Build Your Brave Career for Women in Tech

Listener question: How do I know if I am underpaid? Nicole provides a few simple ways to discover if you are underpaid. Once you have your answer, Nicole then provides a simple approach to establish your new salary baseline, which you then use for negotiation. Stop wondering if you are underpaid, get clear, and get active to ensure you earn more.    Related Episodes:  Momentum – Negotiation Framew...

Jennifer Beason, Director of Corporate Social Responsiblity, shares her brave story of how she built her career towards work that she believes in and suits her best. Throughout the episode Jennifer explains what corporate social responsibility is and how her pathway can inspire you to identify and follow your own. Pay particular attention to the resources Jennfer shares as well as her brave role m...

Listeners Question: Nicole answers a question a long time follower and listener of the podcast has sent in an email. What do I do when I’m Ignored? She will show you how to make sure that people will listen to you, that the valuable information you want to share comes across. How to use body language, sound like yourself but still be heard and many more fantastic tips so next time you go into a Zo...

Build Your Brave Framework 2.0 - Momentum, Interview to Outcome Framework. This is the fifth and last episode for Momentum. Nicole teaches you how to transform your interview into a conversation, ensuring you not only share all the information required for the company, but you leave with all the information you need about the company too. This framework is for you if you have a lot of first or sec...

Build Your Brave Framework 2.0 - Momentum, Negotiation Framework. This is the fourth of five episodes within Momentum. Nicole teaches you how to effectively negotiate in your professional and personal life. Nicole starts with some of  her client's results after using her negotiation framework. Then we replay episode 56 so that you can start to effectively negotiate starting today in four steps:  S...

Build Your Brave Framework; Momentum, Evaluation Framework. This is the third part of the five episodes within Momentum. Nicole shares a simple, effective way for you to always learn and improve, no matter what is going on around you. In less than 15 minutes, you can figure out how you are creating the job you have and how to create the one that you actually want.  RELATED EPISODES:  Career Tip fo...

Build Your Brave Framework 2.0 - Momentum, Spider Networking. This is the second of five episodes within Momentum. Nicole teaches you how to simply and exponentially expand your networking: Spider Networking. Learn how to leverage your network as well as your network’s network to make connections for everyone’s skill growth, promotions, learning, job changes, and more. Listen to identify how you c...

Build Your Brave Framework 2.0 - Momentum. This episode kicks off the second part of the framework: Momentum with a favourite topic: Interest Interviews. Interest interviews are the number one strategy that has landed Nicole’s clients their next big goal. Deep dive into interest interviews and why it is a really underused and powerful technique to use throughout your career to work less, stress le...

Listener question: How do I know if I hate this job or this entire career? Nicole answers a repeated listener question with concrete advice and insight for how to identify where your negative emotions are coming from and how to get very clear about how to address them. Life is too short to stay in a situation that you “hate”. Listen to this episode to get clear and start moving forward being even...

My client, Ginny Walters, shares how she was motivated by a significant personal loss to reevaluate her career and her future. In just a few short months, she chose to shift from education and academia into a role that leverages and stretches her transferable skills and experience within the technology sector.  One crucial aspect of Ginny's experience was choosing to build her belief and her visio...

My client, Nupur Verma, shares her pathway from nearly quitting her role after doing too much for too long (hello 2020 and 2021!) to advancing in her career, growing her team, and learning to do less while earning more.  Nupur shares how shifting her mindset to then build skills changed her goals as well as her reality. Listen as we celebrate her new role, promotion, and her global relocation.  Nu...

Listener question: Who do I need to become? Nicole answers this important listener question and then shares how you can simply craft your own answer. All your life you’ve been told who to be, what to do, and how to be good student, a good parent, a good employee. It is time to stop listening and start answering on your own, because you are the only person who can truly know who you are becoming. ...

Dora Szasz, a research scientist and my client, shares how she has chosen to find opportunity in even the most challenging experiences, including sleeping on a mattress in an empty apartment. Dora shares her brave career journey that started in a small Romanian village, continued in Germany and France, and is now rooted in the United States. Listen as Dora shares how she crafted a career that buil...

Build Your Brave Framework 2.0 -  Clarity - Board of Advisors. This is the third of three episodes within Clarity.  A career board of advisors is a group of people you trust to be your mentors, your sponsors, and your advisors.  I teach you how to identify the right people, how to build the relationship with them, and how to nurture your board as a whole over time.    For more information on how y...

Build Your Brave Framework 2.0 -  Clarity - Smart Goal. This is the second of three episodes within Clarity.  Listen to this episode to learn how to set goals, why they matter, and why you've got to be very specific for your own commitment.   For more information on how you can build your brave: Nicole@tricksteinbach.com https://tricksteinbach.com/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/nicoletricksteinbach/...

Build Your Brave Framework 2.0 -  Clarity - Self-Concept Design. This is the first of three episodes within Clarity.  Are you unable to ask for what you want, or even worse, you don’t know what you want? Are you unhappy but you keep telling yourself that you should be happy?  Listen to part one of the Clarity frame of the Build Your Brave Framework and find out how you can find your path, be happy...

I am asked so often why I teach bravery. Here is my answer: because being brave has been so very hard for me.  I share my personal story, how I committed myself to bravery, and how I can help you.    RELATED EPISODES: Build Your Brave Framework 2.0   Arezou Zarafshan - Now is the time to Do something   Lone Aggersbjerg: Choose to Show Up   REFERENCES: Winston Churchill: https://en.wikipedia.org/wi...

Are you ready to stress less, work less, and earn more? Then you are ready for the Build Your Brave Framework.  In this episode, I share two truths -- bravery is a skill, not a personality trait and you can build the skill of bravery -- to then walk you through how you can build your bravery right away.  Using the Build Your Brave framework you can achieve any goal that you set: sleep better, feel...

Ashley Willumitis shares her brave story, from rejecting the belief that she had to be overworked and underpaid, to taking a significant risk with her career and living space, and how she identified her next career and life phase.   Ashley shares the power of interest interviews, networking, and following her creativity. In her process, she experienced a significant breakthrough in that she didn't...

I share how to build the habit of choosing what is important over what is urgent so that you reach your goals and create your dreams.  Especially as women we have been taught that prioritizing what someone somewhere labels "urgent" is better than focusing on what is actually important to us. In fact, most of us have been taught that choosing ourselves is selfish and wrong. We've been taught to lea...

Christie Chaffee joins shares her story of how she embraced one window of opportunity to grow from being a team and project leader into an organizational and executive leader. Christie had the chance to leverage a stretch assignment into organizational change and professional growth. She chose to believe a mentor who believed in her, got into the messy details, drove many important (crucial) conve...

3 Biggest Career Mistakes Setting a weak goal and keeping it to yourself Obsess about the how Not believing you will change How to set a concrete goal by putting a line in the sand and sharing your goal with other people The learn - act - experience spiral dictates if your are moving up or down the spiral   How to accept that you have to become a new you to celebrate your goal.   RESOURCES: Book:...

Today on International Women’s Day we bring you a special bonus episode to CELEBRATE ALL WOMEN!!! We are doing things a bit different in this episode as the host/narrator is Celebrate Brave’s very own podcast producer Laila Noort from Lagor Services Podcast Production.  We celebrate some of the amazing guests we have had on the show this season and of course Nicole for the work she is doing for wo...

Be Bold and Balanced Don’t play small, come forward with what you are passionate about Say what you want to say, be bold about it and then just shut up.    Show your passion for what you presenting and additional doors can open   RESOURCES: Charlotte Allen Book: Rebel Success for Leaders - Lead Grow and Sell Fearlessly  https://rebelsuccessforleaders.com/ LinkedIn:  https://www.linkedin.com/in/cha...

In this episode I teach you a transformational mindset to empower when and how you negotiate as well as a simple framework for every type of negotiation. Particularly if you are scared of negotiation or think you don't know how, this episode is for you.  Every negotiation is just a conversation and every conversation is -- in some ways -- a negotiation. Once you truly believe this, you can quickly...