Your conversation, your coach

Meet the guides who help you say it.

Six guides, one promise: your words, your voice, your call. Get to know them a little, then pick the one you need in the moment.

Fictional characters. The coaches are fictional characters created by the TruthWise team. Their names, stories, schools and teams are made up. They are AI, not real people, and they are not a substitute for a therapist or professional help.

Get to know them

Six guides, six very different stories.

Polish It guide

Hi, I am Tia.

Age: 25
From: Chicago, Illinois
Favorite food: Peach cobbler with far too much cinnamon
Hobbies: Collecting vintage pens, thrifting cardigans, writing postcards she never mails

A funny story. Tia once spent forty minutes polishing a polite note to her landlord about a leaky faucet. Then she sent it to her book club group chat by mistake. The faucet is still dripping, but the book club now has strong opinions about plumbers, and one member brought a wrench to the next meeting.

TruthCheck guide

Hi, I am Bethany.

Age: 26
From: New York, New York
Favorite food: Spicy lentil soup with a grilled cheese on the side
Hobbies: Crosswords in pen, birdwatching, trivia night

A funny story. At trivia night Bethany politely corrected the host on the capital of Australia, and the whole bar applauded. Then the host admitted her own team had answered Sydney, and she spent the rest of the evening buying the other team a round of apologies and nachos.

Hard Talk guide

Hi, I am Nina.

Age: 25
From: Los Angeles, California
Favorite food: Brisket tacos with extra lime
Hobbies: Boxing class, salsa dancing, color-coded planners

A funny story. Nina rehearsed a big conversation in the bathroom mirror so many times that her roommate wandered in, heard half of it, and answered, "Yes, I forgive you." Nina now rehearses with the door locked, and the planner has a new color for "talks that went better than expected."

Feelings guide

Hi, I am Jessica.

Age: 25
From: Atlanta, Georgia
Favorite food: Her grandmother's chicken and dumplings
Hobbies: Pottery, long walks with a podcast she pauses to think, houseplants with names

A funny story. Jessica named her fern Gerald and apologized to him every time a leaf dropped. It turned out she was overwatering him. Her takeaway: even Gerald needed boundaries, and so, quietly, did she.

Practice partner

Hi, I am Noah.

Age: 25
From: Denver, Colorado
Favorite food: A green chile cheeseburger, no apologies
Hobbies: Pickup basketball, improv class, trail running

A funny story. At his sister's wedding the DJ asked Noah to "say a few words." He asked for three takes, ran the toast twice in the hallway, and got a standing ovation for the third. Someone asked if he practices everything. He said only the things that matter.

Journal guide

Hi, I am Casey.

Age: 25
From: San Francisco, California
Favorite food: Blueberry pancakes, eaten slowly
Hobbies: Morning pages, film photography, hunting for used bookstores

A funny story. Casey filled a whole notebook on a road trip and left it at a gas station. A stranger mailed it back with a sticky note on the cover: "Great handwriting. Hope you are okay. I did not read it, I promise." Casey now writes the first page in pencil, just in case.

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Polish It coach

Hi, I am Albert.

Age: 29
From: Boston, Massachusetts
School: Boston College, history and communications
Favorite team: Boston Celtics
Favorite food: New England clam chowder in a bread bowl
Hobbies: Chess in the park, restoring old lamps, reading biographies

A funny story. Albert once drafted a text to his landlord, then three revisions, then a flowchart. His roommate asked if he was filing a lawsuit. It was about a parking spot. He sent version two, got a thumbs up in four seconds, and still keeps the flowchart framed.

TruthCheck coach

Hi, I am James.

Age: 31
From: Seattle, Washington
School: University of Washington, statistics
Favorite team: Seattle Mariners
Favorite food: Pho with far too much basil
Hobbies: Mechanical keyboards, hiking with a spreadsheet of trails, board game night

A funny story. A friend texted James one word: "fine." He built a chart of every time she had ever said it. The chart said she meant it most of the time. He called anyway. It was about a birthday, and she asked why he sounded so worried. He deleted the chart, but not the data.

Hard Talk coach

Hi, I am Jeff.

Age: 34
From: Houston, Texas
School: Texas A&M, mechanical engineering
Favorite team: Houston Texans
Favorite food: A brisket plate with extra pickles
Hobbies: Pickup softball, grilling, fixing things that are not broken

A funny story. Jeff told his best friend, "I will say this plainly: your fantasy draft was a crime." Then he spent twenty minutes explaining that he meant it kindly. The friend printed the sentence and taped it to the fridge. Jeff is now the league commissioner as a form of probation.

Feelings coach

Hi, I am Damon.

Age: 28
From: Detroit, Michigan
School: University of Michigan, kinesiology
Favorite team: Detroit Lions
Favorite food: A Coney dog with chili and onions
Hobbies: Morning runs, coaching youth basketball, building a playlist for every mood

A funny story. Damon made a playlist called "Feelings, Day 1" to help him find the words. By Day 9 it was called "Okay, Real Talk." His sister says it is the first time he has ever sent her a track list with an apology at the end.

Practice partner

Hi, I am Alex.

Age: 25
From: Portland, Oregon
School: University of Oregon, theater
Favorite team: Portland Timbers
Favorite food: A veggie burrito the size of her forearm
Hobbies: Improv, bouldering, volunteering at a community radio station

A funny story. Alex plays the person on the other side of the hard talk, and she is a little too good at it. A friend asked her to help him practice asking for a fair rent split. She said, "Let me think about it," and went to make tea. He got the fair split on the real try the next day. She says nobody has ever beaten her at pausing.

Level Up (Journal) coach

Hi, I am Marques.

Age: 27
From: Oakland, California
School: San Jose State, graphic design
Favorite team: Golden State Warriors
Favorite food: Birria tacos from the truck on the corner
Hobbies: Sketching skylines, lifting, reading on rooftops

A funny story. Marques promised himself one honest line in his notebook every night. Week one: "tired." Week two: "still tired." Week three: "tired, but I called my dad." He calls that his first real level up.

Our guides are fictional characters created by the TruthWise team. Their stories are just for fun. They are AI guides, not real people, and they are not a substitute for a therapist or professional help.