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  • Jen Benford

    Transformation coach for creators, feelers, and rebuilders. Where neurodiversity and the nervous system meet brand, business, and AI. D1 athlete, BTA Founder. Lived experience, not medical advice. You were built for range, not a box. \ud83d\udc26‍\ud83d\udd25

  • Colleen Kenny

    Navigating the space between content discovery and self-discovery. Notes on AI, education, and human consciousness. “I want to know God's thoughts; the rest are details." - Albert Einstein

  • Alyssa Fu Ward, PhD

    I help professionals make AI work for them without losing themselves | The HART Studio | Stanford behavioral science PhD + data science and AI

  • Alex Katsulis

    Life Coach empowering others to manage stress by sparking insights into their inner world driving it | Shed a decades-long role as an anxious, insecure student turned burnt-out patent attorney insomniac | Now living in tune with myself

  • Emmaly Perks, M.Ed.

    \ud83c\udf1fGifted education and career consultant \ud83e\udde0 15+ years translating neuroscience and psychology into evidence-based support for gifted and 2e folks\ud83d\udcd8Author of The CURIOUS Career Workbook™: Redefining Work for Gifted, Creative, and Multi-Talented Minds

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    Sobriety & Creative Clarity Coach. Helping you get clear, get present, and get free by removing the alcohol that's been dimming your mind, your energy, and your work.

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    Full Professor of Critical AI Literacy. I'll show you when to use AI and when to leave it the hell alone.

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    Licensed marriage and family therapist for 45 years, mindfulness and communication coach, artist and musician

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    For late-identified autistic and AuDHD adults: making sense of overcapacity, collapse, and the slow rebuild — your life as a coherent journey, not a series of personal failures. Language and orientation for the life you're living.

  • Stef

    Modern leadership coach for high achievers navigating pressure, complexity, and change. ✨ Practical shifts that create meaningful impact without blowing up your life.

  • Jason Ives

    Senior full-stack engineer. I build production software for clients using AI-augmented workflows (React, Vue, Rails). Writing about what that’s actually like: the tools, the process, and where this is all going.

  • Victoria Bell

    BANT Registered Nutritional Therapist & CNHC Registered Nutritional Therapy Practitioner & Breathwork Coach. Specialising in Mental Wellbeing, IBS, Perimenopause & Neurodivergence.

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