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by Nicole Trick Steinbach, Certified Coach for Women in Tech, Former Global Director, & Organizational Change Management Consultant
Build Your Brave Career is for women in tech who are done being overworked, overlooked, and underpaid...and are ready to change it. If you’re experienced, capable, and tired of working harder without getting what you’ve earned, this podcast shows you how to make the strategic and tactical moves to stress less, work less, and earn more. With each episode, you’ll learn how to build the skill of bravery so you can advocate for yourself, make smarter career decisions, and create real momentum, without losing yourself or burning out. Nicole Trick Steinbach is your host. She is a former director who built a global tech career from the ground up, working in over 25 countries, leading large-scale transformational change projects. Nicole is now at home in both the US and Germany. To learn more about how you can build your brave, connect here: • Website: https://tricksteinbach.com/ • LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nicoletricksteinbach
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- 3 weeks ago21 min
What Now? So Many Job Postings, But Where Are the Real Jobs?
You are looking for a new job. You're qualified. You're experienced. You're doing everything right — and nothing is moving. Instead, you are spinning in applications, silence, and rejection. In this fifth episode of the What Now series, I walk you through what isn’t working and what you need to do instead of move past Ghost Jobs and into a new career phase. If you've been applying to hundreds of roles and not landing that job, you're not failing. You're navigating a system full of ghost jobs — postings that exist for data mining, salary research, compliance requirements, or optics, not actual hiring. Right now the traditional online application process is statistically the lowest-probability path to getting hired, and it's quietly eroding your confidence, your identity, and your energy. Listen to this episode to fix it.The Solution: The Build Your Brave FrameworkClarity: Stop applying harder and start getting clearer. Define what you're no longer available for, what energizes you, and what life you're building. Clarity moves you out of the spiral and into strategic momentum.Momentum: Shift from mass applying to real conversations. Reconnect with former colleagues, attend events that genuinely interest you, and identify companies you're authentically curious about. Build relationships from a place of who you are — not desperation.Accountability: You don't have to do this alone. Having a partner who provides insight, coaching, and governance changes everything. Anna applied to 180 jobs over four months with minimal results. Within four months of working through this framework, she landed a leadership role — better pay, healthier culture — that was never publicly posted.Your next career phase is possible. Real opportunities exist. You just need a smarter, braver strategy to find them. If you are ready to change your career growth strategy from what doesn’t work anymore into what does work, specifically for you, click here to start working together through 1:1 career coaching with me. Connect with Me:You can be a woman in tech and enjoy your career. When you build the skill of bravery, you will stress less, work less, and then earn more. Check out the following resources designed to help you thrive in your career: Check out my websiteJoin my mailing list for more insights, opportunities, and inspirationConnection with me on LinkedIn
- May 7, 202613 min
What Now? Fear of Lay-Offs - How to Build Your Brave When Everything is Uncertain
Are you experienced, doing your job well & delivering results, and still waiting for the lay-off to smack down? You're not overreacting. You're paying attention. In this fourth episode of the What Now series, I walk you through how to stop the default response to overwork and how to reduce the fear and step back into control. I share how one client went from overworking, stressed to the max, and poorly leading her team due to lay-off fear to becoming a trusted leader, with personal and financial calm, who navigated the dreaded lay-off with inner power. Specific I show you how to use the Build Your Brave Career Framework:1. Clarity — includes three clear questions, including the scenario you're afraid of:What do I actually want in the next 12 months? What would I do in the first 30/60/90 days if laid off? What am I tolerating because I'm afraid?2. Momentum — stop panic productivity and shift into real aligned momentum of both feelings and actions. 3. Accountability — decide who you're becoming specifically in terms of lay-off anxiety. You are anxious about lay-off because you are paying attention. Lay-off or not, you can be in charge. Click here to start working together to take control of the lay-off fears through 1:1 career coaching with me. Connect with Me: You can be a woman in tech and enjoy your career. When you build the skill of bravery, you will stress less, work less, and then earn more. Check out the following resources designed to help you thrive in your career: Check out my websiteJoin my mailing list for more insights, opportunities, and inspirationConnection with me on LinkedIn
- Apr 30, 202624 min
What Now? Fix Getting Passed Over in Your Career
Did you get passed over in your career and you're ready to fix it so your work get the title and salary it deserves? In this third episode of the What Now series, I walk you through how to fix getting passed over and turn into into career leap.I share how one client went from a decade of being passed over to a role two levels up in less than four months at the same company, rooted in the Build Your Brave Career Framework.Specifically, I show you: Clarity — Have the uncomfortable conversation with your manager. Ask what led to the decision, then listen. If you hear "maybe in six months," "keep going, we believe in you," or a "well, actually" reframe — that's your clarity. Growth isn't coming here.Momentum — Process the disappointment and grief, but don't stop there. Take intentional action: shift your narrative, close a gap you actually want to close, or start exploring what's next.Accountability — Ask: Who have I been, and who do I want to become? Design clean, simple statements and become them in your daily choices. Getting passed over happens. Staying passed over is a choice. This episode is your sign to make a very different choice. Click here to start working together to solve your career confusion through 1:1 career coaching with me.Connect with Me:You can be a woman in tech and enjoy your career. When you build the skill of bravery, you will stress less, work less, and then earn more. Check out the following resources designed to help you thrive in your career: Check out my websiteJoin my mailing list for more insights, opportunities, and inspirationConnection with me on LinkedIn
- Apr 23, 202618 min
What Now? From Exhausted to Brave — The Career Framework That Changes Everything
Are you exhausted — not just tired, not in need of a nap, just exhausted? In this second episode of the What Now series, I walk you through why career exhaustion happens and how to use the Build Your Brave Career Framework to move forward.I share client examples and concrete suggestions. Specifically, I show you: 1. Clarity — Start with honesty. What's exhausting me? Who's stealing my energy? What am I no longer willing to tolerate?2. Momentum — Feel your way forward, not just execute. Establish clear boundaries as you feel your feelings, one brave shift at a time.3. Accountability — Choose who you want to become and stop waiting for anyone else to become her.Career exhaustion is not permanent. It's a sign that you are ready to grow.If you've been silently asking "what now?" this episode is your sign to take the next brave step. Click here to start working together to solve your career confusion through 1:1 career coaching with me.Connect with Me:You can be a woman in tech and enjoy your career. When you build the skill of bravery, you will stress less, work less, and then earn more. Check out the following resources designed to help you thrive in your career: Check out my websiteJoin my mailing list for more insights, opportunities, and inspirationConnection with me on LinkedIn
- Apr 16, 202618 min
What Now? Solving Career Confusion
Are you feeling confused about your career, but you are not quite in crisis? You're not alone and you're not stuck. In this first episode of the What Now series, I reframe career confusion and give you a simple way to solve your career confusion.I share a client's process of moving from confused and stuck to energized and thriving, rooted in the Build Your Brave Career Framework.Specifically, I show you: Clarity — Stop asking the same big, vague questions so that you start telling yourself the truth about what you actually want.Momentum — Commit to small, intentional actions that build the confidence and the direction you need to ensure your confusion.Accountability — Decide who you're becoming and grow into your future you through self-concept and mindset design.If you've been silently asking "what now?" this episode is your sign to take the next brave step. Click here to start working together to solve your career confusion through 1:1 career coaching with me. Connect with Me:You can be a woman in tech and enjoy your career. When you build the skill of bravery, you will stress less, work less, and then earn more. Check out the following resources designed to help you thrive in your career: Check out my websiteJoin my mailing list for more insights, opportunities, and inspirationConnection with me on LinkedIn
- Mar 6, 202627 min
You Need Brave Feedback; Not Gentle Coddling
Listen, this episode might sting a little—and that's exactly the point. If you're a woman in tech who treats feedback like a personal attack instead of career fuel, I'm talking directly to you.I've watched with horror as more women have become timid about giving feedback and defensive about receiving it. This pattern is quietly cutting your career growth at the knees while multiplying your stress.Here's what I know: You wouldn't coddle your code, your product, or your project when it needs iteration. So why are you being so precious about feedback on your own performance?In this episode, I'm drawing a hard line between toxic workplace BS (which is NOT what we're discussing) and the constructive, developmental, growth-oriented feedback that is actual career generosity. The kind you need to actively seek out, receive with curiosity, and use strategically.Here's what I cover:Why feedback is the accelerated growth engine in tech—and why your career needs the same iterative approach as your codeThe brutal truth about how women are held to higher performance standards (backed by research since the 1970s)Why your defensiveness is far more damaging than the original feedback ever wasHow leaders are watching for your response to feedback—not your perfectionWhy you must stop optimizing for likability and start optimizing for clarity and effectivenessThe mindset shift that changes everything: feedback is data, not identityConcrete examples of professional feedback versus unhelpful criticismWhy avoiding giving feedback makes you unclear and untrustworthy (not nice)I also share real feedback my clients recently received and how they made it mean something totally different than what was actually said.The women who enjoy their careers and reach their goals aren't the ones who never get criticism. They're the ones who are seen improving over time—in line with their values, purpose, and boundaries.Bravery isn't just about bold moves. It's about sitting still in a moment of critique and choosing your growth instead of your ego.Your Next Steps:Separate the feedback from what your brain tells you. Make feedback a monthly habit. Seek feedback from your critics. Give yourself 24 hours. Stop optimizing for likability. Related Episodes Importance of Specific Feedback in Career GrowthAggressive or Just Direct? Navigating Feedback as a Woman in TechE85: How to Deal with Unspecific Career Feedback to Build Your Skills, Relationships, Career, and SalaryConnect with Me:You can be a woman in tech and enjoy your career. When you build the skill of bravery, you will stress less, work less, and then earn more. Check out the following resources designed to help you thrive in your career: Check out my websiteJoin my mailing list for more insights, opportunities, and inspirationConnection with me on LinkedIn
- Feb 18, 202617 min
Listener Voices: Responding to Feedback about Women Staying vs. Leaving in Tech
Listen in as I respond to the generous and conflicting feedback that you sent about my last episode, "Bravery in the Meantime." Your feedback was the full range responses—positive, relieved, dismissive, and angry. I share your feedback and also offer my own thoughts on what comes next for us all. What You'll Hear:Four buckets of listener feedback, from validating to challengingMy vulnerable response to criticism about privilege, systemic change, and individual copingAn invitation: What can Nicole create to support you in building your brave career?Key Takeaway:What you want to reject because it threatens you might be exactly what you need to work on right now.Mentioned in This Episode:Previous episode: "Bravery in the Meantime: How to Use a Tough Career Phase for Long-Term Success"Past episodes: "The Glass Floor" and "Recognizing Toxic Career Surroundings"Connect with Nicole:You can be a woman in tech and enjoy your career. When you build the skill of bravery, you will stress less, work less, and then earn more. Check out the following resources designed to help you thrive in your career: Check out my websiteJoin my mailing list for more insights, opportunities, and inspirationConnection with me on LinkedIn
- Nov 8, 202513 min
Bravery in the Meantime: how to use a tough career phase for long-term success
Building your brave career isn't always about leaping, insisting, disrupting. Sometimes it means staying with intention using. This moment to calm your nervous system, build your skills and inner strength, enhance your financial safety and deepen your real life, your hobbies and your interests, and the most important relationships.Building your brave career is sometimes about bravery in the meantime.Listen to this episode for concrete examples of how to use a difficult career phase to build your long-term career without stressing out, burning out, or limiting your goals. More Links:Check out my websiteJoin my mailing list for more insights, opportunities, and inspirationConnection with me on LinkedInDetailed TranscriptRight now, most women in tech are in a career phase that isn't quite what they expected. I mean, sure some of my clients and some fellow women in tech are moving abroad. Accepting promotions or lowering their stress by working fewer hours, traveling less, taking on less emotional labor. Yes, that is true.What is also true is that most of my clients, and many women in tech, are in a career phase that kind of sucks. They've been laid off with no warning, passed over for deserved, and sometimes even promised promotion, or they're stuck working with people they don't respect on products that aren't quality at companies that don't seem to care. They're watching executives and shareholders, and investors take far more than they could ever create.Because here's a brave truth: it's rough out there for a lot of women in tech, quite frankly, for a lot of everyone. And maybe that's you, and if it is, keep listening.By the end of this episode, you'll have a few ways to build the skill of bravery in your meantime. Even if you're in a job, that kind of sucks. Right now, you may be feeling ignored, stressed, lost, angry, stuck. You may feel held down by bad management and tough, real economic realities, but you're still showing up for work.Maybe you're biting back your sarcasm, your boredom, maybe even your hope. You are watching the cost of everything rise: food, clothing, housing, schooling, everything. It feels threatening. You're saving, but it never feels like enough. And you know that guy who does less and does it poorly is still earning more than you.You want to grow, be bold, create your next career phase, but you've also survived three layoffs in two years. Your friends are struggling, your mentors are struggling. You look around and it feels like just about everyone is struggling.You keep wondering what's right for me right now? Is there anywhere safe anymore? In the tech industry, we often celebrate the bravery of quitting, founding, leaping, reinventing. We talk about moving fast and breaking things, but sometimes the bravest thing, the best Next thing is choosing to stay. Choosing to stay at a job, that kind of sucks because it gives you the stability you need this month and the next.It helps you rest, build skills, activate your network, and deepen your personal relationships. Yeah, it kind of sucks and you can use this phase.You can use this phase to be your phase of bravery. In the meantime, crafting the foundation you need for that next clear leap. That might be exactly the type of bravery you need right now.Now, before I go any further, I wanna be really clear the rest of this episode is not for you. Or anyone. If you are in a truly unsafe environment, if you're being abused, bullied, harassed, or just frankly not paid, these tips are not for your situation. You need to protect yourself, and you need to seek support.What I'm about to share is for women in tech who are stressed, overworked, underpaid, and trying to stay afloat and craft a future in a very tough season.Today we're talking about how staying, how choosing bravery in the meantime can support your next career and life phase. None of what I'm about to say will help a toxic or abusive situation. Okay?If work feels draining. And it's impacting your life. This is your time to focus on bravery. In the meantime, it's about making conscious choices to build the habits and the skills you need for lowering your stress, for managing your time better. For most of you, that means working less. And setting yourself up in the future for greater income.Because you have built, expanded your sense of self, you've made yourself more valuable on the market. These are tiny habits that remind you of who you are, what you want, and why you matter.This might mean staying quieter in meetings, doing the minimum necessary for success in your role.Pay attention to what I just said : you're still go
About Build Your Brave Career for Women in Tech
Build Your Brave Career is for women in tech who are done being overworked, overlooked, and underpaid...and are ready to change it. If you’re experienced, capable, and tired of working harder without getting what you’ve earned, this podcast shows you how to make the strategic and tactical moves to stress less, work less, and earn more. With each episode, you’ll learn how to build the skill of bravery so you can advocate for yourself, make smarter career decisions, and create real momentum, without losing yourself or burning out. Nicole Trick Steinbach is your host. She is a former director who built a global tech career from the ground up, working in over 25 countries, leading large-scale transformational change projects. Nicole is now at home in both the US and Germany. To learn more about how you can build your brave, connect here: • Website: https://tricksteinbach.com/ • LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nicoletricksteinbach
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