What if the strongest thing you ever do is let someone help you?

For much of her life, Tracey Holland believed strength meant being self-sufficient.

The capable one.
The reliable one.
The person who could always cope.

It's an identity many women know well.

But when life handed her more than she could carry alone, Tracey was forced to confront a question she'd spent years avoiding:

What if strength isn't about carrying everything yourself?

In this deeply thoughtful conversation, Julie Tague sits down with change leadership expert and Reforge Change founder Tracey Holland to explore grief, resilience, friendship, leadership and the power of letting others in.

Together they discuss the hidden cost of always being "the strong one", why asking for help can feel so uncomfortable, and how the right people can transform our lives simply by showing up.

One of the most powerful insights from this episode is that support isn't one-size-fits-all.

Sometimes we need advice.

Sometimes we need practical help.

Sometimes we need someone to sit quietly beside us while we find our footing again.

The support can remain constant, even when the shape of it changes.

This conversation will resonate with anyone navigating change, loss, leadership, burnout, reinvention, or simply the pressure of feeling like they have to hold everything together.

• Why high-achieving women often struggle to ask for help
• The hidden burden of being "the strong one"
• What meaningful support actually looks like
• How friendships helped Tracey rebuild after profound loss
• Leadership lessons from adversity
• Why the best leaders don't carry everything themselves
• How to create environments where people feel supported and able to contribute

Tracey Holland is the Founder of Reforge Change, helping organisations navigate complex transformation, leadership challenges and sustainable change. With more than 30 years' experience across public, private and third sectors, she is known for her calm authority, practical insight and deeply human approach to leadership.

Hosted by Julie Tague, Unstoppable Women shares honest conversations with women who have turned challenge into clarity, adversity into growth and setbacks into momentum.

Each episode explores resilience, leadership, identity, reinvention and what it really means to become unstoppable.

In this episode of Unstoppable Women, Julie Tague sits down with leadership consultant, storyteller and founder of The Growth Hut, Nissi Ozigbu.

Together, they explore leadership, identity, career reinvention and what it means to build something of your own.

From growing up in a vibrant Zambian family in East London to becoming a senior change leader by the age of 30, Nissi shares the mindset shifts, risks and personal evolution that shaped her journey from corporate leadership into entrepreneurship.

This conversation explores:

• leadership through uncertainty and change
• confidence and personal brand
• motherhood and ambition
• taking risks before you feel ready
• emotional resilience during transformation
• creating a life with space for joy and rest
• and learning to trust yourself

Julie and Nissi also dive into the emotional reality behind transformation - personally and professionally - and why the future belongs to leaders who can communicate clearly, connect authentically and evolve continuously.

✨ “Being unstoppable for me means designing for rest and not feeling like you have to earn it.”

About Unstoppable Women:
Unstoppable Women is a podcast hosted by Julie Tague, founder of Unstoppable by Design, sharing honest conversations with women navigating reinvention, leadership, ambition, grief, identity and change.

Each episode is designed to help women at a turning point move from stuck to unstoppable through real stories, practical insight and courageous conversations.

🎙 Hosted by Julie Tague
🌍 www.unstoppablebydesign.co.uk

What happens when you spend years surviving… and suddenly realise you’ve stopped truly living?

In this deeply honest episode of Unstoppable Women, Julie Tague sits down with Deborah McCann - founder of Clear Colours Ltd - to explore resilience, identity, hidden female struggles, motherhood, leadership and rebuilding life after prolonged challenge.

Deborah shares her experience of:

• navigating divorce while sharing a family home
• severe endometriosis and adenomyosis
• balancing motherhood and professional leadership
• redundancy and starting her own business
• quietly functioning while emotionally and physically depleted
• reconnecting with joy after years of survival mode

At one point, Deborah describes herself as:
“My battery was at one bar.”

Yet despite everything, she kept showing up.

This conversation is raw, reflective and full of wisdom for anyone navigating:

• burnout
• life transition
• women’s health challenges
• separation and identity shifts
• leadership under pressure
• rebuilding confidence and energy

But ultimately, this episode asks a bigger question:

What brings you joy?

The Unstoppable Women series shares the real stories behind extraordinary women - not perfection, but honest conversations about change, courage, identity and becoming who you were always meant to be.

If this episode resonates with you, please like, comment and subscribe to support the series.

And if you have a story you feel ready to share, Julie would love to hear from you.

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What happens when life changes in an instant?

In Episode 13 of Unstoppable Women, Julie Tague sits down with Jen Newberg — founder, widow, recovery advocate, and creator of the community platform It’s Lifey.

Jen shares the deeply personal story of losing her husband suddenly while they were on holiday in Greece, and how that experience completely reshaped her life, identity, and purpose.

This is an honest conversation about:

- grief and widowhood

- rebuilding life after loss

- finding peace after trauma

- recovery and alcoholism

- identity shifts

- blended families and relationships

- mental health and panic attacks

- community, connection and healing

- starting a purpose

-led business after personal tragedy.

Together, Julie and Jen explore what it really means to become “unstoppable” after life breaks open.

This episode is for anyone navigating loss, burnout, divorce, grief, reinvention, motherhood, recovery, career pivots, or major life change.

ABOUT UNSTOPPABLE WOMEN

Hosted by Julie Tague, Unstoppable Women is a podcast and live research project exploring the real stories behind resilience, reinvention, leadership, and personal transformation.

Each episode features raw, powerful conversations with women who have faced significant turning points in life and chosen to rebuild with courage, honesty, and agency.

This series forms part of the wider Unstoppable by Design movement and upcoming book project — helping women feel seen, heard, and less alone while sharing practical insight into how people move forward through life’s hardest chapters.

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In this episode of Unstoppable Women, I sit down with Rita Cox – founder of the Be Empowered Method – to explore what happens when life forces you to stop, reassess, and rebuild.

Rita moved to the UK from Hungary in 2009 with what she calls “a lot of hope and a massive suitcase.” She built a successful corporate career with major global brands, climbed the ladder she thought would bring happiness, and then reached the point many women quietly recognise - burnout, misalignment, and the realisation that success on paper doesn’t always feel like success in life.

From leaving corporate and teaching yoga to deep self-development, motherhood, and creating her own method to help other women reconnect with themselves, Rita’s story is one of courage, pivots, and choosing alignment over expectation.

We talk about burnout, self-leadership, small decisions that create big change, and why change is not failure - it’s often the beginning of becoming who you were meant to be.

This episode is for any woman who feels like she’s standing at a crossroads, wondering if she’s gone backwards.

You haven’t.

You’re pivoting.

And sometimes, that changes everything.

In this episode of Unstoppable Women, Julie Tague speaks to Georgie Spurling - founder of Arvra - about resilience, movement, burnout, health, and what it means to build a life that is not defined by the limits you were once given.

Georgie’s story begins with life-changing heart surgery as a child and years of being told to be careful, hold back, and accept a narrower version of what life might look like.

But this conversation is not about turning her into a sob story. It is about something far more interesting - what she chose to do next. She went on to challenge those limits, run the London Marathon, and build Arvra, a wellness platform designed to make support more human, accessible and preventative.

Julie and Georgie talk honestly about how stress and burnout can show up physically, how easy it is to ignore what your body is trying to tell you, and why hustle culture is far less impressive than people like to make out. Georgie shares how her own experiences in her 20s shaped her thinking, and why she is now so passionate about helping people access the right support before they hit crisis point.

Together they explore a more honest definition of being unstoppable - not never falling, not always winning, but having the ability to feel things, regroup, and get back up again. Georgie’s perspective is thoughtful, practical and quietly powerful, and her final reflection on what she would say to her younger self says everything: you did it.

This episode is for anyone who has ever felt shaped by their past, challenged by their body, or forced to rethink what strength really looks like.

What happens when you realise the life you’re living isn’t one you consciously chose?

In this episode of Unstoppable Women, I sit down with Alicia Noble – leadership and career transition coach and founder of Noble Arc – to explore the shift from living on autopilot to intentionally choosing a different path.

Alicia shares her story of growing up in South Africa during apartheid, building a career in the UK, and navigating the quiet but powerful moment of realising something needed to change.

Together, we explore:

✨ What it means to live on autopilot – and how to break out of it
✨ The “messy middle” of transition where real change happens
✨ How limiting beliefs are formed in our early years
✨ The importance of role models and seeing what’s possible
✨ Why being in the right rooms can change everything
✨ Reconnecting with yourself after burnout

This isn’t a conversation about quick fixes.

It’s about awareness.
Identity.
And learning to choose a life that actually feels like yours.

🎥 Watch if you’re:

• Feeling stuck or disconnected from your current path
• Navigating a career or life transition
• Questioning what’s possible for you
• Ready to challenge old beliefs and think differently

🌍 About Alicia Noble
Alicia is the founder of Noble Arc, supporting individuals and organisations to navigate transition with clarity and intention. Her work focuses on the space between change and transformation – where growth really happens.

🔥 About Unstoppable Women
A series sharing real, honest stories from women navigating change, identity, and growth – and redefining what it means to be unstoppable.

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In this episode of Unstoppable Women, Julie Tague speaks with Natalie Montagnani, a business and leadership coach, about career change, burnout, and redefining success.

After building a successful marketing agency, Natalie reached a point where her work no longer felt aligned. What followed was a powerful journey through burnout, identity shift, and ultimately a career pivot into coaching and leadership development for women.

This episode explores key themes including:

• Career pivot and reinvention for women
• Burnout and recovery from high-performance pressure
• Leadership identity and personal growth
• Overcoming self-doubt and “imposter syndrome”
• Building a business aligned with purpose and values

If you’re a female founder, leader, or professional navigating change, questioning your current path, or looking for clarity on your next step, this episode offers practical insight and relatable experience.

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