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

    The 5 Things I Do For My Jowls At 48 (And The One I Regret)

    If you've ever pushed your jowls back up with two fingers, chasing the jawline you had at 35, this is the episode that finally explains why it's happening and what actually fixes it. I'm 49, i've never had a facelift, and I've spent $1.3 million on my face figuring out what works on jowls, what's a total waste of money, and the treatment I paid thousands for that made mine worse. 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. Use code MYSELF for 15% off. Things I Mentioned:  Daily sunscreen I use.My favorite microcurrent device.This one is for every woman who looks in the mirror lately and doesn't recognize the bottom half of her face. I'm a skincare founder and a Certified Clinical Nutritionist, and I've spent $1.3 million and years of my life testing what actually holds a jaw up after 40, so you don't have to learn it the expensive way like I did. First I get into why jowls even happen, and it is not what you think. It is not just loose skin, it is your fat pads sliding, your collagen thinning, and the part I found out the hard way, your actual face bones shrinking. Then I walk through everything I do, in order from the cheapest thing to a facelift. The two free things you can start today, the microcurrent I do at home, the Sculptra reveal that even injectors get wrong, exactly where I put filler and where I would never, and the little Botox trick that lifts a jaw instead of just smoothing it. Then I tell you the truth about the stuff that gets all the hype and does nothing for a jowl, the treatment I regret paying thousands for, the one I am about to try next, and where I would spend my own money if I had to pick just one. Grab a drink. We have got shit to talk about. 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 #womenover40 #beautyover40 #gettingolder #midlifewomen #over40 #aging #confidenceafter40 #ageisjustanumber #selfworth #hotaf #idliketothankmyself #cynthiagarcia

  2. Aug 25

    The Lies I Burned On My 49th Birthday (Literally)

    It's my 49th birthday, and instead of dreading getting older the way we're all trained to, I'm doing the one ritual that changed how I feel about aging for good. If your birthday has started to feel like a countdown, if you're seeing fine lines and wrinkles that feel like they showed up overnight, like your face fell off a cliff while you were sleeping, if you feel yourself going invisible after 40 and you've laid awake at 3am doing the math on everything you think you've lost... this one is for you. For the first time on camera, I'm taking the five biggest lies we all get handed about getting older, and I'm burning every single one of them. 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. Use code MYSELF for 15% off. This one is for every woman who's been told it's all downhill after 40. I'm a skincare founder and a certified clinical nutritionist, and I've spent $1.3 million figuring out what actually works, on my face and everywhere else. First I get into what hot af at any age actually means, because it was never just the outside, and I tell you the story of the worst birthday of my life, the one where I decided I wasn't special and didn't deserve anything. I take you through the morning I turned 40, the birthday texts from people I knew telling me to enjoy being invisible, and exactly what I built out of that instead. Then I walk you through the five lies about getting older that I believed for way too long, from "aging gracefully" to "aging is a privilege" to the biggest one my own family taught me, and I set all five on fire. I close with the thing I do every single birthday, and an open invitation to do it right along with me, whether it's your birthday today or just the day you decide to start over. 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 #womenover40 #beautyover40 #gettingolder #midlifewomen #over40 #aging #confidenceafter40 #ageisjustanumber #selfworth #hotaf #idliketothankmyself #cynthiagarcia

  3. Aug 18

    I've Been Taking Testosterone For 2 Years. Here's What I Wish I'd Known

    Testosterone for women over 40 is the conversation almost no doctor will start with you, so I'm starting it. These are the ten things I wish I'd known about testosterone before I ever asked a doctor for it, from the magic number every doctor chases that doesn't exist, to the one test almost all of them run wrong, to the exact words to say at your appointment so nobody laughs you out of the office again. 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. Use code MYSELF for 15% off. This one is for every woman who's been told her exhaustion, her low libido, and her missing spark are just her age. I'm a skincare founder and a clinical nutritionist, and I've spent $1.3 million figuring out what actually works on a woman's body over 40, hormones included. First I get into what testosterone actually did for me, which I found out the hard way when I accidentally ran out for two weeks, why you are not too young to be having this conversation, and why so many women get told their labs are "normal" while they feel nothing like themselves. Then I walk through the form they don't warn you about, the doctor who told my friend to just be grateful her husband still finds her attractive, why it's rarely just testosterone, and the exact playbook I'd use to walk into an appointment and not get dismissed. 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 #womenover40 #menopause #perimenopause #hormones #womenshealth #hrt #lowtestosterone #testosteronereplacementtherapy #menopausesymptoms #hotafover40 #idliketothankmyself

  4. Aug 11

    The Only 3 Peptides I Put On My Face At 48

    The truth about topical peptides at 48, from a skincare founder who spent a fortune testing every one of them. These are the three peptide serums actually worth putting on your face, the two that are a total waste of your money, and the one anti-aging ingredient that beats every single one of them... and it isn't even a peptide. 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. Use code MYSELF for 15% off. The Topical Peptides I Use: NIOD Copper Amino Isolate Serum (my copper peptide) Medik8 Liquid Peptides (my Matrixyl)The Ordinary Multi Peptide + HAThe Ordinary Multi Peptide + Copper Peptides 1% Serum This one is for every woman getting handed another peptide serum with no clue which ones actually do anything. I'm a skincare founder and a clinical nutritionist, and I've spent one point three million dollars figuring out what actually works on a face after 40. First I get into the copper peptide I will never take off my face, the vitamin C mistake that cancels it out every single morning, and the only peptide in my whole routine with a real, placebo-controlled study behind it. Then I break down the upgraded versions worth keeping, the two “Botox in a bottle” peptides that are a complete fantasy, the ten-second trick for telling whether your fancy serum even has peptides in it, and the one ingredient that beats every peptide I own, with thirty years of studies behind it. 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 #nofacelift #topicalestrogen #antiaging #skincareover40 #redlighttherapy #dermaplaning #retinol #womenover40 #hotover40 #midlifewomen #idliketothankmyself #cynthiagarcia

  5. Aug 4

    5 Ways Menopause Wrecked My Skin At 48. And Exactly How I Fixed Every One.

    I'm 48, and somewhere in my forties during perimenopause my skin changed on me. Everyone said it was just aging, so I believed them for way too long and kept buying creams that did nothing. Then I went digging and found five different things actually aging my skin in menopause, all set off by one thing... my estrogen dropping. These are all five, and exactly what I did to fix each one, from the cells you cannot scrub off to the one bottle I built to handle all of it. 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. Use code MYSELF for 15% off. Things I Mentioned: ELTA MD. The sunscreen I wear every single day.Skinceuticals Triple Lipid Restore 2:4:2.The barrier-identical ceramides I use.  This one is for every woman who keeps getting told her only options are expensive procedures 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 get into what's actually changing under your skin, the senescent 'zombie cells' you cannot scrub off, the stress hormone that flips your collagen switch to off, and the dark spots that feel like they showed up overnight but really took thirty years. Then I walk through the fixes, the gentle form of vitamin C that won't burn thinning skin, how to actually rebuild a barrier that's started stinging instead of just painting over it, the hyaluronic acid most people forget about, and the one bottle I built to go at all five at once. 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 #nofacelift #topicalestrogen #antiaging #skincareover40 #redlighttherapy #dermaplaning #retinol #womenover40 #hotover40 #midlifewomen #idliketothankmyself #cynthiagarcia

  6. Jul 28

    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 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 #nofacelift #topicalestrogen #antiaging #skincareover40 #redlighttherapy #dermaplaning #retinol #womenover40 #hotover40 #midlifewomen #idliketothankmyself #cynthiagarcia

  7. Jul 21

    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 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. 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 disappear This 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 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 #menopausebelly #menopausebellyfat #menopauseweightloss #perimenopause #menopause #womenover40 #hotover40 #midlifewomen #hrt #menopauseworkout #perimenopauseweightgain #idliketothankmyself #cynthiagarcia

  8. Jul 14

    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

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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
    31
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © Copyright 2026. Defying Gravity, Inc.
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