After a long time  talking about DOING a podcast - I made a start. I’m here, ready to fully own my impact and my voice - to be “THE AUTHOR, Steve Holliday.”.

Some time later - a firmer intro step - it's becoming clearer what I AM DOING.

My first ever podcast & "co-host" - exploring "how we know each other" - with Neville (Nev) Duncan - my life-long friend for 40 years - and collaborator in business.Nev has a background and passion in sport, movement, and being active, that goes back 30 years - and owns and runs  Challenge Northumberland, who specialise in using sport and the outdoors to engage people & teams - helping them to grow and develop.A top top fella 🙏👌🏼 Been in my life forever - wouldn't change a thing.

Exploring What Matters, Between Us - it became obvious to Nev and myself, that we wanted to explore what it's been like for us to run self-employed businesses during the Global Pandemic - and the "Resilience Mindset" its' taken to "thrive", by leaning into the difficulties , spotting the good moments - and not "ringing the bell" and giving up - instead, staying "in" fully.Particularly Nev’s experiences over the pandemic , and how he has kept himselfgoing , having lost all he had worked to build - is extraordinary - and I’m very proud of him for it.

Exploring Our Voices - an experiment to take some time after the podcasts, to reflect on what we noticed about our voices - and valued most about them :-)Nev and I are talking "virtually" - he's in Newcastle, UK and I'm in Rugby, UK - both at our homes :-)

Between co-hosting - a private conversation with myself - a chance to walk back in time to early December 2020 - and explore my personal learning & growth, that led me here.

Between co-hosting - Taking some space to reflect on my time with Nev - to reflect on my voice, my presence, and embracing my positive impact - and to share who my next co-host will be :-)

My 2nd Podcast "co-host" - Wife & Husband  - exploring "how we know each other" :-)Tanya and I grew up in the north east of England - both born in the 70's - we met at the athletics club as teenage distance runners - and as they say, the rest is history - 32 years together so far :-)  Tanya is a passionate, funny, kind, engaging woman - a real driving force behind our family growth, and mine - helping us to not take life too seriously, and live in the now.She has showed us all what real leadership is, when tackling her own mental health challenges, after losing her mother suddenly.

Exploring What Matters, Between Us - Tanya and I explore the importance of "listening", in relation to supporting people as they work to navigate depression, and improve their mental health & well-being.Tanya has been through a challenging period in her life  - as have we - after losing her mother suddenly in December 2016. She has shown true leadership in being able to bring her voice to what she felt - and needed to say - as well as always giving others in her local community, someone who will listen to them, without judgement,

Exploring Our Voices - an experiment to take some time after the podcasts, to reflect on what we noticed about our voices - and valued most about them :-)Tanya and I are at home - sat in our lounge, in Rugby, UK - with our dog Chester on our laps :-)

Between co-hosting - Taking some space to reflect on my time with Tanya - to reflect on my voice, my presence, and embracing my positive impact - and to share who my next co-host will be :-)

My 3rd Podcast "co-host" - Daniel Sigmundsson - as we explore "how we know each other".Daniel and I met in 2010, through our work - I will leave the details of that to the podcast.He's Icelandic, lives in Denmark, and we've spent our time building both a professional relationship as leadership & organisational development specialists, and a personal relationship as good friends. We share a passion for our football clubs - his Liverpool, mine Newcastle - a mix of misery and joy for sure.Daniel is a positive energy on this planet - easy to be around, light, funny - and yet also sharp, bright, and full of wisdom, so every meet with Daniel is well spent :-)Daniel and I are talking "virtually" - he's in Horsen, Denmark, and I'm in Rugby, UK  :-)

Exploring What Matters, Between Us - unrehearsed, Daniel and I dive into a range of things that we felt mattered, between us regarding our uncut leadership voices - both in our professional lives as we help organisations and people grow powerful communities at work - and in our own personal lives.Once again, Daniel and I are talking "virtually" - he's in Horsen, Denmark, and I'm in Rugby, UK  :-)

Exploring Our Voices - an experiment to take some time after the podcasts, to reflect on what we noticed about our voices - and valued most about them :-)Once again, Daniel and I are talking "virtually" - he's in Horsen, Denmark, and I'm in Rugby, UK  :-)

Between co-hosting - Taking some space to reflect on my time with Daniel - to reflect on my voice, my presence, and embracing my positive impact - and to share who my next co-host will be :-)

Walking The Next Valley of My Life - Following a face-to-face, walk and talk session with my coach, Rowan (Gray, from Made to Move), I wanted to capture a huge moment of insight - and use the reflection as a way to honour it fully  - as I speak out loud, my vision - linked to my purpose.

My 4th Podcast "co-host" - Dale Robson - as we meet again - to "re-introduce" ourselves - before the material we share.Dale and I met in 2010, through our work - I will leave the details of that to the podcasts to come. He was leader and coachee and I was coach, on various leadership and org development assignments.He's been an engineer, a PM, an operational leader, and now change agent - and is a great person to be around. Light, fun and engaging, while also a man of real intention, and full of rigour and curiosity, in doing the thinking - and feeling - to enable others - me included.We have become real partners - collaborators - peers - sparring together. So much so, that he and I experimented with podcasting together in a hotel room in September 2019 - way before I was ready to be here now.  We will share what we made then - and now - but first - we meet again.

The first of 3 podcasts between Dale and I - recorded as an experiment in Sep 2019, holed up in a hotel room in Newcastle - as we experimented - 18 months before I was ready to go live !!This episode introduces us - and includes a little more of my background too.

The second of 3 podcasts between Dale and I - recorded as an experiment in Sep 2019, holed up in a hotel room in Newcastle - as we experimented - 18 months before I was ready to go live !!This episode is us having an initial exploration of "Leadership".

The final one of 3 podcasts between Dale and I - recorded as an experiment in Sep 2019, holed up in a hotel room in Newcastle - as we experimented - 18 months before I was ready to go live !!In this episode we explore what it means to own the label of "leader" - and how that is for people.