Build Your Brave Career
for Women in Tech
Podcast
The Build Your Brave Career podcast 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.
The Build Your Brave Career for Women in Tech podcast is in the top 10% of podcasts globally (as of Q1 2026) and is listened to in more than 110 countries each month.
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E74: Momentum – Evaluation Framework
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...
E73: Momentum – Spider Networking
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...
E72: Momentum – Interest Interviews
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...
E71: How do I know if I hate this job or this entire career?
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...
E70: Ginny Walters – Find the Mission of Your Life
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...
E69: Nupur Verma – The Power of Investing in Yourself
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...
E68: Who do I need to become to enjoy my career?
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...
Create Opportunities to Build Your Global Career as Woman in Tech with Client Dora Szasz – E67
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...
E66: Clarity – Board of Advisors
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...
E65: Clarity – Smart Goals
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...
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