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About Scared Prepared

Join leading futurist Sam DB for chats with the world's leading thinkers about the things they are scared of, how humanity should be preparing, and what it means for you.

Guests come from academia, business and government: the people working on the weak signals, trends and drivers that are shaping the future of humanity. Along the way we hear their origin story, dig into what they have to teach us, and ask what society should be doing more or less of.

Guests can give a 1 to 10 preparedness rating on the world-infamous prep-o-meter (TM pending), and name that one special item they would take into their doomsday bunker. Short chats run 30 to 45 minutes; longer deep dives run about 75 minutes. Listen as an audio podcast, or watch on YouTube.

New episodes land every Monday at 7:00 am BST (UK), 2:00 am EDT (NY), 11:00 pm PDT (LA, Sunday night), 10:00 am GST (Dubai), 2:00 pm CST (Beijing). In your time zone that is 7:00 am on Monday.

About your host

Scared Prepared is hosted by Sam Douglas-Bate (DB). Sam is the founder of ForgeFront, a UK futures and foresight consultancy and a trusted supplier to governments and businesses around the world.

His clients have included Siemens, Leonardo, Sport England, the UK's Cabinet Office, the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology, NATO, the FCDO and the European Union.

Before ForgeFront, Sam spent a decade inside government in London and Brussels, helping to negotiate the UK's departure from the EU and the trade deal that followed. He has taken decisions about the future of the UK, multilateral businesses and international governments and organisations.

Now he sits down with some of the world's leading future thinkers from academia, business and government to talk about the things they're scared of, how they're preparing, and what humanity should be doing.