Laravel provides built-in services for sending and verifying email verification requests, and securely resetting passwords. However, customizing these features can be beneficial when building APIs or web applications without using Laravel's default authentication packages. This tutorial demonstrates how to create custom email verification and password reset functionality in Laravel, including setting up the application, database migrations, model and migration setup, authentication, middleware, and routes. The tutorial also covers testing the API using Postman and verifying that the custom email verification and password reset features are functioning properly.