#394 Robert Netzly - The Truth Behind Big Corporations Is Scary
Real Talk with Zuby
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🗓️ 19 December 2025
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Summary
Zuby sits down with Robert Netzly, CEO and founder of Inspire Investing, to discuss how a personal conviction led him to walk away from traditional Wall Street in 2011. Robert explains what Biblically Responsible Investing (BRI) is and how he successfully launched faith-based ETFs on the New York Stock Exchange. He reveals how companies are screened and how people vote with their dollars. The conversation also dives into stewardship, complicity with evil, and a thoughtful discussion on Bitcoin.
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Timestamps:
(00:00) Introduction
(00:18) Robert and Inspire overview
(01:31) Career before 2011
(02:14) Discovering portfolio conflicts
(03:03) Profiting from abortion drugs
(04:14) Leaving Wall Street
(06:10) Building BRI funds
(08:34) Defining BRI investing
(10:23) Hidden moral exposures
(17:09) Inspire scoring framework
(21:39) Weightings and Tesla
(30:10) Consumer vs owner ethics
(36:04) Why it’s controversial
(43:31) Complicity, taxes, engagement
(47:23) Repentance and trusting God
(53:43) Buying Inspire ETFs globally
(54:19) Bitcoin debate and valuation
(1:08:02) Outro
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| 0:00.0 | Robert Netsley, welcome to Real Talk with Zubi. |
| 0:03.0 | Thanks for having me on. |
| 0:04.0 | It's a pleasure to have you on, Robert. |
| 0:06.0 | I was just telling you before we hit record that I just actually finished reading your book a few weeks ago, and so the timing of this is perfect. |
| 0:13.0 | So, Robert, for people who aren't familiar with who you are and what you do, please introduce yourself to my audience. |
| 0:19.0 | Yeah, my pleasure. |
| 0:20.0 | My name is Robert Netsley, CEO and founder of |
| 0:22.8 | Inspire Investing. And we're a biblically responsible investing fund manager, I guess you can call us. |
| 0:30.7 | Most people know us as the world's largest provider of faith-based ETFs. And as you mentioned, |
| 0:36.3 | wrote a book about kind of the story of how God |
| 0:38.3 | brought that to be. And then a lot of the questions people have about this really amazing movement |
| 0:43.4 | that's going on where God's opening the eyes of his people to this huge problem that we're taking |
| 0:47.5 | his money and putting into things that are just breaking his heart. And we have an opportunity to |
| 0:53.3 | change that and really make an impact for the |
| 0:56.2 | kingdom and how we're managing his money so we've been doing this for you know a number of years now |
| 1:01.6 | since 2011 I made me exodus out of the standard wall street kind of infrastructure and |
| 1:07.1 | went on this journey with with the Lord in front, and it's been really wonderful. |
| 1:12.4 | Awesome. |
| 1:13.2 | Well, I know a little bit about your story |
| 1:14.6 | because I've read the book, |
| 1:15.9 | but for people who are listening, |
| 1:17.9 | please explain what led you to this. |
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