Sandra Younger is a storyteller who works as a writer, certified professional coach and international retreat leader, dedicated to building resilience and maximizing potential. 

She's the author of The Fire Outside My Window--A Survivor Tells the True Story of California's Epic Cedar Fire. Inspired by personal experience, The Fire Outside My Window has been hailed as "a classic account of a historic wildfire" and recommended as "required reading for all emergency responders and anyone who lives in the wildland-urban interface." The Fire Outside My Window also has been featured by national media and adopted as a training text for top-level emergency professionals.

Coming back from her fire experience, Sandra discovered how to build personal resilience like a muscle, making it possible to transform adversity into opportunity. She shares these principles in her retreats and via The ComeBACK Formula Guidebook, available HERE as a complimentary PDF.

Sandra is credentialed as an associate certified coach (ACC) by the International Coaching Federation (ICF), respected as the gold standard of professional coaching. A retired magazine editor, she holds degrees in journalism from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill and Syracuse University. Sandra and her husband, Bob, live in the beautiful backcountry outside San Diego.