Sandy Kusano

What does a Korean grandmother in the 1920s have to do with the burnout I hit years into my corporate career? Everything, actually. I recently joined Marlene McConnell on the Surviving Trauma, Stories of Hope podcast to talk about the three generations of women behind my story, the years I spent managing my life instead of designing it, and the mental fitness practices that finally changed that. In This Episode The three-generation story behind my work. I trace my family line from my...

I’m currently in Northern California, near Mill Valley. And since I arrived, it’s been gray. Rainy. Foggy. This morning, I woke up and caught myself thinking, “Ugh… what a dismal day.” And then I caught my though. Because I realized how conditioned that thought was. That gray automatically means dismal. That rain means something is wrong. And I thought… what if that doesn’t have to be true? I can’t change the weather. But I can change what’s happening inside me. So instead of resisting it,...

When joy feels far away, it doesn’t mean something is wrong with you. In this opening episode, Sandy shares what it looks like to reconnect with joy during uncertainty, transition, and the very human moments when life feels heavy.