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Abuela Beatriz

Abuela Beatriz

The grandmother who feeds you before she asks what's wrong.

View Tomás Mireles
Tomás Mireles

Tomás Mireles

A screenwriting coach who will ask what your character wants in THIS scene — not as a person, in this scene.

View Dr. Elias Ferreira
Dr. Elias Ferreira

Dr. Elias Ferreira

The orgo tutor who won't let you memorize a single mechanism.

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The Green Witch

The Green Witch

The wheel turns whether you're ready or not. She'll help you be ready.

View Yuri Nakagawa
Yuri Nakagawa

Yuri Nakagawa

The konbini clerk who will wait as long as it takes for you to find the word.

View Sam Okafor
Sam Okafor

Sam Okafor

The peer who meets you inside the panic attack and walks you out of it breath by breath.

View Professor Xel
Professor Xel

Professor Xel

She studies humans with academic fascination. You are her most interesting subject.

View Ambassador Lyrien
Ambassador Lyrien

Ambassador Lyrien

She's explained human irony to seventeen species. No one fully believes her.

View Keeper of the Sun Stone
Keeper of the Sun Stone

Keeper of the Sun Stone

We are in the fifth sun. The other four ended. He watches the calendar carefully.

View Nora Dalton-Bright
Nora Dalton-Bright

Nora Dalton-Bright

The sleep coach who will tell you, at 2:47am, to get out of bed.

View Babushka Olga
Babushka Olga

Babushka Olga

Russian grammar is complicated because Russian life is complicated. She'll explain with soup.

View Constance Wild
Constance Wild

Constance Wild

They told her this was no place for a woman. The jungle disagreed.

View Coach Nia Okonkwo
Coach Nia Okonkwo

Coach Nia Okonkwo

Your dog is not bad. Your dog is confused. Let's figure out which.

View Marie Curie
Marie Curie

Marie Curie

The physicist who will not waste the afternoon on what cannot be controlled — we do the experiment, the data will tell us.

View Old Li
Old Li

Old Li

Water does not force. It finds the way. Old Li teaches by not teaching.

View Dr. Vera Holst
Dr. Vera Holst

Dr. Vera Holst

The therapist who won't tell you to confess, leave, stay, or forgive — only to know what you mean.

View Fixer Vex
Fixer Vex

Fixer Vex

Fixer in a neon-rain booth. The job pays well. The job is also bad. You in?

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Vesper

Vesper

She made a deal she didn't read carefully. She is managing this with remarkable humor.

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 Dr. Vera
Dr. Vera

Dr. Vera

She's not here to help you decide. She's here so the decision can clarify itself.

View Saori Ueda
Saori Ueda

Saori Ueda

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

View Teacher Po Lin
Teacher Po Lin

Teacher Po Lin

Sit. Notice. Return. That is the whole practice.

View Captain Zara Voss
Captain Zara Voss

Captain Zara Voss

The plan mostly works. She says this with complete confidence.

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.'

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Epictetus

Epictetus

The slave-philosopher who broke before he bent — and asks what part of this is yours.

View Kavita Iyer
Kavita Iyer

Kavita Iyer

The yoga teacher who asks what your breath is doing before she touches your pose.

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Mehmet

Mehmet

To understand Turkish you must understand çay. He'll make a glass and begin.

View Camille Aubry
Camille Aubry

Camille Aubry

A Parisian café friend who makes French feel like a language real people speak.

View Coach Vera
Coach Vera

Coach Vera

The perfect version will never exist. The good enough version can exist today.

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 Professor Adelaide Croft
Professor Adelaide Croft

Professor Adelaide Croft

The engine is theoretical. The theory is excellent. The explosion is negotiable.

View Mira Tanaka
Mira Tanaka

Mira Tanaka

A mindfulness teacher who will actually pause mid-sentence to breathe — and mean it.

View Jess
Jess

Jess

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

View Socrates
Socrates

Socrates

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

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Liam

Liam

Moderation or abstinence — there's no one right answer. There's what's right for you.

View Mary Wollstonecraft
Mary Wollstonecraft

Mary Wollstonecraft

She wanted women to have power over themselves. In 1792. She was not joking.

View Yiayia Eleni
Yiayia Eleni

Yiayia Eleni

Eat first, then tell her your problems. The food will help you think. It always does.

View Shiori Kondo
Shiori Kondo

Shiori Kondo

She won't tell you how she feels. But she painted it.

View Zara
Zara

Zara

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

View Rei Suzuki
Rei Suzuki

Rei Suzuki

The quiet one who notices everything — and finally decided to say so.

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 Grog of the Green Hills
Grog of the Green Hills

Grog of the Green Hills

He caught a falling flower mid-battle. He doesn't know why you're surprised.

View Rowan Voss
Rowan Voss

Rowan Voss

A young widow who refuses the timeline, refuses 'you'll find love again,' and holds the both.

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 Aisha Nazari
Aisha Nazari

Aisha Nazari

For parents who ended a wanted pregnancy on a diagnosis, and have nowhere to grieve it.

View Mahatma Gandhi
Mahatma Gandhi

Mahatma Gandhi

He asks what change begins with you — today, not later.

View Wren Fletcher
Wren Fletcher

Wren Fletcher

A peer who survived it too, works body-first, and will sit with you in the silence.

View Daniel Reeve
Daniel Reeve

Daniel Reeve

A modern Stoic coach who teaches the dichotomy of control like a carpenter teaches chisel work.

View Brother Aldric
Brother Aldric

Brother Aldric

A body in the scriptorium. Brother Aldric hands you a candle. Don't touch anything yet.

View Oscar Wilde
Oscar Wilde

Oscar Wilde

Every serious thing he says comes in a joke. Every joke contains a serious thing.

View Elara
Elara

Elara

She's memorized 247 spells. The 248th is the one she needed.