The magnitude of what can be achieved when you refuse to settle, with Dame Stephanie "Steve" Shirley CH, Technology Pioneer, Businesswoman & Philanthropist

Conversations of Inspiration

Holly Tucker MBE

Education, Society & Culture, Entrepreneurship, Self-improvement, Business, Personal Journals

5.0 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 24 January 2022

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

A child refugee, tech pioneer, philanthropist, businesswoman, mother and true trailblazer, Dame Stephanie paved the way for generations of women to come, by using intuition and action to break ideological views of what women are capable of. In her conversation with Holly she shares the breadth of her experiences, struggles and her unrelenting energy for creating positive change.

After escaping Nazi Germany at the shockingly young age of five years old, Dame Stephanie Shirley reflects on her childhood memories, as a young girl growing up in such a turbulent historical period. After battling survivors' guilt for a number of years, Dame Stephanie ‘Steve’ Shirley in her own words says that from then on, “I decided to make mine a life worth saving and then just got on with it”.

Dame Stephanie’s words, actions and legacy encourage each of us to take risks, to challenge the status quo and to rewrite the myths of what women can achieve.

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Dame Stephanie Shirley:

Purchase Steve’s incredible memoir ‘Let It Go’ from Amazon using this link or email lynn@steveshirley.com for a personally signed copy

Website: https://www.steveshirley.com/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/damestephanie_/?hl=en

Twitter: https://twitter.com/damestephanie_
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0:00.0	You don't start most days talking to a Dame, and that's exactly how I have started my day.
0:05.0	Speaking to Dame Stephanie Shirley, also known as Steve, but you're going to have to listen to the
0:10.2	podcast to know why. Dame Stephanie's story is literally nothing but unbelievable. And to really
0:20.9	hear firsthand what she did for us women, but also how future thinking this remarkable woman was
0:30.7	is outstanding. She might as well have created the gig economy in the early 60s when still women
0:39.6	couldn't open a bank account without their husband's signature. She's funny, she's enlightening,
0:47.6	soulful, and it is one of those conversations where I know I got a bit tongue-tied in the podcast,
0:54.8	but I know that I'm probably going to play this every single week and learn something new every
1:02.0	single time. So get pen to paper. This is quite an extraordinary story. Tissues definitely required
1:10.5	at the end and let's all campaign for a Dame Stephanie Shirley Day.
1:24.8	I'm Holly Tucker and welcome to Conversations of Inspiration. Back in 2006 I founded not on the
1:32.0	high street from my kitchen table and since then I've gone on to launch Holly and Co. I'm the UK
1:38.2	ambassador of creative small businesses and I believe that having a business doing what you
1:43.5	love is the key to a happy fulfilled life. My dream is to help everybody start theirs. I'm here to
1:50.8	offer advice, inspiration, wisdom and encouragement and in my view the best way to do this is by sharing
1:59.1	stories. So I've reached out to my favourite small businesses, entrepreneurs and those who simply
2:05.6	inspire me and ask them to share theirs with thanks to Dell Technologies who've helped bring
2:12.0	this free podcast to life. Here are my conversations of inspiration. So firstly a huge welcome to you,
2:20.5	Dame Stephanie. What an honour it really is to meet you. I've just spoken about how I was telling
2:26.0	my son Harry over breakfast who I was going to be interviewing. We were almost speechless and he
2:31.9	was wondering why they aren't learning about yourself and what you've done for women in their
2:38.4	castes and he takes business as well. So welcome to Conversations of Inspiration. Thank you Holly,
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