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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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- 1 weeks ago19 min
My Face Looks Better at 48 Than It Did at 38. Here’s What I Did.
This is my personal experience, not medical advice. I'm not a doctor, and I don't even play one on the internet. The GLP-1 I take is prescribed and monitored by my doctor, and using it for my skin is off-label. If you're curious about a GLP-1, what I'd do is work with your doctor, get your labs run, and build a plan with your provider. I don't sell any medication, and I won't tell you where to buy one.Most women on GLP-1s are terrified of Ozempic face. The 3-step Collagen Defense system I built BEFORE I ever started microdosing tirzepatide is the reason I'm not walking around with it. Today I'm walking you through the science (and what hasn't been proven yet), why my doctor and I picked the smallest possible dose every other week, the full protocol, and the part the doctors won't say out loud.In this episode you'll discover:The clinical trial happening RIGHT NOW that's testing whether tirzepatide slows agingWhy I'm on tirzepatide and what that has to do with the Ozempic face horror storiesThe two completely opposite things a GLP-1 may be doing to your skin at the same timeWhy my doctor and I chose "smallest possible, every other week" for my faceThe 3-step Collagen Defense system I built before I ever startedThe 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.Want Your Free Personalized Hot AF Plan? Take the quizJoin 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. Use code MYSELF for 15% off. FOLLOW CYNTHIA GARCIAInstagram: @iamcynthiagarciaTikTok: @iamcynthiagarciaFacebook: @iamcynthiagarciaWebsite: cynthiagarcia.comREWRITTEN BEAUTYInstagram: @wearerewrittenFacebook: @wearerewrittenWebsite: rewrittenbeauty.comINSTITUTE OF TRANSFORMATIONAL NUTRITIONInstagram: @transformationalnutritionFacebook: @transformationalnutritionWebsite: transformationalnutrition.com #GLP1 #OzempicFace #WomenOver40 #AntiAging #Perimenopause #Menopause #AntiAgingSkincare #Midlife #Skincare #Aging #WomenOver50 #idliketothankmyself
- 2 weeks ago42 min
The Hormones That Keep Me Hot at 49 (And The Peptide I Take Every Morning)
I'm 49, I'm perimenopausal, and these are the hormones I use every single day to stay hot as fuck through the whole thing. Plus the practices that keep them working, and the one peptide I take every single morning... and how I take it is probably not what you think. Want Your Free Personalized Hot AF Plan? Take the quizJoin 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. Use code MYSELF for 15% off. Things I Mentioned:My morning peptide (the one with Verisol and Fortibone) Drinkable peptide I sip throughout the day My cortisol supplement My vaginal probiotic My night estrogen face cream (prescription, online consult)My PEMF matThis one is for every woman who's been told her hormone levels are "normal for your age" while she's lying awake at 3 a.m. wondering where the old her went. I was gaslit for over five years before I started hormone replacement therapy. I read my own labs, half the contacts in my phone are doctors, I've been a clinical nutritionist coaching health professionals for over 20 years... and I'm still dialing this in.First, I get into the hormone I rub on in 15 seconds every morning, the one that finally got me sleeping through 3 a.m. again, and the meeting full of businesswomen where it felt like somebody set the room on fire. Then the lab result I swore had to be somebody else's (it wasn't), what changes if you're losing weight right now, and the one women don't bring up at brunch.Then I walk through the sneaky face trick I wish I'd known about 10 years ago, how I keep score at home (sorry, Zak), what Mary asked me on her massage table that I still can't shake, the labs I make sure get run every three months, and the peptide I take every single morning. What it's actually for might surprise you.FOLLOW CYNTHIA GARCIAInstagram: @iamcynthiagarciaTikTok: @iamcynthiagarciaFacebook: @iamcynthiagarciaWebsite: cynthiagarcia.comREWRITTEN BEAUTYInstagram: @wearerewrittenFacebook: @wearerewrittenWebsite: rewrittenbeauty.comINSTITUTE OF TRANSFORMATIONAL NUTRITIONInstagram: @transformationalnutritionFacebook: @transformationalnutritionWebsite: transformationalnutrition.com #perimenopause #hrt #hormonereplacementtherapy #menopause #womenover40 #estrogen #hormonetherapy #perimenopausesymptoms #menopausesymptoms #womenshealth #idliketothankmyself #cynthiagarcia
- 3 weeks ago24 min
My Entire Beauty Maintenance Calendar at 49
This is my entire beauty maintenance calendar at 49, every single thing I do to stay hot as fuck, from what happens every morning and night to the stuff I only do a few times a year. What I do, in what order, how often, and what I skip when I just cannot be bothered.Get The High Maintenance Planner now!Join The Vanity Club. Where women over 40 come to look hot AF. No apologies. No judgmentRewritten’s Show The Face Up Serum. The serum I built when I turned 40 and refused to disappear. Use code MYSELF for 15% offGet the Sunday Rewritten newsletter Get The Rewrite newsletter each weekThings I Mentioned in This Episode. This one is for every woman who has looked at a woman like me and wondered how the fuck she fits it all in. I'm a skincare founder and a certified clinical nutritionist, and I've spent $1.3 million figuring out what actually works on a face.First I walk you through my mornings and my nights, including the two devices I use to lightly electrocute myself every single day, why I lift weights by candlelight, and what I wear to bed for the creasing on my chest. Then I get into Sunday, my Everything Day, and the things I used to pay other people to do that I now do myself.From there I go all the way out: the in-office treatments I keep up and how often I actually get them, the one I'm testing on my neck right now, the yearly medical stuff I do not play around with, and the lab result that made me lower one of my hormones.FOLLOW CYNTHIA GARCIAInstagram: @iamcynthiagarciaTikTok: @iamcynthiagarciaFacebook: @iamcynthiagarciaWebsite: cynthiagarcia.comREWRITTEN BEAUTYInstagram: @wearerewrittenFacebook: @wearerewrittenWebsite: rewrittenbeauty.comINSTITUTE OF TRANSFORMATIONAL NUTRITIONInstagram: @transformationalnutritionFacebook: @transformationalnutritionWebsite: transformationalnutrition.com#beautymaintenance #highmaintenance #womenover40 #beautyroutine #antiagingroutine #skincareroutineover40 #antiaging #antiagingskincare #morningroutine #skincareroutine #idliketothankmyself #cynthiagarcia
- 4 weeks ago26 min
I Spent $1.3M on My Looks. These 10 Things Mattered More.
I'm 49, and these are the 10 things I actually do that make me look and feel hot AF after 40. Some of them are about my skin, my clothes, and my heels. The one that made the biggest difference has nothing to do with Botox, filler, treatments, or anything I can buy.Want Your Free Personalized Hot AF Plan? Take the quizJoin 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. Use code MYSELF for 15% off. This one is for every woman who has ever felt like she was supposed to make herself a little smaller so everybody else could stay comfortable. I'm a skincare founder and a certified clinical nutritionist, and I've spent $1.3 million figuring out what actually works on a face. But I was not born knowing how to walk into a room. I was the girl who got laughed at for walking across one.First I get into the things people notice before you ever open your mouth: how I take care of myself every single day, the two-minute ritual I do while my serum goes on, why I stopped apologizing for caring how I look, and how I figured out exactly what to wear for my body so I'm not trying on a new personality every time a trend changes.Then it gets personal. I tell the story of the day I stood up in class to enter a beauty pageant and the whole room laughed, and how I walk into a room now. I get into pace, standards, having a signature, why I don't make myself smaller anymore, how I got comfortable being seen, and the one thing on this list that changed everything else.FOLLOW CYNTHIA GARCIAInstagram: @iamcynthiagarciaTikTok: @iamcynthiagarciaFacebook: @iamcynthiagarciaWebsite: cynthiagarcia.comREWRITTEN BEAUTYInstagram: @wearerewrittenFacebook: @wearerewrittenWebsite: rewrittenbeauty.comINSTITUTE OF TRANSFORMATIONAL NUTRITIONInstagram: @transformationalnutritionFacebook: @transformationalnutritionWebsite: transformationalnutrition.com #confidenceafter40 #womenover40 #hotover40 #styleover40 #beautyover40 #confidence #fashionover40 #skincareover40 #idliketothankmyself #cynthiagarcia
- Sep 29, 202621 min
Why I Quit Under-Eye Filler (And What I Do at 49 Instead)
Under-eye filler was the wrong fix for almost everything I was actually trying to fix, and I found that out after years and a stupid amount of money spent on my own face. What most people call under-eye aging is really five completely different problems, hollowing, darkness, crepey skin, fine lines, and true bags, and filler is only built for one of them. This is exactly what I do instead now, and how to figure out which under-eye problem is actually yours before you spend a dollar.Things I Mentioned:Rewritten Show The Face Up serumMy eye retinolMy peptide eye creamMy at-home radiofrequency deviceDownload The Under-Eye Fix Decision Card!Want Your Free Personalized Hot AF Plan? Take the quizJoin 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. Use code MYSELF for 15% off.This one is for every woman staring at her under-eyes in bad bathroom lighting, wondering when she started looking so tired, and this close to booking filler to fix it. I'm a skincare founder and a certified clinical nutritionist, and I've spent $1.3 million figuring out what actually works on a face, most of it by testing everything on my own.First I get into why under-eye aging is really five completely different problems, how to tell which one is actually yours, and why putting filler in the wrong one can make you look worse, sometimes years after the injection. I tell the whole story of my own under-eye filler, the round I couldn't even see and the round I genuinely loved, and why I still choose not to do it again.Then I walk through exactly what I do instead now, from the daily skin baseline to the treatments I actually booked for hollowing, crepey skin, fine lines, and jelly rolls, plus the one thing that is truly a different conversation with a surgeon. I get into the newer stuff I'm watching, the one I stay away from, and the single question to answer before you let anyone near your face with a needle.FOLLOW CYNTHIA GARCIAInstagram: @iamcynthiagarciaTikTok: @iamcynthiagarciaFacebook: @iamcynthiagarciaWebsite: cynthiagarcia.comREWRITTEN BEAUTYInstagram: @wearerewrittenFacebook: @wearerewrittenWebsite: rewrittenbeauty.comINSTITUTE OF TRANSFORMATIONAL NUTRITIONInstagram: @transformationalnutritionFacebook: @transformationalnutritionWebsite: transformationalnutrition.com #undereyefiller #undereyes #womenover40 #tearroughfiller #beautyover40 #fillermigration #undereyebags #skincareover40 #antiaging #idliketothankmyself #cynthiagarcia #botox #microneedling
- Sep 22, 202625 min
If I Were 40 Again, These Are the Exact 10 Things I’d Do to Look Hot AF
If I had to start over at 40, knowing everything I know now after spending $1.3 million on beauty, these are the ten things I'd do first, in the order that actually works. This is the anti-aging roadmap for women over 40 I wish someone had handed me, and no, Botox isn't one of them. Get the 10 Steps to Look & Feel Hot AF After 40!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 standing in the middle of the serums, the hormones, the devices, and the anti-aging treatments after 40 with no idea where to start. I'm a skincare founder and a clinical nutritionist, and I've spent $1.3 million and a decade figuring out what actually works on a face, and what order to do it in, so beauty over 40 stops feeling like a guessing game.First, the one thing I'd fix before I'd spend another dollar on my face (and no, it's not skincare). Then the unsexy stuff that runs everything after 40, including the daily habit that does more for your skin than your next cream, and why one simple routine beats a bathroom full of 147 products.Then the part they leave out of the ads. Why the treatment everyone reaches for first is not where I'd start, how I stopped shrinking myself to be taken seriously, and the last one, the reason 40 was never the beginning of the end. Because this was never about becoming 20 again. It's the part where you finally have the money, the standards, and the nerve to build a face and a life that look like you.FOLLOW CYNTHIA GARCIAInstagram: @iamcynthiagarciaTikTok: @iamcynthiagarciaFacebook: @iamcynthiagarciaWebsite: cynthiagarcia.comREWRITTEN BEAUTYInstagram: @wearerewrittenFacebook: @wearerewrittenWebsite: rewrittenbeauty.comINSTITUTE OF TRANSFORMATIONAL NUTRITIONInstagram: @transformationalnutritionFacebook: @transformationalnutritionWebsite: transformationalnutrition.com #AntiAging #WomenOver40 #BeautyOver40 #Over40 #SkincareOver40 #LifeAfter40 #Perimenopause #Menopause #HowToLookYounger #MidlifeWomen #Hormones #idliketothankmyself
- Sep 15, 202624 min
I Tested Every At-Home Skin-Tightening Device. Here Are the 3 I'd Buy Again.
If you've got your eye on all these at-home skin-tightening devices promising to lift and snatch your face, but you have no idea which ones actually work, I tested pretty much every one so you don't have to. I'm 49, I've never had a facelift, and I've spent tens of thousands of dollars figuring out which at-home devices are worth the money, which are a total waste, and the $6,000 one I'd never buy again. Get the free At-Home Device Cheat Sheet. Which device fixes what, how to use each, and the 3 questions to ask before you spend a dollar. 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.Devices I Use & Love:NuFACE Trinity (microcurrent) ZIIP (microcurrent, jowls + custom routines) Dermalux Flex MD (red light panel) Omnilux men's mask (red light, deeper wavelength) CurrentBody Skin RF (radiofrequency)NIRA Pro laser (face, neck, larger areas)NIRA Precision laser (eyes + lips)(My discount codes for these are inside The Vanity Club.) This one is for every woman who keeps getting told to just age gracefully and accept it. I'm a skincare founder and a certified clinical nutritionist, and I've spent $1.3 million figuring out what actually works on a face, including a vanity full of at-home devices I bought so you don't have to.First, I get into the one mistake that makes women waste the most money, which is shopping for a device before you know what you're actually trying to fix, and why the device that improves your skin is not the one that lifts your face. Then I walk you through every category I've tested- microcurrent, red light, radiofrequency, at-home lasers, and microneedling, and I tell you exactly which bucket each one lands in and what it's actually worth using for.Then I get to the part you came for. The $6,000 device I'd skip in a heartbeat, the one I'd never use on my own face, the melasma warning nobody gave me before I started, and if you took every device I own tonight, the only three I'd buy again tomorrow.FOLLOW CYNTHIA GARCIAInstagram: @iamcynthiagarciaTikTok: @iamcynthiagarciaFacebook: @iamcynthiagarciaWebsite: cynthiagarcia.comREWRITTEN BEAUTYInstagram: @wearerewrittenFacebook: @wearerewrittenWebsite: rewrittenbeauty.comINSTITUTE OF TRANSFORMATIONAL NUTRITIONInstagram: @transformationalnutritionFacebook: @transformationalnutritionWebsite: transformationalnutrition.com #skintightening #athomedevices #redlighttherapy #microcurrent #radiofrequency #looseskin #jowls #beautyover40 #skincareover40 #womenover40 #antiaging #over40 #idliketothankmyself
- Sep 8, 202634 min
I Spent 2 Years Trying to Regrow My Hair Only 4 Things Mattered
My hair started thinning after 40, and I spent almost two years and an embarrassing amount of money trying to grow it back. This is everything I actually tried for my thinning hair, what genuinely worked, what was a gorgeous waste of money, and the exact four-step plan I'd use if I had to start all over.Grab My Free Hair Regrowth Plan. The four things that actually work, in the order I'd do them, plus the exact products I use.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:Topical minoxidil (the one I use)Nutrafol (the hair-growth supplement I take)My hair regrowth peptide serum with Capixyl™ My multi-peptide hair-density serum (budget option)The scalp oil I love (with rosemary)Air dry cream that leaves my hair shiny without the heat Ketoconazole shampooThe laser cap I landed onMy silk bonnetMy boar-bristle brushBudget brush option I loveThe scalp massager I use with my minoxidilMy clip-in extensions made specifically for thinning hairThis one is for every woman watching her part get wider and getting told to just accept it. I'm a skincare founder and a Certified Clinical Nutritionist, and I spent almost two years and a stupid amount of money figuring out what actually regrows hair after 40 and what is a complete waste.First, I get into why your hair is really thinning after 40, because hair loss is not one problem with one fix, plus the one question that saves you the most money before you buy a single thing. Then I walk through everything I actually tried, from the topical that made me shed even more before it worked, to PRP, microneedling, red light, ketoconazole, rosemary oil, and the supplements that earn their spot versus the ones that are a scam.I get honest about biotin, the shed that actually means it is working, what a good hair-growth serum needs on the label, and the one gadget I have zero proof does anything and refuse to stop using. And I close on the part most women will not say out loud, why losing your hair after 40 hits so much deeper than just hair, and why you are allowed to fight to get it back.FOLLOW CYNTHIA GARCIAInstagram: @iamcynthiagarciaTikTok: @iamcynthiagarciaFacebook: @iamcynthiagarciaWebsite: cynthiagarcia.comREWRITTEN BEAUTYInstagram: @wearerewrittenFacebook: @wearerewrittenWebsite: rewrittenbeauty.comINSTITUTE OF TRANSFORMATIONAL NUTRITIONInstagram: @transformationalnutritionFacebook: @transformationalnutritionWebsite: transformationalnutrition.com #idliketothankmyself #hairloss #hairlossafter40 #thinninghair #hairgrowth #womenshairloss #femalehairloss #perimenopause #hairregrowth #hairover40 #womenover40 #hairthinning #minoxidil #haircare
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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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