Build Your Brave Career
for Women in Tech
Podcast
The Build Your Brave Career for Women in Tech podcast is you to build the skill of bravery in your career so that you can stress less, work less, and then earn more.
With a mix of conversations and solo episodes, your host Nicole Trick Steinbach creates empowering episodes to help you make bold decisions, take decisive action, and courageously overcome career and personal obstacles through skill and community building topics.
Episodes often explore the skill of bravery, stressing less, working less, career growth, crafting purpose and fulfillment, salary increases and negotiations, relationship building, and living a life well-lived.
The Build Your Brave Career for Women in Tech podcast is in the top 10% of podcasts globally (as of Q1 2024).
Subscribe on your favorite podcast platform here
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...
Listener Voices: Responding to Feedback on 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...
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...
Every Industry Is Tech Now: Building Your Brave Career Beyond Traditional Tech
I dive into how every industry is now a tech industry. We bust the myth that "tech jobs" only live inside traditional tech companies and that you are trapped in the "traditional" tech industry. I share eye-opening job growth stats across diverse sectors and offer...
Celebrating 6 Years of Bravery!
I just celebrated six years of building the skill of bravery for women in tech! In a special episode, I share how my own brave is continuing to grow and deepen as well, in some rather surprising directions. Take a listen here "6 Years of Bravery: Intentional Choices...
Bravely Bejeweled: Reflections on a Year of Loss & My Choice to Allow 2025
2024 was a year of immense challenges, transformation, and growth. In this deeply personal episode of Build Your Brave Career, I reflect on the losses, lessons, and connections that defined my year—and how they’re shaping my approach to 2025. I also share two key...
Who Are You Making It Easy For? One Question to Transform Your Career
Do you ever feel stuck while pursuing your career goals? In this episode, I dive into a common lie we face as women in tech: the implicit or explicit responsibility to make your growth easy for everyone else. Many ambitious women in tech find themselves at a...
Stay On the Job Market without Burning Out as a Woman in Tech
You are always on the job market. Always. Understanding and practicing is a cornerstone of building a brave career. Whether you’re thriving in your current role, facing uncertainty, or anything in between, this episode will equip you with the mindset and strategies to...
Reframing Adversity as a Woman in Tech: From Test to Confirmation
What would change if you chose to see adversities not as tests, but as confirmation of your decisions, values, and goals? This episode will help you explore an option for shifting your perception so that you stress less, work less, and then earn more as a woman in...
Benefit from Every Adversity through Values with Mahua Chakravarty
Mahua Chakuvati, Sales & HR Tech Leader, dives deep into her unique definition of bravery, sharing how core values like acceptance, humility, gratitude, and honesty have propelled her forward in a remarkable career spanning sales, business applications,...
Meet Your Host
