Our Leadership Voices: Uncut
Hi everyone. Steven (Steve) Holliday here and welcome.
This podcast has evolved. It's dedicated to exploring the "uncut leadership stories and conversations" that the world is now calling for.
At the same time, I lead this podcast with the intention to live a more spirited, lighter, unplanned life. I will continue to reveal and explore my own uncut leadership voice and personal leadership journey.
This podcast began in 2021 by engaging in conversations with those close to me - clients, friends, and family - and now - after a long personal hiatus from summer 2023 - the podcast returns in Spring 2026. The intent is to both widen and focus the conversations to include unheard voices and stories, that engage in vital conversations that the world needs more of. Let's see what emerges.
Episodes
87 episodes
999 days
999 days since last I was on the podcast with Liz Bloomfield - it's been a while.After a long personal hiatus from summer 2023, my podcast returns in Spring 2026.This podcast has evolved. It began in 2021 by engaging in conversati...
999 Days : The Disruption
As a part of the return of my podcast after 999 days, this part one (of a three-part reflection), explores the moment everything changed, and why I could no longer show up as I had before.When someone close to me became unwell, everythin...
999 Days : What I couldn't fix
Part two of a three-part reflection on the past 999 days. When I could no longer fix what was in front of me, something in me had to change.
999 Days : Beginning Again
The final part of a three-part reflection on the past 999 days. A return to the conversation - now with a different perspective on leadership, life, and what matters now. Be prepared for some deeper personal reflections and a ...
999 Days: What I’m Listening For Now
A short reflection following the 999 Days series. Not a retelling, but what that experience has opened up - and what I’m now listening for in a much deeper way, both in leadership and life. I think the question that’s...
Rob Johnson - The Plan : Designed not to happen - Part 1 - The Conversation
A dream planned safely in the distance - until someone asked, “Why not now?” The first part of a conversation with Rob Johnson - from a structured corporate life to a very different horizon.We explore roots, identity, the lon...
The Plan : Designed Not to Happen - Part 2 - The Decision
Faced with a challenge to the life he’d carefully planned, Rob Johnson begins to confront what it would really mean to leave - to step into a life without certainty, without a boat, and without knowing exactly what would come next.
The Crossing : Part 1 - The Inner Journey
Sometimes the real crossing happens long before the boat leaves harbour.In the first part of The Crossing, Rob Johnson reflects on the internal crossing that had to happen before any physical journey could begin. Rob...
The Crossing : Part 2 - The Outer Journey
In the second part of The Crossing, the internal journey begins to take physical form.Rob reflects on finding the boat, preparing to leave, and the emotional weight of travelling south to Eastbourne - the point where the idea fi...
The Wilderness : Part 1 - The Dream Meets Reality
The first part of The Wilderness.After years of planning, Rob, Faye and Hewy finally leave Eastbourne and begin their journey around the UK. It doesn't take long for reality to replace certainty as the dream collides with the un...
The Wilderness : Part 2 - Lost at Land's End
Part two of The Wilderness.Recovering from the shock of their first major setbacks, Rob, Faye and Hewy continue west along the south coast towards Land's End. As the conditions worsen and uncertainty grows, Rob confronts one of ...
The Wilderness : Part 3 - Before the Gates Close
Part three of The Wilderness.After navigating the challenges of Land's End, Rob, Faye and Hewy are forced to change their plans and head for Padstow. With narrowing options, shallow waters and a harbour gate that waits for no on...
The Wilderness : Part 4 : Beyond the Horizon
Part four of The Wilderness.Leaving Padstow behind, Rob, Faye and Hewy continue north through increasingly unfamiliar waters. As confidence slowly begins to grow, the journey becomes less about surviving each day and more about ...
The Wilderness : Part 5 – No Straight Line
Part five of The Wilderness. From Bangor to Inverness, this stage of the journey is shaped by delays, detours and unexpected challenges. A conversation about patience, persistence and learning that meaningful journeys...
The Wilderness : Part 6 : The Way Home
The final part of The Wilderness.Leaving Inverness behind and re-entering the North Sea, Rob reflects on the final sail back to Newcastle and what it feels like to return home after months of uncertainty, challenge and discovery...
A Different Way of Living : From Adventure to Lifestyle
Following the completion of the UK circumnavigation, Rob reflects on what happened next - the next 3 years.This conversation is less about destinations and more about the gradual transition from adventure to everyday life. Together we ex...
Rob Johnson : Epilogue : Where I Belong
The voyage is over, but the deeper journey continues.In this final conversation, deliberately offered as a long-form conversation, Rob reflects on who returned from the adventures - not just where he belongs, but who he has become, and i...
What Happens at the Edge of Ourselves? : Reflections on Accompanying Rob
In this solo reflection, I look back on twelve conversations with Rob Johnson and the journey that unfolded between us.What began as a story about leaving corporate life and going sailing became something much deeper: an exploration of i...
Meeting the Edge of Myself : Reflections from a Spiritual Retreat
Following twelve conversations with Rob Johnson, I found myself turning the microphone back on myself.In this deeply personal "uncut" reflection, I share what emerged from my first spiritual retreat with my Zen teacher, Claire Genkai Bre...
Faye Allman : Arrival : Who Was I?
In the opening episode of this new series, we meet Faye Allman and begin where every meaningful story begins: with the question, Who was I before everything changed?Three years into life afloat on a sailing boat, Faye reflects o...
Black Belts : Finding My Place
Taekwondo became far more than a sport for Faye.In this episode, Faye reflects on competing for England, becoming a captain, building her own successful martial arts school, and discovering herself as a teacher, leader, entrepreneur and ...
The Writer : Finding My Voice
Alongside Taekwondo, another identity was quietly emerging within Faye - that had long-been there..Faye shares how writing grew from childhood imagination into published crime novels as Bea Baskerville, what it means to edit both stories...
Forbidden Grief - Part 1: Leaving a Life You Chose
Offered in long-form, this episode asks what happens when you choose a life you've always dreamed of... and quietly begin to grieve the one you've left behind?In this deeply personal conversation, Faye explores what we've come to call