Build Your Brave Career for Women in Tech

Do you make choices that affirm who you are as an individual and the life you want to live? If you’ve just been going through the motions of what you’re “supposed” to do, you are not alone. My client Erin O’Leary, joins us for this episode and shares her incredible journey from overwhelm and exhaustion towards a life full of life-affirming choices. She shares how she has chosen to navigate an enga...

  Welcome to a first for the Celebrate Brave podcast: an unexpected but very necessary part 2 for a listener question episode, E93: How Do I Hire More Women.  The original episode got an unprecedented amount of feedback. Your feedback means so much to me. So this episode is to deepen the conversation. I answer questions that came in and also push back I got.   I knew in the original episode that I...

Do you get hung up, stuck, and spun around because you aren’t 100% sure of who you want to become and what brave life you really want to create?  You are not alone and this episode is for you. Many people struggle to get specific and get going. So this week I’m sharing a simple hack to quickly get clear, build momentum, and deepen your accountability. I use this simple hack for my clients as well...

Are you ready to hear the truth about the recent (and quite frankly, most) lay-offs and what to do about them? Cause this fiery episode is full of powerful messages.  I crafted this episode based on the many emails, messages, and social media conversations that you’ve shared with me. This episode may stretch, annoy, or even anger some of you, and I encourage you to bravely choose to listen and exp...

Welcome to the 100th episode!  There was a time when publishing 100 episodes seemed like a massive goal. Yet, here we are: celebrating…and also getting ready for a success slump.  What is a success slump?  That emotional release and dip after you’ve accomplished a goal. It shows up as: Questions like “is this really it?” and “what now?” Distancing yourself from the results you created “it wasn’t t...

My client, Caroline Santinelli, shares her story of moving from burnout-driven medical leave into embracing her innate strengths, choosing her health, and creating her own business. She sums up her experience with a Brene Brown quote: “belong to yourself first.”  First, she lost her voice (for real) due to stress, experienced her first panic attack, developed insomnia, kept getting sick with aches...

It is a few weeks into 2023, are you still committed to the intentions you set for your “ one, wild, and precious 2023?” Part of building the skill of bravery is remaining committed to the intentions, goals, and agreements you made to yourself.   If you are moving forward boldly or if you’ve stumbled, this episode has three powerful questions to help stay in your intentions, bravely, all the way t...

What if you didn’t have to suffer through burnout, exhaustion, or pain before you chose yourself, your goals, and your dreams? What if, instead of suffering and then growing - losing significant amounts of time, energy, connection, and belief – you could notice, chose, and exponentially grow from “good” to “great”? In this episode, I build upon the wisdom shared in E96 with my client Nisha Shresth...

Sometimes everything may appear to be picture-perfect on the outside, while our internal journey is quite the opposite, full of stress, and anxiety that drives negative thoughts and feelings. That was true for my client Nisha Shrestha. Nisha shares her brave journey of overcoming the fear of not being good enough, unraveling her unconscious negative thoughts that trapped her in stress, and her cho...

I’ve got some cool news for you! In some ways nothing is changing: this is still the Celebrate Brave podcast, and this is still the best place for you to discover how to stress less, work less, and earn more.  In other ways, everything changes: moving forward you will be experiencing a lot more “me” as well as many more topics, solutions, and voices as I shift towards helping you build your brave,...

Chelsea Olson, my client, joins us on this episode to share her brave story of pursuing her dreams, even in the face of adversity (and shares how you can do this too!). Listen to how Chelsea achieved her five-year goal in 18 months. Her story is the proof point for the power of coaching.  Chelsea is a hardware engineer who is also on the board of trustees at the Museum of Flight. She is passionate...

So you want to hire more women, but don’t know why they aren’t applying? I’ve got a bit of a fiery and direct answer for you.  This question – while common – is wrong. It outsources the responsibility to the people who are not currently in power. The accountability and the responsibility for more women applying and hiring more women belong to YOU.  The better question to ask yourself is: What do I...

Trigger Warning: this episode include talk about gun violence, loss, death, and grief. Today on this special episode, I address one of the biggest misunderstandings about changing who you are (self-concept): that it has to take a long time.  It doesn't. Even though most people believe that changing who you are *must* take a lot of time, the truth is that it doesn't have to. You can transform in on...

We all experience loss, whether it be within our careers or life. We try and we fail...we try again, we fail again, we try again, we succeed, and then the experience starts all over again. We all have these experiences throughout life, so it made sense that I got numerous questions that all boiled down to: how do I keep going after a big loss that feels all-encompassing and final?  In this episode...

Are you currently worrying about the potential recession, reorganization of your workplace, or manager change? If you are losing sleep, overstressing, or overworking yourself right now…there is only one way to solve it. My friend, it is time to stop outsourcing the power, authority, and belief of your worth and capabilities to others.  I can help you build that belief back up and take back your po...

Ready to build your brave in a more intentional way than you ever have before? In this episode, I am giving you a recap while everything is fresh from the November 2022, 5 Day Build Your Brave Intensive.  During this intensive, my eyes were opened even more to how deeply choosing your own brave can – and does – change everything. Over the last 18 months, my clients’ results have shown me that the...

Susanne Mueller, leader, global traveler, and innovative Project Management and Enablement Professional, joins us to share her brave career story. In this episode, Susanne Mueller shares how she radically transformed her mindset to commit to and then accomplish a major life goal: a year-long sabbatical.  She shares how she was able to release the expectations of others in her career so that she co...

This episode is for you if you are desperate to take time off but can’t really get away. Maybe you take time off but keep checking your work emails, or you turn on your out-of-office message but work keeps reaching out to you, or if you take your body away from your laptop but your mind is obsessively focused on the work you aren’t doing…  In this episode, I share powerful ways to make time away f...

Have you ever felt underappreciated and undervalued in your workplace, even after making an effort to ignite change? In this episode, my client, Jackie Podoll, is joining us to share her brave story of giving herself permission to no longer do the things she didn’t want to do.  In our conversation, Jackie shares how she chose herself identified what she actually wanted, and took bold steps to desi...

Listeners Question: Nicole answers a listener question: how to deal with unspecific feedback. The listener shared the following information: “My manager told me to be strategic. I’ve asked a number of times what he means because I already think I am strategic in my role. He agrees every time I share an example of what I think is strategic that I’m already doing. But his feedback doesn’t change and...

Build Your Brave Framework 2.0 -  Accountability - Crucial Conversations. This is the fourth of four episodes within Accountability. In this episode Nicole talks about what crucial conversations are, how they build trust and clarity, and she gives examples through roleplaying of a crucial conversation you may have in your career. Related Episodes:  Build Your BRAVE framework 2.0  Clarity – Career...

Build Your Brave Framework 2.0 - Accountability - Decision Framework. This is the third of four episodes within Accountability. This episode is for you if you consider yourself indecisive or if you make decisions too quickly and keep landing in situations that aren’t right for you. Nicole shows you how to make the next best decision in three steps. Related Episodes: Build Your BRAVE framework 2.0...

Build Your Brave Framework 2.0 -  Accountability - Circles of Control This is the second of four episodes within Accountability. Nicole shares the circles of control framework, one of the simplest and yet most transformational frameworks to create ease in your life. If you are feeling out of control or feel that everything needs to be in your control or are perceived as controlling:  this episode...

Build Your Brave Framework 2.0 -  Accountability - What is Accountability? This is the first of four episodes within Accountability. Nicole teaches what accountability is not and then shares what it actually is. When you transform your relationship to accountability, you will quickly work less, stress less, earn more, have more time for yourself and your family, and become the person you truly wan...

Amanda Burma, a powerful sales engineer within growing start-ups, my client, and my friend, shares her brave story about finding a career she loves while also thriving with a brain that includes ADHD and learning disability.  Listen in to how Amanda is choosing to shift her assumptions and behavior to support her own growth, hold better boundaries, work less with more impact, and leverage the supe...