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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