Sandy Kusano

When a decision has you circling, the problem usually isn't the decision. Stress quiets the part of your brain built to make it. Here's how to bring it back online, plus seven questions from decision science.

Should I quit my job to start a business? One client hadn’t slept in five nights over that question. The harder she pushed for an answer, the further away it felt. Here’s why stress hijacks big founder decisions, what your prefrontal cortex and amygdala have to do with it, and the mental fitness practice that helped her quiet the noise and hear her own answer.

What does a Korean grandmother in the 1920s have to do with the burnout I experienced years into my corporate career? Everything, actually. I recently joined Marlene McConnell on the Surviving Trauma, Stories of Hope podcast. We discussed 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 everything for me. In This Episode The three-generation story behind my work. I trace my family...