Cynthia Garcia

I'd Like To Thank Myself

Arts EN ↓ 44 episodes

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. Sometim...

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Cynthia Garcia

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www.cynthiagarcia.com

Latest episode

Nov 10, 2026

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Episodes

I Put Estrogen on My Face at 49: Is It Safe, and Does It Work? 10.11.2026

I've been putting estrogen on my face at 49, and I'm sharing my experience with estradiol gel and prescription estriol face cream. The two forms I use, what I noticed at three and six weeks, and which one I'd keep if I had to pick. Plus the question everyone asks: is it safe, and what did my doctor check before I started?  Get My Free Hot AF Skincare Routine . Every product I put on my face, morni...

My Entire Day of Eating + Supplements at 49: NAD/NMN, Methylene Blue + More 03.11.2026

This is my entire day of eating and every supplement I take at 49, from the first thing I take on an empty stomach to the once-a-month one most people have never heard of. NAD and NMN, methylene blue, creatine, collagen, magnesium, and what I actually eat for breakfast, lunch and dinner. For anyone who has no idea which supplements are worth it and which ones might just be expensive pee. Get My Fr...

My Face Looks Better at 48 Than It Did at 38. Here’s What I Did. 27.10.2026

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...

The Hormones That Keep Me Hot at 49 (And The Peptide I Take Every Morning) 20.10.2026

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 quiz Join The Vanity Club . Where women over 40 come to look hot AF. No apologies....

My Entire Beauty Maintenance Calendar at 49 13.10.2026

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 judgment Rewr...

I Spent $1.3M on My Looks. These 10 Things Mattered More. 06.10.2026

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 quiz Join The Vanity Club . Where women over 40 come to look hot AF. No apologies. N...

Why I Quit Under-Eye Filler (And What I Do at 49 Instead) 29.09.2026

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...

If I Were 40 Again, These Are the Exact 10 Things I’d Do to Look Hot AF 22.09.2026

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...

I Tested Every At-Home Skin-Tightening Device. Here Are the 3 I'd Buy Again. 15.09.2026

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...

I Spent 2 Years Trying to Regrow My Hair Only 4 Things Mattered 08.09.2026

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...

The 5 Things I Do For My Jowls At 48 (And The One I Regret) 01.09.2026

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 Pe...

The Lies I Burned On My 49th Birthday (Literally) 25.08.2026

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 4...

I've Been Taking Testosterone For 2 Years. Here's What I Wish I'd Known 18.08.2026

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...

The Only 3 Peptides I Put On My Face At 48 11.08.2026

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 Vani...

5 Ways Menopause Wrecked My Skin At 48. And Exactly How I Fixed Every One. 04.08.2026

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 ce...

10 Things I Do At Home To Hold Off A Facelift At 48 28.07.2026

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...

10 Things That Got Rid Of My Menopause Belly At 48 21.07.2026

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 t...

10 Things I Do To Look 10 Years Younger Without A Facelift 14.07.2026

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...

10 Things Retatrutide Does To Keep Me Hot AF At 48 07.07.2026

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, wat...

10 Things My Doctor Never Told Me About Testosterone At 48 30.06.2026

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...

10 Things I Did To Stay Hot AF At 48 That Backfired 23.06.2026

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 li...

I Got My Boobs Done 4 Times. Here's What I Wish I'd Known 16.06.2026

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 prepare...

Body Skincare At 48: 10 Things I Do To Look And Feel Great Naked 09.06.2026

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 re...

10 Things I Wish I Knew About Perimenopause To Stay Hot At 48 02.06.2026

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 kn...

5 Anti-Aging Peptides I’m On To Look Better At 48 Than At 38 26.05.2026

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 y...

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