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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Rishi Sunak is running for Prime Minister. 

If you've been following this podcast since the start of the year, you'll know that we did a landmark interview with Rishi back when he was still Chancellor. 

It was a wide-ranging interview covering his job in the treasury but it also had some very personal questions: How does he deal with his mental health? How does he deal with failure? What are his reflections on raising two daughters?

It has been dubbed by the Independent as Rishi's most revealing interview yet...

In the context that he could become our next Prime Minister, I have repurposed the more personal side of the interview so you can get a clear look at the person who might soon run the country. 

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One of my favourite things about doing this podcast is that we get to profile entrepreneurs at all stages of their journey.

From the likes of Sarah Wood who exited Unruly a few years ago to the likes of Herman Narula, who raised a mega-round of £500m for his company Improbable.

Today's guest is right at the start of that journey - so much so that this is their first-ever podcast.

Patrick Pinto is the co-founder of Really Clever, a company that is looking to make sustainable materials out of fungi, and has just raised 750k from angels and VCs including Hoxton ventures.

They are currently taking on the leather industry, an industry the size of Portugal's GDP- but their plans don't stop there...

In this episode we talk about:

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Today’s episode is really special- we were invited to record a live episode of Jimmy’s Jobs at the Conservative Home Future Jobs conference, held at the RSA in Embankment where we interviewed the amazing Justine Greening. 

Justine is perhaps best known for being the Secretary of State for Education, Transport and International Development in past governments, as well as being the MP for Putney until 2019.

She is now running the Social Mobility Pledge, campaigning to improve social mobility and equality for opportunity, working with huge businesses from Tesco to PWC to universities across the country.

You could even say she has quit politics to do even more policy.

Thank you to Conservative Home for hosting us and organising such an inspiring event. You can find them at https://conservativehome.com/

In this episode we talk about:

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Veganism has grown by 40% in the last couple of years. In 2019, even The Economist declared it the year of the vegan.

Veganism is big business.

That's why we sat down with JP from all plants on my podcast to talk through his journey and why the future is vegan.

JP founded allplants alongside his brother to target the flexitarian eater- a market worth £10bn in the UK alone. 

As veganism continues to increase, they've raised £40 million from people who've backed the likes of Cazoo, Trustpilot and Revolut.

It's a fascinating conversation, looking at the way that we eat food and the way that that is changing in a convenience-driven economy.

We talk about JP's family history and what led him to become an entrepreneur and he spoke about how he took a year out to find his true calling.

In this episode we talk about:

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The biggest question facing a lot of businesses right now is- what is the future of my office?

We are asked by lots of people what the future of the office will look like- it’s a problem largely unresolved with businesses of all scales struggling to motivate people to come into the office in the first place or make sure they have a nice time when they do.

Overall,  it’s hard to think of a sector more disrupted than office real estate in the past 2 years.

Today’s guest could well be the answer to all that. Lucy Minton is the co-founder of Kitt Offices, a company that designs custom workspaces that match unique business needs.

We talk to Lucy about how businesses are wanting to use the office space, what that looks like in reality and how to design a workspace for this new paradigm of work. 

This episode is a subject we have wanted to cover for a long time and we finally found the perfect guest to talk to us about it- after all, who’s better to talk about a disrupted sector than the startup doing the disrupting?

In this episode we discuss:

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