Lane Kawaoka, PE | Media kit: oil and gas tax strategy guest
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Pronunciation: Kawaoka = kah-wah-OH-kah. Goes by Lane.

== One-liner for show notes ==
Lane Kawaoka, PE is a licensed engineer, 2x bestselling author and founder of The Wealth Elevator, an investor community that has taken part in $2.1B of real estate acquisitions. He teaches high earners how oil and gas fits into a tax plan and a diversified net worth.

== Short bio · about 60 words ==
Lane Kawaoka, PE is a licensed engineer turned investor and the founder of The Wealth Elevator. His investor community has taken part in $2.1B of real estate acquisitions across 65+ projects and raised $230M+ from investors. Today he focuses on oil and gas as a tax strategy for high-income professionals who do not qualify as real estate professionals. He is the author of two Amazon bestsellers.

== Medium bio · about 100 words ==
Lane Kawaoka, PE spent 12 years as a licensed Professional Engineer while building a rental portfolio on the side. Through The Wealth Elevator, he went on to take part in $2.1B of real estate acquisitions across 65+ projects and raise $230M+ from investors. Many of the doctors, executives and business owners in his community earn too much to benefit from passive real estate losses against their wages, which pushed Lane to study oil and gas as a tax and diversification tool. He hosts The Wealth Elevator podcast, has written two Amazon bestsellers, and lives in Honolulu.

== Long bio · about 150 words ==
Lane Kawaoka spent 12 years as a licensed Professional Engineer while quietly building a rental portfolio on the side. He scaled from single-family rentals into syndications and, through The Wealth Elevator, has taken part in $2.1B of real estate acquisitions, 10,000+ units acquired across 65+ projects, and $230M+ raised from investors.

As his investors' incomes grew, their biggest problem shifted from finding returns to keeping more of what they earned. Many are doctors, executives and business owners earning $400K+ who cannot claim real estate professional status, so depreciation does little for their W-2 income. That gap led Lane into oil and gas, where, depending on how the investment is structured, intangible drilling costs can offset active income for some investors. He now teaches investors how to evaluate operators, structures and the economics behind the deduction. He is the author of The Wealth Elevator and Simple Passive Cashflow and lives in Honolulu.

== Host intro · read aloud, about 30 seconds ==
"My guest today is Lane Kawaoka. He's a licensed engineer, a two-time bestselling author, and the founder of The Wealth Elevator, an investor community that has taken part in over two billion dollars of real estate acquisitions. Lately he's been focused on something that rarely comes up with financial advisors: how some high earners use oil and gas in their tax planning. Lane, welcome to the show."

== Short intro · about 10 seconds ==
"Lane Kawaoka is an engineer, bestselling author and founder of The Wealth Elevator. Today he's here to talk about oil and gas as a tax strategy for high earners."
