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The GoodStock Tapes Podcast

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22 episodes

The financial advice profession is changing. Clients are asking deeper questions about purpose, impact and the role money plays in building a better world. Yet many advisers still feel caught between traditional investment thinking and the growing demand for something more meaningful.

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The GoodStock Tapes is where those conversations happen.

Hosted by leading voices from the GoodStock community, this podcast explores the intersection of financial planning, investing, ethics and real-world impact. Through candid interviews and thought-provoking discussions, we speak with financial planners, fund managers, entrepreneurs, academics and change-makers who are reshaping how capital can be used for good.

Each episode goes beyond the surface to explore questions such as:

What does good investing actually look like in practice?

Can portfolios deliver strong returns and positive impact?

How should financial planners talk to clients about sustainability and ethics?

Where is ESG getting it wrong – and where is it quietly working?

How can advisers build businesses that align profit with purpose?

These aren't polished marketing soundbites. They are honest, thoughtful conversations about the future of finance and the role advisers can play in shaping it.

Expect practical insights, challenging perspectives and the occasional uncomfortable truth.

Episodes

  1. Are Financial Planners Ignoring the Biggest Risk of All?

    · 39 min · S1 E22

    Simon is a former accountant and business leader who, alongside his brother Nick, established and funded an ambitious initiative to bring leading scientific and policy experts together to explain the growing risks…

  2. Is Your Client's Cash Really Neutral? Ed Siegel on Ethical Banking

    · 37 min · S1 E21

    Is cash really a neutral part of a client's financial plan or have we become so focused on investment portfolios that we've overlooked the impact of the money sitting in bank accounts? In this episode of The GoodStock…

  3. Sustainable Investing, the Great Wealth Transfer and the Future of Advice

    · 37 min · S1 E20

    Sustainable investing has been on quite a journey. From a relatively niche investment approach to enormous inflows, followed by performance challenges, accusations of greenwashing and an increasingly vocal backlash.…

  4. Can Personalised Investing Replace the Model Portfolio?

    · 27 min · S1 E19

    What happens when a client's values point towards one portfolio, but an adviser's investment judgement points towards another? In this episode of The GoodStock Tapes, Adam welcomes back Charlie French, co-founder of…

  5. The Future of Paraplanning, AI and Sustainable Finance

    · 35 min · S1 E18

    Sustainability is often treated as an additional question at the end of the financial planning process: a box to tick once risk, objectives and performance have already been discussed. But what would change if a…

  6. Can communities own the energy transition?

    · 24 min · S1 E17

    Who should own the infrastructure powering the transition to net zero, and how early should communities be invited into the conversation? In this episode of The GoodStock Tapes, we speak with Ciara Shannon, Founding…

  7. Does Impact Investing Actually Create Impact?

    · 53 min · S1 E16

    What does it really mean to invest for impact? In this episode of The GoodStock Tapes, Dr Alan Whittle joins Clem for a deliberately provocative hot take: much of what is currently described as impact investing for…

  8. Is Affordable Lending the Impact Investment We're Overlooking?

    · 33 min · S1 E15

    What if millions of people excluded from mainstream credit are not actually "bad borrowers", but people being assessed by the wrong system? In this episode, Salad CEO Craig Pennington and Ethex's Jeroen Huysinga…

  9. Finding Common Ground in Divided Times

    · 38 min · S1 E14

    Politics can often feel tribal, exhausting and designed to keep people at a distance. But what if the answer is not to shout louder, but to listen better? In this episode of The Good Stock Tapes, we speak with Anthea…

  10. Can Community Investment Really Rebuild Local Britain?

    · 32 min · S1 E13

    What does it look like when investment stops chasing abstraction and starts saving pubs, shops, football clubs and community spaces? In this conversation, Alain Demontoux and Jeroen Huysinga explore how capital can be…

  11. How One Grandmother is Helping Firms Work More Sustainably, One Step at a Time

    · 28 min · S1 E12

    What if making a difference didn't begin with a grand strategy, but with one simple decision to act? In this episode, Pam Moore shares how concern for her granddaughter's generation led her to launch Plant Protect and…

  12. Can Clean Cooking Change Lives at Scale? Inside EcoSafi's Impact Model

    · 48 min · S1 E11

    What does impact investing look like when it shows up in an ordinary kitchen? In this episode, Jordyan Woodley explains how EcoSafi is helping families in Kenya move away from charcoal towards cleaner, cheaper cooking,…

  13. FSCS Protection as a Planning Tool: Rethinking Cash in Ethical Financial Planning

    · 35 min · S1 E10

    Cash is often the largest "unmanaged" part of a client's balance sheet and that quiet neglect can create real risk, missed returns and poor outcomes. In this conversation, Dr Emma Black and Louis Gleeson explain why…

  14. A Smarter PI Market: How Data and Culture WIll Stabilise Adviser Insurance

    · 35 min · S1 E9

    Professional indemnity insurance is meant to protect good firms so why does it often feel like the best advisers are paying for the worst behaviour? In this episode, BearRock's John Netting and Jonathan Newell argue…

  15. Suitability Beyond Risk: Should Portfolios Reflect Client Values Too?

    · 38 min · S1 E8

    Most "ESG" conversations fail because they begin with labels, not lives. Etcho co-founders Charlie French and Liall Medina explain how advisers can uncover what clients genuinely care about and then evidence,…

  16. Stop Lying to Us: Human Rights, ESG and the Future of Sustainable Finance

    · 30 min · S1 E7

    "Sustainable" is one of the most overused words in modern finance and, at times, one of the least interrogated. In this episode of The GoodStock Tapes, Clemence is joined by Chris Welsford, founder of Antithesis…

  17. Purpose-Driven Capital in Action: Community Energy and Fairer Bills

    · 31 min · S1 E6

    What if the clean energy transition didn't just cut carbon but also cut bills, tackle fuel poverty and put decision-making power in local hands? Tim Stumpff explains why community energy might be one of the most…

  18. Sustainable Finance Isn't "Woke", It's Risk Management

    · 30 min · S1 E5

    What if sustainable investing isn't a values add-on but the most commercially sensible way to run a business and build resilient portfolios? Nicola Day of Greenbank explains why the real problem isn't sustainability……

  19. Why "Clients Aren't Interested" Is Holding Ethical Investing Back

    · 31 min · S1 E4

    Advisers often say clients "aren't interested" in sustainable investing but what if that's really a confidence gap ? Max Tennant argues that adding an ESG overlay can be simpler than you think, and that the biggest…

  20. Ethical Investing Without the Echo Chamber: Meeting Clients Where They Are

    · 30 min · S1 E3

    Sustainable finance is getting louder, more political, and at times more confusing. Financial planner Cleona Lira argues the missing piece isn't a new fund label, but a healthier relationship with money: one that…

  21. Crowdfunding Clean Energy Access: How Everyday Investors Can Back Africa's Future

    · 52 min · S1 E2

    600 million people in Africa still live without electricity and the bottleneck isn't technology, it's finance. Ray Coyle, CEO of Energise Africa, explains how UK retail capital is being connected to solar, mini-grids…

  22. Financial Planning After "Enough": Philanthropic Loans and Real-World Impact

    · 38 min · S1 E1

    What if the most responsible use of wealth isn't to preserve it indefinitely, but to deploy it, urgently, while it can still change outcomes? Julia Davies unpacks the "power of enough", why she rejected slow…

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