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Students browse approved mentors who match their field, goals, and context.
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Life Dojo helps people find guidance in their field, language, and next step.
Life Dojo is the first active product under Dojo Foundations: a mentorship platform for newcomers, students, and early-career professionals.
Core loop
Advice becomes action.
The product is strongest when it keeps the loop simple and useful.
Connect
They request mentorship, message safely, and schedule a session.
Move
They leave with practical next steps, reflections, and progress tracking.
Why it matters
A lot of career information already exists. The missing piece is often interpretation: what applies to me, what is the local expectation, and what should I do this week?
- Newcomers may need workplace-context translation, not just resumes.
- Students may need a safer first conversation before formal networking.
- Mentors need a clear structure so mentorship does not become messy.
- Partners need outcome tracking if they run pilots.
Built-in trust direction
Life Dojo is not legal, immigration, licensing, medical, or guaranteed employment advice. The product direction includes mentor approval, boundaries, reporting, admin review, and outcome tracking.
Launch-ready features
Student setupSensei setupRequest flowMessagesJitsi sessionsNotificationsAdmin reviewSafety boundariesOutcomes
From the founder
Why I built Life Dojo.
A founder-led project, built from lived experience as an immigrant professional in Alberta.
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Sai Praneeth Chandra Balla
Electrical & Computer Engineer · E.I.T. · immigrant founder, Alberta
Connect on LinkedIn →Life Dojo is the system I wish I'd had when I arrived — handpicked mentors who show you the rooms you don't know exist, and walk with you at every stage.
"I graduated from the University of Alberta — qualified, and still rejected, again and again. The opportunities were right there: career fairs, events, people who could have opened doors. I showed up for the swag and the free pizza and missed what they were really for. I got lucky in the end — I networked my way into a manufacturing role I love. But I watched brilliant, qualified friends end up in odd jobs simply because no one guided them. If even one person finds their footing here — to feel genuinely happy and grateful to be in Canada, the way I do now — it will have been worth it."
See it for yourself
The app is live and working.
Life Dojo is in active, founder-led pilot today. Explore it directly.
Find a sensei
Browse verified mentors in your field and language, and request support — free.
Become a sensei
Two hours a month can change someone's first year in Canada.
Run a pilot
For settlement agencies, universities, cultural groups, and employers.