About Us
Two sisters. One small operation. Infinite missed expectations.
We’re a small operation run by two sisters who didn't exactly become the doctors or lawyers our parents imagined. We built this brand because laughing at the inheritance of generational trauma is significantly cheaper than a lifetime of therapy sessions.
Our parents never said "I love you."
Not because they didn't. We know that now. We've done the work, read the books, had the conversations we couldn't have as kids. But back then, love looked different. It was a packed lunch. A home-cooked dinner every single night. Being driven to every practice, every lesson, every activity our parents decided would give us an edge in a country that didn't owe them anything.
We grew up in a house full of things that went unsaid. We weren't unloved. We were just… trained. Trained to be tough, to be good, to be grateful, to perform okay-ness so convincingly that we eventually forgot we were performing. Feelings? What feelings? We didn’t have time for feelings.
It took us longer than we'd like to admit to realize the exhaustion we carried wasn't a personality trait. It was an inheritance. One our parents didn't choose to leave us, it just came with everything else they handed over when they got on that plane and decided to start over somewhere that didn't know their name.
Here's what we didn't know until we were adults comparing notes with basically every other first/second-gen kid we'd ever met… it wasn't just our house. It was all of our houses. Different countries, different foods on the stove, same look on the parents' faces that meant “we gave up everything so do not waste it”.
We built AKTC because we know there are so many of us out here, healing, going to therapy, feeling alone in something that was never actually ours alone. We just never talk about it.
So here it is, out loud: