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 building one of the fastest-growing platforms for faith-driven capital, she's convinced the next chapter of generosity isn't about writing bigger checks — it's about learning a whole new language.

Aimee co-founded Impact Foundation with her husband Jeff, a platform that lets donor-advised fund holders move beyond grants and deploy capital into impact investments — from foster care housing initiatives to entrepreneurs across the developing world. Trained as a lawyer with a philosophy degree, she has spent nearly two decades at the intersection of faith, generosity, and capital markets, helping shape the modern infrastructure of Christian giving.

Key Topics:

• The founding story of Impact Foundation and the "three customers" test that shaped it
  
  
• Why $1.4 trillion sitting in donor-advised funds and private foundations represents an untapped opportunity
  
  
• The "ring around the neck" — why deployed-but-undeployed capital creates spiritual tension
  
  
• Cross-cultural investing and why proximity changes how we steward capital
  
  
• A foster care housing initiative blending public, private, and nonprofit capital
  
  
• Why institutional-scale capital, not just individual deals, is the next frontier
  
  
• The call for a modern "discipleship of the balance sheet"
  
  
  

For investors who've mastered the discipline of giving but feel stuck when it comes to deploying capital with purpose, this conversation offers both a framework and an invitation to think differently about the whole balance sheet, not just the checkbook.

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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 capital through it?

Hosts Richard Cunningham and Luke Roush sit down with Scott Highmark, Co-Founder, President & Principal of Mosaic Family Wealth in St. Louis, for a conversation that moves from Fed policy and AI valuations to the framework behind his new book, The Significance Pyramid — out September 16th.

Key Topics:

• Whether "higher for longer" rates are a new normal or just a return to historical normal
• Reading the August jobs report and earnings data for signs of real economic resilience
• The AI investment cycle — "pricing in magic," and whether we're in the third inning or the seventh
• Overlooked risks behind the AI boom: grid capacity, commodity shocks, and geopolitical black swans
• Why the financial advisor's role is shifting from information access to emotional and spiritual guidance
• Scott Highmark's new book, The Significance Pyramid, and the four dimensions of true wealth
• Ephesians 2:10 and what it means to align time, talent, and treasure with a meaningful pursuit

For investors trying to make sense of a market that feels both historically normal and unusually uncertain, this conversation offers something rarer than a hot take — a way to hold market discipline and soul-level purpose in the same hand.

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 medical doctor turned investor, and the Founder of HealthCap Africa, a venture capital and infrastructure fund investing in healthtech and fintech across the continent. After founding and scaling Flying Doctors Nigeria, she moved into investing — raising her first fund from 12 Nigerian families before launching HealthCap in 2020, with MasterCard anchoring the fund's first close. She now sits at the intersection of medicine, finance, and faith, building a thesis around two sectors she believes are central to Africa's future: healthcare and financial services.

Key Topics:

• The origin story behind Flying Doctors Nigeria — and the personal loss that started it
• Why healthcare is one of the most inflation-resistant, counter-cyclical sectors to invest in
• Nigeria's population trajectory and what it means for global investors
• Portfolio spotlights: MDaaS Diagnostics and InstantRad's AI-powered radiology
• Reframing "health and wealth" away from prosperity-gospel connotations
• What Jesus's healing ministry teaches about business as a tool for the gospel
• Why West African entrepreneurial culture may be closer to America's than Europe's

For investors weighing whether God might be calling them into African markets, this conversation offers something rare: a data-backed macro case paired with a deeply personal, faith-rooted why. Dr. Brown makes the case that comparative advantage, population growth, and Kingdom impact aren't competing priorities — they're the same opportunity.

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