Leading with Heart, Inspiring with Purpose 🌟
Welcome to LauraBrandao.com – Where Passion Meets Purpose and Action Creates Impact
Hi there! I’m Laura Brandao—a lifelong champion of the mortgage industry, devoted to educating, empowering, and elevating others to reach their highest potential. Whether you’re here to connect, collaborate, or simply get inspired—you’ve found your home.
As a mortgage industry leader, I wear many hats (and proudly so!):
✨ Chair of NAMMBA’s Visionary Program
✨ VP & Board Member at MBANJ, Chair of its Women’s Committee
✨ Chair of Women with Vision
✨ Member of NAMB’s Expanding Opportunities Committee
✨ Member of the AIME Women’s Mortgage Network committee
✨ Executive Coach, Speaker, Connector—and your biggest cheerleader!
I’ve had the honor of being a four-time best-selling author, a nationally sought-after speaker, and a guiding voice in rooms where innovation, leadership, and purpose collide. My mission? To shine a light on the people, programs, and possibilities that move our industry forward.
As CEO & Partner at Lighthouse Advisors, I’m building a powerhouse consultancy designed to support and grow mortgage and real estate professionals with cutting-edge strategies, specialized services, and a team of remarkable experts.
And the journey doesn’t stop there—I’m expanding my impact as a proud partner and owner in:
- Lighthouse Advisors
- SYE Insurance
- SYE Publishing
- ClearCloser
I also proudly serve on the boards of:
- FridayHarbor.ai
- MLB Mortgage
- MoreAlign.ai
- The Private Asset & Management Group, LLC
- Watermark Capital TPO
🏆 Honored. Grateful. Inspired to Do More.
I’m humbled to have been recognized with awards such as:
- 2024 Most Connected Mortgage Professional
- 2024 Woman of Influence
- 2024 Industry Titan
- 2023 Vanguard Award
- 2022 & 2023 Lending Luminary
- 2023 Most Successful Business Leaders to Watch
- 2023 Most Influential Women to Watch
- 2022 Legends in Lending
- 2021 & 2022 MPA Elite Women in Mortgage
- 2022 10 Most Inspirational Business People
- 2022 NJBIZ Leaders in Finance
- 2021 MPA Housing Industry Icon
- Four-time Most Powerful Women in Mortgage
- Four-time Woman of Influence
- Four-time Woman with Vision
Let’s Stay Connected
Let’s grow together. Let’s shine together. And let’s make the mortgage industry better than we found it—one connection, one conversation, one act of leadership at a time.
➡️ Join the conversation.
➡️ Be part of the impact.
➡️ Let’s light the way—together.
“The biggest thing that I learned is that if you go into every situation with no preconceived notions or expectations you can do ANYTHING!”
– Laura Brandao
So, I decided to start saying YES to situations that I normally wouldn’t. It all started with being asked to moderate a panel discussion at a mortgage conference. Since then I have gone from sitting in the office to taking center stage in more than one way.
See jumping on a stage is one thing but sharing your voice without fear is another and once I realized how much the world needed positivity I continued to think of ways to share my message.
Spotlighting spectacular mortgage women is very important to me. In 2020 I launched the WMN column in the Women with Vision digital magazine in efforts to bring more women front and center and allow them the opportunity to share their life journey and perspective with our industry.
If you already look forward to checking in Monday mornings for my Motivational Monday message, you are going to be excited to tune in on Wednesdays for Wednesday Wisdom, the newest chapter in my mission to encourage positivity and joy in the world. We will expand on the Monday message and be addressing topics like: Being a positive role model every day Doing business with a generous heart Strengthening unbiased listening as a means to understand Making time to volunteer in your community Bringing your authentic self to relationships Seeing vulnerability and honesty as strengths Tapping into empathy The importance of having and being a mentor Embracing opportunity, equality, and diversity …..and many more! Please tune to my YouTube channel for Wednesday Wisdom! We look forward to seeing you there!