Origin Story

Podcast Host

From my bedroom, I started a podcast to use origin stories as a means to motivate others. Now. featured in Daily Mail and ranked as high as #4 in the UK Charts.

Guests include: 
Seth Godin, Rory Sutherland, Sinitta, Founder of Reebok, Sir Tom Hunter and 100's more.

Played in 100+ Countries.

Search "Origin Story" on Spotify, Apple Podcasts and Youtube. 

Hosted by me, produced by me and enjoyed by anyone.

Host

KPMG UK

Human Capital Consultant - AI, Gen AI & Skills 

I am Founder and Co-Chair of KPMG's UK Social Mobility Network which I was elected to lead and roll out in 2021. I get the privilege to lead 1000+ active members across all our UK offices on our social mobility initiatives and create impactful relationships with charities and organisations.

Co-Chair & Founder - UK Social Mobility Network

Operational Transformation - Infrastructure, Government and Healthcare - Scotland
Management Consultancies Association (MCA) Awards - Winner - Best New Apprentice

Management Consultant - Infrastructure, Government and Healthcare

I joined the KPMG360 Apprenticeship Programme in October 2017 with expected end date of 2023.

KPMG360 Programme Apprentice

I founded and helped stand up a social mobility network in Scotland. Now, we have 75 active members and are an established arm of KPMG in Scotland's CSR Strategy.

Lead/Founder - Social Mobility Scotland Network

Apprentice - Management Consulting - IGH

I worked alongside our Audit team as a IT Audit specialist providing technology assurance to notable clients in the Energy industry. This included testing General IT Controls and Application Controls.

Apprentice - Information Risk Management/IT Audit

I worked on Operational Transformation projects within Transport and Healthcare undertaking a Programme Management Office (PMO) role whilst learning the LEAN methodology.

Apprentice - Management Consulting - Infrastructure, Goverment and Health Scotland

I worked on outsourced internal audit reviews in the public sector including clients in healthcare and education. Such reviews provided Estates Management, Workforce Establishment and Transactional Assurance.

Apprentice - Internal Audit, Risk and Compliance Services

I worked in the Adjudications team which is a part of the wider Personal Insolvency team. I spent time working with the Debt Arrangement Scheme (DAS).

Apprentice - Personal Insolvency

I spent the majority of my placement working on Investment Funds whilst also spending time working with clients in Banking and Real Estate.

I also spent time working with a Securitisation team. I was involved in a Client Asset Assurance engagement (CASS) with a large banking client. 

Many of my duties included completing tests from client working papers, creating minutes, casting accounts and communicating with clients.

Apprentice - Financial Services Audit

KPMG

I attended the KPMG Discovery Programme with the Social Mobility Foundation during the summer of 2015. 

I spent one of the days shadowing a senior manager in the KPMG Tech Growth office. This involved listening to Tech CEOs pitch their businesses as well as networking with the business founders informally.

The Discovery Programme exposed me to the KPMG360 apprenticeship programme.

KPMG Discovery Programme

Co-Chair & Founder KPMG Social Mobility Network | Podcast Host | 20th Most Entrepreneurial Scot | Ranked UK's 20th Top Accountant Under 35

What do I do? I trade in Origin Stories - the pivotal moments that turn ordinary into remarkable.

Mine started in a Glasgow council-estate bedroom, age 21, smack in the middle of lockdown. My mum had just passed away. Grief, zero network, less than zero confidence. So I did the only thing that felt like connection: I opened a laptop, hit “record,” and asked strangers to tell me how they got from there to here.

A few late-night edits and a mountain of imposter syndrome later, Origin Story was born.

🎙️ Since then, I’ve:
Unpacked the beginnings of Jimmy Carr, Seth Godin, Example, Sir Tom Hunter, Sinitta, Rory Sutherland, the Founder of Reebok - and even shared my own story with HM The Queen.

Now clocking 2,000,000+ listens and peaking at #3 in the UK charts.

Learned that the best “networking strategy” is radical curiosity and immense authenticity:


My badges that impress gatekeepers (but don't define me):

🤝 Founder & Chair – KPMG Social Mobility Network (1,200 members)
📰 Business Insider – 20th Most Entrepreneurial Scot
📰 Accountancy Age “35 Under 35” – #20
🏆 UK Social Mobility Awards – Winner
🥇 Management Consultancies Association Awards – Winner
🗣️ 100+ keynote talks on social mobility
🎭 Occasional stand-up comedian
📖 Seth Godin’s altMBA alumnus

Speaking/Keynote Enquiries: david@davidmcintoshjr.com

I spent the evening with Tinie Tempah.

Podcasting has become a vehicle for something I never expected: meeting my childhood heroes.

At the weekend, I spent the evening with Tinie Tempah in Glasgow – first night of his new tour.

I was invited down to the show, hung out backstage and had dinner with his team. 

I’d been speaking to his manager about my podcast Origin Story… then I woke up to a message from Tinie himself. He wanted to connect.

He hasn’t toured here in over a decade. He took 10 years out to focus on being a dad.

But you’d never have known.

Glasgow was sold out. Every word of every song was screamed back at him like they’d just come out yesterday.

Watching it, a few things hit me:

➡️ He built a product (his music) that has stood the test of time.
	
➡️ That product created a community through nostalgia – people reliving the best nights of their lives together.

➡️ This whole tour is a response to the death of the UK club scene, and a reminder that clubs are more than nightlife – they’re community centres for a lot of people.

I must’ve been about 12, a kid from a council estate, when his songs were in the charts. His lyrics sounded like someone a few (thousand) miles ahead of me on the same road, trying to work their way out.

Sitting with him now, talking about stories, work and Jiu Jitsu…

That’s not something I’d even have known how to dream about back then.

What I’m taking from it:

👉 If you create something that genuinely connects with people and gives them a sense of belonging, it can outlive trends, algorithms and even a decade of time away.

We’ll be recording a podcast together in the coming weeks/ months to talk about all of this – music, clubs as community, and what it means to come from “ordinary” beginnings and build an extraordinary life.

I swear podcasting has become a vector to achieve my childhood dreams 🤣

David McIntosh Jr.

Host of Origin Story (2m+ Streams) | 5 x Award-winning & 2 x 35 Under 35 Entrepreneur | Keynote Speaker

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