About the Hello, Futures! podcast
Hello, Futures! is a playful podcast for the curious, the imaginative, and anyone ready to explore what might lie ahead.
Hosted by Suzanne Whitby—futurist, facilitator, communicator, and storyteller—the Hello, Futures! podcast invites a group of guests from all walks of life to imagine a possible future and step into it as a character. Through lightly guided storytelling games, they explore what it might feel like to live in that world, and what it reveals about the choices we face today.
The purpose of the podcast is to find ways to imagine and use possible futures to develop resilience and preparedness for what might be, and ponder whether and how we might shape futures from right here in the present. This skill, or superpower, is called Futures Literacy.
In uncertain times, futures literacy—our ability to think with and through the future—isn’t just helpful. It might be the superpower we didn’t know we needed.
Consider what we do a form of “narrative medicine” for the ailments of our times…
Whether you’re joining as a guest or tuning in as a listener, Hello, Futures! offers a space to stretch your thinking, challenge assumptions, and have a little fun along the way.
Hi, I’m Suzanne.
I’m a futurer, facilitator, futures & foresight practitioners, and storyteller and I help people imagine and co-create hopeful, sustainable and resilient futures. I’m interested in the many different ways that we can explore and use possible futures to make change in the present.
I created this podcast as a place to play with stories of possible futures.
Too often, we fall into the trap of believing the future is fixed—that there’s only one future waiting for us. Depending on who you follow, that future might be full of doom, bursting with utopian promises, or something else entirely. But the truth is:
The future doesn’t exist. Not yet. It lives in our imagination.
And that means there are many possible futures—each shaped by different perspectives, assumptions, hopes, and fears.
So what if we used our imaginations? What if we could step into these imagined futures—just for a moment—and come back with new insights? What if these stories helped us spot risks, spark innovation, or simply better prepare for what might lie ahead?
Because here’s the thing:
We can’t shape—or avoid—what we can’t imagine.
And the systems that raised us—school, work, media—mostly trained us to operate in the world as it is, not the world as it could be.
This podcast is here to shift that. Through storytelling, playful participatory games, and a little time-travel of the mind, Hello, Futures! invites you to explore uncertainty with creativity, courage, and care.
I hope you’ll join me—ss a guest, as a listener, or in the conversations you spark after each episode.
Let’s stretch our thinking.
Let’s imagine what comes next.
Let’s play.
