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Shoot Room Sessions

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3 days ago

What if the future of tech wasn’t about faster chips — but deeper values? Richard Peers, founder of Responsible Risk and former Microsoft and Accenture leader, has lived through every technological revolution from the birth of the PC to the rise of AI — and he’s seen what we keep getting wrong. He built alliances without power, sold the future to people terrified of change, and watched as the world’s biggest companies learned that timing, not talent, decides who wins. But now, Richard’s focus...

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What if the future of tech wasn’t about faster chips — but deeper values? Richard Peers, founder of Responsible Risk and former Microsoft and Accenture leader, has lived through every technological revolution from the birth of the PC to the rise of AI — and he’s seen what we keep getting wrong. He built alliances without power, sold the future to people terrified of change, and watched as the world’s biggest companies learned that timing, not talent, decides who wins. But now, Richard’s focus...

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E143 Richard Peers: The Next Operating System

What if the future of tech wasn’t about faster chips — but deeper values? Richard Peers, founder of Responsible Risk and former Microsoft and Accenture leader, has lived through every technological revolution from the birth of the PC to the rise of AI — and he’s seen what we keep getting wrong. He built alliances without power, sold the future to people terrified of change, and watched as the world’s biggest companies learned that timing, not talent, decides who wins. But now, Richard’s focus...

3 days ago

1 hour 47 minutes

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E142 David Marquet: The Leadership Mutiny

What if the best leaders stopped giving orders altogether? David Marquet — former US Navy submarine commander and author of Turn the Ship Around! — took command of the worst-performing crew in the fleet and transformed them into one of the best. His breakthrough wasn’t about charisma, authority, or discipline. It was about letting go. By replacing command and control with intent and trust, Marquet built a culture where everyone thought like a leader and acted with ownership. It wasn’t theory ...

5 days ago

1 hour 22 minutes

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E141 James Shepherd: From Responsibility to Resilience

James Shepherd’s journey began in a family boatyard in South Staffordshire, but his path was never straightforward. Growing up with challenges at home, he learned responsibility far earlier than most, lessons that shaped both his resilience and his ambition. From Cambridge to Knight Frank, from shaping land to shaping a family, James shares how he’s navigated the shift from son to father, and what it means to leave behind more than just a career: a legacy of love, adventure, and trust. This c...

1 week ago

1 hour 15 minutes

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E140 Carl Atkin-House: Scaling the Unscalable

What does “scale” really mean when you’re talking about saving the planet? For Carl Atkin-House — Head of Natural Capital Strategy at Climate Asset Management — it’s projects measured in tens of millions of dollars and thousands of hectares. Regenerative agriculture. Sustainable forestry. Environmental assets that prove nature can deliver institutional-grade returns. In this conversation, we go deep into the billion-dollar frontier of natural capital: where finance meets farmland, and impact ...

1 week ago

1 hour

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E139 Andy Creak: Natural Capital: A Guide for Institutional Investors

Andy Creak isn’t here to talk about sustainability — he’s here to rewire finance itself. After decades building fintech platforms and taking on titans like Fidelity, Andy turned his attention to the one market still stuck in the dark ages: natural capital. With his company Kana, he’s creating the digital infrastructure to make investing in nature as easy — and as powerful — as buying stocks or bonds. We go deep into the friction points no one wants to face: the absence of reliable data, the c...

1 week ago

56 minutes

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E138 Alex Godfrey: Carbon, Cash, and Collapse

Alex Godfrey left a career in high finance to rebuild the rules of investment around the only capital that matters: nature. From the Bolivian Amazon to UK estates, he’s seen firsthand how regenerative agriculture, biodiversity credits, and carbon markets can reshape not just land—but entire economies. This conversation cuts through the noise on ESG and digs into the real questions: How do we make natural capital investable? What happens when carbon, water, and biodiversity become mainstream r...

2 weeks ago

1 hour 18 minutes

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E137 Guy Hayler: Building The Blue Earth Summit 2025

Guy Hayler doesn’t just talk about business as a force for good — he’s building the ecosystem to prove it. As co-founder of Blue Earth, Guy has raised £155 million for 60+ purpose-led companies and is connecting founders, corporates, and investors who actually want to change the system, not just tick a sustainability box. From the BE100 campaign filtering 1,000+ startups into the top 100, to BE Ventures backing companies reshaping energy, food, and finance, this is about moving capital at sca...

3 weeks ago

1 hour 27 minutes

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E136 Julia Armstrong D'Agnese: Forecasting the Future

Julia Armstrong D’Agnese isn’t selling software. She’s building Earth Knowledge — digital twins of the planet that Fortune 500s, governments, and insurers use to see the future before it hits. From hurricanes to droughts, supply chain shocks to financial collapse — the risks are here, but most of us are still blind to them. Julia and her team fuse climate, weather, and nature data into something more valuable than oil or gold: foresight. We talk about scaling a company that partners with Micr...

1 month ago

43 minutes

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E135 Peter Stein: The Conservation Deal-Maker

Peter Stein has spent his life proving that conservation isn’t about nostalgia—it’s about power, money, and strategy. From building urban parks in the South Bronx to managing Lyme Timber’s $900 million portfolio of forests, Peter has been at the intersection of land, finance, and community for decades. He’s seen how conservation easements can outlast politics, and how private capital can scale nature protection faster than government ever could. In this conversation we go deep into conservati...

1 month ago

1 hour 9 minutes

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E134 Anika Staccone: Nature Needs More Than Numbers

Anika Staccone has always lived at the edge of forests and frontiers. From watching pine beetles devastate her childhood landscapes in Colorado, to leading research on nitrogen-fixing trees at Columbia, her path has been shaped by the question of how we truly understand nature. Today, as Product Owner at Earthshot Labs, she is fusing AI, geospatial data and field science into tools that don’t just measure trees, but unlock new ways of protecting them. This conversation is about why ground tru...

1 month ago

34 minutes

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E133 Tripp Wall: The Economics of Restoration

Can markets really bring ecosystems back to life? Tripp Wall thinks so — and he’s putting capital where most only put campaigns. As founder of Trailhead Capital and Pantheon Regeneration, he’s scaling restoration projects that don’t just conserve nature, but rebuild it: rivers, forests, biodiversity, and the communities that depend on them. We dive into the economics of regeneration — from voluntary carbon and regulated water markets to the AI tools tracking ecosystem health in real time. Tri...

1 month ago

1 hour 1 minute

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E132 Shannon Smith: The Truth Behind Offsets

Carbon markets could be the backbone of climate finance. Shannon Smith, Chief Commercial Officer at Chestnut Carbon, joins Rich Stockdale PhD to unpack one of the most controversial tools in climate finance. From planting 30,000 acres of diverse forests to signing a 25-year, 7-million-tonne carbon removal deal with Microsoft, Chestnut Carbon is moving at scale. Backed by JP Morgan, powered by LIDAR and data science, their projects aim to rebuild trust in an industry riddled with scandals. Thi...

1 month ago

58 minutes

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E131 Lauren Carrol: Through the Lost Forest

Lauren Carrol, Chief Operating Officer at BrewDog, takes us inside one of the most talked-about sustainability moves in business: the acquisition — and sale — of The Lost Forest. From a dinner with David Attenborough to buying a Scottish estate, BrewDog has never shied away from bold, ambitious action. Their decision to pass Kinrara Estate on to Oxygen Conservation reflects a recognition that the project’s scale and long-term potential could be best realised through dedicated conservation ste...

1 month ago

38 minutes

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E130 Tim Graham: Wilding Without Limits

What if the systems meant to protect nature are actually holding it back? Tim Graham has spent 20 years inside the world of conservation, and he’s not afraid to call out what’s broken—and what’s possible. From reviving lost species and shaping national policy, to navigating bureaucracy and ethical minefields, Tim takes us behind the scenes of nature recovery like few others can. Rewilding isn’t just a concept—it’s a way to engage people, spark action, and challenge the status quo. He shares b...

1 month ago

1 hour 20 minutes

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E129 Paul McMahon: From Soil To Scale

What if farming wasn’t broken — just funded the wrong way? Paul McMahon, Managing Director of SLM Partners, joins Rich to reveal how regenerative agriculture and forestry can become profitable, scalable, and investable. From cattle that restore grasslands to continuous-cover forestry, from carbon markets to “lighthouse” farms inspiring the next generation — this is about turning food and forests into a future worth backing. It’s finance, farming, and climate — but not as you know them.

1 month ago

50 minutes

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E128 Franjo Salic: Recharging the Energy Revolution

What if the future of energy isn’t in building new projects — but rebuilding smarter ones? Franjo Salic, Chief Investment Officer at CEE Group, joins Rich in Rotterdam to reveal how repowering and hybridisation are transforming renewables. From turning a 50 MW solar farm into 140 MW on the same land, to combining wind, solar, and storage into resilient super-sites, Franjo explains the real innovations powering Europe’s clean energy transition. They dive into the economics of risk and return, ...

1 month ago

30 minutes

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What if the conversations everyone else avoids are the ones we most need to hear? Shoot Room Sessions isn’t about safe answers or polite headlines — it’s about sitting down with people brave enough to rewrite the rules. Entrepreneurs, rebels, innovators, and misfits who don’t wait for permission. 🌍 A huge thank you to our sponsor, Knight Frank, for making these conversations possible. Their support helps us dive deep into the crucial topics shaping a more sustainable world. Subscribe now a...

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E127 Jake Fiennes: The Wild Return to Holkham

Forget what you think you know about conservation. Jake Fiennes, Director of Conservation at Holkham Estate, is rewriting the rules of land management, biodiversity, and environmental investment in the UK. From bringing cattle egrets and white-tailed eagles back to Norfolk skies, to challenging centuries-old subsidy systems, to asking why ancient woodlands are still undervalued—this episode doesn’t shy away from the hard questions. We dig into the economics of nature, the politics of policy, ...

1 month ago

1 hour 27 minutes

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E126 Jim Murray: Putting a Spotlight On The Stream

Jim Murray’s journey spans the bright lights of hit TV dramas, the creative world of art, and the urgent, often overlooked fight to save Britain’s rivers. As an actor, artist, and conservationist, he’s witnessed the highs and lows of industries that thrive on fear, desperation, and competition — and he’s discovered that the courage to stand your ground matters just as much on a riverbank as it does on a stage. Our discussion moves between the collapse of wild Atlantic salmon — whose numbers h...

1 month ago

1 hour 24 minutes

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E125 Guy Thompson: The Nature Market Paradox

What if the environment sector doesn’t really exist? Guy Thompson, MD of EnTrade, sits down in the Shoot Room to challenge the very idea of the sector, explore why £3 trillion in potential returns are being ignored, and ask whether nature markets are truly about environmental restoration—or just clever offsets. From regulatory roadblocks to bold innovation, we tackle the uncomfortable truths holding back investment in nature. Guy argues that without disruption, new technologies, and fresh bus...

2 months ago

1 hour 35 minutes