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How Operation Ozzy inspired InnerQuest . . .

InnerQuest Collective began with a simple but powerful belief: connection can change everything.

 

Years ago, Zach and Heidi Guzman met a young man named Ozzy—a teenager who had spent most of his life moving through out-of-home placements, detention facilities, and disconnected environments. He was smart, sensitive, and full of potential, but buried beneath layers of survival and instability.

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Zach and Heidi launched what they came to call Operation Ozzy—a personal venture rooted in commitment, curiosity, and care. It wasn’t an official program. It was life-on-life support. Together, they built trust, shared meals, endured setbacks, and witnessed glimpses of hope breaking through hardened routines. Slowly, Ozzy began to open up. Connection was doing something that systems alone could not. That experience changed everything.

 

Moved by Ozzy’s transformation, Zach felt called to expand that impact—first by pursuing outreach in youth detention centers, then by introducing Neurofeedback as a healing tool for justice-involved youth. As the work grew, so did the questions. What do these young people actually need to succeed? What’s missing? What’s working?

Through dozens of conversations, interviews, and shared stories, Zach and his team gathered qualitative data that became the blueprint for what is now InnerQuest Collective.

 

From Ozzy’s story, a larger truth emerged: Youth don’t just need programs. They need people. They need purpose. They need a place to belong.

Today, InnerQuest is built on those themes—relationship, restoration, and real-world support—designed by professionals who listen, and inspired by the young men who trusted us enough to share.

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