Yliana Guzman

10/06/2026

Becoming is not a destination. It’s a constant arrival.

I survived cancer. What nobody tells you about surviving is what you inherit from it. I live in a body that is heavily scarred from that experience. For years, more years than I want to admit, I was deeply uncomfortable in it. I avoided mirrors. I dressed around it. I grieved the body I had before like it was a person I lost.

Recently something shifted.

I started adorning this body instead of hiding it. Jewelry. Intentional dressing. Looking at myself and deciding that this, all of this, is what a survivor looks like. Not in spite of the scars. Because of them.

That is becoming.

It does not always feel like growth. Sometimes it feels like grief.

Sometimes it feels like starting over in a body, a life, a career, a version of yourself that you did not ask for and are still learning to inhabit.

But here is what I know. Becoming requires you to shed who you were in order to arrive at who you are becoming. And that shedding is not comfortable. It is not linear. And it asks something most people are not ready to give, the willingness to let go of the old version of yourself even when she still feels safe.

I have been having this exact conversation with people who have submitted applications to work with me privately.

The question I keep asking is not about income or career goals or strategy. It is simpler than that.

Are you ready to surrender to the new you?
Or are you going to keep one foot in who you used to be?

There is no wrong answer. But there is an honest one.

If you are ready, and I mean truly ready to dedicate yourself to a full life transformation, the application for Life OS is at the link in bio. Eight weeks. Private. One on one.

Becoming is waiting on your decision.

08/06/2026

Knicks in 4 🏀‼️
The most diverse community in the world sharing joy together.

08/06/2026

You will know them by their fruit. Mathew 7:16

Yesterday, Adrienne performed at her piano recital. I sat in that audience trying to hold it together because there is nothing quite like watching your child do something hard, beautifully.

Piano was not easy for her. It still isn’t. But she shows up. Every week. She sits at that bench and she works. And I do not take that for granted for a single second.

What made yesterday especially full was the village behind it. Her dad and I have built something over the years in our co-parenting that I do not take lightly, a genuine, functional partnership around this little girl. I handle the school emails, the PTA, the day-to-day academics. He tends to lead the extracurriculars, the things that make her world bigger. We adjust our schedules. We show up. Together, separately, and always for her.

I cannot imagine raising Adrienne alone. I also cannot imagine raising her with someone who did not understand that the whole point is her, not us, not our history, not our inconvenience.

Co-parenting done well is one of the greatest gifts you can give a child. It is also one of the hardest things I have ever chosen to do consistently. Chosen, because lord knows 😅.

Every single time.

Adrienne is my fruit. She is good. She is kind. She is loved. 🫶🏽

Thank you to her instructor Dr. Diz at and 🎹.

07/06/2026

Parenting is already a sticky web, no need to over complicate it with a mountain of extracurriculars.

My father’s rule of thumb was sports, languages, and instruments. Stick to these essentials ( + reading!) and add niche activities as your child grows and leans into curiosity.

What activities are your kids partaking in this summer?

05/06/2026

The comments under my last post about elite schooling led to incredibly rich dialogue on both sides of the spectrum. Thanks everyone for engaging 🫶🏽

But this... THIS one comment did something to my nervous system that I cannot describe. Because conscious proximity to whiteness has never been a data point in seeking the best school, program, or anything for my daughter.

When did being well spoken become white? When did being well educated become white? When did wanting the absolute best for your child become white?

The idea that excellence, access, and ambition belong to whiteness, and that any of us who pursue them are somehow betraying our culture, is one of the most insidious lies ever told to our communities. I think it’s dangerous to conflate the two.

This is my daughter and her Haitian grandmother. Reading and singing in Haitian Creole. Preparing to perform at church. This is a regular Tuesday night.

If not this, blasting Juan Luis Guerra or Duke Ellington on the record player. Making Mangu with fried cheese on Saturday mornings, her fave.

My daughter knowing who she is, where we come from, and keeping our cultures alive is a non negotiable for me.

Yes, confidence is born and nurtured at home, but to me, it will never take a back seat to her education. Adrienne can/will have/be everything.

Pedestaling whiteness as the standard for all things good is not protection of our culture. It is the continuation of oppression, just from the inside.

Let me know your thoughts in the comments and if you enjoy these types of conversations, link in bio to join other polarizing huddles.

23/05/2026

“Where Black girl scholars can embrace their full selves”💕

I recently attended an event by Gina Collins and her Brown Butter Collective, where they gathered Black girls attending independent schools across New York City.

Adrienne has been the only Black student in her grade for four years now. I’ve watched her confidence quietly wrestle with that reality, the yearning to see more of herself in the spaces she occupies every day.

Events like this aren’t optional for us. They’re necessary.

I’m a public school mom raising a private school daughter. And although I still believe in the public school system, I recognize how broken it is in my particular city, and feel the weight of the privilege of choosing different. That happens by intention, sacrifice, and refusing to let a price tag end the conversation.

Raising Rich has nothing to do with the car your drive or your handbag. It’s about legacy, building generational access and opportunity so the doors your child walks through are wider than the ones you found.

Before you count yourself out, a few tips to aid your school search:

🔸Aid is real: most elite schools have endowments funding significant packages. Apply first, ask questions later.

🔸Social Emotional Learning integration: SEL is an educational methodology through which children learn to understand and manage emotions, set goals, show empathy for others, build positive relationships, and make responsible decisions.

🔸Yield & matriculation: where do graduates go?

🔸Testing medians: the median, not the ceiling, reflects who your child learns alongside.

🔸Representation: enrollment numbers, DEI resources, and cultural programming with budget.

Networking as an adult is work. Imagine your child already cultivating it in grade school. I plan on picking my daughters friends until I no longer can 😆.

If you’re a parent and are interesting in the independent school process, I highly encourage you to follow and connect with Gina, she is doing the lords work.

PS- Not to mention the incredible parents I met, Jack and Jill leaders, and resources shared 🙏🏽. I can now say I have a friend with a home in Martha’s Vineyard. 🤭

14/05/2026

Tomorrow I’ll be sharing what I’ve been building behind the scenes… what so many of you have been asking for over the last few weeks.

And if you’re on my email list, you’ll be getting first access.

This month has been insane.

22,000 new people welcomed into my corner of the internet in just 30 days. All because I decided to stop gatekeeping and start sharing. The Tesla play. $10M stretch goal. Raising Rich. Blackstone. The hobby gone viral. Strategies and habits that have worked. And so much more to come.

My lived experience.

Last week, I asked how you wanted me to package this.
🔸Day intensives (for fast results and application)
🔸Supper club (for connection)
🔸Multi-week coaching with community (for ongoing support)

…were your top three choices.

So I built something that combines them all. A hybrid offering where you can join me in NYC or show up virtually.

Details drop tomorrow. First dibs to the email list!!

Link in bio to join the list. Let’s go.🔥🔥🔥🔥

13/05/2026

Mother | Mom | Mamí | Mama 💕

08/05/2026

Looking Rich < Being Rich. The Mag 8 is coming. And I’m betting on the unicorn that’s going to join them.

I invested into Tesla in the early 2010’s. Before both splits. Back when I wasn’t sold EV’s being the future.

But a coworker did. He was super bullish.
I listened and took action.

One conversation. One bet. Nothing was the same.

🔶 Why this matters and what’s to come:

Tesla is part the “Magnificent 7”, along with Apple, Microsoft, Amazon, Alphabet, Meta, and Nvidia. Represeting 33% of the S&P 500 and have returned 875% from 2016 to 2025 while the rest of the market did 235%.

But the Mag 7 wasn’t always the Mag 7. There was a time when Apple wasn’t dominant. When Amazon was “just a bookstore.” When Tesla was a joke.

The people who won weren’t the ones who bought after everyone knew. They saw it coming early and held through the doubt.

🔸 The Mag 8 is coming 🔸 My bet is on Kalshi and I hope that I can be for you what my co-worker was for me many years ago.

Because proximity to people who see what’s coming is how you increase your surface for luck.

Link in bio to join my email list and get first access to my supper club (themed discussions on wealth, proximity, and building the life you want) and upcoming workshop: Breaking Through: How to Access the Income, Opportunities, and Networks You’ve Been Locked Out Of.

Fortune favors the bold my friends!! 💃

08/05/2026