Itamar Novick has spent his career spotting opportunities before they became obvious.

As an early executive at Life360, he helped scale the company from seed stage to IPO. Today, as founder of Recursive Ventures, he backs AI startups at the pre-seed and seed stage, often when the product, market, and business model are still taking shape.

In this conversation, Matt Johns and Itamar explore why investors initially passed on Life360, what real user demand can reveal before consensus forms, and how Itamar evaluates founders when there is limited data and no certainty.

They also discuss the current AI opportunity, the difference between infrastructure and application-layer investing, the risk of AI-related job disruption, and why human adaptation may be moving far more slowly than the technology itself.

This episode is about capital allocation, founder judgment, conviction, and what serious investors can learn from the signals others overlook.

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Most investors spend serious time on financial due diligence. Almost none add the layer that can hit hardest, especially for Christian investors.

In this solo episode, Matt Johns introduces a practical framework called moral due diligence: a repeatable three-step process for evaluating whether an investment aligns with your values before your capital is already committed.

Matt walks through a real scenario, a retail strip center investment that passed every financial check, only to reveal a morally compromising anchor tenant months later — and breaks down exactly how a structured screening process could have caught it in advance.

What you'll hear in this episode:

— Why a deal can be financially clean and still be morally compromised
— The difference between financial due diligence and moral due diligence
— The three-step framework: Discover, Discern, Decide
— How negative screens work and why the largest Christian investment firms already use them
— A traffic light system for assessing moral risk in any deal (green, yellow, red)
— Four ways to respond once a moral concern is identified: walk away, mitigate, redirect, or engage
— Where AI tools fit into the screening process and where they don't

If you want to start defining your own moral exclusions before your next deal lands on your desk, claim your free Christian Investment Alignment Assessment at christianalts.com.

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What if one of the most powerful ways to build a startup community was not another pitch event, investor panel, or networking happy hour but a dinner table?

In this episode, Matt Johns sits down with Jon and Cherie Werner during the Texas Venture Gala and Forum to talk about how they helped build FIESTA, a monthly gathering in Austin that has connected thousands of founders, funders, entrepreneurs, and innovators.

But this conversation is not just about startups. It is about hospitality, trust, belonging, Christian entrepreneurship, and what it looks like to bring faith-shaped presence into the marketplace without making it forced or performative.

Jon shares from his background as a technologist and entrepreneur, including building Bones in Motion, a mobile fitness company acquired by Adidas. Cherie brings the heart of the story: how community, encouragement, and simple acts of connection can help address the loneliness many founders experience.

Together, they show why no-agenda generosity can sometimes create more real impact than traditional networking ever could.

In this episode, we discuss:

How FIESTA started over dinner

Why Austin’s startup community needed a place of belonging

The loneliness problem many founders face

What makes no-agenda community different from normal networking

How Christian investors and startup founders can connect with purpose

Why the marketplace can become a mission field

How one simple ask helped lead to a $1.5M raise

ChristianAlts explores alternative investing, private markets, capital allocation, stewardship, and conviction-led thinking through a Christian lens.

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What does wealth reveal about a person’s character, family, and faith?

In this episode of ChristianAlts, Matt Johns sits down with David Sebastian, a family office advisor to wealthy families and author of Infinite Returns, to discuss wealth, Scripture, stewardship, family governance, and what money reveals about the heart.

David brings a unique perspective from working closely with high-net-worth families as they navigate wealth transfer, generosity, family tension, legacy, and the difficult decisions that come with meaningful capital.

This conversation goes beyond generic Christian money advice. Instead of stopping at “give more” or “steward well,” Matt and David explore deeper questions:

What does Scripture actually say about wealth?

How do families pass on wisdom, not just assets?

When does wealth create tension inside the family?

And does money change people, or simply magnify what was already there?

ChristianAlts explores alternative investing, private markets, capital allocation, and conviction-led thinking through a Christian lens.

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In this episode of ChristianAlts, Matt Johns sits down with Bob Fraser, Founder & CEO of Aspen Funds and author of Invest Like a Billionaire, to explore why wealthy investors often think differently about risk, private markets, and alternative investments.

Bob shares how losing everything through major market cycles shaped the way he thinks about capital preservation, private credit, real estate, and investor stewardship. The conversation also looks at why many investors are taught to see public markets as the default path, why alternatives are often misunderstood, and what it means to invest with discipline through a Christian lens.

This is a thoughtful conversation on risk, wealth preservation, private markets, faith, and the responsibility of managing capital well.

Topics include:

• Why billionaires invest differently
• Alternative investments and private markets
• Private credit and real estate
• What losing everything taught Bob about risk
• Why many advisors are not trained around alternatives
• Stewardship, faith, and investor responsibility
• Building wealth without losing sight of legacy

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Are smartphones and social media simply tools or are they intentionally designed to keep us addicted?

Matt Johns speaks with Dr. Johann D’Souza about technology addiction, dopamine, social media, pornography, and the business models driving the modern attention economy.

The conversation explores how companies use behavioral psychology, notifications, infinite scroll, and reward systems to capture attention and maximize engagement. Dr. D’Souza explains how addictive technology can shape the brain, weaken relationships, dull real-world experiences, and normalize constant stimulation.

For ChristianAlts, this raises a deeper question: if certain companies profit from addictive digital design and attention capture, how should values-aligned investors think about those business models?

Topics include:

• Phone addiction and technology addiction
• Social media addiction and dopamine
• Infinite scroll and behavioral psychology
• Pornography addiction and relationships
• The attention economy
• Ethical investing and business models
• Human flourishing in a digital age

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Why do so many families build wealth, only to lose it a generation later?

Matt Johns sits down with John Knowlton to explore the real reason generational wealth so often disappears, and why the problem usually goes far deeper than investing.

John brings a rare mix of experience to the conversation. He has served as a pastor, built three registered investment advisory firms, and spent years thinking about leadership, stewardship, family systems, and what it actually takes to build something that lasts. Together, Matt and John unpack the role of family governance, shared values, inheritance planning, decision-making, and the structures that help wealth endure across generations.

They discuss why money alone is rarely enough, how families can build stronger systems around capital, what it means to be a force for good over time, and why raising the next generation well may be one of the most overlooked parts of legacy planning.

This is a conversation about more than wealth. It is about stewardship, family, purpose, and the kind of structure required to make capital serve something bigger than the present moment.

If you are interested in generational wealth, family governance, inheritance planning, legacy, stewardship, or building wealth with greater intention, this episode will give you a deeper framework for thinking about what lasts.

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What happens when a successful hedge fund investor begins to question whether returns alone are enough?

In this episode, Matt sits down with Peter Lupoff, former hedge fund founder, family office investor, impact investing educator, and Partner at Beatrice Advisors to explore how his view of capital changed over time.

Peter shares the personal and professional turning points that led him from traditional investing into the world of impact investing, and explains why he believes money can be used as a tool not only for financial returns, but also for measurable social and environmental outcomes.

They discuss:

• Peter’s transition from hedge funds to impact investing
• what a 100% impact investing portfolio looks like in practice
• the difference between ESG and impact investing
• how family offices and wealthy families are thinking about values-aligned capital
• why measuring impact is still one of the biggest challenges in the space
• what the next generation of investors understands about capital that others may be missing

This is a thoughtful conversation about wealth, values, responsibility, and the future of investing and why Peter believes this is not a passing trend, but where capital is heading.

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