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. 4d ago

    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 48 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. 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 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 #facelift #nonsurgicalfacelift #womenover40 #co2laser #sculptra #botox #microneedling #antiagingskincare #hotover40 #midlifewomen #skincare #antiaging #idliketothankmyself

  2. Jun 30

    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 Backfired 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 #testosterone #testosteroneforwomen #lowtestosterone #menopause #perimenopause #hormonereplacementtherapy #hrt #womenshealth #hormones #womenover40 #beautyover40 #antiaging #idliketothankmyself

  3. 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

  4. 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 f**k" 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

  5. 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

  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 f*****g 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 f**k 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

  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

  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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  • Creator
    Cynthia Garcia
  • Years Active
    2026
  • Episodes
    24
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © Copyright 2026. Defying Gravity, Inc.
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