Yes, they are very different. I think Alex manipulates Mimi. She is not too smart so she believes what she wants to believe: “that she is an extrovert, the creator/ founder of this and that, that she is a masculine energy tit, etc.”
In this podcast she says she is not good at small talk, she can’t talk to English people because she can’t relate to anything (this happened during her pottery class), she doesn’t like to attend to networking events, she doesn’t remember names or she’s afraid to miss pronounce them, she doesn’t like to ask “what do you do?”, etc. at least in this podcast she is more of herself, not trying to portray herself as perfect.
And Alex paid for her debt back in Canada, long time ago. (Money, money Alex…)