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I'd Like To Thank Myself: Daily Summaries Delivered
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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- Yesterday32 min
10 Things I Do At Home To Hold Off A Facelift At 48
I'm 48 and I have not had a facelift. Everyone in my comments is convinced I have. I haven't. A few weeks ago I showed you everything I do in an office to hold one off, and these are the 10 things I do at home... the skincare order, the devices, and the one hormone I put on my own face that holds off a facelift with no provider and no appointment.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.Things I Mentioned:Rewritten Show The Face Up Serum. The serum I built when I turned 40 and refused to disappear. ELTA MD. The sunscreen I wear every single day.NIOD Copper Amino Isolate Lipid 1% (CAIL). The topical copper peptide GHK-Cu I press in.Medik8 Liquid Peptides Advanced MP Face Serum.The Matrixyl peptide I layer with it.Skinceuticals 1% Retinol Cream. The retinol I started on before tretinoin.Dermaflash. The dermaplaning tool I use.La Roche Posay Cicaplast Balm. The barrier balm I slug with.ZIIP Halo and Nuface Trinity. The two microcurrent devices I use.Omnilux's Contour Neck & Décolleté and Red LED Light Face Mask or Current Body Red Light Mask. The red light masks I use.Nira Pro 3 Laser. The at-home laser on my bathroom counter.This one is for every woman who keeps getting told her only options are a surgeon or aging gracefully. I'm a skincare founder and a clinical nutritionist, and I've spent $1.3 million figuring out what actually works on a face.First I show you the exact order everything goes on, and why the order matters more than the products. I get into the cells that are actually aging your face and why you cannot scrub them off, the retinoid ladder that explains why so many of you quit tretinoin, and the dermaplaning that surprised me more than anything else at home.Then I walk through the three at-home devices that earned their spot, the microcurrent setting almost everyone gets wrong, the red light mask I never skip, and the laser that lives on my bathroom counter. And then the foundation underneath all of it, including the hormone I put on my own face that starts a fight in the comments every single time.FOLLOW CYNTHIA GARCIAInstagram: @iamcynthiagarciaTikTok: @iamcynthiagarciaFacebook: @iamcynthiagarciaWebsite: cynthiagarcia.comREWRITTEN BEAUTYInstagram: @wearerewrittenFacebook: @wearerewrittenWebsite: rewrittenbeauty.comINSTITUTE OF TRANSFORMATIONAL NUTRITIONInstagram: @transformationalnutritionFacebook: @transformationalnutritionWebsite: transformationalnutrition.com#facelift #nofacelift #topicalestrogen #antiaging #skincareover40 #redlighttherapy #dermaplaning #retinol #womenover40 #hotover40 #midl
- 1 weeks ago26 min
10 Things That Got Rid Of My Menopause Belly At 48
I spent twenty years teaching women how to lose weight, wrote a best-selling book on it, and then in my forties a menopause belly showed up that I could not get rid of no matter what I did. These are the 10 things that finally got rid of my menopause belly at 48... the hormones, the muscle, and everything else that actually moved it after eating less and working out stopped working.If you liked this, watch 10 Things My Doctor Never Told Me About Testosterone At 48Want 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.I'm a clinical nutritionist and a skincare founder. I built my whole career on weight loss. So when the menopause belly showed up and wouldn't budge, it broke my brain a little.First I explain why this belly is different. Menopause belly fat is a completely different kind of fat than the soft stuff you had in your thirties. When your estrogen drops, your body starts storing fat around your middle. That's why eating less and working out stops working the way it used to.Then I walk through everything that actually moved it. HRT was my foundation, and nothing else worked until I handled it. Building muscle over 40 is the real secret, and I explain what can cost you the muscle you need if you're not careful. I cover how much protein I actually eat, the cortisol and sleep piece, and the creatine I wish I'd started years ago. I also show you how I track it all with DEXA scans and bloodwork.Then I tell you the one thing on this whole list that works against my belly, and why I do it anyway. And I tell you about a woman named Betty, who taught me exactly why I bother with any of this.In this episode:The kind of belly fat that laughs at eating less and working outThe hormone move that finally took my body out of full storage modeWhy getting smaller made me look worse, and the one thing that fixed itThe stress hormone that might be the whole reason your belly won't budgeThe one thing on this entire list that works against me, and I do it anywayThe supplement I thought was only for 22-year-old gym brosA woman named Betty, and the real reason I refuse to disappearThis one is for every woman who did everything right, watched the belly show up anyway, and got told it's just your age.FOLLOW CYNTHIA GARCIAInstagram: @iamcynthiagarciaTikTok: @iamcynthiagarciaFacebook: @iamcynthiagarciaWebsite: cynthiagarcia.comREWRITTEN BEAUTYInstagram: @wearerewrittenFacebook: @wearerewrittenWebsite: rewrittenbeauty.comINSTITUTE OF TRANSFORMATIONAL NUTRITIONInstagram: @transformationalnutritionFacebook: @transformationalnutritionWebsite: transformationalnutrition.com#menopausebelly #menopausebellyfat #menopauseweightloss #perimenopause #menopause #womenover40 #hotover40 #midlifewomen #hrt #menopauseworkout #perimenopauseweightgain #idliketothankmyself #cynthiagarcia
- 2 weeks ago29 min
10 Things I Do To Look 10 Years Younger Without A Facelift
I'm 48, I get asked if I've had a facelift about twice a week, and I haven't. But I am planning one, and everything I do in the meantime is how I look ten years younger without going under the knife.This is my full non surgical facelift arsenal at 48: the biostimulators like Sculptra that build your own collagen back, CO2 laser resurfacing, Botox, filler, the Nefertiti neck lift, PicoSure for sun damage, and the one under-eye filler mistake I will never make again.If you liked this, watch 10 Things My Doctor Never Told Me About Testosterone At 48Want 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.Here's the truth nobody in the industry tells you: the work you do before a facelift and the facelift itself were never enemies, they're a sequence.Inside, I break down the exact ten things I do to look ten years younger without surgery. I get into how Sculptra rebuilds your own collagen and why CO2 laser resurfacing is the heavy hitter, including how long you're really down after it.There's the difference between a Botox lift and a Nefertiti neck lift, and the filler rule that separates natural from overdone.I also call out the laser everybody raves about that will not turn back the clock, and the skin-tone safety you need to hear before you book. And I close on the single most important anti-aging thing I do that isn't a laser or a needle at all.In this episode:The birthday text that built an entire skincare company (and why "aging gracefully" is code for disappear)▸ Yes, I'm getting a facelift... here's exactly why I'm holding off, and what the research says about the right timingThe treatment that rebuilds your own collagen while it looks like nothing happenedThe laser that cost me a whole season of my life, and the one everybody loves that won't get you thereThe under-eye filler I did once and will never, ever do againThe neck muscle secretly dragging your jawline down, and the fix almost nobody talks aboutThe most important thing I do to look younger that isn't a laser or a needleThis is for women over 40 and in perimenopause who are done being told what they're allowed to want. Retatrutide is not FDA-approved. This is my experience, not medical advice. Talk to your doctor.FOLLOW CYNTHIA GARCIAInstagram: @iamcynthiagarciaTikTok: @iamcynthiagarciaFacebook: @iamcynthiagarciaWebsite: cynthiagarcia.comREWRITTEN BEAUTYInstagram: @wearerewrittenFacebook: @wearerewrittenWebsite: rewrittenbeauty.comINSTITUTE OF TRANSFORMATIONAL NUTRITIONInstagram: @transformationalnutritionFacebook: @transformationalnutritionWebsite: transformationalnutrition.com#facelift #nonsurgicalfacelift #womenover40 #co2laser #sculptra #botox #microneedling #antiagingskincare #hotover40 #midlifewomen #skincare #antiaging #idliketothankmyself
- 3 weeks ago27 min
10 Things Retatrutide Does To Keep Me Hot AF At 48
I'm 48, and for the last 60 days I've been taking retatrutide, the new triple-agonist peptide everyone keeps asking me about. This is my honest retatrutide review: what retatrutide actually is, what it did to me, the retatrutide side effects nobody warns you about, and how it compares to tirzepatide (Mounjaro and Zepbound) and Ozempic. And no, I don't take it to lose weight.If you liked this, watch 10 Things My Doctor Never Told Me About Testosterone At 48Want 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.If you've wondered what retatrutide is, whether the retatrutide results are real, how retatrutide vs tirzepatide vs Ozempic actually stack up, what causes "Ozempic face" and how to avoid it, or how to keep your muscle (and your face) while a weight-loss peptide does its thing, this one's for you.In this episode:Why retatrutide isn't just a "better Ozempic" (the triple-agonist thing, explained simply)The retatrutide vs tirzepatide reality: nausea, dosing, and which was gentler for meWhat it did to my food noise, my energy, and my relationship with alcoholThe deep visceral fat it goes after, and the muscle it will NOT build for youThe retatrutide side effects nobody posts about, including the one skin side effect (dysesthesia) that separates it from every other GLP-1What "Ozempic face" actually is and exactly how I protect mineWhy I don't take a weight-loss peptide to lose weightThis is for women over 40 and in perimenopause who are done being told what they're allowed to want. Retatrutide is not FDA-approved. This is my experience, not medical advice. Talk to your doctor.FOLLOW CYNTHIA GARCIAInstagram: @iamcynthiagarciaTikTok: @iamcynthiagarciaFacebook: @iamcynthiagarciaWebsite: cynthiagarcia.comREWRITTEN BEAUTYInstagram: @wearerewrittenFacebook: @wearerewrittenWebsite: rewrittenbeauty.comINSTITUTE OF TRANSFORMATIONAL NUTRITIONInstagram: @transformationalnutritionFacebook: @transformationalnutritionWebsite: transformationalnutrition.com#retatrutide #tirzepatide #ozempic #ozempicface #glp1 #mounjaro #zepbound #weightlosspeptide #peptides #menopause #perimenopause #hotover40 #womenover40 #antiaging #cynthiagarcia
- 4 weeks ago22 min
10 Things My Doctor Never Told Me About Testosterone At 48
Testosterone is the most abundant active sex hormone in a woman's body, and almost nobody tells you what low testosterone does to women in perimenopause and menopause. When I asked my doctor about testosterone for women, he laughed in my face and told me to lift weights. Like I'd asked for a pony instead of a hormone. I lost two years to that laugh. Then I found a doctor who didn't laugh, and the right testosterone protocol gave me back my sleep, my sex drive, my energy, and my face. In this one I get into the 10 things he never told me: the hormone you have more of than estrogen, why low testosterone gets missed when your labs read "normal," whether testosterone really gives women a beard or bulky muscles, what it does to your libido and your mood, what it did to my skin and the collagen menopause stole, what the first night actually felt like, and how to find a doctor who won't laugh you out of the room when you ask about testosterone or hormone replacement therapy.If you're a woman over 40 navigating perimenopause or menopause, if your labs came back "normal" but you feel like a stranger in your own body, if you've ever been brushed off when you asked about testosterone, HRT, or your disappearing libido, this one's for you.If you liked this, watch 10 Things I Did To Stay Hot AF At 48 That BackfiredWant 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#testosterone #testosteroneforwomen #lowtestosterone #menopause #perimenopause #hormonereplacementtherapy #hrt #womenshealth #hormones #womenover40 #beautyover40 #antiaging #idliketothankmyself
- Jun 23, 202625 min
10 Things I Did To Stay Hot AF At 48 That Backfired
I spent over a million dollars and years of my life doing everything I was told would keep me hot, and a shocking amount of it was aging me faster. These are the 10 anti-aging mistakes I made at 48 so you don't have to, from the skincare and treatments that backfired on my face to the workouts and shots that were working against my body.I'm a clinical nutritionist and the founder of a skincare line, and I've made most of these mistakes myself with total confidence and a platinum card. Inside this one I get into the melasma trap nobody warns you about (and why your red light mask and hot devices can make those dark spots worse), how to actually use a retinoid like tretinoin or retinol without peeling like a snake, why doing more skincare wrecked my barrier, the $13,000 microneedling and Morpheus8 RF lesson that cost me volume in my own face, why no protein and vitamin C means no new collagen after a laser or Sculptra, the real story on cortisol and belly fat in perimenopause, why strength training over 40 made me smaller not bigger, how to keep your muscle on a GLP-1 like tirzepatide or retatrutide, and the last mistake that affects all the others.If you're a woman over 40 doing all the "right" things for your skin and body and getting nowhere, and you're tired of being told you're fine, this one is for you.If you liked this, watch The Work I've Had Done To Stay Hot AF At 48 And The One I RegretWant 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#antiaging #skincareover40 #perimenopause #melasma #retinol #tretinoin #microneedling #cortisol #bellyfat #strengthtraining #womenover40 #glp1 #beautyover40 #collagen
- Jun 16, 202625 min
I Got My Boobs Done 4 Times. Here's What I Wish I'd Known
I've had four boob jobs in 27 years, two rounds of capsular contracture, a $30,000 lesson, and a little pig holding one of them together. And I'd do it all again.Four breast augmentations. Two rounds of capsular contracture, the complication they make sound rarer than it is. A thirty-thousand-dollar mistake I made because I thought I knew better than my surgeon, a boob job recovery nobody prepares you for, and an honest, no-shame conversation about breast implant illness (BII). This is everything I wish someone had told me before my first breast implants: the receipts, the regrets I don't have, and what I'd actually do if I were you, from booking a breast augmentation to deciding whether to take your implants out.In this episode:Why I got my first set almost 30 years ago, and what the itty bitty titty committee had to do with itThe capsular contracture that hit me twice, on the lowest-risk setup there isThe $30,000 lesson, and the pig that finally fixed itHow I picked my plastic surgeon, and the five consults that saved my resultThe truth about cup size nobody tells you before you bookThe boob job recovery reality the glossy before-and-afters leave outWhere I land on breast implant illness and breast implant removal, without the fear-mongering or the dismissingThe one time my gut said no, and six months later the FDA agreedIf you've got breast implants, you're researching a breast augmentation, or you've got a set and you're weighing breast implant removal, this one's for you.If you liked this, watch The Work I've Had Done To Stay Hot AF At 48 And The One I RegretWant 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#boobjob #breastaugmentation #breastimplants #breastimplantillness #capsularcontracture #breastimplantremoval #plasticsurgery #cosmeticsurgery #womenover40 #midlifewomen #hotover40
- Jun 9, 202625 min
Body Skincare At 48: 10 Things I Do To Look And Feel Great Naked
I'm 48, and looking great naked has almost nothing to do with a flat stomach. It's skin you're not hiding, a body that feels like yours, and the confidence to stand in the light and not flinch.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. I'm not interested in looking 28. The goal was never younger. It's hot, at whatever age you actually are. So in this episode I'm giving you the 10 exact things I do, five tactical and five that have nothing to do with products at all, to feel great the second the clothes come off. Some you'd guess. A couple are going to make you go wait, she does WHAT. And yes, one of them involves needles somewhere you'd never expect.In this episode I'm telling you:The skincare step almost nobody does for their body (and it's the cheapest win on the list)The two-minute thing I do before I walk into any room that makes people noticeHow I fake a lit-up, toned-looking body without a single squatWhy I say "I'm vain as fuck" out loud, and why you should stop whispering itThe thing I own that I did NOT get from a green smoothieHow I stopped apologizing for the time and the moneyThe treatment everyone's selling you, and the honest catch nobody will admitThe truth that ties this whole list together (it might surprise you coming from someone this vain)The every-few-months thing I do that sounds completely unhingedThe one thing I want you to keep if you forget all nine othersThis is for every woman who's ever stood in front of a mirror with no clothes on and started a list of everything she'd fix. And for every woman who's ready to stop.Products I mentioned: Body retinolAt-home spray tan machine + solutionSelf-tanner (touch-ups)Body lotion (the "lock it in and feel expensive" one)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
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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