Today's guest is Anna Brailsford, the CEO of Code First Girls, a UK-based coding school giving free coding education to women.

They have just raised £4.5m and are using it to create 1 million learning opportunities for women .

Code First Girls was set up to alleviate the colossal gender gap that exists in coding. It is actually quite frightening: 93% of all professional tech developers identify as men.

The consequences of this are very real too - GCHQ has partnered with Code First Girls to improve their diversity in order to tackle threats ranging from foreign states to child online safety.

With coding guaranteed to be one of THE jobs of the future, this is a fascinating episode with the woman in charge of making sure that everyone can access this vital skill set.

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In this episode with Anna we discuss: 

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The brand new series of Jimmy's Jobs of the Future is here - and you're going to love it.

We're launching with one of the most inspiring UK entrepreneurial stories with Romi Savova from PensionBee.

In series 5 we talked to some of the biggest institutions in the UK, including the Bank of England and the next Prime Minister of the UK, Liz Truss.

In this series we are going back to our roots with a female founder who has taken a business from seed funding right through to IPO, transforming lives and the pension industry with it. 

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In this episode, we talk with Romi about:

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In August we hosted the first-ever live show of Jimmy's Jobs of the Future at The Selkirk in Tooting.

It was amazing to see so many listeners in real life and the whole evening was an unforgettable experience and milestone in the journey of the show.

We can't do it all again soon.

This episode is the recording of the live show to give you a taste of what you may have missed out on: a brilliant discussion with Patch Founder Freddie Fforde.

Freddie is an inspiring entrepreneur looking to solve the office Vs work-from-home dilemma by offering something of a middle ground- Work Near Home.
  
It's a great concept and in a world of increasingly polarised extremes it's nice to see sometimes the solution to a complex issue is down the middle of the road.

We're releasing this as an extended teaser for our new season that is launching on Wednesday 7th September - subscribe to make sure you don't miss it!

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It's the news you've been waiting for...

The new series of Jimmy's Jobs will launch next Wednesday 7th September.

Last season was a recording-breaking season for Jimmy's Jobs, starting with the Governor of the Bank of England and finishing with the candidates to be Prime Minister, Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss. 

This new series I'm kicking off with one of the most incredible female founders in Romi Savova, CEO and co-founder of PensionBee. It's a remarkable journey, going from seed to IPO in less than a decade and it's a fabulous discussion about her compelling story as well as how they innovated in part due to their way of hiring...

Later in the series, we're talking to other amazing guests like Anna Brailsford from Code First Girls, Tania Boler from Elvie and Paul Bate from the UK Space Agency. 

And finally, thank you the Listeners for spreading the word about this show and making the Jimmy's Jobs community what it is today. 

We'll have a teaser episode of our first ever live show this Saturday before the series starts in earnest on Wednesday.

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Welcome to the last two episodes of our 5th season.

On Friday, I hosted the conservative leader hustings in Eastbourne and got to ask the candidates, Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak, their thoughts on the future of the economy and how the jobs of the future will play into their mandate.

For the first time ever on a podcast, we are democratising these interviews for the wider public to hear, splitting the two candidates across two separate episodes. 

This is our second podcast from the event, this time with Rishi Sunak, who has incidentally been on Jimmy’s Jobs before in January. 

In this interview, I ask Rishi how he is going to help businesses keep the lights on and what he most admires in his opponent, Liz.

This series has been the biggest yet for Jimmy’s Jobs- launching with the Governor of the Bank of England and ending with the future Prime Minister (whoever that may be). We also hosted our first live event where it was so amazing to see you all in person.

We’ll be returning after a short break with our 6th series, where we’ll be hoping to reach even dizzier heights! 

As always, thanks for listening. 

Questions we ask Rishi Sunak:

Rishi then answers a series of questions from members of the audience, on topics ranging from cryptocurrency to transparency in government. 

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Welcome to the last two episodes of our 5th season.

On Friday, I hosted the conservative leader hustings in Eastbourne and got to ask the candidates, Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak, their thoughts on the future of the economy and how the jobs of the future will play into their mandate.

For the first time ever on a podcast, we are democratising these interviews for the wider public to hear, splitting the two candidates across two separate episodes. 

And, just like in the real event, first up is Liz Truss. 

We ask Liz a wide range of topics from how she will better help scale-ups to what her favourite podcast is- all the while trying to steer the conversation towards more than just tax… 

As you may have seen in the news, Liz's Q&A with the audience was interrupted by protestors, which we have for obvious reasons edited out. Otherwise, the interview is the same as it was live. 

This series has been the biggest yet for Jimmy’s Jobs- launching with the Governor of the Bank of England and ending with the future Prime Minister (whoever that may be). We also hosted our first live event where it was so amazing to see you all in person.

We’ll be returning after a short break with our 6th series, where we’ll be hoping to reach even dizzier heights! 

As always, thanks for listening. 

Questions we ask Liz Truss:

Liz then answers a series of questions from members of the audience, on topics ranging from how to get disabled people into work to the climate crisis.

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How do you define an entrepreneur? I think this is one of the most interesting questions and one that has serious effects for public policy.

Are you an entrepreneur when you start hiring people? Is a freelancer an entrepreneur? Or, in fact, is anyone who starts any organisation an entrepreneur?

Brett Wigdortz, today's guest, is a great example of blurring the boundaries of these definitions. He founded Teach First nearly 20 years ago to solve the public policy issue of getting more ambitious graduates to start their careers in teaching.

It has been a tremendous success and is still the largest public sector graduate recruiter in the UK.

 We talk to Brett about the journey of founding Teach First and why now he is aiming to solve the childcare sector with his new venture, Tiney.  

This is our penultimate episode in our 5th series, with it all culminating next week in our interviews with the candidates to be the next British Prime Minister, Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss. 

In this episode with Brett we talk about:

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Welcome to the second half of our interview with CBD gin founder Sally Wynter.

In this episode, we talk a bit more about Sally's personal side of things- the things that make her tick,  the experiences which have formed her worldview and what she has in store next.

You can catch the first episode on Youtube or on our website at https://www.jobsofthefuture.co/episodes 

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You may have noticed there is going to be a new Prime Minister in the coming weeks.

I am delighted to announce that Jimmy's Jobs is hosting the Conservative Leader Hustings in Eastbourne this Friday, where we will interview both candidates about their views on the economy and the jobs of the future.

And we want to hear from YOU!

Send us the questions you want the two candidates to answer by signing up for our notebook and emailing us. 

We will select the best ones and ask them directly to the candidates in our interviews.

You can sign up for the notebook here: https://www.jobsofthefuture.co/notebook

We will also be releasing the interviews as special episodes on the podcast as part of our series finale in the next few weeks. 

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This is the amazing story of how a young female entrepreneur turned an idea on the beach into a ground-breaking reality. 

Sally Wynter founded the UK's first CBD-infused Gin company, MUHU Spirits,  and bootstrapped her way into one of the most inspiring entrepreneurial stories of the last few years.

This is Sally's first-ever interview about how she did it and it's a really heartfelt discussion about the trials and tribulations of being an entrepreneur.

 This is the first episode of the interview with a second episode due next week where we get to know the more personal side of Sally. 

In this episode we discuss:

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