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by Cynthia Garcia
We thank everyone else for our success... friends, team, mentors. But when’s the last time you thanked the only person who actually dragged you through hell and back? YourSELF. This show is my love letter to the version of you who doesn’t get enough credit. The you who kept going when it would’ve been easier to quit. I’m pulling back the curtain on what it actually looks like to be 48, building a skincare company, navigating perimenopause, raising a teenager, and refusing to become invisible. The stuff nobody talks about after 40. And how I’m rewriting all of it. Sometimes it’s just me. Sometimes it’s founders, creatives, and icons who’ve rewritten everything too. Always, it’s the raw truth. Nothing filtered. Nothing softened. Nothing for show. Just the truth... and a drink. Every episode ends the same way: we raise a glass and say the thing most people are too humble to admit: I’d like to thank mySELF.
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- 3 days ago33 min
10 Things I Wish I Knew About Perimenopause To Stay Hot At 48
Perimenopause is what nobody warned you about. Here are the 10 things I wish someone had told me — including the peptide your doctor probably won't mention.Want the labs I run, the doses I take, and the doctors I trust? That conversation lives in The Vanity Club. Perimenopause hit me and my doctor told me my levels were "fine" for five years. They weren't. This episode is everything I wish I'd known before I started hormones two years ago — the five I take every day, the practices that keep them working, and the one peptide your doctor won't bring up unless you push. Plus the truth nobody tells you: hormones aren't a magic pill. They only work if you use them right.In this episode I'm telling you:The morning hormone move that took my face from gray to lit-up in three weeksThe bedtime hormone that gave me my sleep back (and why no concealer fakes it)The 4 AM moment my dialed protocol quit on me — and what I had to do nextThe hormone most doctors won't prescribe unless you fight for it (and why you should)The hormone insert nobody films because it sounds clinical (and the glow it actually gives you)The off-label hormone move that turned my face from tired to lit in three weeksThe peptide almost nobody in beauty is naming on cameraThe 3 labs that explain why you feel like shit even when your bloodwork says "fine"The real reason I bother with any of this — and why the alternative is unacceptableThis one's for every woman who's been told her hormones are "fine for her age" and knew goddamn well they weren't.Want Your Free Personalized Hot AF Plan? Take the quiz. Join The Vanity Club. Where women over 40 come to look hot AF. No apologies. No judgment.Rewritten Beauty. The serum I built when I turned 40 and refused to disappear. Get your bottle. FOLLOW CYNTHIA GARCIAInstagram: @iamcynthiagarciaTikTok: @iamcynthiagarciaFacebook: @iamcynthiagarciaWebsite: cynthiagarcia.comREWRITTEN BEAUTYInstagram: @wearerewrittenFacebook: @wearerewrittenWebsite: rewrittenbeauty.comINSTITUTE OF TRANSFORMATIONAL NUTRITIONInstagram: @transformationalnutritionFacebook: @transformationalnutritionWebsite: transformationalnutrition.com#perimenopausejourney #testosterone #beautyover40 #progesterone #hotover40 #hrt #perimenopause #hormones #womenover40 #hormonereplacementtherapy #midlifewellness #womenshealth #estrogen #midlife
- 1 weeks ago28 min
5 Anti-Aging Peptides I’m On To Look Better At 48 Than At 38
I'm 48 and on five peptides right now to look better than I did at 38. Here's exactly what they are, why I'm on them, and the one that's going to get me yelled at in the comments.This week's episode is part two of the peptide conversation that broke my comments section last week. Five MORE peptides, each one targeting a different anti-aging lever: sleep, glow, hair, the one that literally tells your body to stop aging itself, and the one that's redefining what midlife metabolism looks like.I'm a skincare founder. I've spent $1.3 million of my own money testing what works on my own face. I'm a Certified Clinical Nutritionist. And I've been on peptides for over a decade. So if you've ever wondered what peptides actually are, why everyone's losing their fucking minds over them, and which ones to be on — this is your episode.In this episode I'm telling you:The entry-point peptide that gave me my sleep back (and my face back)The IV every woman in LA is quietly getting and pretending she's notThe peptide that grew my hair back after years of female pattern thinningThe 'dark horse' peptide that literally tells your body to stop aging itselfThe next-generation GLP-1 that's doing six things at once (weight loss is just the cherry)Why your doctor isn't talking to you about any of this — and what to do about itThe truth about whether I've had a facelift (spoiler: bitch, I haven't)This is for the women who said fuck no to aging gracefully — and for the men who came here to be hot as fuck too. Shout out to all my Adams.Want Your Free Personalized Hot AF Plan? Take the quiz: https://www.cynthiagarcia.com/quizJoin The Vanity Club. Where women over 40 come to look hot AF. No apologies. No judgment: https://www.cynthiagarcia.com/vanityep20Rewritten Beauty. The serum I built when I turned 40 and refused to disappear: https://rewrittenbeauty.coFOLLOW CYNTHIA GARCIAInstagram: @iamcynthiagarciaTikTok: @iamcynthiagarciaFacebook: @iamcynthiagarciaWebsite: cynthiagarcia.comREWRITTEN BEAUTYInstagram: @wearerewrittenFacebook: @wearerewrittenWebsite: rewrittenbeauty.comINSTITUTE OF TRANSFORMATIONAL NUTRITIONInstagram**:** @transformationalnutritionFacebook: @transformationalnutritionWebsite: transformationalnutrition.com
- 2 weeks ago26 min
10 Ways I Use Peptides To Stay Hot AF At 48
I'm 48. I've been on peptides for over a decade. Here's what I'm actually on at 48, what each one does, and why I'm on it. From topical peptides injectables, I’m sharing what I use for my skin, body, mental clarity, focus, energy, strength building and more!Take the free Hot AF quizJoin The Vanity Club. Where women over 40 come to look hot AFShop Rewritten Beauty. The serum I built when I refused to disappear at 40.Where I Source My PeptidesI work with my doctor and use a compounding pharmacy. Here are two providers I trust:Amino Vault Peptides Bio Longevity Labs Want to Talk Dosing?If you want to go deeper on dosing, what's working for me, what's working for other women, the providers we use, and the tips and tricks we've picked up along the way, all that conversation lives inside The Vanity Club.See everything inside The Vanity Club and get access here. A Word Before You ClickThis is what I do. Not what you should do. I'm sharing my own experience as a 48-year-old woman who's been on peptides for over a decade, working with a doctor, getting labs, and taking the smallest doses that work for me.I am not a doctor, and nothing in this episode or these show notes is medical advice. Peptides are not FDA-approved for anti-aging use. Before you take anything, talk to a qualified medical provider who'll actually look at your labs and co-create a protocol with you.If you click through to either provider link above, you are making your own decision about what to do with your body. You are agreeing that I am not liable for any outcome, side effect, or interaction that comes from a product you purchase from them. Figure out what's right for your body with a doctor. The choice, as always, is yours.Stay Subscribed… Part 2 is ComingFive more peptides, more reasons I use them, and the ones I'm about to start. Subscribe on YouTube so you don't miss it.I started peptides over a decade ago, before they were a buzzword, before everyone was trading their firstborn to get on one. This episode is what I'm actually on at 48. What each one does. Why I'm on it. And what I've come to believe about doing this in a culture that tells women to wait for studies that aren't coming.In This Episode:The first topical peptide I ever tried that made me wonder if my skin time-traveledWhy people aren't actually judging the peptide... they're judging the wantingThe hormone peptide I've been on for 10 years and would never give upThe peptide I add when I need to be a fucking machineThe peptide that cuts my recovery from aggressive treatments in halfWhy I'm not waiting 16 years for a study the NIH hasn't even funded yetThe peptide everyone's gonna fight me on (no, not Ozempic, stop)The actually-simple reason I do all of this (it's not what you think)The two words for any provider who hands you a script without looking at your labsWhy women are allowed to do whatever the fuck we want with our bodies, no permission requiredFOLLOW CYNTHIA GARCIAInstagram: @iamcynthiagarciaTikTok: @iamcynthiagarciaFacebook: @iamcynthiagarciaWebsite: www.cynthiagarcia.comREWRITTEN BEAUTYInstagram: @wearerewrittenFacebook: @wearerewrittenWebsite: www.rewrittenbeauty.comINSTITUTE OF TRANSFORMATIONAL NUTRITIONInstagram: @transformationalnutritionFacebook: @transformationalnutritionWebsite: www.transformationalnutrition.com#peptides #peptidesforwomen #womenover40 #perimenopause #idliketothankmyself
- 3 weeks ago19 min
I’m Microdosing a GLP-1 to Stay Hot AF at 48
I'm microdosing a GLP-1 to stay hot AF at 48. Not for weight loss... for what it's doing to my face, which now looks better at 48 than it did at 38. Here's the conversation about GLP-1s nobody is actually having.Most women on GLP-1s end up with Ozempic face. The 3-step Collagen Defense system I built BEFORE I ever started microdosing tirzepatide is the reason I'm not one of them. Today I'm walking you through the actual science, why I picked the smallest possible dose every other week, the full protocol, and the part the doctors won't say out loud.Want Your Free Personalized Hot AF Plan? Take the quiz!Join The Vanity Club. Where women over 40 come to look hot AF. No apologies. No judgment:Shop Rewritten Beauty. The serum I built when I turned 40 and refused to disappear.In this episode you'll discover:The clinical trial happening RIGHT NOW that suggests we may have just found the closest thing to a fountain of youth (if you know how to dose it)Why I'm on tirzepatide and what that has to do with the Ozempic face horror storiesThe two completely opposite things a GLP-1 is doing to your skin at the same time (and which one wins is entirely up to you)The exact dose I take and why "smallest possible, every other week" is the only protocol that protects your faceThe 3-step Collagen Defense system I built before I ever started dosing for anti-agingThe bonus layer to add if you've got the resources and accessThe first time anyone ever told me "you don't need that"... and what it has to do with the prescription I just picked upA take on the people who call taking a GLP-1 "cheating"This is for women over 40 considering a GLP-1, already on one, or anyone who heard the horror stories about Ozempic face and wanted the actual science.FOLLOW CYNTHIA GARCIAInstagram: @iamcynthiagarciaTikTok: @iamcynthiagarciaFacebook: @iamcynthiagarciaWebsite: www.cynthiagarcia.comSubstack: Hot AF Over 40REWRITTEN BEAUTYInstagram: @wearerewrittenFacebook: @wearerewrittenWebsite: www.rewrittenbeauty.comINSTITUTE OF TRANSFORMATIONAL NUTRITIONInstagram: @transformationalnutritionFacebook: @transformationalnutritionWebsite: www.transformationalnutrition.com
- May 5, 202624 min
I'm 48 And Aging Gracefully Is BS
I'm 48 and I'm done aging gracefully. I think the whole concept is just a nice way of telling women to disappear, and I'm done pretending we're aging well by being told to fade. The most honest conversation about anti-aging and what it means to stay hot AF after 40.At seven years old, on a two-lane road in Appalachia, I watched a group of women laugh at a stranger in red lipstick because she didn't know she was supposed to “age gracefully."I'm 48 now, and I've spent 40 years wondering why nobody on that dirt road said something.Why nobody is the spokesperson for women who refuse to fade. So I'm doing it now.This episode is for the woman in the back who's been clapping politely for a decade while everyone around her disappeared quietly.Want Your Free Personalized Hot AF Plan? Take the quiz!Join The Vanity Club. Where women over 40 come to look hot AF. No apologies. No judgment:Shop Rewritten Beauty. The serum I built when I turned 40 and refused to disappear.In this episode:Why "aging gracefully" is just a nice way to tell women to disappearThe dirt road in Appalachia where I learned the rule at seven (and why I'm still on her side)Why most meanness is just fear in nicer clothesWhat refusing actually costs me… the friends, the time, the Olympic-sport routineThe "for her age" comment in a coffee shop that I should have corrected (and didn't)The years I dressed down on purpose… and why that wasn't grace, it was hidingWhy wrinkles aren't badges. They're salt on a wound.The bigger, louder, more audacious life I'm refusing to age gracefully FORFOLLOW CYNTHIA GARCIAInstagram: @iamcynthiagarciaTikTok: @iamcynthiagarciaFacebook: @iamcynthiagarciaWebsite: www.cynthiagarcia.comSubstack: Hot AF Over 40REWRITTEN BEAUTYInstagram: @wearerewrittenFacebook: @wearerewrittenWebsite: www.rewrittenbeauty.comINSTITUTE OF TRANSFORMATIONAL NUTRITIONInstagram: @transformationalnutritionFacebook: @transformationalnutritionWebsite: www.transformationalnutrition.com
- Apr 28, 202626 min
10 More Exact Things I Do To Stay Hot AF At 48
I spent $1.3 million to stay hot AF at 48 so you don't have to. If you're skipping the first thing on this list, you're letting cortisol eat your face. The full breakdown of all 10 is below.Join the movement of women who refuse to age gracefully: 👉 https://www.cynthiagarcia.com/vanityclubAt 48, I've realized the things that "piss people off" are usually the ones that actually work. These are the 10 habits I swear by to stay hot AF, from tactical skincare layering to the "medieval" treatment your dermatologist might be gatekeeping.What we're talking about today:Why I bring my own sheets to hotels (and why my husband has stopped asking)The $200 mistake you're making in your 10-second skincare layering routineThe one ingredient I won't skip (the copper peptide that tells your skin to act 30 again)Why I choose "medieval medicine" over the safe stuff (PRF over PRP)The cortisol face fix that lives in your sleep stack, not on top of your faceHow to own vanity as the engine for your self-worth (and the budget)Why your hair is giving you away faster than your faceThe story you're telling yourself that's aging you more than any productFor the women who were told to age gracefully and chose "absolutely the fuck not" instead.Want Your Free Personalized Hot AF Plan? Take the quiz!Join The Vanity Club. Where women over 40 come to look hot AF. No apologies. No judgment:Shop Rewritten Beauty. The serum I built when I turned 40 and refused to disappear.FOLLOW CYNTHIA GARCIAInstagram: @iamcynthiagarciaTikTok: @iamcynthiagarciaFacebook: @iamcynthiagarciaWebsite: www.cynthiagarcia.comSubstack: Hot AF Over 40REWRITTEN BEAUTYInstagram: @wearerewrittenFacebook: @wearerewrittenWebsite: www.rewrittenbeauty.comINSTITUTE OF TRANSFORMATIONAL NUTRITIONInstagram: @transformationalnutritionFacebook: @transformationalnutritionWebsite: www.transformationalnutrition.com
- Apr 21, 202629 min
The Real Reason I Have More Pretty Privilege at 48 Than 28
I have more pretty privilege at 48 than I ever had at 28. And the world has opinions about that.Want Your Free Personalized Hot AF Plan? Take the quiz!Join The Vanity Club. Where women over 40 come to look hot AF. No apologies. No judgment:Shop Rewritten Beauty. The serum I built when I turned 40 and refused to disappear.I learned about pretty privilege at twelve years old, dumpster diving for eyeshadow in Appalachia. For 30 years the experiment ran beautifully. Then I turned 40 and the whole game changed. This episode is about what pretty privilege actually looks like after 40... the cost, the judgment, the body that switched teams, and why I'm not apologizing for any of it.In this episode:The dumpster experiment I ran at twelve that proved pretty privilege was realWhy at 28 it's "she looks great" but at 48 it's a congressional hearingPretty privilege at 25 is a lottery ticket. At 48 it's a business plan.The social cost that every woman over 40 notices but nobody talks aboutMy hormones held a corporate merger I did not approve (and collagen quiet quit)My response to Betty in the comments who thinks I forgot to mention my plastic surgeryWhy "age gracefully" is just a polite way of telling women to disappearThe one line my twelve-year-old self needed to hear (and why I'm saying it now at 48)FOLLOW CYNTHIA GARCIAInstagram: @iamcynthiagarciaTikTok: @iamcynthiagarciaFacebook: @iamcynthiagarciaWebsite: www.cynthiagarcia.comSubstack: Hot AF Over 40REWRITTEN BEAUTYInstagram: @wearerewrittenFacebook: @wearerewrittenWebsite: www.rewrittenbeauty.comINSTITUTE OF TRANSFORMATIONAL NUTRITIONInstagram: @transformationalnutritionFacebook: @transformationalnutritionWebsite: www.transformationalnutrition.com#idliketothankmyself #hotafter40 #beautyover40 #skincareover40 #womenover40 #stayinghot #antiaging #skincareroutine #vanity #cynthiagarcia #rewrittenbeauty #perimenopause #hormones #beautyafter40 #hotaf
- Apr 14, 202632 min
The Work I've Had Done To Stay Hot AF At 48 And The One I Regret
I'm 48. I've had work done. Today I'm telling you every single thing, including the one I wish I'd never walked through the door for.Want Your Free Personalized Hot AF Plan? Take the quiz!Join The Vanity Club. Where women over 40 come to look hot AF. No apologies. No judgment:Shop Rewritten Beauty. The serum I built when I turned 40 and refused to disappear.People ask me all the time what work I've had done. In my last video, 23,000 of you watched in two days. So I'm giving you the full receipts. Every procedure, what it cost, what it did, whether I'd do it again, and the one that I regret. I broke it into three tiers: The Game Changers, The Secret Weapons, and The Cautionary Tales. We're saving the regret for last because honestly... I need the champagne to talk about it.If you're a woman over 40 who has spent money (or thought about spending money) on looking and feeling good, and you want the real, unfiltered truth from someone who's done it all... this is the episode.In this episode:The one treatment that did more for my face than anything else I've ever tried (and what it actually costs)Why I've had my boobs done three times and what I learned each timeThe secret weapons nobody talks about that honestly made more difference than the expensive stuffThe $34,000 lesson I learned before I ever saw the doctor's faceThe one procedure I regret and have never talked about publicly until nowWhy I haven't had a facelift yet and when I plan toWhat I'd tell my 40-year-old self about every needle, laser, and knifeFOLLOW CYNTHIA GARCIAInstagram: @iamcynthiagarciaTikTok: @iamcynthiagarciaFacebook: @iamcynthiagarciaWebsite: www.cynthiagarcia.comSubstack: Hot AF Over 40REWRITTEN BEAUTYInstagram: @wearerewrittenFacebook: @wearerewrittenWebsite: www.rewrittenbeauty.comINSTITUTE OF TRANSFORMATIONAL NUTRITIONInstagram: @transformationalnutritionFacebook: @transformationalnutritionWebsite: www.transformationalnutrition.com#idliketothankmyself #hotafter40 #beautyover40 #skincareover40 #womenover40 #stayinghot #antiaging #skincareroutine #vanity #cynthiagarcia #rewrittenbeauty #perimenopause #hormones #beautyafter40 #hotaf
About I'd Like To Thank Myself
We thank everyone else for our success... friends, team, mentors. But when’s the last time you thanked the only person who actually dragged you through hell and back? YourSELF. This show is my love letter to the version of you who doesn’t get enough credit. The you who kept going when it would’ve been easier to quit. I’m pulling back the curtain on what it actually looks like to be 48, building a skincare company, navigating perimenopause, raising a teenager, and refusing to become invisible. The stuff nobody talks about after 40. And how I’m rewriting all of it. Sometimes it’s just me. Sometimes it’s founders, creatives, and icons who’ve rewritten everything too. Always, it’s the raw truth. Nothing filtered. Nothing softened. Nothing for show. Just the truth... and a drink. Every episode ends the same way: we raise a glass and say the thing most people are too humble to admit: I’d like to thank mySELF.
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