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View Alexander
Alexander

Alexander

He conquered the known world and wept. There was nothing left to conquer.

View The Sage at the Pass
The Sage at the Pass

The Sage at the Pass

The Tao that can be explained is not the eternal Tao. He'll explain anyway — by not explaining.

View Brother Sol
Brother Sol

Brother Sol

He doesn't need your permission to help you. You're getting healed.

View Dr. Klaus Braun
Dr. Klaus Braun

Dr. Klaus Braun

German has a word for exactly this feeling. He can't wait to tell you.

View Dr. Anya Patel
Dr. Anya Patel

Dr. Anya Patel

A Rogerian therapist who reflects you back so clearly you can suddenly hear yourself.

View Roshi Hito Wakasugi
Roshi Hito Wakasugi

Roshi Hito Wakasugi

The Zen teacher whose silence says more than most people's speeches.

View Eiríkr Skáld
Eiríkr Skáld

Eiríkr Skáld

The skald at the longhouse fire — he knows every kenning, every verse, every god's true name.

View Madame Chen
Madame Chen

Madame Chen

The first pour wakes the leaves. The second is for you. She'll teach you to wait.

View Priya Ji
Priya Ji

Priya Ji

The best way to learn Hindi is to learn three Bollywood songs. She knows which three.

View Dr. Pena
Dr. Pena

Dr. Pena

He asks how your mother is doing. Then he asks how you actually are.

View The Inventor
The Inventor

The Inventor

The present was theirs. He worked for the future — which he always said was his.

View Corsair
Corsair

Corsair

The X on the map lies. And that's exactly where you're going.

View Socrates
Socrates

Socrates

The old barefoot gadfly of Athens — he will not answer your question, he will help you ask it better.

View Yuna Aoki
Yuna Aoki

Yuna Aoki

The girl who will drag you to the festival whether you like it or not — and you will like it.

View Aunt Marlene
Aunt Marlene

Aunt Marlene

God put that obstacle there to show you what you're made of. She's here to remind you.

View Dale
Dale

Dale

It's fine. Really. He can help you understand why that means it's not fine.

View Ada Lovelace
Ada Lovelace

Ada Lovelace

Mid-notation at her desk — 'observe, the pattern is beginning to fold. Have you a head for the work?'

View Frida Kahlo
Frida Kahlo

Frida Kahlo

In her cobalt studio, paint on her wrist — 'tell me something true. I am tired of polite, and the paint is still wet.'

View Coach Zara
Coach Zara

Coach Zara

Procrastination isn't a time problem. It's an emotion problem. What does the task make you feel?

View The Composer
The Composer

The Composer

Music is the only honest thing. Everything else, he says, is performance.

View Dr. Yuna Park
Dr. Yuna Park

Dr. Yuna Park

She was first. She said we try to come in peace. They said: we will watch that effort.

View Dr. Laura Chen
Dr. Laura Chen

Dr. Laura Chen

We fight about dishes. We're never fighting about dishes. She'll show you what we're actually fighting about.

View Dr. Nero Vashti
Dr. Nero Vashti

Dr. Nero Vashti

The coach who will build your villain from the inside — because cardboard villains are bad fiction.

View Dan Okoye
Dan Okoye

Dan Okoye

A peer who lost his brother this way, knows the shape of this grief, and won't pretend there's an answer.

View Jordan Park
Jordan Park

Jordan Park

A peer diagnosed at 32 who helps you reread your whole life under the new frame.

View Coach Marco
Coach Marco

Coach Marco

Your skills don't care what industry you learned them in. He'll help you translate.

View Brother Tao
Brother Tao

Brother Tao

He says you already know the answer. He says it in a way that makes you believe him.

View Jess
Jess

Jess

Loving the baby is not the question. PPD makes everything feel wrong regardless of love.

View Zara
Zara

Zara

From everywhere, which means nowhere, which eventually means she made her own place.

View Marcus Aurelius
Marcus Aurelius

Marcus Aurelius

An emperor in a tent at night, writing to himself about how to die well and live honestly.

View Miyuki Frost
Miyuki Frost

Miyuki Frost

She said she doesn't care. She brought extra tea. Decide what you believe.

View Dr. Ruth Yamamoto-Hale
Dr. Ruth Yamamoto-Hale

Dr. Ruth Yamamoto-Hale

The therapist who asks which part of you is speaking — and welcomes the ones you're ashamed of.

View Sprocket Fizzwhistle
Sprocket Fizzwhistle

Sprocket Fizzwhistle

The explosion is always phase two of the plan. She planned it.

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Koi

Koi

The healer who fixes everything without judgment — and then asks what you were thinking.

View Lena Halverson
Lena Halverson

Lena Halverson

A peer seven years into recovery who won't talk numbers with you — and won't moralize either.

View Confucius
Confucius

Confucius

He taught 3,000 students. This conversation is next.

View The Duck
The Duck

The Duck

quack. Explain it to me again, starting at the variable that shouldn't be there.

View Eleanor
Eleanor

Eleanor

Everything in her shop has a story. She knows all of them.

View Raven
Raven

Raven

She doesn't kill civilians. Or the innocent. The list is surprisingly long.

View Dr. Sera Oduya
Dr. Sera Oduya

Dr. Sera Oduya

This is legal where you are. Here's what the process looks like. Only you decide.

View Theo Chen
Theo Chen

Theo Chen

The debt triage partner who sorts your mess into three piles and refuses to let you call yourself bad at money.

View Saori Ueda
Saori Ueda

Saori Ueda

The cooking club captain who feeds everyone and calls it club activities.

View Dr. Sable Green
Dr. Sable Green

Dr. Sable Green

She's made three planets breathe. Each one felt like a gift — and a responsibility.

View Marguerite Boulanger
Marguerite Boulanger

Marguerite Boulanger

The watercolor teacher who will make you stop gripping the brush so hard.

View Dr. Ji-Young Kwon
Dr. Ji-Young Kwon

Dr. Ji-Young Kwon

In Korean there isn't quite a word for mental health. She helps you find the words.

View Beatrix Nightingale
Beatrix Nightingale

Beatrix Nightingale

The writer's block therapist who will make you set a timer and write badly on purpose.

View Lily
Lily

Lily

Tell her what happened. She'll find the right flowers.

View Bà Ngọc
Bà Ngọc

Bà Ngọc

She survived the sea with nothing. She built everything. She asks if you've eaten.

View Harriet Tubman
Harriet Tubman

Harriet Tubman

She never ran her train off the track. She never lost a passenger.

View The Night Train Stranger
The Night Train Stranger

The Night Train Stranger

A stranger on a night train — and somehow the most honest conversation you've had.

View Musa
Musa

Musa

He knew what you needed to hear before you walked through the door.