So when

your company makes the money, not you. I always say companies,

right? Companies make money. Individuals get taxed. So too

many people think they need a big paycheck. I make $42,000 as

a single mom. So that's and I don't need more than that

because my companies have like I don't own a phone, I don't own a

vehicle, I don't own a home. Those are allowances that are

driven through my company that makes millions, but I don't own

the phone. I Laurel don't own a phone, so it's how do you live

really the Rockefeller principles of own nothing,

control it all. Yes, and the first thing you have to do

though, because what we're not taught that we're taught to

become employed, so the first steps are in addition to your

employment. You do have to have another business, a legal intent

to make money. It doesn't have to be big, doesn't have to be

worth millions, but you do need a business. Whether it's a small

franchise, whether it's just 21st century lemonade stand, you

could do like I have. I have literally big executives at

company, and one on this has a business that's a metal artist

builds beautiful metal lamps and gates and things. I have another

one who just partnered to some direct sales companies and sells

a whole nutrition program. Others that work on BrainTap and

other brain products. So you just have to have a business.

But the biggest skill that wealthy people have and know and

have on their tool belt is a way to make money, and the fastest

way to make money is use your brain. And most people don't

know how to monetize their expertise. And everyone, like

you, neuroscience, I have money. Every even a teacher, they could

they could hang out a shingle and be a tutor. They'll say,

"Well, I don't want to. Well, this isn't what you want to do

right now. This is, and I I do believe over time, like you're

living your passion, I'm living my passion. But we all of the

steps we got to be who we are. There were things that we did

along that journey that weren't our passion, you know, role. So

your first businesses to make money just get in business and

just learn to make money, which means marketing, sales, and cash

flow. And those aren't taught. Even my my son is a CPA. He's

been taught how to market being a CPA or sell or understand the

cash flow of his own company, so I do a lot of work with small

businesses, small medium sized businesses. I've I've got

clients that make 100 million, 50 million, 20 million. So our

range of breadth is really high because I have such an

integrated team. It's me and 28 other financial and business

experts that are part of that-that is what integrated

wealth is. Yeah, it's fun,

fantastic. So that number one simplest way

is-it sounds like definitely using your brain. So you know,

mentorship with that, and having a business. Right, number one,

have a business, have a way to make money, and you mentioned

several different ways, several different avenues that you do

it. So, it may not be your passion, but you could be

selling products, for example, like you mentioned, or working

with other wealthy executives. You want to add, keep going. And

like my first, yeah. I mean, one thing too,

though, because you said I'm a money manager. I'm not. I'm not

a manager means I have a license. I have no license.

Yeah, I work

with. Yeah, I I have everybody that's on our

team that needs a license has a license, and I'm not sure when

your friend graduated, but you can have a law and a CPA. You

can have both as of today. I mean, I know today that's a

standard. You can have both, so I don't know what era that he

could have those things. Yeah, but all of you could be a

mentor. All of you could be a coach. All of you could guide or

consult. I mean, a simple example of how to make money is

one by a housewife. Her husband is a GC general contractor,

makes tons of money. She's raised. Kids, he said, I don't

have any skills. And I said, you raised eight kids. What's the

one thing you're most proud of? And she said, Well, I had one

son who was had autistic tendencies, and I researched and

came up with a nutrition program, and it's so good. It's

just everybody in my family's on it. And I was like,

wow.

Then write a cookbook. She's like, but

anybody could do that. I said, you don't understand. Busy

people want consolidation. If you're willing to do all that

research and all that homework and come up with the recipes

that really has reduced his autistic tendencies,

yeah,

there's such a need for that. Go like create an

online recipe book. Whatever you do, put it up online. She had no

idea how to monetize it, but she had. I mean, everybody has

something. They just haven't thought. How do I make money

with this skill with this thing, and my transition out of

Chevron, right? Because I lived the corporate life, Chevron did

all that fitness. Is I called Bob Proctor, 1995 96, and I

said, I'm just I'm done with that. So he introduced me to she

was I went to work on a contract to be the master distributor of

the game for Robert and Sharon and the rich dad poor dad brand

for cash flow, and then so that. But I share that because that

gave me the the umbrella of the rich dad poor dad brand. I got

to see their marketing department. I got to see their

sales department. I got to see their accounting department. I

got to see their distribution, their wholesaling. I saw

everything.

Then

when I became a million in real estate in

1999, I launched. So I went not, not not knowing I was going to

stay, but I went there to learn. I went there to make money.

Number one, I made a lot of assholes. So much for those

guys. Yeah. But in also behind the scenes, they weren't

coaching, so I could take on the coaching. So I sold their books

there and started my stuff. So there's a way for all of you to

to walk into what you want to do and have the passion and the

love. But like a lot of you, you're like me. Like and even

when I started Live Out Loud, which then became Integrated

Well Systems, I didn't have any books. I used everybody else's.

I used Bob Proctor's. I still use Robert Sharon's The Rich Dad

Poor Dad stuff. I use Keith Cunningham. I'm sure you DC

Cordova. I use Money and You. So I used everybody else's great

content while I was the person spending time with them. So all

of you, you all have an ability to use other people's brilliance

and combine it into a package called bundling to make you

distinctively different. So you know people who say, oh, I'm so

stuck. I can't make money. You don't want to. You want some

magic wand. Which, by the way, you'll you'll enjoy this, Carol.

Look, I have a magic wand. I love that it doesn't work. See,

because people say, "Oh, you have a magic wand. Yeah, but it

doesn't work. It doesn't have any magic other than the fact

it's just fun to look at and has fun words on it. But a lot of

people think there's this magic wand or this magic, and yeah, it

is. It's another person that's going to inspire you. And you

know, one of the things people ask is, "How did I move so

quickly in my career? Is I always had a mentor. I still

today have people who I pay to coach me and mentor. People say,

"At your level, and I said, "There's always another level.

Yeah,

there's always a distinction. There's always something you

need to work on, and it's being that perpetual learner that I

think I don't think I know has kept me in the game.

Yeah, that I love this so much because you've

given us so much here mentoring. I noticed that right away. What

did you do when you were in that transition? You immediately

called Bob Proctor, and he went and

sat and learned at the feet of an incredible mentor, right? And

you're we're continuing to build your skills as you are today,

because every time we are in learning and we're with a

mentor, we are developing and building skills, which we can

then bring value to the marketplace, and with that value

in the marketplace at scale, we can monetize that. It becomes so

beautiful when we're able to do that. So, building a business,

having a mentor, being able to, you know, fund things in a way

that brings you in the three elements of business that you

mentioned, so that we have the cash flow and we can continue to

grow from there. I mean, it's really incredible what we have

available and using what you have, what your unique abilities

are. If you've raised eight kids, you have managed a

business. I don't care. There's no other way to put that, right?

Family business,

right? And you know that takes budgeting, that

takes planning and organization, that takes systemization. I

mean, you know, nursing, driving all the things, right? So you're

you're well equipped, and you know I love the way you're

making it more simple. You're just bringing things out that

keep it simple for us, and we can really unlock and unlock our

wealth identity and know who we are with the. Ability to produce

in a way that we want to produce. Would you just address

that a little bit between entrepreneurship and corporate?

Because you've been on both sides, and both are great. But

would you have a preference one toward another, or would you

run another order? I the order that it

occurred for me worked because I actually wasn't an employee. I

started my first my first real entrepreneurial venture was

seven aerobics instruction. So I started in the fitness world,

got my business degree, and then continued a master's degree in

exercise physics because I didn't really want to work in an

investment bank. But I hadn't hired enough mentors during that

college experience to really realize what entrepreneurship

was, and it's not taught properly. Mentors teach you

entrepreneurship. Even the schools-they're taught by

business administrative old professors that maybe ran a

little side hustle, but they've never run a multi-multi million

dollar company. So, for me, the only reason I had to become an

employee for Chevron for those years is because I couldn't

afford the helicopter insurance, and I was flying around on

seaplanes and mostly helicopters offshore. Right. So I had to

become an employee. But being an employee is the highest tax

position anywhere in the world. So if you choose to be a high

income earner, you will be taxed at the highest rate. The only

way to take that down is to have your own what I call cash

machine, your own business, so you can activate a ton of

deductions. You cannot just have a whole lineup of passive

income, like of passive real estate. A lot of people who are

big employees think, well, if I have enough passive real estate,

which, by the way, real estate is never passive. A tenant turns

over an Airbnb tenant, you know, wrecks your property. You're

always, you're always going to be active in that. Right. But

it's not enough tax advantage. And then how you really invest

the alternatives. What I mean by that is, you're not going to buy

a REIT on Wall Street. You're going to buy the real estate.

You're not going to buy a Chevron stock. You're going to

buy the oil well in Texas, Louisiana, or offshore,

or

you know, yeah, and has a way wherever you

find a good deal. Oklahoma's got some really great deals going

right now too. Line stock, you're buying your own airplane.

Yeah. So when I say the alternatives, you're buying the

asset that gives you the depreciation schedule. So it's

how you make your money. Taxes is really what I call a

how you make it into what company that allows what

deductions, and then how you invest. That all together is as

a strategy, a tax strategy, and we we excel at that. I mean,

integration takes a little time because I'll meet clients. Our

average client usually comes with a fair amount of money.

Some of millionaires, some of them not. I tend to get a lot of

widows who have a lot of life insurance going. Now, what do I

do? I don't know what to do, and they may not have made the

money, or they did make the money, but taxes is what kills

them financially if they don't manage it. And you have to pay

attention. You can't just kick that out to you know a CPA or

some basic tax team, you know most people who who do taxes I

call CPAs historians. You hand them your big box of stuff after

you did your year, and there's nothing to fix. They need to be

with you during the year if they know how to do that. And what I

found is a lot of CPAs don't know how to be with you and

strategize for a low tax basis, they just document what you did,

and that's an historian. That is not a strategist. A strategist

is what we do. We strategize forward. What are you going to

do? How much money are you going to make? Where do you want to

invest? Let's start looking now, and we lay out the plan in front

of you, versus worry about what happened behind you. And a lot

of people are stuck financially because they're so stuck about

what happened in the past, and so I was saying, "It's called so

what now? What? So what happened in the past that's not going to

affect you now? What do you want to do about it? And then we,

then I plan from there with you. Is what do you want to do? What

do you want to do to make money? What are you going to do? Our

teams will figure out your corporate structure. You're not

going to run to the secretary of state and get a an LLC just

because you need an LLC, maybe you need an S corp, maybe you

need a C corp, maybe you need something else. So we start with

a complete foundational. I call it architect. Like we're going

to fix the architecture of your wealth building. Then let's go

make more money, invest more money, and you use a team.

You're not going to do this by yourself. Yeah. If you do, good

luck. It's just too much to know and too much to learn.

I love that, and I think it's the rich dad poor

dad principle. You can't be an expert. Well, you can, you know,

if you you maybe super super level, but you know, multiple

years in HR and legal and accounting and you know

inventory or distribution, and that idea that you're captaining

the ship and then going out and having the expertise to help

you, and I love what you brought out about strategy, right? And

versus a historian, it's exactly what it is. You're just handing

your accounting all the documents. And if you're not

sitting and planning the future, then you're not really taking

advantage of all the things that are available to you. And the

thing I love too is, well, the tax code's over 70,000 pages,

and Is I

83,000.

I

big beautiful bill just took it all the way

up. I've been in a situation where talking to 10

accountants in a row in different countries, 10 in the

U.S. 10 in here in Chile, for example, and they have 10

different answers every time. But what I love about what

you're talking about is that you can go and work with somebody

like Laurel, who has the team, has the expertise, has the

testimonials of the work that she's done and what she's

produced, and so you can know that you're in a good spot

there, and you're actually doing something that you may have

never taken action on before. So thank you for that.

Yeah, and I do a class like the the tickets. If

they go to that link, the I'm sure you'll put it in the show

notes to the Ask Laurel A S K L O R l.com forward slash Carol

Register. I have two tickets. It's called the Millionaire

Intensive, where, like, there's just a two-hour period in the

beginning where I talk about how your company makes money, how

you do those deductions. Like, I basically give you a blueprint

of how you can reset your foundation. Then, I mean, then

those who really want help then continue to come forward, have a

one-on-one session with our team. So you're going to be

offered that, and if you want our teams to help because we're

integrated, and then you know Carol, I'll have those people

who will go off on their own and say, "Well, I'm going to find

one of all the people she has, and then they'll try to

quarterback it. And but they don't have enough experience, so

then they'll come back a year or two later. So I should have

joined, or I should have got your help because I tried it on

my own, but I didn't know what I was doing. Because at some

point, you, the entrepreneur, like I'm speaking to everyone

listening to this broadcast, you need to be the one focused on

making money and investing money. Those are your two

choices. Everything else, our teams will surround you and help

get stuff done with and for you because it's too much to do and

you don't have enough expertise

when you're focused on the marketing, the

sales, and the cash flow. That's your role in your company, so

that your company can flourish and grow and be an actual

business. I don't remember what the exact statistic is, but I

believe it's over 95% of businesses don't last 10 years

or fail within 10 years, and that's something to take very

seriously because your expertise is out there. It is available

for us. We can go get it. Yeah.

So again, go to the link and get my book.

Read up to chapter three. Do a gap analysis. You can always

call our office 775588 9200. Ask for a one on one session, or the

gap analysis in the book will guide you back to a one on one.

And that whole one on one is really to help you identify your

gaps and where you are. And then from there, then we give you two

tickets to attend an event. The next one's august 6, so

hopefully we're airing this before then. If not, the first

Thursday of every month we do an event, and we'd love to have

you. And it's a free event, so you can come and start learning

where your gaps are, what you need. And I've never met anybody

that doesn't need something in their plan.

Right, exactly. Thank you, Laurel. So, just to

repeat that one more time: reach out to that phone number, get a

one-on-one, find out where your gaps are, read the first three

chapters in. Hold up the book again, so we can see that the

millionaire maker. She's known as the millionaire maker. Then

also you will be able to receive the tickets for August the

sixth. the the incredible the incredible intenses that you're

having, so that we can come in and we can really begin to grow

and do things quickly and easily in ways we may not have

considered before, and that's the part I really love. I can't

wait to have you back on. This has been absolutely amazing.

Thank you so much. I'm super honored, and let's start to

apply what Laurel Langevier has shared with us today. Ciao for

now.

Thanks, Carol.