During the summer of 2024, I am re-running the most popular client conversations based on downloads, shares, and direct feedback. Make sure to catch a career update at the end of each episode.

Amanda Burma, a powerful sales engineer within growing start-ups, my client, and my friend, shares her brave story about finding a career she loves while also thriving with a brain that includes ADHD and learning disability.

Listen in to how Amanda is choosing to shift her assumptions and behavior to support her own growth, hold better boundaries, work less with more impact, and leverage the superpower of neurodiversity for herself and others.

Amanda shares her process for how she identified where she thrives and how she continues to ensure that she grows. We finish off the episode with Amanda’s perspective on how coaching has changed her daily experience.

Spoiler Alert: Grateful tears at the end of this episode.

Connect with Amanda Burma on LinkedIn

Original episode: E80: Amanda Burma - Why Neurodiversity is a Superpower, Being a Great Sales Engineer, Asking Questions and Taking Action for Career Growth (Client)

Related Episodes:

• How to Run Your Career Effectively
• What Can We Learn from Doing Something Scary
• Build Your Brave Framework 2.0

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During the summer of 2024, I am re-running the most popular client conversations based on downloads, shares, and direct feedback. Make sure to catch a career update at the end of each episode.

Caroline Santinelli, a former teacher and now woman in tech, shares her brave career story of – as Brene Brown says – choosing to ‘belong to herself first.’

Caroline’s story includes moving from burnout-driven medical leave as a teacher, to embracing her innate strengths, choosing her health, and allowing her brave career to move through different phases.

At the start of her career transformation, Caroline lost her voice (for real) due to stress, experienced her first panic attack, developed insomnia, kept getting sick with aches and fevers, and finally began having significant nerve pains.

Caroline shares how she chose messy, deeply personal work of building her brave, searching out support from professionals. Her first significant step was giving herself permission to take medical leave. Then, over many weeks, she slowly gave herself permission to belong to herself and choose her innate talents. The next big step was allowing others to be disappointed.

If you’re ready to learn how to belong to yourself, embrace your innate talents, and break free of the rules and judgments holding you back, this is your episode.

Hot topics from this episode:

• Introducing Caroline Santinelli - educator to business owner
• What it means to belong to yourself, one step at a time
• Why it’s important to disappoint others instead of yourself
• How we’ve been indoctrinated to not belong to ourselves
• “Any woman who chooses to behave like a full human being should be warned that the armies of the status quo will treat her as something of a dirty joke . . . She will need her sisterhood.” ― Gloria Steinem
• Repeating a lesson until the knowledge breaks through into wisdom
• Rejecting standards that are inhuman and unprofessional, like 24-hour email turn-around time for all emails
• Caroline’s brave role models and how women empower women who then empower other women
• Learning to lean into your innate talent, listen to the way (not the obstacle), and then allow the open up

Connect with Caroline Santinelli on LinkedIn

Original episode: E99: Caroline Santinelli - Embrace Your Innate Talent to Return from Burn-Out & Transform Your Career (Client)

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During the summer of 2024, I am re-running the most popular client conversations based on downloads, shares, and direct feedback. Make sure to catch a career update at the end of each episode.

Have you ever felt underappreciated and undervalued in your workplace, even after making an effort to ignite change?

Jackie Podoll, a Data-Obsessed Senior Analyst with a passion for continuous improvement, and also my client joins us to share a brave career story. Her story focuses on her process of giving herself permission to choose herself, to stop allowing herself to be underappreciated, and then grow her career.

In our conversation, Jackie shares how she identified what she actually wanted, how she made small tweaks to re-design the next phase of her life and career, and how she continued her strong financial habits to build financial freedom.

Hot topics from this conversation:

• 
  Introducing Jackie Podoll
• Jackie’s deep realization and her choice to leave
• Jackie’s break and her biggest surprise
• Jackie’s brave role model and the power of ‘slug life’
• How coaching supported Jackie live and work more authentically

Connect with Jackie Podoll on LinkedIn.

Discover “A Purple Life” here.

Original episode: E86: Jackie Podoll- Learning to Choose You, Stop Accepting Being Underappreciated and Undervalued, and Grow Your Career (Client)

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During the summer of 2024, I am re-running the most popular client conversations based on downloads, shares, and direct feedback. Make sure to catch a career update at the end of each episode.

Dora Szasz, a research scientist and my former 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 village, continued in Germany and France, and is now rooted in the United States. Listen as Dora shares how she crafted a career that built upon her interests, natural curiosity, and taking risks.

Then Dora shares how she has been building the practices of learning to be more kind to herself, improving her sleep, and embracing her hobbies so that she can enjoy her life and career (and kitties) even more.

Connect with Dora Szasz on LinkedIn.

Original episode: Create Opportunities to Build Your Global Career as Woman in Tech with Client Dora Szasz - E67

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The habit of people pleasing has a negative impact on your career. If you’ve recently experienced an unexpected or negative performance evaluation – or been put onto a performance improvement plan (PiP) – this episode is for you!

I teach you how to identify if you're caught in the people-pleasing loop and what steps to take to break free.

You hear practical tips to recover your performance and return to career growth, using the three parts of the Build Your Brave framework: clarity, momentum, and accountability.

Prioritizing others' approval over your own role and results will lead to burnout and negative consequences. Breaking the habit of people-pleasing is challenging, but it's possible with the right support and mindset.

This is a big topic, so send your questions and feedback to nicole@tricksteinbach.com.

If you're ready to partner with me in overcoming people-pleasing and transforming your career, I'm here to help.

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If you are an established woman in tech who is creating results and making an impact at work so your workload and stress just keep growing but promotions and salary bumps remain a distant dream, it is time for change.

Listen, we all know the tech industry has dramatically changed. It's time your career approach did too.

You don't need cookie-cutter programs or dusty advice from outdated playbooks, because what works for tech bros, won't work for you. You need individualized, bespoke support to build your brave career. One that reflects who you are as a woman in tech.

I invite you to explore career coaching with me. Get all the details, including prices and client results, at TrickSteinbach.com.

You can stress less, work less, and earn more. You've already earned it. Let's make it happen.

I consider the Build Your Brave Career podcast our podcast: so send me your questions, guests, and episode suggestions for upcoming episodes!

This podcast is an act of love and service for our awesome community of women in tech who are choosing to be less stressed and ending overwork by building the skill of bravery.

We know the tech industry and all of our jobs have changed so much since the first episode on Dec 29, 2020.

I want to make sure that you are getting what you need and what you want when you spend your precious time with me here at the Build Your Brave Career podcast, so share:

1. Your questions about the skill of bravery, your career growth, balancing being a successful woman in tech and a human who is also a caregiver, building a global career, making decisions, finding a new job and landing a promotion, mindset design, and so much more.
2. Your guest suggestions: your brave role models, your colleagues with an inspirational and brave story, and don’t forget to nominate yourself.

Please don’t be shy: no question or guest suggestion is too big or too small.

Remember: bravery is a skill, use it to help shape this podcast.

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If you are an established woman in tech who is creating results and making an impact at work so your workload and stress just keep growing but promotions and salary bumps remain a distant dream, it is time for change.

Listen, we all know the tech industry has dramatically changed. It's time your career approach did too.

You don't need cookie-cutter programs or dusty advice from outdated playbooks, because what works for tech bros, won't work for you. You need individualized, bespoke support to build your brave career. One that reflects who you are as a woman in tech.

I invite you to explore career coaching with me. Get all the details, including prices and client results, at TrickSteinbach.com.

You can stress less, work less, and earn more. You've already earned it. Let's make it happen.

"The best case scenario of bravely leaning in is when you make empowered, conscious, and unique decisions for your one glorious career and life." - Nicole Trick Steinbach

Listen in for a nuanced conversation about the combination of the “Lean In” concept and the skill of bravery to how you can make choices to build your brave career.

First, I discuss what the “Lean In” concept is, exploring both the positive and negative aspects of the approach. Then I dive into three specific, anonymous stories from my clients to personify how the concept can impact your career and life decisions.

Use these stories to reflect on your personal and professional priorities and how you can consciously and effectively take action toward your goals.

Spoiler alert: The best-case scenario of bravely leaning in is consciously, intentionally, and consistently making brave choices while also building your confidence, resiliency, skills, relationships, and creativity. Use every phase – even the mucky ones – to grow.

Hot topics from this episode:

• Introduction to the Concept of Lean In, strengthen and weaknesses
• Bridging Lean In with Career and Life Choices
• Three Client Stories of leaning in and building the skill of bravery

For more information on how you can build your brave:

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If you are an established woman in tech who is creating results and making an impact at work so your workload and stress just keep growing but promotions and salary bumps remain a distant dream, it is time for change.

Listen, we all know the tech industry has dramatically changed. It's time your career approach did too.

You don't need cookie-cutter programs or dusty advice from outdated playbooks, because what works for tech bros, won't work for you. You need individualized, bespoke support to build your brave career. One that reflects who you are as a woman in tech.

I invite you to explore career coaching with me. Get all the details, including prices and client results, at TrickSteinbach.com.

You can stress less, work less, and earn more. You've already earned it. Let's make it happen.

“Be yourself and own your strength unapologetically.” - Nupur Aggarwal

Balancing the courage to pursue your ambitious career goals, in balance with your values and relationships, is a powerful but unexpected pathway to your brave career.

Our guest this week is Nupur Aggarwal, an established and global product strategist, joins me for a candid discussion about self-confidence, authenticity, taking risks, and choosing to be true to your inner voice. Nupur shares her story of building a life in India and the US, as an employee at a massive corporation and a start-up founder, and as an ambitious professional and devoted mother, spouse, child, and friend.

Together we address the intense complexities of societal pressures and expectations that shape career paths, sharing personal anecdotes and transformative experiences. We explore self-doubt, internalized misogyny, and the generational impact of societal conditioning, stressing the ongoing work necessary to unlearn these narratives.

This episode is a heartfelt tribute to the value of facing fears, embracing the unknown, and supporting each other through growth. Tune in for an enlightening dialogue on the shared journey of becoming and celebrating brave.

Hot topics from this episode:

• Emphasizing the importance of being true to oneself, even under societal and personal pressures that affect career decisions.
• Societal Expectations and Individual Dreams, career paths, family thriving, planning long-term in balance with present-day growth
• Embracing Risk and New Beginnings, starting a start-up, moving globally, accepting growth jobs, and building confidence
• Overcoming Self-Doubt, normalizing feelings, and choosing to build confidence by facing fears and making choices

Related Resources:

• Connect with Nupur Aggarwal on LinkedIn
• Learn about Indra Nooyi

For more information on how you can build your brave:

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If you are an established woman in tech who is creating results and making an impact at work so your workload and stress just keep growing but promotions and salary bumps remain a distant dream, it is time for change.

Listen, we all know the tech industry has dramatically changed. It's time your career approach did too.

You don't need cookie-cutter programs or dusty advice from outdated playbooks, because what works for tech bros, won't work for you. You need individualized, bespoke support to build your brave career. One that reflects who you are as a woman in tech.

I invite you to explore career coaching with me. Get all the details, including prices and client results, at TrickSteinbach.com.

You can stress less, work less, and earn more. You've already earned it. Let's make it happen.