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for the messy, meaningful parts of life

Real talk, honest stories, and a community that reminds you: you don’t have to figure it all out alone.

I’m Viridiana –

eldest daughter, first-gen college grad, 9-year HR practitioner at Google, professional overthinker, recovering people-pleaser, proud dog mom, cumbia dancer in my living room, and someone who has always believed that sharing your story is one of the most powerful things you can do.

I’m also the first woman in my family to buy a house, travel internationally, and navigate corporate America without a roadmap. And while I’m proud of all of it — I’ve learned to do it my way. Not the way I thought I was “supposed” to, not the way that looked good on paper, but in a way that actually feels like me.

That tension between expectation and authenticity? That’s what I write about. That’s what I live. And that’s what brought me here.

This started because I needed it too.

Long before I had a newsletter, I was hungry for stories that sounded like mine. Stories from women navigating corporate spaces without a blueprint, from eldest daughters carrying invisible weight, from first-gen professionals figuring out who they are beyond what they achieve.

I didn’t find enough of them — so I started sharing my own.

Perfectamente in Progress was born from a simple belief: when we share our real experiences, we give other people permission to be real too.

Every vulnerable story I’ve told has come back to me a hundredfold — in replies from readers who said “me too,” in conversations that felt like exhales, in the quiet reminder that none of us are as alone in this as we think.

That’s what this community is built on. Not perfection. Not having it figured out. Just honest, connected, progress.

When I’m not writing —

you’ll find me…
  • Elbow-deep in a new baking project (current obsession: figuring out monkey bread)
  • Curled up with a cheesy romance, mystery, or thriller, a coffee or tea in hand, and absolutely zero intentions of being reachable
  • Dancing to cumbias in my living room like nobody’s watching (nobody is, and that’s the point)
  • Writing in a brand new planner I’ll use religiously for two weeks and completely abandon for the next two
  • Cuddled up with my dogs catching the latest episode of whatever show has taken over my life this month

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If you’re looking for a space that celebrates progress over perfection,
that honors where you come from while cheering you toward where you’re going — you’re in the right place.