Companion Resources
Everything you need to go deeper.
Videos, reflection guide, and tools for readers and advisors.
Put ideas from the fiction book into practice in the real world.
Hear Rachel in her own words — on faith, finance, and what it looks like to align capital with calling.
Faithfully Stewarding Surplus: The 4 Steps
This video provides a clear 4-Step process to faithfully stewarding wealth that surpasses your provision needs. There are not simplistic, prescriptive answers. Just a practical approach to implementing the wisdom from the story.
The Head & Heart
Investment Philosophy
Gain basic understanding of the types of values-aligned and impact investments with the Spectrum of Positive Investing. Wealth is fuel for purpose. The right approach for investing depends on the purpose of each pool of capital. Providing for family is important, but for those stewarding a surplus, clarity on purpose goes beyond provision.
Rebuilding Eden
7 Areas of Clarity as you Cultivate
Your connection with God is a portal into deeper purpose, potential, and meaning as you manage resoruces he has entrusted.
The Garden Blueprint: Mission & Vision
Your connection with God is a portal into deeper purpose, potential, and meaning as you manage resoruces he has entrusted.
Practical tools for faithfully stewarding a surplus — whether you've recently come into a surplus, or you've been carrying it for a while.
Reflection & Discussion Guide
For readers, couples, book clubs, and anyone who wants to move the conversation beyond the pages. Our guide includes reflection questions for each chapter, group discussion prompts, and "Selah" moments to pause and search your heart when it comes to your stewardship.
10 Questions to Ask Your Financial Advisor About Values Alignment
Most financial conversations never get here. These questions will. Whether you've worked with your advisor for twenty years or you're meeting someone new, these prompts move the conversation from returns to values — and reveal whether your portfolio is pointed where you think it is.
The Garden Blueprint — Mission & Vision Workshop
Before you can align your capital, you need to know what you're aligning it toward. This facilitated workshop guide helps individuals, couples, or families articulate their financial mission and vision — the "why" behind the portfolio. Used by Rachel in client sessions for years. Now available for anyone.
What Is Impact Investing? A Plain-Language Primer
No jargon. No assumptions. A clear, honest explanation of what impact investing is, how it works, what the tradeoffs are, and how to know if it belongs in your portfolio. Written for investors who are curious but don't know where to start — and for advisors who need something to share with clients who are asking the question.
Would some other resource help?
Take the Garden Audit first.
Before the resources, before the advisor conversation, before anything else — the Garden Audit helps you see where your capital is flowing and where it's drifted from your convictions. 15-minutes. Free. And it ends with a personalized Capital Alignment Report you can keep, share, or bring to your next advisor meeting.
