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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 you’re going to do it (yet!) but you suspect the process will require you to be braver.
Enter the Build Your Brave Career podcast.
Build Your Brave Career is the podcast to help you build the skill of bravery, one episode at a time, so you make the bold moves and big leaps required to craft a career of more impact and income... with less stress and overwork.
Tune in each week for a mix of guest conversations and solo episodes to learn how to build the skill of bravery. We explore the skill of bravery and the role it plays in your career and life including, stressing less, taking decisive action, working less, career growth, relationship building for career success, crafting purpose and fulfillment, salary increases and negotiations, overcoming obstacles, and sharing concrete tips and tricks for career satisfaction.
Your host, Nicole Trick Steinbach is the international bravery coach... but bravery is not something that has ever come naturally to her. Instead, she learned through success and failure how to develop and harness the skill of bravery to create an empowering, lucrative, and global career.
And it worked: Nicole is a former executive in the technology industry without a background in tech, has worked in over 25 countries while running transformational change projects, and is now at home in both the US and Germany.
Today Nicole is a certified and proven one-on-one coach who supports women around the world to build their brave careers, focusing on bespoke approaches for each client to stress, work less, and earn more.
To learn more about how you can build your brave, connect here:
• Website: https://tricksteinbach.com/
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nicoletricksteinbach
The tech industry has shrunk, at least according to various research, most specifically on the platform Statistica, and probably a little bit of your experience as well, at least if we're in the general same age range. Yet in the same period, the number of tech related jobs has nearly doubled. Wait, how does that make any sense? The tech industry has shrunk yet. The overall number mass of tech related jobs has nearly doubled.
Nicole Trick Steinbach:This is where I come in because every industry is the tech industry. Every professional is a tech related professional. Don't believe me? Let's do an experiment. Tomorrow, I want you to attempt to do your job, matter your role, your seniority, your industry, your location with zero tech, no tech, no emails, no systems of records, no BI reports, no online meetings, no internet searches, or no, no internet.
Nicole Trick Steinbach:And obviously no large data models like machine learning or artificial intelligence. Just your old fashioned phone, you know, the one that connects to the wall with the wire, pen, paper, pencil, your body, your brain, your winning personality, all wrapped up in your professional expertise. Then let me know. Let me know that your industry isn't the tech industry and you aren't a tech professional. I have a long and storied experience with this perspective because as early as 2017, I was on record as a public speaker that every industry is actually a part of the tech industry.
Nicole Trick Steinbach:Tech to manage finances, tech to organize and execute marketing and sales and product quality, more. Tech to manage all foundational human resource elements, salaries, hours logged, benefits, so much more. To make the product, and by product I mean clothing, medical devices, large scale firm crops, construction, toys, services like coaching and consulting, and yes, even paper. Now, in 2025, I'm even more emphatic. Every industry is the tech industry, and every professional is a tech professional.
Nicole Trick Steinbach:The fine points rest in how much tech each person uses, to what outcome, and with what degree of confidence, success, and impact. We are, all of us, in tech, and limited by the tech available on the market and our roles. People fought me on this in 2017. They argued in 2018. They debated in 2019.
Nicole Trick Steinbach:And in 2020, suddenly, we all got it. Teachers, tech professionals. Insurance agents, tech professionals. We are all in tech. Okay.
Nicole Trick Steinbach:Why does any of this matter? Because far too women in tech have stuck it out in the quote, actual tech industry, tolerating intolerable stress levels while surviving layoffs, layouts, bad management, even worse leadership, working far too many hours a week and month, and all while knowing that for your role and your impact, you are being paid too little. It doesn't have to be this way. Not only can you stay in tech and build the skill of bravery to stress less, work less, even earn more. You can also, and this is a massive also of opportunity.
Nicole Trick Steinbach:You can shift industries, quote unquote industries towards something that interests you. Maybe even something you are joyful or passionate about. Somewhere with a kinder, more humane culture, more reasonable expectations in terms of stress and work hours. And, and this surprises a lot of people, perhaps with very similar or even more pay. You can do all of this and still leverage your tech related and enabled skills to continue to grow your career.
Nicole Trick Steinbach:Really, everyone fought me from 2017 to 2020 about whether or not all industries had a spine of tech are a part of tech. And now this is the part where everyone wants to fight with me because you can. And really, you want proof? Listen to the last episode. This woman in tech right here, she's now working in the paper industry.
Nicole Trick Steinbach:In consulting, I worked with a governmental agency, financial services, consumer products, and more. My former and current clients are now in the retail, healthcare, financial, outdoor, hotel, restaurant tours, construction, education, aerospace, insurance, manufacturing, and yes, even agriculture. All in tech roles, all leveraging their skills and experience. And considerably fewer working hours, massively reduced stress, and similar or even slightly better compensation. Which means because they're working fewer hours that their compensation has actually gone up.
Nicole Trick Steinbach:All industries are in the tech industry and all professionals are tech professionals, which means you can build your brave career as a woman in tech where and how you want with far more freedom and choice and impact. I presume I've convinced you generally on my argument, or at least you're curious about it. And now I want to diabolically overrun you with data. As you listen, please notice how your mind and body respond. When a positive spark lights up within you, grab it, then follow it, because that interest, that spark directs your head, your network, your effort, and your feet.
Nicole Trick Steinbach:You don't have to stay in a traditional tech industry. There is so much opportunity. So buckle up, woman in tech, because here we go. The next few minutes are going to be an industry name and then the projected percentage of growth as reported by reliable sources in the next five years. All statistics are global.
Nicole Trick Steinbach:Basic citations are in the show notes. The creation of this list was started with AI and then verified both human effort. Here we go. Healthcare, 20% growth. Retail, 25% growth.
Nicole Trick Steinbach:Fintech, finance and insurance, 30% growth. Manufacturing, 22% growth. Aerospace and defense, 15% growth. Telecommunications, 18% growth. Government or public sector, 25% growth.
Nicole Trick Steinbach:That statistic is highly local, so it depends where you are in the world. Education, 18 to 35% growth, particularly with the shift to online learning. Real estate, 30% growth. Construction, 20% growth. Energy, 25% growth.
Nicole Trick Steinbach:Transportation and logistics, 22% growth. Hospitality and tourism, 20% growth. Media and entertainment, 25% growth. Are we seeing a theme here? Pharmaceuticals, 18% growth.
Nicole Trick Steinbach:Professional services, 28%. Automotive, 30% growth. Legal services, 22%. Agriculture, 30% growth. Mining, 25% growth.
Nicole Trick Steinbach:And then food and beverage, 25% growth. And I want to stress, these growth numbers are not for the industry. The growth of the industry may actually be negative, but the jobs that are being shifted, the jobs that are growing, those are those percentages. If you listened all this way and you noted your moments of spark, congratulations. You've got a range of new industries that are a part of the tech industry to explore with a more open mind for your career satisfaction and growth.
Nicole Trick Steinbach:Now get to networking, driving informal conversations with people in those industries. Update your materials, uncover how your skills are used and what the roles are called in your target industries. Then start applying, attending local events for that industry or industries, and continuing to expand your connection and network. Listen, tech related job growth is everywhere, not just in the traditional or actual tech industry. With the shifts towards automation, digitalization, machine learning, and AI integration, as well as growing internal company product management, large scale program management, and even cybersecurity.
Nicole Trick Steinbach:There are so many drivers of career opportunities for you, woman in tech. Use the Build Your Brave Career Framework. Reach out to me to learn about coaching. Make 2025 and then 2026 the year you weave together your tech related skills, your sparks of interest and purpose, and your ever growing skill of bravery all the way to stress just a bit less, work just a little less, and yep, earn a bit more until you stress significantly less, work significantly less and earn significantly more. Brave it up.