In his last video (Talking Our Way to Fluency - YouTube), Steve mentioned some self descriptions of people that he is listening to in Persian, similar to the mini-stories with circling questions but with people talking about themselves and their lives.
This seems like a really useful source similar to the mini-stories, really useful for building comprehension and vocabulary about describing people and their lives - any chance we could get this (or something vanilla and not Iran specific) translated into other languages?