HI, I'M YASUKO
And I guide women from living someone else's life to designing their own.
I guide women who are successful on paper but empty inside. Women who've achieved everything they thought they wanted, but still feel like something fundamental is missing.
I know this feeling so well. I spent years in tech, earning prestigious certifications, climbing the career ladder, ticking all the boxes. But I was living multiple lives. Professional me. Cultural me. Mother me. None of them fully real.
Now I bridge Japanese philosophy with tech fluency, Eastern wisdom with Western achievement. I help women create yutori (space to breathe), discover their ikigai (life purpose), and finally give themselves permission to be themselves.
HOW IT ALL STARTED...
The journey from external success to internal fulfilment
I earned my CCIE certification on the first attempt. For those outside tech, that's one of the industry's most challenging credentials. Most people fail multiple times.
I felt proud for about three days. Then life went on, and I realised achievement without authentic alignment leads to emptiness, no matter how impressive the results.
I grew up between Japan, the US, and the UK. Thirty years in London now, but I spent my formative years learning to shapeshift between cultures. Be this version here. That version there. Adapt. Perform. Belong.
Useful skill in tech. Less useful for knowing who you actually are.
The fragmentation became unsustainable. I returned to the Japanese philosophy I'd grown up with. Not as exotic wisdom from books, but as lived practice. Ikigai. Yutori. Wa. Jibunjiku.
I trained in Woman-Centred Coaching. I studied with top transformational coaches. I integrated everything I knew about systems and technology with everything I was remembering about authentic human experience.
And I found my ikigai: guiding women through what I've lived. From external success to internal fulfilment. From fragmentation to integration. From performing to being.
FUN FACTS
FUN FACTS FUN FUN FACTS
FUN FACTS
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I'm a black belt in aikido. Working with energy, not against it, taught me everything about discipline and conscious living.
I'm a figure skater. Finding your edge whilst staying grounded? That's the whole work right there.
I earned my Cisco CCIE on the first attempt. Tech colleagues know that's rare. What's rarer? Combining that world to do this work.
I grew up between Japan, the US, and the UK. Cultural shapeshifter turned integration guide.
I'm a mother. Also a STEM Ambassador and SheLeadsTech champion. Empowering the next generation matters.
30 years in London, but Japanese philosophy runs through everything I do. Not from books. From life.
I'd love to get to know you too!
Pop me a message on Instagram @awakened.wired.world and let me know a fun fact about yourself!
