The Nuance Diaries

5:52

I'd Like To Be Happy

The Nuance Diaries ·

2026/09/20

Welcome back to The Nuance Diaries!Unfiltered alchemy from your most unhinged group chat.This is where I share my unfiltered take on my life and the world around me. Consider my vulnerability a permission slip for yours.TW: direct reference to self-harm, suicidal ideation, and suicide. Take care of yourself if you know that those topics will be triggering for you, and scroll to the bottom for some lighter recent pieces.It doesn’t get any easier. to be vulnerable about this kind of pain.It doesn’t

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18:35

Summer should be FUN

The Nuance Diaries ·

2026/09/16

Welcome to The Nuance Diaries! Unfiltered alchemy from your most unhinged group chat.If this is your first time here, I’m Alexa. Writer, Coach, Human, Native New Yorker, Gilmore Girls Aficionado.My magic is creating something out of nothng — wildly compelling stories out of thin air. I love helping people take center stage and remember that they are the main characters of their own lives. I also love being super unfiltered in writing about my life and the world around me, which is what I do

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17:28

5 Life Lessons From Practical Magic 2

The Nuance Diaries ·

2026/09/14

Welcome to The Nuance Diaries! Unfiltered alchemy from your most unhinged group chat.If this is your first time here, I’m Alexa. Writer, Coach, Human, Native New Yorker, Gilmore Girls Aficionado.My magic is creating something out of nothng — wildly compelling stories out of thin air. I love helping people take center stage and remember that they are the main characters of their own lives. I also love being super unfiltered in writing about my life and the world around me, which is what I do

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6:46

Hard Won Happiness

The Nuance Diaries ·

2026/08/26

Welcome to The Nuance Diaries! Unfiltered alchemy from your most unhinged group chat. Consider my vulnerability a permission slip for yours.If you’re new here, maybe check this out? If you’re an old timer, maybe this is the week you upgrade your subscription? Okay, let’s dive in!I’ve been pretty happy this summer. How the hell did that happen? I recently reminisced with my therapist about a magazine cover I must have seen a decade ago or more, talking about an actress and her ‘hard won happiness.’ I

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29:47

How to Make Your Own Luck on the 'Luckiest Day of The...

The Nuance Diaries ·

2026/07/29

Welcome to The Nuance Diaries! Unfiltered alchemy from your most unhinged group chat. Consider my vulnerability a permission slip for yours.For those who don’t know me yet — hi! I’m so glad you’re here. I’m a storyteller and alchemist. My magic is making something out of nothing as a coach, writer, actor, and multimedia creator. I am a native New Yorker, born and raised, a Gilmore Girls enthusiast, and a lover of all things pink. More here.Today, July 29th, is thought to be the luckiest day of 2026

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3:45

How to Rewrite Your Story in Q3

The Nuance Diaries ·

2026/07/03

Hi! I’m Alexa. Storyteller and Alchemist.I’m a coach, writer, and multimedia creator.My magic is making something out of nothing — wildly compelling stories out of thin air. I love helping people figure out who they truly are and what they actually want, so that they can take center stage in their own lives. I coach 1:1 clients and facilitate custom workshops. I’m the author of The Start of It All: A 20-Something’s Guide, a contributor to The Best Women’s Stage Monologues of 2022, and writes

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18:08

How to Come Out After Your Therapist Decides That...

The Nuance Diaries ·

2026/06/28

READ/LISTEN ON SUBSTACK (and subscribe while you're there!) "I bet your feelings for her will go away as soon as the play ends.You’re probably not actually gay."The first time I wondered if I might like women, I was playing Hermia opposite a girl playing Lysander (traditionally played by a man) in Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream.For the first time in my 21 years, I was questioning my heterosexuality.The circumstances are both poetic yet unremarkable, having my first crush on a girl playing

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6:05

I know I’m working hard and sometimes I can see it

The Nuance Diaries ·

2026/06/21

SUBSCRIBERead The Start Of It AllRead '5 Life Lessons From The Devil Wears Prada 2' Book a Coaching Session with Me! Welcome back to The Nuance Diaries!I’ve been playing around with how I describe what I write about here, and recently landed on this:“Unfiltered alchemy from your most unhinged group chat. Consider my vulnerability a permission slip for yours.”I kind of love it. Thoughts?I wrote this song around 3 years ago now. It was inspired by a conversation with one of my best friends last

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6:53

The Knicks, The Fans, and a $100K Lesson in Audacity

The Nuance Diaries ·

2026/06/14

Read This on Substack (and subscribe!) Me all of last week, “The amount of think pieces we are about to see on LinkedIn about the Knicks…Fast forward to me, last night, writing this between Q2 and Halftime to avoid freaking out.As a Broadway Baby, I have often likened sports arenas to theater performances in order to understand the appeal.When the Chiefs were in the Super Bowl a few years ago, for Taylor Swift’s first appearance in Travis Kelce’s box, a creator on TikTok made an analogy between a

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13:55

I Don't Talk About My Book Enough

The Nuance Diaries ·

2026/05/30

Less than 0.1% of the global population will ever write a book. Not publish — write.Someone told me that statistic recently, at an event where I talked about my book. Around 0.0086% are published authors.Over 50% of U.S. writers are women, which is major, major progress.And when we filter by Black women?We make up 4% to 7% of published authors in America.Regardless of the exact stats, which are changing all the time and differ based on where you collect them —I’m in very rare company as a published

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10:14

To The Class of 2026

The Nuance Diaries ·

2026/05/20

This is less of a speech, more of a pep talk, and really — just some reflections from someone coming up on their 10-year college reunion who feels like graduation was just yesterday.Instead of picturing me on a podium in regalia, let’s pretend I’m sitting next to you on the floor of your dorm as you pack up your things, or sitting across from you at brunch after graduation, or in the backseat of the car on your drive back home, or wherever life is taking you next post-college.To the Class of

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3:46

You do not have the same 24 hours in a day as Beyoncé

The Nuance Diaries ·

2026/04/28

Subscribe to The Nuance Diaries on SubstackBuy my book Book a session + Check out client testimonials I’m going to list out some different kinds of people. I’ll tell you what they all have in common in a second— but you can guess first for fun if you want.* People with chronic illness* People with PTSD* People with Complex PTSD* Trauma Survivors of any kind* Disabled people (physical and/or mental)* Parents* Caregivers* People who are grieving* People who don’t have housekeepers* People who don’t

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11:08

How I Found My Broken Hallelujah pt. 4 of 4

The Nuance Diaries ·

2026/03/30

Have you read Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3? If not, I recommend doing so!So, what does a girl do after the worst panic attack of her life leads to a broken mug, a surprising amount of clarity, and a new song?She stays up all night so that she won’t miss her early morning flight, and then takes her first flight in forever to Missouri, for her middle school bestie’s wedding.It was absolutely beautiful. I cried a lot.While I was on the trip, I got a lead on an even better opportunity than the new

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9:27

The horrors persist, and so do the emails.

The Nuance Diaries ·

2026/03/23

A week or so ago, a new subscriber told me that the following piece really resonated with them.The sentiment behind that piece has never felt truer, and these reflections came from the same chamber of my heart as that piece did.I saw the Wild Party on Sunday night. It was indeed a wild, wild party. It was so good and so intense. Earlier that day, I watched another intense performance — Hippolytus (in the arms of Aphrodite), an immersive augmented reality theatre experience. I’ve seen countless

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6:56

How I Found My Broken Hallelujah pt. 3 of 4

The Nuance Diaries ·

2026/03/22

Have you listened to Part 1 and Part 2 yet? If not, start there!Broken things have long been romanticized in humanity’s search for renewal and redemption. The Japanese art of kintsugi is probably my favorite example.""KINSUGI" literary means gold (金 KIN) stitching (つぎ TSUGI) in Japanese. It is a Japanese art form of mending broken porcelain with lacquer (URUSHI), dusted with gold, or silver. The broken object gets revived with gold patches.The broken part is truly accepted and cherished as a history

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8:55

How I Found My Broken Hallelujah pt. 2 of 4

The Nuance Diaries ·

2026/03/18

If you haven’t listened Part 1 yet, go ahead and do that first, HERE. ______________________________While my memories from the night of the panic attack are sparse, the ones from the following morning are vividly clear.I woke up thinking I had Covid. I felt like I had been hit by a truck ten times over in my sleep.I tried to shake it off and get ready for work, but my body made it very clear that that wasn’t going to happen. Calling in sick felt humiliating and unprofessional (although it is neither

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9:50

How I Found My Broken Hallelujah pt. 1 of 4

The Nuance Diaries ·

2026/03/15

On the eve of the lunar new year, three days before my birthday, I finally threw out the jagged glass pieces of a mug that I had broken six months ago.I never thought it would take me six months to throw out a reminder of one of the worst nights of my life, but here I was.I held it in my hands one last time.I took a few pictures (even though I already had plenty.)I outlined the pink handle and some of the remaining pieces that were still intact with a charcoal pencil on my tracing pad, in case I

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5:42

What in God's (Wild "Wicked" Wanting) Name

The Nuance Diaries ·

2026/02/18

Happy Pisces Season. Happy New Year. Happy Ramadan. Happy Lent. Happy Lunar Eclipse.And happy “my birthday is in two days!”I wrote this song (which can also be read as a poem) almost exactly a year ago 2/26/25, around 2 AM. I had just turned 30. Here I am, about to be 31.I could ramble on quite a bit about how much I like this song, and how surprised I was to revisit it after a full year of, quite honestly, forgetting about it. I could talk about how, even though it’s Pisces season, I think my

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13:51

Life is rarely one thing and neither am I

The Nuance Diaries ·

2026/02/13

“Cause not everything means something honey/ so say the unsayable/ say the most human of things.”Transcript at https://thenuancediaries.substack.com This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit thenuancediaries.substack.com/subscribe

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6:39

How Light Emerges Even from the Darkest of the Darkness

The Nuance Diaries ·

2026/02/07

**Part 2 available at https://thenuancediaries.substack.com - embedded in this post.Hi.I did something I’ve only done twice before.I hit record and start talking.And then I hit publish.You can listen to Part 1 above, and Part 2 below (embedded.)And then you can go listen to this song from a few months back.It’s such a cheesy saying — love and light.But I am genuinely sending you as much love and light as I can humanely muster.Talk soon,AlexaPS If you believe in any kind of higher power, please send

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