SJP Podcasts
Will tomorrow’s tech solve today’s problems? What will our children’s old age be like? How carefully can we plan in an unpredictable world?
Famous guests and great minds join our studio team and St. James’s Place experts to explore the ideas, people and trends that are shaping our futures. Packed with fascinating insights and lively conversation from around the world, on the things you’ll need to be prepared for – from the way we’ll live, work and invest, to science, money and psychology.
Episode 10: Staying the course in an ever-changing world
We explore the idea that understanding your mindset and amending your behaviour can change the outcome in any pursuit
To kick off the third season of Tomorrow Comes Today, Matt, Rob and our new host Harriet explore the idea that understanding your mindset and amending your behaviour can change the outcome in any pursuit.
We speak to three very special guests:
- Daniel Yergin - author, historian, and energy expert
- LaRae Quay - former counterintelligence agent
- Melanie Eusebe - author and business strategist
Presenters: Rob Gardner, Matt Potter, Harriet Shepherd
Producer: Sera Berksoy
Editing: Nathan Copelin
Assistant Producers: James Busby, Stuart Knott, James Lawrence
Tomorrow Comes Today is a St. James’s Place Wealth Management John Brown Media production. If you’d like to discuss any of the issues raised, just call your St. James’s Place Partner or email [email protected]. As ever, the hashtag to follow or like the discussion of the issues covered is #tctpodcast.


Episode 9: Responsible investing and climate change special
A special edition recording that took place in the run-up to COP26, where we were joined by three climate experts to get their views on the most pressing climate change issues
This special edition webcast was hosted by Matt Potter, Chief Content Officer at John Brown Media, and Rob Gardner, Director of Investment Management at St. James's Place, as they were joined by three climate experts to discuss:
- How money, invested responsibly, can be used as a powerful force for good and why investors don't have to sacrifice returns to do the right thing
- Whole-of-society mobilisation in the fight against climate change – a collective role for consumers, makers, investors and citizens
- The ground-breaking ideas and innovations that will power the green revolution
- The circular economy – and why sustainable business is good business
You can also watch the recording here.
Learn how your money can be a powerful force for good.
Tomorrow Comes Today is a St. James’s Place Wealth Management John Brown Media production. If you’d like to discuss any of the issues raised, just call your St. James’s Place Partner or email [email protected]. As ever, the hashtag to follow or like the discussion of the issues covered is #tctpodcast.
Episode 8: Moving beyond our assumptions
How can the biases we hold within us affect the decisions we make and the work we produce? Ultimately, how do they shape our future?
In this episode Matt Potter, Rob Gardner and Vicki Foster explore these questions through three different lenses with our guests this week - the future of the world we live in with futurist Mark Stevenson, the future of aging with Professor of Economics Andrew Scott and the algorithms that shape our lives with Dr Safiya Umoja Noble.
Presenters: Vicki Foster, Rob Gardner, Matt Potter
Producer: Sera Berksoy
Editing: Nathan Copelin
Assistant Producers: James Lawrence, Stuart Knott, James Busby
Tomorrow Comes Today is a St. James’s Place Wealth Management John Brown Media production. If you’d like to discuss any of the issues raised, just call your St. James’s Place Partner or email [email protected]. As ever, the hashtag to follow or like the discussion of the issues covered is #tctpodcast.


Episode 7: Talk is cheap
How do you get past the easy answers and arrive at meaningful action?
Matt Potter, joined by St. James’s Place’s Rob Gardner and Vicki Foster, talks to journalist and author Annabelle Williams about just that – exploring why women are poorer than men and what to do about it. He also catches up with the ex-head of finance and planning at one of the largest banks in Syria when the war broke out, Louai Al Roumani, about how to manage in a crisis. And he asks the former director of operations and intelligence for the British Secret Intelligence Service, Nigel Inkster, who will win the looming techno wars.
Presenters: Vicki Foster, Rob Gardner, Matt Potter
Producers: Sera Berksoy, Stuart Knott
Editor: Nathan Copelin
Tomorrow Comes Today is a St. James’s Place Wealth Management John Brown Media production. If you’d like to discuss any of the issues raised, just call your St. James’s Place Partner or email [email protected]. As ever, the hashtag to follow or like the discussion of the issues covered is #tctpodcast.
Episode 6: Reframing your perspective
How can shining a light on different perspectives encourage us to learn, grow and develop?
In this episode, hosts Matt Potter and Rob Gardner talk to some very special guests who are helping to shine that light. George Magnus, one of the world’s foremost experts on China, tells us how stepping away from the media narrative can increase our understanding of what’s really going on. Astrochemist Ashley Walker discusses how she is working to get black and female voices into science, while Barnaby Spurrier and Greg Nugent talk about their documentary, Rising Phoenix (pictured above), which looks at the advent of the Paralympic Games and the future of the Paralympic movement.
Bank ranking source: S&P Global Market Intelligence report of the 100 largest banks in the world, data correct at the time of recording.
Presenters: Rob Gardner, Matt Potter
Producers: Sera Berksoy, Nathan Copelin, Stuart Knott
Assistant Producer: Chris Marais


Episode 5: Superstar tennis coach Judy Murray
What can we learn from one of the most legendary coaches in the world of sport, and apply it to our own choices, investments, and lives? Judy Murray has steered her sons Andy and Jamie Murray to greatness, founded competitions, and coached countless successful players as kids and adults. In this very special episode, hosts Matt Potter and Rob Gardner delve deep into the psychology, method and instincts of the game, to reveal some often-surprising truths about the value of advice.
Presenters: Rob Gardner, Matt Potter
Producer: Sera Berksoy
Editing: Nathan Copelin
Executive Producer: Chris Marais
Episode 4: Plausible futures
In this episode, hosts Matt Potter and Rob Gardner meet the people putting in the hours to investigate what our world might be like in the years to come. Gavin Serkin, author of Frontier: Exploring the Top Ten Emerging Markets of Tomorrow, has travelled the world scoping out frontier markets, while Nicholas Booth and Elizabeth Howell, authors of the new book The Search for Life on Mars: The Greatest Scientific Detective Story of All Time, have examined the ultimate frontier market. Finally, we meet Future Today Institute founder Amy Webb, the futurist who doesn’t predict the future but models it – with a methodological approach and by challenging her own biases.
Presenters: Rob Gardner, Matt Potter
Producers: Sera Berksoy, Nathan Copelin, Stuart Knott
Assistant Producers: Chris Marais


Episode 3: Drowning in data, starving for wisdom?
In this episode, hosts Matt Potter, Rob Gardner and Claire Trott are joined by the FT’s Undercover Economist Tim Harford, who explores the perils of prediction, with cautionary tales of unexpected crashes in stock markets and computers; Baroness Camilla Cavendish, former advisor to Prime Minister David Cameron and author of the acclaimed book Extra Time: 10 Lessons For An Ageing World, discovers some intriguing possible futures as our populations age; and we meet Toby Heaps, the ‘clean capitalism’ pioneer, who reveals how greater transparency has allowed investors to become a powerful force in global efforts to make business more sustainable.
Presenters: Rob Gardner, Matt Potter, Claire Trott
Producers: Sera Berksoy, Stuart Knott, Nathan Copelin
Assistant Producers: Chris Marais, James Hedley
Sources:
Camilla Cavendish: DB Global Research; Eurostat
Rob Gardner: Statista; Decennial Life Tables, ONS; Exxon via InsideClimate News; SJP Annual Report, 2020; Nordea; United Nations
Episode 2: The new normal
How does sleeping help us make smarter decisions? Will working from home challenge the need for big cities? What can history teach us about the journey from crisis to ‘new normal’? In this special recorded-under-lockdown episode, hosts Matt Potter and Rob Gardner meet the people whose job it is to help turn those crises into opportunities.
Presenters: Rob Gardner, Matt Potter
Producers: Nathan Copelin, Sera Berksoy
Assistant Producers: Chris Marais, James Hedley


Episode 1: Context is everything
Just how intelligent is Artificial Intelligence? Will the robots take over? Are millennials really so different from Baby Boomers? And how close is Britain to closing the gender gap in everything from pay to pensions? Hosts Matt Potter, Rob Gardner and Alice Wilkinson talk to Professor Geraint Rees and “AI weirdness” researcher Janelle Shane, meet youth money expert Iona Bain… and discover what makes us so gloriously, uniquely human.
Please note, this podcast episode was recorded prior to the events of the COVID-19 outbreak.
Producer: Nathan Copelin
Assistant Producers: Chris Marais, Sera Berksoy
Additional reporting: Stuart Knott
Sources:
Rob Gardner: World Economic Forum, “How We Can Save (for) Our Future”, June 2018
Iona Bain: Pension Policy Institute, “Understanding the Gender Pensions Gap”, July 2019
Tomorrow Comes Today is a St. James’s Place Wealth Management John Brown Media production. If you’d like to discuss any of the issues raised, just call your St. James’s Place Partner or email [email protected]. As ever, the hashtag to follow or like the discussion of the issues covered is #tctpodcast.