Faith Driven Investor

Marks on the Market: The Work Beneath the Boom Host Richard Cunningham and Luke Roush of Sovereign’s Capital sit down with Kyle Pieratt, President and CEO of Vermeer Mountain West, for a ground-level look at the infrastructure cycle reshaping American markets. Before a data center goes up, someone has to bring in the water, the power, and the fiber. Kyle’s team sells the equipment that puts those...

Host John Coleman sits down with Brent Beshore, founder of Permanent Equity, for a conversation about what changes when an investor stops carrying weight that was never theirs to carry. Brent Beshore did his first private equity deal before he knew what private equity was. Today he runs a firm that buys companies with no intention of selling, and he is convinced the opposite of faith is self-relia...

The Crash Everyone Is Waiting For Host Richard Cunningham and co-host Luke Roush sit down with Hank Bowen, who helps lead investor relations and capital formation at Sovereign's Capital, for a conversation that reads the market from the allocator's chair and grounds it in Scripture. Investors have been saying "this can't go higher" for years, and markets keep proving them...

Discipleship of the Balance Sheet Host Justin Forman sits down with Aimee Minnich, Co-Founder of Impact Foundation, for a conversation that traces the shift from writing checks to deploying capital as an act of discipleship. Aimee Minnich says the donor-advised fund era taught a generation of Christians how to give money away. It didn't teach them how to invest it. Nearly two decades into bui...

What Comes After You Win Scott Highmark has spent two decades watching high achievers reach the very top of their field — competitively great, by any definition — and arrive there lonely. That question sits underneath this month's Marks on the Market, too: what does a market pricing in near-5% rates, a resilient jobs report, and an AI-fueled earnings boom actually ask of the people stewarding...

When Dr. Ola Brown's 12-year-old sister needed emergency care in Nigeria, the nearest air ambulance was seven hours away, in South Africa. The family lost her. Dr. Brown made a promise to God that day — and kept it, building an air ambulance service that would go on to serve over 40 African countries and fly more than 5,000 emergency requests a year. Dr. Ola Brown is a British-Nigerian medica...

Host Henry Kaestner sits down with Matthew Rohrs, leader of Synapis, to explore one of the most overlooked opportunities in frontier-market investing: the "missing middle" — businesses too large for microfinance but too small (or too early) to attract private equity and venture capital. Matthew shares how Synapis has spent over a decade training and accelerating entrepreneurs across Keny...

Record Highs, Negative Gas Prices, and the Discipline Dividend Host Richard Cunningham sits down with co-host Luke Roush and returning guest Jordan Strebeck of Fortress Energy Partners for a conversation that starts at the S&P 500's all-time high and ends at a Permian Basin wellhead where operators are paying to get rid of their own natural gas. The numbers alone are worth the listen: fou...

Host Richard Cunningham welcomes co-host John Coleman for July's Marks on the Market, joined by two veteran venture investors: Phil Jung, who helps lead the venture investing business at Sovereign's Capital, and Mark Phillips, co-founder and managing partner at Eleven Tribes Ventures. The panel digs into a historic first half of 2026 for venture capital, the "barbell" strategy...

What if the most freeing financial decision you could make had nothing to do with your portfolio returns? In this episode, host Justin Forman sits down with John Cortines, co-author of God and Money and True Riches and a generosity leader at the Maclellan Foundation, for a practical, spiritually grounding conversation about generosity, stewardship, and freedom. John shares how his journey began at...

Hosts: Richard Cunningham, John Coleman, Luke Roush Guest: Kyle Brown, CEO, Trinity Capital (TRIN) Key Topics: The private credit market has grown 6X in the last decade — but headlines conflating software-sector turbulence with systemic credit risk are getting the story wrong How 90% of institutional allocations have flowed to just 12 companies and 50 funds, creating compressed spreads, race-to-th...

John Coleman sits down with Kristian Andersen — co-founder and partner at High Alpha, the Indianapolis-based venture studio and fund — live at the Main Street Summit in Columbia, Missouri. Kristian traces his unlikely path from freelance designer to venture capital pioneer, unpacking how High Alpha's hybrid studio-fund model is navigating the most disruptive era in software history, and why h...

In this America 250 special edition of Marks on the Market, Richard Cunningham and Luke Roush sit down with Donna Harris — founder and CEO of Builders and Backers, venture investor, and co-author of the redemptive investing playbook at Praxis — for a wide-ranging conversation on the state of American entrepreneurship, the limits and promise of venture capital, and how the AI revolution is democrat...

Host Luke Roush sits down with Kyle Kutz, Private Family Office Director, Senior Family Office Advisor, and Senior Partner at Blue Trust — a faith-driven wealth advisory firm managing $60 billion in assets across 11,000 client families nationwide. Together, they unpack what it looks like to build wealth with an eternal purpose, define a financial finish line, and break the cycle of anxiety that we...

Faith Driven Investor Podcast | Ep. 221 | Marks on the Market: The State of Faith-Based Investing in Public Markets — with Tim Macready of Brightlight Key Topics: The mixed performance picture for faith-based funds in 2025 — the average faith-based fund underperformed by just under 2.5%, driven largely by exclusions of Magnificent Seven stocks — and why that context matters for long-term investors...

Episode Title: Solving the World's Greatest Problems: How Collaborative Giving Funds Are Reshaping Impact Capital Guests: Zac Sicher (Fund Manager, Hunger & Joblessness — Solving the World's Greatest Problems) and Rebecca Yuschak (Grants & Operations Lead — Faith Driven Investor) Host: Justin Forman with Henry Kaestner Key Topics: How philanthropic "first-loss" capital...

Eternal Perspective: Rewiring How Faith-Driven Investors Think About Reward, Heaven, and Stewardship Host Justin Forman sits down with author and theologian Randy Alcorn — founder of Eternal Perspective Ministries and author of 65 books including Treasure Principle , Heaven , and Law of Rewards — for a conversation that challenges some of the most deeply held misconceptions in Christian life and i...

Marks on the Markets: Geopolitics, AI Disruption & Where Smart Capital Is Moving in 2026 Host Richard Cunningham is joined by co-host John Coleman and market experts Matt Monson (Public Equities, Sovereign's Capital) and Brian McClard (CIO, Blue Trust) for the March 2026 edition of Marks on the Markets. With Operation Epic reshaping global energy dynamics, AI rewriting the rules of market...

The Future of Faith-Based Financial Advice: Rob West on Kingdom Advisors, Biblical Stewardship, and the $22 Trillion Opportunity Host John Coleman sits down with Rob West, CEO of Kingdom Advisors and host of the nationally syndicated Faith-Fi radio program, to explore how biblically-wise financial advice has moved from the fringes to the forefront of Wall Street—and what that means for the trillio...

Faith Driven Investor Podcast - Episode 216 Join hosts Richard Cunningham and Luke Roush as they sit down with Steve Cook, Executive Managing Director of LFM Capital, for a deep dive into the state of US manufacturing and the reshoring revolution transforming American industry. From the deck of an aircraft carrier to the shop floor to private equity boardrooms, Steve brings a unique perspective on...

Faith Driven Investor Podcast - Episode 215 Carl Edwards, NASCAR Hall of Famer and one of the 75 greatest drivers of all time, sits down with host John Coleman to share his remarkable journey from a Columbia, Missouri Volkswagen shop to the pinnacle of motorsports—and his courageous decision to walk away from it all at age 36. This conversation goes far beyond racing. Carl vulnerably discusses the...

Join Richard Cunningham and John Coleman for the first Marks on the Markets episode of 2026 as they welcome Brandon Pizzurro, President & Chief Investment Officer at GuideStone Capital Management, to unpack what investors need to know heading into the new year. After three consecutive years of double-digit returns, the conversation explores whether markets can sustain this momentum, the future...

Join hosts Henry Kaestner, Justin Forman, and Luke Roush as they preview the upcoming 2026 Faith Driven Investor Conference, exploring the transformative theme "Seeds vs. Silos" and what it means for how we steward capital in service of God's kingdom. Key Investment Topics: Understanding the J-curve of investing and why seed capital requires patience before bearing fruit The converg...

Behind The Chosen: Faith, Film, and the Fight for Culture Join host John Coleman on the set of The Chosen in Midlothian, Texas, for an unprecedented conversation with producers Chris Juen and Chad Gundersen of Out of Order Studios. From the Sanhedrin throne room itself, Chris and Chad share the untold story of how a crowdfunded Jesus project became a global phenomenon reaching 520 million people—a...

Join FDI hosts Richard Cunningham, John Coleman, and Luke Roush, along with Justin Forman of Faith Driven Movements, as they recap an extraordinary year in markets and ministry. Recording just before Thanksgiving, this special year-end episode explores the key economic trends that shaped 2025 and the remarkable growth of the faith-driven investing ecosystem. Key Investment Topics Discussed: US eco...