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Stoic Angels is a membership platform for people who want to intentionally change the trajectory of their lives.

Inside you'll find modules, guided practices, meditations, subliminals, embodiment exercises, prompts, nervous system tools, and a growing library of resources designed to help you create lasting change across your mindset, relationships, health, appearance, career, and sense of purpose.

Our philosophy is simple: Knowing what to do isn't enough. Real transformation takes place when our knowledge becomes the embodiment of who we are; reinforced through practice.

Most self improvement content focuses on creating new habits, and most manifestation courses teach you that specific techniques alone can change your beliefs. Stoic Angels integrates the physical, mental, and spiritual dimensions into one platform because none of them operate well alone.

Stoic Angels focuses on an often overlooked layer, which is to examine our identity itself; emotional patterns, automatic responses, and lived experiences that ultimately influence how our thoughts and habits are formed and maintained in the first place.

We do not believe in temporary motivational speeches, nor bypassing of the inevitable work that sustainable transformation takes; We combine practical frameworks, such as psychology informed education, somatic awareness, behavior change tools, philosophy, reflective practice, and practical implementation to help you create more intentional changes.

Stoic Angels is for people who are no longer interested in quick fixes or spiritual bypassing. It's built for those who are willing to examine themselves honestly, challenge old identities, and build a life with intention.

Mae Alice Suzuki is the founder of Stoic Angels. She holds dual degrees in design and psychology from Parsons School of Design and Eugene Lang College of Liberal Arts, is professionally trained as a personal development-oriented life coach, and has spent over a decade working professionally in wellness, fitness, and high-intensity nightlife event environments. Her past work has been featured in Vogue Australia, Business Insider, i-D Magazine, Newsweek, Wired, and other outlets. She built a platform of over 700k audience members in 2 years by staying true to what actually helps people: straightforward guidance, transparent conversation, and practical methods for navigating life transitions. You can learn more on our About page.

Mae’s public content is designed to introduce ideas, offer perspective, and give you practical insights you can apply immediately. Stoic Angels is where those ideas are organized and practiced in a deeper, more structured process.

Inside the membership, you are not only watching individual pieces of content. You also gain access to guided modules, practices, meditations, subliminals, embodiment exercises, prompts, nervous system tools, digital resources, and a community designed to help you apply what you learn consistently.

The difference is in the depth, structure, and implementation. Social media can help you recognize a pattern. Stoic Angels helps you examine where it came from, practice a new response, and integrate that change into your identity and daily life. The platform also gives you a clear place to return to, track your growth, revisit material, and work toward specific goals at your own pace.

It's informed by all three, but highly grounded in practicality. Many of our practices draw from neuroscience, psychology, somatic approaches, behavior change research, and contemplative philosophies such as Stoicism, alongside Mae's professional coaching experience and original Stoic Angels frameworks.

We also discuss manifestation through the lens of identity, attention, expectation, emotional regulation, and behavior, rather than promising that our thoughts alone create our reality.

You don't have to subscribe to any particular belief system to benefit from your inner work.

That depends on your personal belief system in relation to our philosophy. We don't teach that simply thinking about something causes it to appear. Instead, we explore how your beliefs, emotional patterns, attention, expectations, and daily actions can influence the opportunities you notice, the decisions you make, and the life you build over time.

Many people experience this process as the act of "manifestation" itself. Our main focus is to help you become the person who is capable of creating and sustaining the life you want to achieve.

No.

You don't need to believe in manifestation, energy work, or spirituality to benefit from Stoic Angels. The practices are grounded in proven research, and designed to support self-awareness, reflection, intentional behavior, wellbeing, and identity work regardless of your beliefs.

If manifestation resonates with you, you'll find the space to explore it. If you're simply interested in becoming healthier, more confident, more disciplined, and more intentional, you'll feel equally at home.

Different practices serve different purposes.

An Illumination might help you understand a pattern through lessons. Excavation are reflective exercises that can help you examine your experiences more honestly. A Catalyst, such as somatic exercises and meditations, can help you notice how that pattern appears physically, and channel the inner work through. Transmissions, such as subliminals, can provide affirmative repetition and mental rehearsal throughout the day. Behavioral exercises give you the opportunity to practice something differently in real life.

You do not need to use every tool at once, though they all complement each other.

Stoic Angels gives you multiple ways to work with change because insight, emotion, behavior, identity, and lived experience are interconnected. Over time, you can learn which combination of practices is most useful for you.

Subliminals are audio practices that pair repeated affirmations or suggestions with music, ambient sound, or other audio.

Inside Stoic Angels, we use subliminals as an important supplementary tool for repetition, mental rehearsal, and reinforcing the ideas you are consciously working on elsewhere in the membership.

We do not teach that listening to an audio alone can magically create an external result. Think of subliminals as one subconscious piece of a larger process. Transformative results can be achieved when what you repeatedly expose yourself to is also supported by reflection, behavior, intentional action, and how you show up in your everyday life.

EFT, or Emotional Freedom Techniques, is a practice that combines focused attention on a thought, feeling, or situation with rhythmic tapping on specific points of the body.

Inside Stoic Angels, tapping may be used as a reflective grounding practice to help you slow down, notice what you are experiencing, and work with an emotional response more intentionally.

Research into EFT has produced promising findings, particularly around mindset improvement, stress and anxiety, although its proposed "energy meridian" explanations remain debated. We use it as a personal-development practice rather than presenting it as medical or psychological treatment.

"Somatic" simply means relating to the body.

A somatic exercise is an exercise in practicing body-awareness; It may ask you to notice your breathing, posture, muscle tension, physical sensations, movement, or the way an emotion shows up physically.

We include these practices because personal development does not happen only through thinking. You can intellectually understand a pattern and still automatically tense up, withdraw, procrastinate, people-please, become defensive, or return to an old response when you encounter the same situation again.

Somatic exercises offer you a direct method to become aware of those reactions, work through these subconscious patterns directly, and practice responding with greater intention.

Over time, body-awareness practices can help you become better at recognizing your own cues earlier: tension before overwhelm, physical discomfort around a boundary, changes in breathing when you are anxious, or the urge to fall into an automatic response.

That awareness creates more opportunity to choose what happens next.

The exercises inside Stoic Angels are therefore designed to be practiced, learned from, and eventually carried into ordinary life, where you live the effects of doing the inner work.

There is no magic number.

Some practices may find it’s place in your daily routine, while others may be something you return to when they are needed. You do not need to spend hours every day repeating exercises in order to use Stoic Angels effectively.

A short practice you return to consistently is generally more useful than an intense routine that you cannot sustain. Experiment with what fits naturally into your life, pay attention to what is actually helping you, and allow your routine to evolve as you do.

Everyone's journey is different. The most common shift members describe is a change in their internal state, which tends to influence everything else externally.

Our Members may observe improvements in:

• Confidence

• Emotional regulation

• Self-worth

• Relationships

• Boundaries

• Motivation

• Discipline

• Physical wellness

• Appearance and self-care

• Career trajectory

• Resilience

• Clarity of purpose

Results depend on your individual circumstances, effort, consistency, and starting point. Personal development is a highly personal and nonstandard process, and as such, we are unable to guarantee any specific outcome. For more detail, please see our Disclaimer.

Stoic Angels is designed to become a natural part of your life, rather than another task you need to keep up with. There is no required schedule, and more time does not automatically mean better results.

A useful starting point might be a short practice, lesson, or exercise several times throughout the week, followed by actually applying what you are learning in your life.

Your progress will depend on what you are working on, your starting point, your circumstances, and how consistently you put the material into practice.

The purpose of Stoic Angels is not to make you endlessly consume more self-improvement content. Our method recognizes that just like in nature, our lives move through it’s seasons. We find that our phases of evolution and healing are both highly complementary and equally necessary.

As such, the exercises are designed to help you design your life conscientiously; Understanding yourself more clearly, recognizing your patterns faster, practicing different responses, making better decisions, and carrying those skills you learned into your daily life.

Over time, something that initially requires conscious practice may begin to feel increasingly automatic: setting a new boundary, following through, regulating yourself before reacting, caring for your body, speaking differently to yourself, or making choices that align with the person you are becoming.

Ultimately, the membership is your dedicated space to evolve. Your life is where you reap the harvest of your consistent practice.

Physical transformation is often part of the conversation, but never in isolation. We encourage our Members to look at the bigger picture.

Confidence, posture, emotional regulation, self-respect, grooming, health, communication, and presence, can all influence how you're perceived beyond physical appearance alone.

Rather than chasing aesthetic trends and beauty standards, Stoic Angels helps you build a version of yourself that is more grounded, more self-possessed, and more intentional in your overall presentation.

Many of our practices are designed to support reflection, grounding, greater awareness of your responses, and more intentional ways of moving through stressful moments.

Stoic Angels is an educational and personal-development platform. It does not provide therapy, psychiatric care, crisis support, diagnosis, or medical treatment. If you are experiencing significant anxiety, persistent distress, or another mental health concern, seek support from an appropriately qualified licensed professional. For more information, please see our Disclaimer.

Membership includes access to our Collections; Including guided practices, lessons, meditations, subliminals, embodiment exercises, journaling prompts, nervous system tools, community access, digital guides, and a growing library of new content. Our Annual tier also includes our in-depth modules; they are not included in monthly membership. Specific inclusions for each tier are detailed on our Membership page.

We offer membership tiers to meet different needs and budgets. Current pricing and what's included in each tier are listed on our Membership page. Pricing is set to increase over time, and Founding Member rates do not increase, as long as you remain subscribed.

Yes. Our Annual membership includes a free trial so you can explore the full platform before you're charged. Beyond that, we share a significant amount of free content across YouTube, Instagram, TikTok, and our newsletter to give you a feel for how we approach personal development.

Yes. The membership is designed to work across desktop, tablet, and mobile devices so you can learn wherever it's most convenient. A mobile app is in development for the near future for a more seamless experience.

Yes. New content is added on a regular basis. As the community grows, the platform grows with it.

Lifetime access applies only to individual offerings expressly sold with that benefit. If you have purchased lifetime access to an individual offering, you can access your purchased files through your user dashboard at any time. Keep in mind that this is different from the membership, which gives you access to the Membership Platform and Catalog for as long as you remain subscribed. If for any reason you cannot access your files, contact our support team at [email protected].

There's no required schedule.

Some members may spend a few minutes a day. Others dedicate several hours each week. The general library is self paced. In-depth annual modules unlock lessons on a suggested schedule, and you can complete them at a rhythm that suits your life. Consistency matters far more than intensity.

Yes. Whether your focus is confidence, self reflection, relationships, money, appearance, habits, or purpose, you can begin with whatever feels most relevant to you. Over time, you'll naturally start connecting different pieces of the platform together.

The general library is self paced. In-depth annual modules release lessons on their suggested daily or weekly schedule, but you can complete unlocked lessons at your own pace. Some members prefer to follow a structured path, and we offer suggested starting points for different goals. Others prefer to explore freely. Both approaches are available, and you can choose the structure that best suits how you prefer to learn.

You can't fall behind. There are no completion deadlines or penalties for moving slowly. Module lessons unlock on the suggested daily or weekly schedule, but you can return to them at your own pace while your annual membership remains active. Other membership content remains available for as long as your membership is active. If you ever feel overwhelmed, start with one practice and build from there. This work is meant to meet you where you are.

Modules are included with the annual Stoic Angels membership. Once you join, sign in to your account to access them through the platform.

No. In-depth modules are exclusive to the annual membership.

Start with whichever module feels most relevant to what you need right now. Self Improvement 101 is a seven-day foundation for when you want to improve your life but aren’t sure where to begin. Metamorphosis is a twelve-week intensive program to elevate your relationship with your ideal body through nervous system regulation practices to improve self-image, eating patterns, confidence, and presence. If you’re feeling unsure, Self Improvement 101 is a good place to begin.

Yes! We encourage you to move at a pace that works for you. Lessons unlock according to each program’s suggested schedule (either daily or weekly,) but you don’t need to complete them as soon as they become available.

Take the time you need to practice, reflect, and revisit the material while exploring the rest of the Stoic Angels platform. Your module access continues for as long as your annual membership remains active.

Your annual membership includes full access to the Stoic Angels library of guided practices, lessons, meditations, subliminals, embodiment exercises, journaling prompts, digital resources, and community.

The main added benefit is access to our in-depth modules. Programs of this depth can be valued anywhere from $300 to over $1,200 individually; Here, that value is included in your annual membership.

For a full breakdown, see the monthly versus annual membership comparison on our Membership page.

Yes. As long as your annual membership stays active, you will continue to receive updates and access to new modules as they are released.

You can upgrade by switching to the annual billing plan under your membership profile. If you need help, email [email protected].

You will have access for as long as your annual membership remains active. If you cancel, your access continues until the end of your current paid billing period.

Yes. Your annual membership renews automatically each year. You can cancel at any time to stop the next renewal, and your membership will remain active until the end of your current paid billing period.

These may be offered with limited spots in the future, as part of our Modules curriculum. More details about availability and how to participate will be shared when they’re announced.

Email [email protected], and a member of our team will get back to you.

Modules are included with your annual membership, so the same membership cancellation and refund policy applies.

You can cancel your membership at any time to stop future renewals. Your access continues until the end of your current paid billing period.

All digital purchases are non-refundable because access to our digital offerings is delivered instantly. Cancelling your membership does not refund the current billing period. Please see our Terms for the full policy.

Yes. Depending on your membership status, you may have access to our community through the membership platform, as well as access to the membership area of Mae’s Discord Server. Our community is a great space to meet others like yourself, form new connection, accountability, shared learning, and support.

We take community safety seriously. Our Community Guidelines apply to all interactions, and we maintain zero tolerance for bullying, harassment, discrimination, or cruelty. Our moderation team reviews community activity and reported concerns and addresses issues in accordance with our Community Guidelines. Full details are in our Community Guidelines.

Private coaching and mentorship may be offered with limited spots in the future; they are not confirmed as a current membership benefit. Availability and participation details will be announced if an offering opens.

We accept major credit cards, debit cards, and other standard payment methods through our payment processors (Stripe and PayPal). Specific options are presented at checkout.

You can cancel your automatically renewing membership through your account settings on the membership platform, or by contacting us at [email protected]. Cancellation stops future charges after it takes effect. Your access continues through the end of your current paid billing period.

When you cancel the Membership, you retain access through the end of the billing period you've already paid for. After that, access to all membership benefits end. Cancellation does not convert subscription content into a permanent purchase.

If a separately purchased individual offering was expressly sold with lifetime or continuing access, your access will be handled according to the purchase terms that applied when you bought it. Delivery may remain available through the platform or through another reasonable method if the original platform changes. Contact [email protected] if you have difficulty accessing a qualifying purchase.

Because access is provided instantly, all purchases for digital offerings are nonrefundable. Please book mindfully. For more details, please see our Terms.

Please note that physical merchandise follow separate refund and exchange policies, which may include quality guarantees. These terms are accessible via our Merchandise website, which operates outside of the Stoic Angels platform.

Payments made towards a retreat are nonrefundable due to significant upfront commitments incurred upon booking a reservation.

We strongly recommend ensuring your availability to travel on the dates prior to making a reservation. Third-party travel insurances may also have clauses that cover incidents, such as travel-related disruptions due to a change in personal circumstances. For our full refund policy, please see our Terms.

We are committed to accessibility and may offer sliding scale options or scholarships from time to time. Sign up for our newsletter to be notified when they become available.

Our retreats are extended in-person events with Mae that happen at select destinations around the world. They combine personal development and wellness, with highly curated travel experiences. Details vary by trip but typically include guided experiences, community connection, cultural excursions, structured downtime, and space for personal and group reflection. Each retreat has its own itinerary, location, pricing, and application process.

Retreat availability and applications are announced through our membership, newsletter, social channels, and website. Each retreat may have its own booking terms, payment schedule, and participation requirements. All participants will go through a screening process upon their reservation. Specific details for travel, such as finalized itineraries and other important travel information, are provided only to confirmed participants prior to the trip.

For technical issues, billing questions, or account access, contact us at [email protected].

Gifting is available within the Checkout page. If you are unable to access for any reason, reach out to [email protected] and we can work with you to arrange it.

All of our legal and policy documents are linked in the footer of our website and accessible through the membership platform:

• Privacy Policy

• Terms and Conditions

• Disclaimer

• Community Guidelines

Reach out to us at [email protected] and we'll get back to you.