Explorez tous les épisodes du podcast Diary of a Nail Tech
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| Diary of a Nail Tech: Eden | 13 déc. 2025 | 00:09:53 | |
The Nail Tech returns to the place before the fall — not a garden, not a lover, but a frequency.
This entry isn’t nostalgia; it’s alchemy.
Eden lives now as symbol, silence, and memory that keeps ripening. The fish leap and fall, caught only when you’re looking. | |||
| Diary of a Nail Tech: The Journals | 12 déc. 2025 | 00:09:54 | |
The Nail Tech knows the real magic doesn’t happen at the table — it happens in the notebook.
Her pages aren’t a record of events; they’re a record of consciousness. A place where headaches become portals, synchronicities become proof, and fantasy reveals its instruction. The notebook is her discipline, her witness, her quiet evidence Music from #Uppbeat https://uppbeat.io/t/dominique-charpentier/la-cave | |||
| Diary of a Nail Tech: The Right Turn | 11 déc. 2025 | 00:06:47 | |
A small morning ritual that revealed an entire map of self-return.
How turning right became a metaphysical correction — a refusal to be steered off your map again. A study in the quiet power of ritual, the re-patterning of instinct, and the exquisite discipline of choosing what you love, every single morning. | |||
| Diary of a Nail Tech: The Artist and The Muse | 10 déc. 2025 | 00:06:59 | |
The Nail Tech shares about the strange electricity that lives between creation and the one who awakens it.
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| Diary of a Nail Tech: The Money | 09 déc. 2025 | 00:06:20 | |
Most people come into the parlour whispering about money as if it’s a monster under the bed — feared, judged, resented, moralised. For you, money became a reclamation. This entry traces the journey from being the woman who handed financial power away — It explores money as: | |||
| Diary of a Nail Tech: The Fantasy Silent | 08 déc. 2025 | 00:07:21 | |
Fantasy has been a companion since childhood for The Nail Tech— Born from an invisible father, sharpened by imagination, This entry explores the power of fantasy when held with awareness: At the nail table women whisper their fantasies in half-sentences, A devotion to the unseen world, | |||
| Diary of a Nail Tech: The Blind leading the Blind | 07 déc. 2025 | 00:08:38 | |
A moment in the village becomes a lesson in perception. This entry asks: The Nail Tech has watched this dynamic for years: A meditation on instinct, interference, and the quiet intelligence of those who walk by feel, not fear. Music from #Uppbeat https://uppbeat.io/t/dominique-charpentier/la-cave | |||
| Diary of a Nail Tech: The Dress | 06 déc. 2025 | 00:06:48 | |
In this entry, The Nail Tech who spends her days helping women adorn themselves turns the gaze inward — toward a single dress that unsettled her more than it ever adorned her. A navy constellation-print dress becomes the portal: What unfolds in therapy is not a conversation about fabric, This entry explores the quiet tension between: It’s a meditation on thresholds, embodiment, | |||
| Diary of a Nail Tech: The Undiagnosed | 05 déc. 2025 | 00:07:12 | |
This entry explores a quiet rebellion: Clients sit at her table and offer labels for themselves like ready-made explanations — But she won’t wear them. Not because she rejects people’s experiences, In this entry she speaks about: It’s a reminder that not every difference needs a diagnosis. | |||
| Diary of a Nail Tech: The Cheat | 04 déc. 2025 | 00:10:34 | |
In the parlour The Nail Tech hears every version of heartbreak — but this entry isn’t about cheating in the way people expect. It’s about the betrayal that happens quietly, internally, long before anyone else enters the story. This is the anatomy of self-abandonment — and the painstaking devotion of returning home to yourself | |||
| Diary of a Nail Tech: The Voices | 03 déc. 2025 | 00:08:03 | |
What happens when the truth of a woman has nowhere to live in daylight? It speaks at night. This entry explores the dreams that came during the muted years — the breath in the ear, the shadow in the mirror, the strangled voice, the visitations that weren’t nightmares at all, As a nail tech you learned to listen to women in daylight, Music from #Uppbeat https://uppbeat.io/t/dominique-charpentier/la-cave | |||
| Diary of a Nail Tech: The House of Prematurity | 02 déc. 2025 | 00:09:02 | |
In this entry, The Nail Tech unravels what happens when truth must be held in the dark until it is strong enough to stand. It’s about premature judgement, premature intimacy, and how withholding is not always lying — sometimes it’s devotion. A body-truth awakening before language. A marriage unable to hold tension, complexity, or mystery. A woman learning that incubation is not deceit — it is sovereignty. Music from #Uppbeat https://uppbeat.io/t/dominique-charpentier/la-cave | |||
| Diary of a Nail Tech: The Affair | 01 déc. 2025 | 00:06:47 | |
A quiet, unflinching look into the secret world of infidelity — not from the outside, not from the headlines, but from the nail table where real women confess with trembling hands and freshly painted nails This entry doesn’t moralise. Here, affairs are not simply sin or salvation — they are portals. The Nail Tech speaks as witness — to longing, risk, shame, electricity, hunger, resurrection. This piece sits in the nuance where culture fears to look. Music from #Uppbeat https://uppbeat.io/t/dominique-charpentier/la-cave | |||
| Diary of a Nail Tech: The Dupe | 30 nov. 2025 | 00:06:15 | |
A quiet, sharp piece about the first moment we betray ourselves — not through scandal, but through subtle conditioning. It explores how childhood teaches us to dim, to behave, to abandon imagination for practicality, and how that initial compromise becomes a lifelong echo. Through the Nail Tech’s listening body — twelve years of stories, twelve years of women who sense something missing — The Dupe traces where we first slipped out of our own skin, and how the work of adulthood is not to become, but to un-become the version built to please others. | |||
| Diary of a Nail Tech: The Sound of Music | 29 nov. 2025 | 00:07:31 | |
A tuning-story disguised as chaos. It’s about how sound matched static before it soothed it, A story of noise as medicine. Music from #Uppbeat https://uppbeat.io/t/dominique-charpentier/la-cave | |||
| Diary of a Nail Tech: The Helping Hands | 28 nov. 2025 | 00:09:17 | |
In this entry the Nail Tech considers how touch is never just touch. Hands hold memory, history, permission, and power. This entry moves from birth-hands to death-hands,
When is help actually interference? A meditation on the imprint of first touch, Music from #Uppbeat https://uppbeat.io/t/dominique-charpentier/la-cave | |||
| Diary of a Nail Tech: The Sign and The Sigh | 27 nov. 2025 | 00:07:15 | |
A reminder that intuition begins in the body, This entry turns its face toward the simplest truth: A meditation on basic needs as gateway to inner knowing, Music from #Uppbeat https://uppbeat.io/t/dominique-charpentier/la-cave | |||
| Diary of a Nail Tech: The Dressing Table | 26 nov. 2025 | 00:08:15 | |
From the childhood dressing table overlooking meadows, This entry explores the dressing table as threshold — A story of exile, return, and the quiet magic of getting ready for oneself. Music from #Uppbeat https://uppbeat.io/t/dominique-charpentier/la-cave | |||
| Diary of a Nail Tech: The Key to Nothing | 25 nov. 2025 | 00:08:34 | |
A raw account of leaving with nothing and discovering it was the only way to reclaim everything.
Music from #Uppbeat https://uppbeat.io/t/dominique-charpentier/la-cave | |||
| Diary of a Nail Tech: The Dreaming | 24 nov. 2025 | 00:07:52 | |
A quiet descent into the night-world where intuition does its teaching.
Music from #Uppbeat https://uppbeat.io/t/dominique-charpentier/la-cave | |||
| Diary of a Nail Tech: The Bewitching | 23 nov. 2025 | 00:12:00 | |
In this entry The Nail Tech talks about the quiet kind of bewitching we all fall under.
Music from #Uppbeat https://uppbeat.io/t/dominique-charpentier/la-cave | |||
| Diary of a Nail Tech: The Diary | 22 nov. 2025 | 00:06:21 | |
A quiet origin story of this diary — not promoted, not pushed, but passed through hands, hearts, and hidden threads.
Music from #Uppbeat https://uppbeat.io/t/dominique-charpentier/la-cave | |||
| Diary of a Nail Tech: The Mystic | 21 nov. 2025 | 00:11:14 | |
This is the entry where the lifelong initiation steps forward.
Music from #Uppbeat https://uppbeat.io/t/dominique-charpentier/la-cave | |||
| Diary of a Nail Tech: The Ba | 20 nov. 2025 | 00:11:08 | |
What if the soul recognised someone long before the mind understood the meeting?
The Ba — the soul-bird, the travelling part of us — becomes the guide as past and present brush wings.
Music from #Uppbeat https://uppbeat.io/t/dominique-charpentier/la-cave THE GAP BOX https://open.spotify.com/episode/25kQPZY5ndbzXvtIPrrcIf?si=NSwId8D0Q8y_814FjTkuPA THE LOVE LETTER https://open.spotify.com/episode/3DOaVYOLykqVZIH86udgj7?si=UeQOzX6BRQC5RsqboQc7lA EVEREST https://open.spotify.com/episode/06YWpHtpzN4BYed1egEVYZ?si=Kb48HZdDSAa_KbdpuljxZw | |||
| Diary of a Nail Tech: The Lesson of no lessons | 19 nov. 2025 | 00:08:56 | |
A childhood promise made on an old school bus becomes the quiet compass for a life lived outside the usual rules.
Music from #Uppbeat https://uppbeat.io/t/dominique-charpentier/la-cave | |||
| Diary of a Nail Tech: The Privilege | 18 nov. 2025 | 00:08:14 | |
Privilege a word we fling too easily.
A reminder that what looks like luxury from the outside Music from #Uppbeat https://uppbeat.io/t/dominique-charpentier/la-cave | |||
| Diary of. a Nail Tech: The Richness of Rudenes | 17 nov. 2025 | 00:11:34 | |
This episode isn’t about difficult customers or salon etiquette — it’s about the quiet rudeness we’re trained to absorb, and the holy art of saying no without softening it. There’s a man in a café, an eccentric hotelier with his tomato-ketchup doctrine, and the moment I realised that what people call “rude” is often just a boundary spoken clearly. This one’s about sovereignty, self-respect, and the unexpected freedom that arrives when you stop explaining… and simply hold your line. Music from #Uppbeat https://uppbeat.io/t/dominique-charpentier/la-cave | |||
| Diary of a Nail Tech: And then he read my journals | 16 nov. 2025 | 00:10:07 | |
In this entry, The Nail Tech opens the door — just a crack — on the moment someone read what was never written for their eyes.
This episode explores privacy, boundaries, and the intimate work of writing the truth before you’re ready to speak it.
Music from #Uppbeat https://uppbeat.io/t/dominique-charpentier/la-cave | |||
| Diary of a Nail Tech The Nail Biter | 15 nov. 2025 | 00:06:24 | |
A lifelong habit, a hidden comfort, a tiny act of rebellion.
Music from #Uppbeat https://uppbeat.io/t/dominique-charpentier/la-cave | |||
| Diary of a Nail Tech The MOT | 14 nov. 2025 | 00:08:38 | |
What does a car test have to do with the tests of the soul?
Music from #Uppbeat https://uppbeat.io/t/dominique-charpentier/la-cave | |||
| Diary of a Nail Tech: The Spider's Web | 13 nov. 2025 | 00:09:18 | |
If you’ve come looking for spider-removal tips, you’re in the wrong parlour.
Music from #Uppbeat https://uppbeat.io/t/dominique-charpentier/la-cave | |||
| Diary of a Nail Tech: The Invisible Friend | 12 nov. 2025 | 00:08:00 | |
In this entry, The Nail Tech returnzs to the child who saw too much — the one who made secret promises on the way to school, whispering to her unseen companion.
Music from #Uppbeat https://uppbeat.io/t/dominique-charpentier/la-cave | |||
| Diary of a Nail Tech: The Cottage | 11 nov. 2025 | 00:10:10 | |
A cottage found me - a fifteenth-century dwelling with crooked beams, witch marks, and alchemical symbols carved into its walls.
Music from #Uppbeat https://uppbeat.io/t/dominique-charpentier/la-cave | |||
| Diary of a Nail Tech: The Snake Scales | 10 nov. 2025 | 00:08:31 | |
In this entry, The Snake Scales, The Nail Tech descends into the underworld — or rather, a Camberwell cellar — to repair the skin of a giant serpent sculpture.
Music from #Uppbeat https://uppbeat.io/t/dominique-charpentier/la-cave | |||
| Diary of a Nail Tech: Everest | 09 nov. 2025 | 00:12:58 | |
In this ascent, the mountain isn’t made of rock or ice — it’s made of memory.
Music from #Uppbeat https://uppbeat.io/t/dominique-charpentier/la-cave | |||
| Diary of a Nail Tech: The Dream of Fire | 08 nov. 2025 | 00:09:42 | |
In this entry, The Nail Tech returns to a lifelong dream — her grandmother’s house in flames — she traces how that fire became a map for her life. What once felt like destruction revealed itself as devotion, as refinement. This is a story about learning to sit with the heat of transformation, to listen for what’s being released, and to find the quiet light that never burns out. Music from #Uppbeat https://uppbeat.io/t/dominique-charpentier/la-cave | |||
| Diary of a Nail Tech: The Jehovah's Witnesses | 07 nov. 2025 | 00:11:25 | |
In this diary entry, The Nail Tech opens the door — literally — to two Jehovah’s Witnesses and a far older conversation about belief, blood, and the body. What unfolds isn’t an argument, but an invitation: It’s a story about symbolism, misinterpretation, and the mischievous holiness of being alive in a body. And perhaps, it’s a reminder that heresy might just mean hearing differently. Music from #Uppbeat https://uppbeat.io/t/dominique-charpentier/la-cave | |||
| Diary of a Nail Tech: The Love Letter | 06 nov. 2025 | 00:11:25 | |
From the folded notes of childhood to the love letters that never found their way to a postbox, this entry traces a lifetime of ink and longing. The Nail Tech reflects on the sacred act of writing — how the letters we write, send, or save become vessels for the parts of ourselves we couldn’t yet speak.
This entry is dedicated to the ones who have my heart, Jodie, Hannah and Amy and my lost love, my source, My Ba, may it find it's way to his heart. Music from #Uppbeat https://uppbeat.io/t/dominique-charpentier/la-cave | |||
| Diary of a Nail Tech: The Misdirection of Direction | 05 nov. 2025 | 00:11:05 | |
In this entry, The Nail Tech traces the art of listening to life itself — through misdirection, through silence, through the maps others draw for us.
Music from #Uppbeat https://uppbeat.io/t/dominique-charpentier/la-cave | |||
| Diary of a Nail Tech: The Dragon | 04 nov. 2025 | 00:11:54 | |
What if the dragon was never meant to be slain? In this entry, The Nail Tech meets her own Dragon — not in myth, but in the rain. A story of fire, freedom, and the fierce grace that comes when we stop fearing our own power. Music from #Uppbeat https://uppbeat.io/t/dominique-charpentier/la-cave | |||
| Diary of a Nail Tech: Sheila | 03 nov. 2025 | 00:11:48 | |
In this diary entry, The Nail Tech tells the story of Sheila — an unexpected visitor who arrived twice, unannounced, at the Parlour door.
Music from #Uppbeat https://uppbeat.io/t/dominique-charpentier/la-cave | |||
| Diary of a Nail Tech: The Nuance of Rejection | 02 nov. 2025 | 00:12:06 | |
There comes a moment when your voice no longer wants to explain itself.
What begins as heartbreak becomes a vow: to hear herself first, to honour the quiet, and to make solitude her sacred listener. Music from #Uppbeat https://uppbeat.io/t/dominique-charpentier/la-cave | |||
| Diary of Nail Tech: The Myth of Crisis | 01 nov. 2025 | 00:09:38 | |
They call it a crisis. The Nail Tech calls it consciousness. In this episode of Diary of a Nail Tech, we peel back the myth of the midlife crisis — that tired narrative of decline — and reveal what’s really happening beneath the surface: awakening. This is where politeness meets its limit, where the hinge comes off the door, where madness becomes another word for clarity. Speaking from the nail table and beyond — about losing the borrowed mind, reclaiming your own, and meeting rudeness with precision, not apology. If they call your consciousness a crisis, Music from #Uppbeat https://uppbeat.io/t/dominique-charpentier/la-cave | |||
| Diary of a Nail Tech: The Within | 31 oct. 2025 | 00:12:23 | |
In The Within, traces the quiet thread between Julian of Norwich, the medieval mystic who dared to speak of love in a time of fear, and her own modern ministry at the nail table. Through churches, dreams, and the art of listening, The Nail Tech discovers that devotion doesn’t always wear a collar — sometimes it wears an apron and holds a brush. Music from #Uppbeat https://uppbeat.io/t/dominique-charpentier/la-cave | |||
| Diary of a Nail Tech: The Changing Room | 30 oct. 2025 | 00:10:15 | |
What if vanity wasn’t a sin, but a homecoming?
Music from #Uppbeat https://uppbeat.io/t/dominique-charpentier/la-cave | |||
| Diary of a Nail Tech: The Everyday | 29 oct. 2025 | 00:06:27 | |
In this episode of Diary of a Nail Tech, a reflection on twelve years behind the nail table — a temple of touch, a quiet apprenticeship in the art of listening.
Music from #Uppbeat https://uppbeat.io/t/dominique-charpentier/la-cave | |||
| Diary of a Nail Tech: The Corner | 28 oct. 2025 | 00:11:07 | |
In Marrakesh, amidst the noise of spice and scooters, The Nail Tech meets a toothless guide who mirrors twenty-five years of forgetting — and remembering.
The Corner is a meditation on thresholds — the moments where we pause, hesitate, and find ourselves led astray, only to realise we were never truly lost.
And what happens when, at last, we stop following — and start listening? A story of illusion, redirection, and the quiet homecoming to one’s own compass. Music from #Uppbeat https://uppbeat.io/t/dominique-charpentier/la-cave | |||
| Diary of a Nail Tech: The Coffee Lesson | 27 oct. 2025 | 00:11:02 | |
The Coffee Lesson In this entry, I explore the hidden lessons in the everyday — and how life sometimes shows up as a living allegory. Inspired by one of my favourite childhood stories, The Tiger Who Came to Tea, I share a personal journey of energy, devotion, and the quiet art of self-respect. Through coffees, conversations, and the mirrors of another’s world, I learned what it truly means to pay attention — not just to others, but to myself. This is a story of boundaries, reciprocity, and the discipline of claiming your own worth. Join me as I reflect on shadows, synchronicities, and the currency of lessons. Who is the Tiger, really? Music from #Uppbeat https://uppbeat.io/t/dominique-charpentier/la-cave | |||
| Diary of a Nail Tech: The Gap Box | 26 oct. 2025 | 00:06:42 | |
What happens when the past knocks — not to haunt you, but to free you? In The Gap Box, I return to the relics of my one true love, to the ache and the alchemy of remembering. This is my final coursework in devotion — and the beginning of a different kind of love story. Music from #Uppbeat https://uppbeat.io/t/dominique-charpentier/la-cave | |||
| Diary of a Nail Tech: Sipping from My Own Goss-Spell | 25 oct. 2025 | 00:08:31 | |
What if gossip was gospel? What if beauty work was prayer? Diary of a Nail Tech: Sipping from My Own Goss-Spell reimagines the everyday ritual of the nail table as an altar of becoming — where silence speaks, stories soften, and the sacred hides beneath small talk. From bitten nails to blind drawings, this is a journey of alchemy: turning shame into sovereignty, chatter into ceremony, and silence into song. Music from #Uppbeat https://uppbeat.io/t/dominique-charpentier/la-cave | |||