Unstoppable Women

About Unstoppable Women

Unstoppable Women is a podcast for women navigating change, reinvention and career pivots. Hosted by Julie Tague, founder of Unstoppable by Design, it features honest conversations with female founders and women at turning points. This isn’t success theatre. It’s real talk about resilience, identity shifts, post-traumatic growth and the decisions that quietly change a life. Season 2 forms part of a live storytelling project exploring what makes women unstoppable – and how we move forward without losing ourselves.

Publisher

julie@unstoppablebydesign

Category

society & culture

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

29 Jun 2025

Latest episode

19 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

1 of 38 episodes have a transcript.

1. 

   19 Oct 2026

   When Life Doesn't Go to Plan: Finding Acceptance and New Purpose | Ida Norrby

   What happens when the future you imagined is no longer possible? And how do you find the courage to build something meaningful from the life you actually have? When Ida Norrby's second daughter was born severely ill, everything changed. Five months in intensive care, round-the-clock medical support at home and the end of a teaching career she'd spent nearly a decade building. But this isn't simply a story about raising a child with complex medical needs. It's about Ida - a woman who has had to confront the enormous gap between the life she expected and the reality she found herself living. In this episode of Unstoppable Women, Julie and Ida explore grief for the future you thought you'd have, the exhausting business of trying to control things you cannot change and why acceptance isn't the same as giving up. Ida shares how she began rebuilding her sense of identity, first through creating content online and now through keynote speaking, helping others navigate their own unexpected life changes. One of the most powerful things she says is: "I refuse to lose what I have to what's already lost." Together, we explore the practical tools that have helped Ida move forward - allowing herself to grieve, practising gratitude without pretending everything is wonderful, protecting her energy and taking small actions even when motivation is nowhere to be found. It's a conversation about accepting what you cannot change while remaining ambitious about what you can. Whether you're facing bereavement, a career change, divorce, caring responsibilities or simply finding yourself somewhere you never expected to be, there's something in Ida's experience for you. Because being unstoppable isn't about never falling. It's knowing how to get back up. About Ida Norrby Ida is a former teacher, content creator and keynote speaker based in Stockholm, Sweden. Through her social media and speaking, she shares her experiences of navigating unexpected life changes, building resilience and finding meaning when life doesn't follow the plan. Follow Ida on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@hemmamedida (https://www.youtube.com/@hemmamedida) About Unstoppable Women and Julie Unstoppable Women is a podcast by Unstoppable by Design, featuring honest conversations with women who have faced life's turning points and found ways to move forward. Hosted by Julie Tague, founder of Unstoppable by Design, the podcast explores not only what happened to these women but what they did next, what they learnt and what you can take from their experiences. Drawing on her career leading complex change in the public sector alongside her own experiences of bereavement, motherhood and rebuilding her life, Julie helps women move from feeling stuck to making decisions, taking action and creating meaningful change. Explore Unstoppable by Design: https://www.unstoppablebydesign.co.uk (https://www.unstoppablebydesign.co.uk/) Enjoyed this conversation? Follow Unstoppable Women on Spotify and share this episode with a woman who might need to hear it.

2. 

   27 Sept 2026

   Unstoppable Women S2 E24: Mary Ryan - Rebuilding Her Brain, Her Career and Her Next Chapter.

   One missed step changed Mary Ryan’s life. In 2013, Mary fell down a flight of stairs at work. She suffered multiple injuries and a brain injury that left her without much of her mid-to-long-term memory and around 70% of her vocabulary. She knew the knowledge was still there. She just had to find a way back to it. So Mary started experimenting. Music. Singing. Scrabble. Reading. Community. Curiosity. Rather than simply asking, “Why has this happened to me?”, she became fascinated by how her brain was working - and what she could do to rebuild it. In this episode of Unstoppable Women, Mary and I talk about recovery, resilience and what happens when something completely unexpected forces you to rebuild. We also explore Mary’s extraordinary career in medical technology. Over almost 30 years she has helped bring safe and effective medical devices to market around the world and, during the pandemic, helped support the delivery of 11,683 ventilators to the NHS. Now she is making another major change. After nearly 14 years with one company, Mary has handed in her notice and is launching her own consultancy - taking decades of expertise, relationships and experience and using them to build something of her own. We talk about: • Rebuilding after something changes your life in a split second • Why curiosity became such an important part of Mary’s recovery • Music, memory and finding her words again • Building a life around trauma rather than allowing it to become your whole story • Recognising the value of decades of experience • Leaving a successful career to create something of your own • Why letting your light shine can give someone else permission to do the same There’s a beautiful idea from Mary in this conversation: difficult experiences don’t necessarily disappear. But as you build more life around them, they no longer have to be the biggest part of the circle. About Unstoppable Women & Unstoppable by Design I'm Julie Tague, founder of Unstoppable by Design. After experiencing profound personal loss, rebuilding my life as a widowed mum and creating a successful career in the public sector, I came to realise something that now underpins everything I do: No woman is as stuck as she thinks she is. I work alongside women at turning points to help them build what's next - step by step. Together we prioritise, make decisions, create momentum and manage the practical project of designing a new life. This isn't coaching; it's strategic partnership. I'm your project manager for change - helping you make the hard decisions, holding you to account and turning good intentions into meaningful action. Every episode of Unstoppable Women shares the story of a woman who has navigated change, challenged expectations and rewritten her future - not because life was easy, but because she chose to keep moving. If Mary’s story makes you think differently about what might be possible in your own next chapter, follow Unstoppable Women and share this episode with someone who needs to hear it.

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   27 Sept 2026

   Unstoppable Women S2 E25: Still Becoming | Anna Thomas Raju | Unstoppable Women

   What does it mean to build a new life without erasing the one that came before? In the final episode of this series of Unstoppable Women, I’m joined by Anna Thomas Raju for a deeply personal conversation about love, loss, burnout, identity and the person we are still becoming. Anna shares her experience of losing her husband Bill to cancer, finding love again and learning that grief and happiness can exist alongside each other. We also explore the patterns that contributed to burnout - proving, pleasing, carrying too much and believing that saying yes made her valuable. One of Anna’s biggest lessons is beautifully simple: “I am enough right now. But I can always grow.” We talk about asking for help, allowing other people to show up for us, leading with empathy and why none of us ever really becomes the ‘finished’ version of ourselves. After 25 conversations with remarkable women, Still Becoming feels like exactly the right place to end this series. 🎧 Unstoppable Women - E25: Still Becoming with Anna Thomas Raju About Unstoppable Women & Unstoppable by DesignI'm Julie Tague, founder of Unstoppable by Design. After experiencing profound personal loss, rebuilding my life as a widowed mum and creating a successful career in the public sector, I came to realise something that now underpins everything I do:No woman is as stuck as she thinks she is.I work alongside women at turning points to help them build what's next - step by step. Together we prioritise, make decisions, create momentum and manage the practical project of designing a new life.This isn't coaching; it's strategic partnership.I'm your project manager for change - helping you make the hard decisions, holding you to account and turning good intentions into meaningful action.Every episode of Unstoppable Women shares the story of a woman who has navigated change, challenged expectations and rewritten her future - not because life was easy, but because she chose to keep moving.If this episode resonates with you, subscribe, leave a comment and share it with a woman who might need to hear it.

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Unstoppable Women S2 E19 | Build Boldly - Beth Mazza

Published 11 Jul 2026 · Transcript excerpt

[…] And I did that. And at Claremont, we did that every year where we just said, OK, what do we want to look like a year from now? And we took into account, like, where's the market? What are people buying? What are they not buying? And we sort of, not that we ever stopped being what we were, but we pivoted all the time. We tried that. It didn't work. We tried this. It did. I think my vision was not to change the world. It was, can I build a services business so that I can feed my family? I can build value in the business. The vision was that I wanted to be able to sell it. So I think there was great vision that I had in saying it's got to be profitable. […]

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