by Nicole Trick Steinbach
As I write to you I am in Pittsburgh. We drove across the country from our home in the Denver, Colorado area. Over three days we drove across Kansas, Missouri, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, took in a little slice of West Virginia, and then coasted into Pittsburgh. Did I...
by Nicole Trick Steinbach
Members of the Build Your BRAVE network were the first to get the news and it came right after a failed coup in the USA. I’ll be honest, I deliberated holding back, waiting for some dust to settle and accountability to build, before sharing the news. But then, a dear...
by Nicole Trick Steinbach
Brave are the courageous souls who dare step outside the predefined yellow brick road. -Kami Guildner Sure, I knew about the yellow brick road. I watched VHS (yeah, I said it). I knew within my deepest heart-of-heart that there was a yellow brick road for me, no...
by Nicole Trick Steinbach
“Yes” is a one-word sentence and we celebrate it. “No” is also a one-word sentence and we shrink from it. But do we celebrate it? No. But here is the thing, we should celebrate no as a full and complete sentence. No frees us up as much as yes, and sometimes...
by Nicole Trick Steinbach
My single birthday ask was to wake up in the mountains, looking at the mountains. Since I live in Colorado … super simple to find a short-term rental, right? ….. Welp. There is also: Two kiddos. Two dogs. My birthday is during Thanksgiving week. It is COVID, right...
by Nicole Trick Steinbach
I was weeping into my pillow, self-pity, frustration, and pain mingling together, when my phone rang. I was exhausted, dealing with internal inflammation cause by (yet another) mysterious allergic reaction. I didn’t want to answer but a name I hadn’t...
