Your Coaches
Two educators.
One conviction.
Francisca Puga
Writing Coach · Educator · UM Certified Professional Coach
Francisca's professional life has been ever-winding, and deliberately so. A voracious reader and lifelong learner, her curiosity has always led the way: international sales manager, translator, account executive, executive coach. Each chapter followed genuine interest, not a plan. A more intentional choice came later, when she became an educator.
Her deep-rooted belief that well-educated people make for a better society drew her to the classroom. But once there, she saw clearly what a test-driven system was missing: students need to connect with themselves, with ideas, with each other in deeper and more meaningful ways. So she set out to create a space with that purpose in mind.
Francisca's training as a professional coach sharpens her ability to listen deeply and with genuine curiosity, to hear a student fully, not just their words, but their perspective, to help them uncover their story and express it. She meets students where they are and helps them see clearly the path they are already creating for themselves.
"Curiosity and questions will get you further than confidence and answers." — Maxime Lagacé
Rebecca Fiori
Writing Coach · Educator · Literature & Anthropology
An educator and college essay coach based in Miami, Rebecca has spent nearly a decade in the classroom teaching English Language Arts, Journalism, Creative Writing, and Theater. Her background in literature and anthropology gives her a keen ability to hear what a student is reaching toward and help them turn it into writing that is specific and unmistakably their own. She asks the kinds of questions that make her students surprise themselves.
Having lived in San Francisco and Tallahassee, with friends spread across the world, Rebecca is deeply connected with other humans. Her interests have taken her everywhere from labor organizing to professional pet sitting, and that range is not incidental. She is forever fascinated by the way our lives become a living composite of our experiences, environment, culture, family, and friends.
To tell a good story, she believes you need to know how to find where the aspects of a person intersect, so you can really examine how they weave together to create someone who is inexplicably, irreducibly themselves.
"The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe." — Gustave Flaubert