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Get to know two DLP investors: former NFL star Tim Tebow and Demi-Leigh Tebow, the winner of Miss Universe 2017.
September 8, 2026
Impact in Action
Today, their work centers on faith, family, and service to the world’s Most Vulnerable People (MVPs). Married since 2020, they bring that same mindset to how they think about money, family, and what gets left behind.
Tim Tebow has spent time in locker rooms, boardrooms, prisons, orphanages, and fundraising events around the world. Ask him what has surprised him most about people and he’ll answer, “How similar everyone is.” The clothes change, the conversations change, but the questions underneath don’t: “Do I matter? Am I loved? Is there something more than this?”
Tim refers to people as "image-beings," meaning they carry a worth that comes not from what they have done, but from who they are: sons and daughters of the King. It’s a conviction that has reshaped how he measures a life. Once you start seeing people that way, everything changes.
Tim is honest about the fact that he hasn’t always lived by this philosophy. Looking back, the belief he would challenge most is the assumption that leaving sports would quiet the temptation to put himself first. “It didn’t. It just changed,” he recalls. What he wants now is to look back one day and see, “that my greatest strain wasn’t for a game. It was for the people Jesus called the least of these.”
That perspective has been forged in unlikely places, teaching Tim some of his most valuable life lessons. He tells a story about a boy named Ethan, who at thirteen and in palliative care, chose to recite Psalm 40:5 on camera to encourage other kids.
His actions serve as a powerful reminder that many of us confuse joy with comfort. Comfort is something you arrange. Joy is something you receive.
He sees the similar problems in how families handle wealth. Stewardship gets treated as a money question, something to manage on a balance sheet, when to Tim it was never only about money.
When speaking about stewardship, Tim often refers to the Greek word oikonomia, which means house manager—someone responsible for the whole estate, not just the finances. "When you treat stewardship as just money," he says, "it doesn't make it to the dinner table." The money is the simple part, it compounds on its own. The conversation about why doesn't happen unless you make it.
So he pushes families to have hard conversations early, and to learn for themselves that many aren't financial conversations at all. Why are we doing this? What breaks our heart? What does enough look like? Families who never answer just keep moving the line, and their kids inherit a treadmill instead of a target.
The hardest question, he says, is also the most clarifying, “If we lost it all tomorrow, would we still be okay?” Answer yes, and everything you own becomes an opportunity instead of a possession. "These aren't financial conversations," Tim says. "They're identity conversations."
In Tim’s view, comfort and compassion can’t happen at the same time. Real stewardship lives in the willingness to keep showing up after the check clears. A check is a start, but going on the trip, sitting with the family, and staying after the easy part is over is what shows up long-term.
When Tim talks about his own legacy, sports never come up. He wants to look back and say it started for a game but ended for the cause of Christ, "I hope I show up to heaven exhausted."
That is why Tim signed on to help launch Extraordinary Trust. “Extraordinary Trust’s mission meets me right where I’m sitting.” He believes families need a way to pass on the why behind their wealth management plan. Many never get there. They spend a lifetime building their assets and barely any time building a legacy that speaks to their convictions. That is the gap he aims to close.
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For Demi-Leigh Tebow, whose work brings her face-to-face with survivors of trafficking around the world, protecting her heart from cynicism comes down to proximity. “Behind every statistic is a story, someone’s reality,” she says—quickly adding that it's the people she serves who protect her heart, not the other way around.
What has surprised her most is the shape resilience takes when it's given room to grow. On a safe campus in Southeast Asia, she met a young trafficking survivor whose favorite flower was the sunflower, notably a flower that always keeps its head toward the light.
Before she was rescued, the girl said, she had felt like a dead, lifeless flower. Now, surrounded by the love of her community, she has become as she says, “a blooming, beautiful sunflower.”
For Demi-Leigh, the metaphor captures resilience in full bloom, stating, “He can take what the world sees as a mess and turn it into a message for His glory.”
That posture has reshaped how she approaches both mentorship and presence. She walks into every relationship with open hands, “I come ready to give, but equally ready to receive,” she says. “But I know the most important thing I can do in any given moment is simply be in it.”
Her message to families is just as clear: “The only identity worth building your life around is the one that lasts forever.”
Legacy, she insists, is both spiritual and tangible, and it starts now, not someday. For her, it starts at home. As a new mom to daughter Daphne, Living Fully now means being present. She reminds us, “Be intentional about what you’re building, starting now.”
Marriage, the Tebows say, has humbled them more than any title or platform and has taught them that real leadership starts from within, “Your actions have to match your priorities,” they say.
That same conviction shapes how they think about generosity. To them, it's less of a transaction and more of a response—what they call compassion over comfort. It's also how they read someone's character. How they treat the people who can't do anything for them.
That’s the lens they brought to DLP Capital. Tim’s father used to tell him, “If you’re ever given a platform, do more than just win the game.” The Tebows see the same discipline in DLP’s refusal to treat success and significance as competing values.
“Success is about you—building something for yourself. But significance is about what you do for other people.”
What convinced them, they say, was that DLP builds for both, “It’s not a tagline for them (DLP)—it’s how they actually work.” When a room full of people believes every person has worth, Tim says, “the impact compounds in ways you can’t even predict,” adding, “and the DLP community gives more than money. They’re investing their lives.”
Their challenge to investors and families for the year ahead is two words: “Look again.” Look again at the people who are easy to walk past, because once you really see them, you can’t look away. That’s where it starts.
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