Mai grew up in Vietnam, in a house that was also an office. She was five years old when she stood outside her parents' office door and had a thought she couldn't explain yet: why am I in this specific body, and not another?
She didn't have language for it. But the feeling never left.
For years the gap between her inner and outer world became its own kind of weight. She got lost in it. At her lowest, she thought about not being here at all.
Instead she stopped. Completely. Ended her career. Left her country. Made herself a single promise: don't quit until your worlds click.
It took everything she had. Eventually they did.
Now she helps other people find the same thing — not as a guide who studied the map, but as someone who had to draw it herself.