Mark Wambolt Strategic Partnerships Eventide Faith Based Driven Investing Impact Financial Finish Line Podcast
Finish Line Podcast Episode 193

Mark Wambolt, Head of Strategic Partnerships at Eventide, on Investing the Leads to Flourishing

You want your investments to provide wisely for your family and future, but have you ever wondered what the companies behind those returns are actually doing in the world.

If every dollar you invest helps shape businesses, communities, and generations, how can you steward capital for both financial responsibility and human flourishing?

Meet your guide

Mark Wambolt is Head of Strategic Partnerships at Eventide, a faith-driven investment firm helping Christians and financial advisors approach investing through a biblical lens. After growing up outside Boston and entering the financial industry at a remarkably young age, Mark built a successful career while increasingly questioning whether his faith and his investment decisions could remain separate.

That question eventually led him to Kingdom Advisors and Eventide, where he encountered a broader vision of stewardship. Rather than asking only what Christians should avoid owning, Mark explores how investors can intentionally support businesses whose goods are truly good and whose services genuinely serve people. He unpacks Eventide’s avoid, embrace, and engage framework, shares examples of capital supporting human flourishing, and considers how giving, impact investing, and traditional investing can each serve different purposes.

By the end, you may find yourself thinking differently about what your investments are already accomplishing and how your capital might more intentionally serve people, places, and future generations.

What you’ll gain

  • How to connect Christian faith with everyday investing decisions
  • Why financial returns are only one outcome of investing
  • How avoid, embrace, and engage can clarify investment stewardship
  • What human flourishing can look like inside profitable businesses
  • How to discern between giving, impact investing, and investing
  • Why multigenerational thinking can reshape your use of capital

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Quotes to Remember

  • “I thought, you know, there’s this business investing world, that’s my job. And then there’s my faith, that’s the other side. I kind of had this feeling that never the two shall meet. At that moment, they just collided in the best possible way.”
  • “Yes, we care about what we avoid. But almost more importantly, the avoidance is a step on the journey toward what do we want to own?”
  • “The opportunity that we have as investors is to not just steward capital, but to direct it intentionally.”
  • “There’s a reason that what a business creates is called goods and services, because they should be good and they should serve.”
  • “God is a creator. And then he makes man in his image. I believe that reflection is that we too should be creators who make good things.”
  • “When mammon has become the god, it’s no longer about goods and services. It’s about what can I do operationally to generate the highest return?”
  • “We love business. We just want to make sure it’s aimed at goods that are truly good and services that truly serve.”
  • “You can just go through example after example for all of history, even up to the present day, that investors have for hundreds of years shaped the culture that we live in.”
  • “I think that people are waking up to the idea of stewardship.”
  • “Making intentional investment decisions is becoming core to how I serve my clients well.”
  • “What are the investments I can make today that maybe won’t pay any dividend for me, but for the next generation and the generation after that, I will be so glad to have made the sacrifice in my life?”
  • “I think there’s an incredible opportunity for Christians to pause, think multi-generationally.”

Links from the Show

Bible References from the Show

Genesis 1:1 | God the Creator

“In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.”

Genesis 1:27 | Made in God’s Image

“So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.”

 

This communication is provided for informational purposes only and expresses views of Eventide Asset Management, LLC (“Eventide”), an investment adviser, and Mark Wambot, Head of Strategic Partnerships. This does not constitute investment advice nor is it a recommendation or offer to purchase or sell or a solicitation to deal in any security or financial product. Eventide does not provide tax, accounting, or legal advice. Eventide’s values-based approach to investing may not produce desired results and could result in underperformance compared with other investments. There is no guarantee that any investment will achieve its objectives, generate positive returns, or avoid losses.

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