Build Your Brave Career for Women in Tech

What story have you been told and what story do you know to be true? Listen to ensure you know the difference.  ”In order to change something you have to challenge something” - Vonda Page Vonda shares part of her experience as a black woman with a masters degree, certifications, proven experience, and self-love moving through the corporate world 33 out of the Fortune 500 top executives are women....

When a choice becomes a mistake  When you keep making mistakes and you spiral down When you are unhappy and it shows  When you decide to do something about it and listen to Nicole explain what you need to do   RELATED EPISODES  The timing is always right  How self-care matters in your career   Career Tip for Women in Tech: Circles of Control    For more information on how you can build your brave:...

The top four learnings that Nicole gather from taking a risk  What investing in yourself actually means  Why asking for help is awesome   Related Episodes  Brave doesn’t have to be hard   Baerbel Haenelt; The Courage to ask Brave Questions   Parvathy Sankar; Define your own success    For more information on how you can build your brave: Nicole@tricksteinbach.com https://tricksteinbach.com/ https:...

Learning how to effectively run your career is the difference between a lot of wasted time, energy, and skill and a career that moves forward how and when you want it to. So many people are currently in the passenger seat of their career, giving away their decision-making and authority to a manager or an institution. That. Doesn't. Work.  You must decide to claim the driver's seat and stay right t...

Are you trying to catch up to others or are you blazing the path for you, knowing the world is gonna catch up to you? In this episode, Marcae blows Nicole’s mind about how she is not waiting to ‘see it to believe it’ but is ‘believing it to become it.’  Marcae has worked in six different industries and uses her experiences to help pull others like her up through the ranks. She shares her experienc...

Inspiration for this week’s episode comes from one of Nicole’s clients: There are no prince charmings. Yet, too many women are acting like the professional version of sleeping beauty, waiting for the professional knight in shining armour or the prince charming to swoop in for their career. It is an enormous mistake. Nicole shares personal stories about how she co-created bad working situations tha...

Nicole answers the number one question she gets, everywhere she does: Why coaching? ie, what’s the value of a coach? Why should a person have a coach?  A coach is your fast track to your goal, to where you want to be, who you want to be, what you want to achieve, with the least amount of effort, failure, and pain.  The experience of being coached, and the lessons from each coaching experience, nev...

We revisit an earlier episode called “Catch the Bunny” with a clearer message and additional growth: everything is impossible until you’ve done it. Then it’s another skill to deepen and mature.  Every time we do something for the first time it can potentially be awkward or unpleasant but we learn and adapt and the next time we do this it will be so much better.    RELATED EPISODES:  Make your prom...

We revisit an earlier episode called “You are a cast iron pan” with new insights and additional growth. The cast-iron pan metaphor to one of self-care and your growth as a woman in tech.  Nicole shares how to use the metaphor for your success. How to turn ‘off’ and ‘on.’ How to identify your clarity, your needs, your self-care for consistency. All so that you create the results that you actually w...

In this time of year with over 200 different celebrations and holidays, leverage your own traditions and celebration to remind yourself that you are one badass woman in tech Here are three ways to become a well-paid, recognized, properly titled, and most of all a HAPPY woman in tech. 1. Create clarity. Allowing yourself to celebrate all you have done in the last year, the connections you have made...

Are you a woman in tech at a senior/executive level who feels lost? Or are you a woman in tech aiming to become a senior/executive and want to know how to enjoy your senior career? If so, this episode is for you.  Far too many women in tech are quietly unhappy. They are passed over for a promotion, and companies are not investing in them. They ask themselves, why is my career not advancing? I do w...

Long time fro-lleague and fellow woman in tech, Parvathy Sankar, shares two BRAVE stories about defining success her own way and how relationships are the sauce for career success. As Nicole & Parvathy share their shared story, you get a strong reminder that we never know what is going with someone else …. Or how you are impacting them. “Just amazing how some things did not work out at a certa...

Mindset shift is demanded: interviewing is now a shared, collaborative experience that you lead. No longer do you wait and follow along with zero (or minimal) agency A story about how a client spent 8 hours interviewing for a job at her “dream company” and still there was no end in sight.  3 steps of how you can lead your interview process to take control, get answers, and make an empowered decisi...

Are you a woman in tech who is underpaid, overworked, and un-invested? This episode is for you!.  Conversations and presentations during Grace Hopper Celebration 2021 are the inspiration for this episode. Nicole failed to craft this tough-and-flicking-necessary message in writing, so she created this episode.  Women in tech are failing each other: we are normalizing bullshit about being underpaid,...

  “If I believe in a mission, I don’t stop. I do stop toxicity when I sense it. And then I pick a different path and keep going”; Arezou - mom, entrepreneur, former global executive, an immigrant.  Breaking free of a toxic situation that did not serve her. When the toxic situation started to affect her health, she made a huge decision to leave a successful job as an executive. Leaving the job left...

Erica’s brave story starts when she realised that graduating with a PhD was someone else’s goal for her.  Erica shares her winding path towards discovering she is a creative in art and science.  The only person that can give you permission to define who you are, is you.  How BRAVE role models are the people who support and love you each day, in their own way.    RESOURCES:   Episode 6 of the Celeb...

One transformative technique to shift your attitude from powerless to empowered  The circles of control include the circle of control, circle of influence, and circle of concern One powerful story about a client who shifted her perspective and moved from angry and frustrated to empowered in a new career phase. RESOURCES:  More about “The Model” mentioned in the episode:   https://psychcentral.com/...

The power of looking at the actual facts (circumstances), and not what you want to see or believe The power of turning on the light: five weeks after starting her co-working office space in Heidelberg, Germany the pandemic hit and everything closed down. What did Lone do? Lone’s brave role model shows how one person’s choices can influence generations    RESOURCES: Lone Aggersbjerg https://tink-ta...

Deep dive into interest interviews and why it is a really underused and powerful technique to use throughout your career.  How to step over your initial thoughts and feelings that people aren’t open How Nicole found out via interest interviews that a managing director role wasn’t right for her 2 concrete questions you must ask in every single interest interview  Full Show Notes of this episode   R...

Heads up: intrusive thoughts, handled with self-love and clarity, are a part of this episode Jess Tillis, Director, Global Revenue Operations at Fivetran, shares her courageous pathway from accomplishing a childhood dream, through the experience of out-growing her dream, and into an unexpected and unknown leap into the tech industry.  We cover how Jess identified it was time for her to shift her c...

How an email with an impossible question got a surprising answer and how this story shows us all how we can ask BRAVE questions Baerbel had a goal but all the “normal” paths to achieve it were blocked, so she had to take BRAVE steps even when she thought she might fail to find an unexpected solution How one German saying kept Baerbel going and inspires her throughout her career: “Everyone is only...

Be prepared to get travel envy as Jenn shared her travels (spoiler: more than Nicole’s 25 countries!) From doing marketing for a bridal shop to closing up her life in Philadelphia, shifting her entire career, and stepping into years of travel and work with her husband.  Jenn shares how she moved her career from “an obvious choice” but one that made her “feel the dread” to stop and rethink her choi...

What is The Shine Theory and why should women in tech invest their time and energy in this way? The time that Nicole hired an intern and the relationship grew from manager/employee to a beneficial investment in each other. How you can use amplification as a strategy for individual and shared success. Why taking notes during a meeting is sometimes a good idea, even if you have the same or more seni...

1. The glass cliff is a known phenomenon of historically disadvantaged people and groups being offered opportunities to achieve leadership roles during periods of crisis or downturn, when the chance of failure is the highest.  2. Nicole’s specific glass cliff experience. Her male predecessor took three years to mess up an effort, Nicole was given nine months. Did she succeed?  3. Suggestions on ho...

  Proof that the current global concept that women aren’t founders is false. The actual problem is that 2.3% of ALL VC funding goes to women and of that only 0.27% for historically disadvantaged women The moment Zoe discovered Glennon Doyle’s book Untamed and it changed her so much she got a tattoo with the word untamed. (BRAVE moment) “When something is not working out, just change it, just to ha...