I'd Like To Thank Myself

Cynthia Garcia
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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.

  1. 1d ago

    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 Regret 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 GARCIA Instagram: @iamcynthiagarcia TikTok: @iamcynthiagarcia Facebook: @iamcynthiagarcia Website: cynthiagarcia.com REWRITTEN BEAUTY Instagram: @wearerewritten Facebook: @wearerewritten Website: rewrittenbeauty.com INSTITUTE OF TRANSFORMATIONAL NUTRITION Instagram: @transformationalnutrition Facebook: @transformationalnutrition Website: transformationalnutrition.com #antiaging #skincareover40 #perimenopause #melasma #retinol #tretinoin #microneedling #cortisol #bellyfat #strengthtraining #womenover40 #glp1 #beautyover40 #collagen

    25 min

  2. Jun 16

    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 Regret 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 GARCIA Instagram: @iamcynthiagarcia TikTok: @iamcynthiagarcia Facebook: @iamcynthiagarcia Website: cynthiagarcia.com REWRITTEN BEAUTY Instagram: @wearerewritten Facebook: @wearerewritten Website: rewrittenbeauty.com INSTITUTE OF TRANSFORMATIONAL NUTRITION Instagram: @transformationalnutrition Facebook: @transformationalnutrition Website: transformationalnutrition.com #boobjob #breastaugmentation #breastimplants #breastimplantillness #capsularcontracture #breastimplantremoval #plasticsurgery #cosmeticsurgery #womenover40 #midlifewomen #hotover40

    25 min

  3. Jun 9

    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 GARCIA Instagram: @iamcynthiagarcia TikTok: @iamcynthiagarcia Facebook: @iamcynthiagarcia Website: cynthiagarcia.com REWRITTEN BEAUTY Instagram: @wearerewritten Facebook: @wearerewritten Website: rewrittenbeauty.com INSTITUTE OF TRANSFORMATIONAL NUTRITION Instagram: @transformationalnutrition Facebook: @transformationalnutrition Website: transformationalnutrition.com #perimenopausejourney #testosterone #beautyover40 #progesterone #hotover40 #hrt #perimenopause #hormones #womenover40 #hormonereplacementtherapy #midlifewellness #womenshealth #estrogen #midlife

    26 min

  4. Jun 2

    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 GARCIA Instagram: @iamcynthiagarcia TikTok: @iamcynthiagarcia Facebook: @iamcynthiagarcia Website: cynthiagarcia.com REWRITTEN BEAUTY Instagram: @wearerewritten Facebook: @wearerewritten Website: rewrittenbeauty.com INSTITUTE OF TRANSFORMATIONAL NUTRITION Instagram: @transformationalnutrition Facebook: @transformationalnutrition Website: transformationalnutrition.com #perimenopausejourney #testosterone #beautyover40 #progesterone #hotover40 #hrt #perimenopause #hormones #womenover40 #hormonereplacementtherapy #midlifewellness #womenshealth #estrogen #midlife

    34 min

  5. May 26

    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 GARCIA Instagram: @iamcynthiagarcia TikTok: @iamcynthiagarcia Facebook: @iamcynthiagarcia Website: cynthiagarcia.com REWRITTEN BEAUTY Instagram: @wearerewritten Facebook: @wearerewritten Website: rewrittenbeauty.com INSTITUTE OF TRANSFORMATIONAL NUTRITION Instagram**:** @transformationalnutrition Facebook: @transformationalnutrition Website: transformationalnutrition.com

    28 min

  6. May 19

    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 Click This 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 Coming Five 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.com REWRITTEN BEAUTYInstagram: @wearerewrittenFacebook: @wearerewrittenWebsite: www.rewrittenbeauty.com INSTITUTE OF TRANSFORMATIONAL NUTRITIONInstagram: @transformationalnutritionFacebook: @transformationalnutritionWebsite: www.transformationalnutrition.com #peptides #peptidesforwomen #womenover40 #perimenopause #idliketothankmyself

    26 min

  7. May 12

    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.com REWRITTEN BEAUTYInstagram: @wearerewrittenFacebook: @wearerewrittenWebsite: www.rewrittenbeauty.com INSTITUTE OF TRANSFORMATIONAL NUTRITIONInstagram: @transformationalnutritionFacebook: @transformationalnutritionWebsite: www.transformationalnutrition.com

    20 min

  8. May 5

    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 FOR FOLLOW CYNTHIA GARCIAInstagram: @iamcynthiagarciaTikTok: @iamcynthiagarciaFacebook: @iamcynthiagarciaWebsite: www.cynthiagarcia.com REWRITTEN BEAUTYInstagram: @wearerewrittenFacebook: @wearerewrittenWebsite: www.rewrittenbeauty.com INSTITUTE OF TRANSFORMATIONAL NUTRITIONInstagram: @transformationalnutritionFacebook: @transformationalnutritionWebsite: www.transformationalnutrition.com

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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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    Cynthia Garcia
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