Build Your Brave Career for Women in Tech
Women in tech are just stressed out, overworked, overlooked, and underpaid, right? NOPE! Not around here. Around here we build the skill of bravery to stress less, work less, and then earn more as women in tech. At this point in your career, you're more educated, skilled, and experienced than most of your colleagues, but you are also more stressed, working more, and are pretty sure you’re underpaid. And you are done accepting the status quo. You are ready to get what you’ve already earned and then grow your career even further…without burning out. You don’t know how...
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What Now? Solving Career Confusion
<p>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.</p><p>I share a client's process of moving from confused and stuck to energized and thriving, rooted in the Build Your Brave Career Framework.</p><p>Specifically, I show you: </p>Clarity — Stop asking the same big, vague questions so that you start telling yourself the truth about what you actually want.Momentum — Commi...
You Need Brave Feedback; Not Gentle Coddling
<p>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.</p><p>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.</p><p>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 yo...
Listener Voices: Responding to Feedback about Women Staying vs. Leaving in Tech
<p>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. </p><p>What You'll Hear:</p>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?<p>Key Takeaway:<br>What you want to reject bec...
Bravery in the Meantime: how to use a tough career phase for long-term success
<p>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.</p><p>Building your brave career is sometimes about bravery in the meantime.</p><p>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. </p><p>More Links:<br>Check...
Shape the Future: Choose Your Boat for the River of Progress
<p>Let's get real about the challenges we face as women in tech—especially as right-wing, anti-woman movements gain ground around the world and in our industry. I share why it’s more important than ever to speak up, get involved, and “get on a boat” toward justice—whether your boat is advocating for equal healthcare, LGBTQI rights, or community building.</p><p>You matter. Your voice matters. And your bravery—at work and in life—will shape our collective future. If you’re feeling stressed, numb, or just looking for a reminder that you’re not alone in these tough times, this...
Every Industry Is Tech Now: Building Your Brave Career Beyond Traditional Tech
<p>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 practical steps for women in tech who want less stress, more freedom, and similar or perhaps even more pay, without sacrificing your skills or ambition.</p><p>Curious about how you can use your tech talents in new industries with better working conditions and much closer to your interests and purpose? Listen in, take...
6 Years of Bravery: Intentional Choices and Big Shifts to Build the Skill of Bravery
<p>I'm popping back into your feed to celebrate a milestone: SIX YEARS of helping women in tech build the skill of bravery to stress less, work less, and then earn more. </p><p>In this episode, I build upon the last episode (link below). Then I share how I applied the Build Your Brave framework - clarity, momentum, accountability - to make a bold move in my own career. I also talk about the opportunities that still exist for women in tech who are willing to bravely leave behind what doesn’t serve them and intentionally build the careers—and l...
Bravely Bejeweled: Reflections on a Year of Loss & My Choice to Allow 2025
<p>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.</p><p>I also share two key updates for 2025: </p>I am pausing new episodes temporarily to allow space for reflection and recalibration. I promise new episodes are coming. I will not be onboarding new coaching clients in early 2025. Join my email list to stay up-to-date. <p>What’s Inside This Episode:</p>A candid reflection on the highs and lows of 2...
Bravely Bejeweled: Reflections on a Year of Loss & My Choice to Allow 2025
<p>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.</p><p>I also share two key updates for 2025: </p>I am pausing new episodes temporarily to allow space for reflection and recalibration. I promise new episodes are coming. I will not be onboarding new coaching clients in early 2025. Join my email list to stay up-to-date. <p>What’s Inside This Episode:</p>A candid reflection on the highs and lows of 2...
Who Are You Making It Easy For? One Question to Transform Your Career
<p>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. </p><p>Many ambitious women in tech find themselves at a crossroads—a point where pursuing their career goals seems daunting and when met with resistance, often leads to a withdrawal from growth. </p><p>Through a representative client story about asking the tough questions, facing discomfort head-on, and making powerful decisions for her career trajectory, you'll learn:</p>The importance of p...
