Build Your Brave Career for Women in Tech

Inspiration for this week’s episode comes from one of Nicole’s clients: There are no prince charmings. Yet, too many women are acting like the professional version of sleeping beauty, waiting for the professional knight in shining armour or the prince charming to swoop in for their career. It is an enormous mistake.

Nicole shares personal stories about how she co-created bad working situations that held her back: staying at a job with a crappy manager who accused her of not being a team player (when he actually meant ‘masculine’), staying in a gendered situation that held her back, accepting poor behavior as part of the experience of getting a promotion. 

How you can stop being a sleeping beauty and become your own knight with control and joy in your career.

Related Episodes:

 Are you Underpaid, Overworked or Underinvested as a Women in Tech?

 Career Tip for Women in Tech: Circles of Control

 How to Identify & Manage the Glass Cliff

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Nicole answers the number one question she gets, everywhere she does: Why coaching? ie, what’s the value of a coach? Why should a person have a coach? 

A coach is your fast track to your goal, to where you want to be, who you want to be, what you want to achieve, with the least amount of effort, failure, and pain. 

The experience of being coached, and the lessons from each coaching experience, never stop creating rewards and results for you. Nicole shares a personal experience of this truth. 

Nicole describes in her own growth as a coach the power of internal corporate coaching and the limitation of corporate coaches. Internal corporation coaches coach you to be successful in that organisation; an independent coach supports you towards your growth and your transformation.

Long story, short: if you want to thrive and succeed as a woman in tech, coaching is the fast track to get there. KickStart 2022 

 Free 5-Day Build Your BRAVE Course End 2022 happier, with bigger results, earning more money, creating opportunities left and right, and more YOU than you have ever YOU’d.

January 10 – January 14, 2022

10:10am – 10:55am MDT

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We revisit an earlier episode called “Catch the Bunny” with a clearer message and additional growth: everything is impossible until you’ve done it. Then it’s another skill to deepen and mature. 

Every time we do something for the first time it can potentially be awkward or unpleasant but we learn and adapt and the next time we do this it will be so much better. 

RELATED EPISODES:

 Make your promotion inevitable 

 Career tip for women in tech: Interest interviews

 How to lead your interview process 

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We revisit an earlier episode called “You are a cast iron pan” with new insights and additional growth. The cast-iron pan metaphor to one of self-care and your growth as a woman in tech. 

Nicole shares how to use the metaphor for your success. How to turn ‘off’ and ‘on.’ How to identify your clarity, your needs, your self-care for consistency. All so that you create the results that you actually want…and not what you don’t.

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In this time of year with over 200 different celebrations and holidays, leverage your own traditions and celebration to remind yourself that you are one badass woman in tech

Here are three ways to become a well-paid, recognized, properly titled, and most of all a HAPPY woman in tech.

1. Create clarity. Allowing yourself to celebrate all you have done in the last year, the connections you have made, the projects you have done, and making your accomplishments clear by really taking the time to reflect on them. 

2. Build Momentum. Identify the steps you need to talk about that goal you aim for. Be proactive, ASK. 

3. Commit to Accountability; Complete a time audit, especially if you feel overworked. Discover truly how you are spending your valuable time.

RELATED EPISODES:

 How to build your career board of directors

 Tell it to Your Dentist

 Experience it like a Kindergartner

 Own it like a Boss

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Are you a woman in tech at a senior/executive level who feels lost? Or are you a woman in tech aiming to become a senior/executive and want to know how to enjoy your senior career? If so, this episode is for you. 

Far too many women in tech are quietly unhappy. They are passed over for a promotion, and companies are not investing in them. They ask themselves, why is my career not advancing? I do what is necessary.

In a recent, and exclusive global networking event for exec women in tech one woman asked, "Am I the only one who feels lost and underfed?"  The answer was a resounding and clear, "No. You are not alone."

Like an earlier episode, it is common but not normal for women in tech to be unhappy.

We believe a lie, we believe that when we do a good job, our employers will keep investing in us, in our skills, to keep our interests and our minds busy. When in fact, we need to invest in ourselves!

That is the secret to enjoying your exec career: invest in yourself. 

Related Episodes:

 Zoe Evans - Getting Untamed to Transform Tech 

 Nicole Tschierske - Women in STEM reimagined

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Long time fro-lleague and fellow woman in tech, Parvathy Sankar, shares two BRAVE stories about defining success her own way and how relationships are the sauce for career success.

As Nicole & Parvathy share their shared story, you get a strong reminder that we never know what is going with someone else …. Or how you are impacting them.

“Just amazing how some things did not work out at a certain point in time, later do work out at the right time,” Parvathy shares how a missed job opportunity led to a major leap in her career two years later.

A brave role model that showed Parvathy that helping people to grow and overcome challenges and mentoring creates an impact in the world. 

RELATED EPISODES

 How to build your career board of directors 

 Make your promotion inevitable

 It is A-OK to not know where you are going 

RESOURCES

Parvathy Sankar;

https://www.linkedin.com/in/parvathy-sankar/

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Mindset shift is demanded: interviewing is now a shared, collaborative experience that you lead. No longer do you wait and follow along with zero (or minimal) agency

A story about how a client spent 8 hours interviewing for a job at her “dream company” and still there was no end in sight. 

3 steps of how you can lead your interview process to take control, get answers, and make an empowered decision. 

How you are treated during the interview process, how HR behaves during these conversations, how your potential manager or team members are conducting the interviews, is what you can expect when you start working there. Do those behaviors work for you?

RELATED EPISODES:

Build your Brave framework:

 Tell it to your dentist

 Experience it like a kindergartner

 Own it like a boss 

For more information on how you can build your brave:

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https://www.linkedin.com/in/nicoletricksteinbach/

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Are you a woman in tech who is underpaid, overworked, and un-invested? This episode is for you!. 

Conversations and presentations during Grace Hopper Celebration 2021 are the inspiration for this episode. Nicole failed to craft this tough-and-flicking-necessary message in writing, so she created this episode. 

Women in tech are failing each other: we are normalizing bullshit about being underpaid, overworked, and un-invested. And we have to stop, immediately.

Nicole outlines how women in tech who are paid well, working within their boundaries, and investing in themselves are the norm - not the common woman in tech who is underpaid, overworked, and un-invested. 

“Too many women in tech have normalized being underpaid, overworked, underinvested and looking down and backwards rather than up and forwards”.

Why you need to step up, not only for you but for all women in tech.

RELATED EPISODES

 Build your Brave Framework

 You are a cast iron pan

 What women in Tech really want

RESOURCES

Grace Hopper Celebration: https://ghc.anitab.org/

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“If I believe in a mission, I don’t stop. I do stop toxicity when I sense it. And then I pick a different path and keep going”; Arezou - mom, entrepreneur, former global executive, an immigrant. 

Breaking free of a toxic situation that did not serve her. When the toxic situation started to affect her health, she made a huge decision to leave a successful job as an executive.

Leaving the job left her unsure of who she was as a person outside of her professional self. For 6 months, she did all kinds of self-studies, Kellog executive professional development etc. to develop her identity outside of the corporate world.

The mental load of taking care of EVERYTHING, on top of your career is real.  

RELATED EPISODES:

 Own it like a Boss - Part 3 of the Build your Brave Framework

 Welcome Help whole-heartedly 

RESOURCES

Arezou Zarafshan:

Call Emmy 

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/callemmyapp/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/callemmyapp

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/callemmyapp/

Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/callemmyapp/_created/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/callemmyapp

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