How to Be Driven and at Peace - Redefining Success with Yanina Oyarzo
Release Date: 10/29/2025
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info_outlineWhat does it really look like to evolve without abandoning your edge? In today’s episode, I sit down with Yanina Oyarzo — host of Similarly Different, speaker, and storyteller who has dedicated her platform to unpacking the full, unfiltered humanity behind female ambition. What began as a hustle-at-12 survival story evolved into music industry executive at 18… and eventually, a hospitalization-level crash that forced her into a new relationship with discipline, desire, and peace.
We explore the tension so many of us live in right now — loving the hustle, craving softness, and not wanting to choose between power and peace. Yanina shares how turning 30 awakened her to the necessity of boundaries, why discernment is her greatest tool, and how she now measures success in golden moments of peace, not accolades or external proof.
This is an intimate conversation about identity, womanhood, reinvention, and the courage to evolve in public. If you’ve ever asked yourself, “am I burning out or just being stretched?” — this episode is a must-listen.
Key Highlights
- The origin of Similarly Different — and what season two is here to reclaim
- Hustle with discernment: ambition without self-abandonment
- Turning 30 as the boundary awakening no one prepares you for
- The difference between meeting your edge vs. crossing the line
- Redefining success: from external validation to inner peace
- Why asking for help is the most powerful form of leadership
- Healing the obsession with timing & control — trusting your own pacing
- Community, culture & the role of storytelling in women’s evolution
- Celebration as a self-trust practice (not a luxury)
- The real cost of forcing vs. flowing — especially in business, dating & visibility
Stay Connected with Yanina:
- Follow her on instagram @yanina_oyarzo
- Listen to The Similarly Different podcast
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