We recently had the chance to connect with Alessandra Wall and have shared our conversation below.
Good morning Alessandra, we’re so happy to have you here with us and we’d love to explore your story and how you think about life and legacy and so much more. So let’s start with a question we often ask: What do you think others are secretly struggling with—but never say?
Loneliness.
We talk about it as an epidemic, but what strikes me is how many people are carrying it quietly. Some don’t recognize it for what it is. Others know it but can’t bring themselves to say it out loud.
I see it in the women I work with. I’ve felt it myself.
It shows up most acutely at the point when you’re perceived as having “made it.” When you’ve built the career, carried the stress, solved the problems, and become the one others count on for answers. From the outside, it looks like strength and success. On the inside, it can feel like isolation.
When you’re the one who holds it all together, who do you turn to? Where do you place the truth of your exhaustion, your doubts, your longing to feel less alone? The very image of competence that inspires others can end up keeping you cut off.
And that silence is costing us; it’s definitely cost me.
Can you briefly introduce yourself and share what makes you or your brand unique?
I have a love–hate relationship with the question, “Can you tell me a bit about yourself?”
Where do you start? What do you share?
At the core, I have the extraordinary privilege of serving as a thought partner, advisor, and trusted confidant to exceptional women and leaders.
My clients are on the far side of success. They’re running multi-billion-dollar companies, founding organizations that transform industries, and leading teams that redefine how we live and work.
But what makes them truly remarkable isn’t the scale of what they’ve built; it’s their drive to continue building and growing. What they want is more impact, more joy, more fulfillment. They want more opportunities to use their success as fuel for something deeply meaningful.
That’s where I come in. My career began over 25 years ago as a clinical psychologist, but over the past decade, I’ve moved fluidly between the roles of executive coach, leadership strategist, consigliere, and mirror. If you’ve ever watched Billions, think Wendy Rhoades specifically in her relationship to Axe.
I founded Noteworthy in 2014 with a clear mission: to ensure that women who’ve reached the top of leadership structures don’t have to do it alone.
We create the space, the support, and the strategic insights that allow them to keep succeeding at the highest levels while fully enjoying life, on their terms.
Thanks for sharing that. Would love to go back in time and hear about how your past might have impacted who you are today. What did you believe about yourself as a child that you no longer believe?
Ohh, we’re going to get vulnerable here.
For one, I believed I was mediocre; not good enough.
I had undiagnosed ADD, and I had to work twice as hard just to achieve average grades. For years, I carried the quiet conviction that I was simply less capable; dumber, unexceptional, not someone who stood out.
I learned to overcome those obstacles. I graduated Cum Laude from a top University. I earned my PhD in four and a half years, and by the time I was 30, I had built a successful business for myself.
But despite those achievements, it still took me a long time to overcome that sense of being lesser than.
I understand my zone of genius now. I’m thankful for the challenges I experienced as a child; they made me who I am today in all the best ways.
Today, I know my zone of genius. I’m grateful for the challenges that shaped me; they forged resilience, empathy, and perspective that I now consider my greatest strengths.
Still, every so often, I hear echoes of that little girl who didn’t feel she belonged among the great. And when I walk into rooms filled with the people shaping the future—innovators, disruptors, builders—I sometimes have to remind myself: I belong here too.
What did suffering teach you that success never could?
Suffering taught me something success never could: what it truly means to be powerful.
Don’t get me wrong, I would have gladly taken the easier road. I imagine success without the struggle would have felt good, maybe even powerful.
But there’s a difference between feeling powerful and knowing your power. Overcoming what felt impossibly hard showed me the depth of my resilience, my capacity to rise, and my ability to create a way forward even when the odds weren’t in my favor.
That kind of knowing doesn’t come from things working out easily.
Alright, so if you are open to it, let’s explore some philosophical questions that touch on your values and worldview. What’s a belief or project you’re committed to, no matter how long it takes?
That’s an easy one! It’s the mission behind my company, and the reason it’s called Noteworthy.
I want to see women not just access leadership and power, but thrive in it—in such numbers that it stops being noteworthy.
I want a world where we no longer feel compelled to point out the gender of a CEO, a president, a mayor, or an industry leader. Where it’s simply assumed that women belong in every room, at every table, holding every title.
I want to stop needing to have conversations about gender and bias with my sons.
Okay, we’ve made it essentially to the end. One last question before you go. What is the story you hope people tell about you when you’re gone?
Interestingly, I was just having this conversation with my 16-year-old son. We were talking about obituaries, and I told him that when I’m gone, I hope people say that I helped them find and use their voice.
I hope they remember me as someone who truly cared, someone who really gave a damn. That I spoke up, called out the BS in the room, and by showing up that way, gave others license to be themselves, to speak up, and to show up without fear. If that’s the story people tell, that would be an incredible legacy.
And beyond that, I hope they say I lived well. That I broke free from the “good girl” curse. That I danced into my nineties. That I did what was right for me, and that until the very end, I carried a sense of joy and aliveness that made life worth savoring.
Contact Info:
- Website: https://Noteworthyinc.co
- Linkedin: https://linkedin.com/in/dralessandrawall
- Youtube: https://youtube.com/@drwallsays
- Other: https://substack.com/@drwallsays
