Most founders spend decades building their financial capital, yet nearly 90% fail to protect and transfer their true legacy. Building wealth isn't the same as sustaining it. Neither is designing your legacy. A separate team of advisors is needed. In the day to day, many wealth creators also stumble because of slow adaptation, lack of liquidity, unaligned advisors, and no clear map for passing on their mindset, experiences and ‘all other forms of capital’.
In this episode, hostess Angelina Carleton speaks with Alexey Sokolov of Northwestern Mutual to break down why standard wealth strategies fall short—and how to build different systems for family alignment, financial security, and intergenerational impact. To design a legacy that truly protects and inspires, you need a holistic, dedicated discipline—not just standard financial products. Also, by developing your family into a healthy and functional team and surrounding yourself with advisors who ask the uncomfortable questions AI can’t, you transform your business success into an enduring legacy. Tune into hear how you too can prepare yourself for real legacy preservation and why your human experiences are as valuable as original artwork!
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Alexey Sokolov helps tech founders, investors, and senior professionals design tax‑efficient, resilient wealth strategies so they can focus on building, not worrying. Over the last decade, he has:
- Managed capital in a hedge fund environment and navigated multiple market cycles.
- Led a broker‑dealer and worked inside regulated financial infrastructure.
- Built fintech products for investors and professionals, seeing where systems fail in real life.
Typical challenges he works on:
- Founder liquidity and diversification without “blowing up” future upside.
- Structuring cross‑border and multi‑jurisdiction wealth in a tax‑aware way.
- Building investment frameworks that balance growth, downside protection, and lifestyle goals.
Alexey can be reached at: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexeysokolovnm;
[email protected].
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At Legacy Planning©, we work with 'rising gen' entrepreneurs, wealth creators, and family stewards who are ready to turn their success into lasting contribution. Our co-active coaching and advisory services help you clarify what matters—beyond balance sheets and the four corners of a document. We guide you with aligning your values, relationships, and influence into a legacy vision you can lead from with confidence today, and pass on with intention for tomorrow.
Whether you're navigating a personal transition, succession planning, inheritance, or seeking deeper meaning after financial success, we provide the structure and space to ask life's most important question: What will you leave in the hearts and hands of others? Because legacy isn’t what you leave behind—It’s how you show up today.
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