I'd Like To Thank Myself

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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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. 

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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...

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 r...

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.

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I'm not interested in looking 28. The goal was never younger. It's hot, a...

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.

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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 doct...

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...

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!

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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...

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 so...

I spent $1.3 million to stay hot AF at 48 so you don't have to. If you're skipping the first thing on this list, you're letting cortisol eat your face. The full breakdown of all 10 is below.

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At 48, I've realized the things that "piss people off" are usually the ones that actually work. These are the 10 habits I swear by to stay hot AF, from tactical skincare layering to the "medieval" treatment your dermatologist might be gatekeeping.

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I have more pretty privilege at 48 than I ever had at 28. And the world has opinions about that.

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I learned about pretty privilege at twelve years old, dumpster diving for eyeshadow in Appalachia. For 30 years the experiment ran beautifully. Then I turned 40 and the whole game changed. 

I'm 48. I've had work done. Today I'm telling you every single thing, including the one I wish I'd never walked through the door for.

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People ask me all the time what work I've had done. In my last video, 23,000 of you watched in two days. So I'm giving...

I'm 48, I've spent $1.3 million over almost two decades figuring out what actually works, and today I'm giving you my top 10.

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After almost two decades and more money than I probably should admit, I've figured out what actually works to stay hot...

I Was Told to “Enjoy Being Invisible” on My 40th Birthday

On my 40th birthday, a woman I knew texted me three words that changed the course of my life: enjoy being invisible.

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I grew up bathing in a creek in Appalachia with no running water. I du...

Five years of perimenopause symptoms and three doctors telling me my hormones were "in range" while my body was falling apart.

This is the story I've never told -- and the night a friend handed me two things that changed everything.

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I had every...

40 is not the new 20. And I finally stopped wanting it to be.

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A friend told me I was aging backwards at lunch and I took the compliment (obviously). But then something came out of my mouth I hadn't planned, and I haven't been...

I spent $1.3M on my looks after 40. Here’s the full breakdown — and what it actually bought me.

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A few weeks ago I dropped an episode on the real cost of staying hot after 40 and you asked for the receipts. So here they are. Over 18 years, $1.3 million, and...

Larry King looked me in my face and asked who runs my business "for" me. What happened next changed everything...

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I spent close to 40 years trying to prove my worth to people who were never going to see it anyway. This week, I finally quit. But the reason...

People-pleasing built my career and almost destroyed my life. I spent 30 years performing as someone I made up to keep people comfortable, and the day I finally stopped was the day everything got easier, richer, and way more fun.

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I grew up learning to read a room...

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Twenty years ago I lied straight to a woman’s face in a penthouse in Los Angeles. That lie built my businesses to over $100M.

I quadrupled my price on the spot, made up a job title, and created a category of one before I knew that's what it...

"Be realistic." That's the advice that almost kept me poor forever.

I was living in a rent-by-the-day hotel in Los Angeles with strangers pounding on my door. I was sick, isolated, and completely broke. Logic said go home to Appalachia. Logic said save every penny.

Instead, I put thousands of dollars on three maxed-out credit cards for a certification I couldn't afford. It was the most reckless decision I ever made. It was also the best.

In this episode of I'd Like to Thank MySELF, I'm going back to the beginning. Moving to...

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I’m 48 now. And I’m done choosing. For years, I bought into the lie that I had to pick a lane: smart or pretty, spiritual or wealthy, good mom or successful CEO. Trying to “balance it all” didn’t make me happy. It made me burnt out, resen...

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You’re not crazy for wanting to be wildly successful and hot over 40.

You’re also not crazy for noticing that… it’s getting harder.

In this episode of I’d Like to Thank MySELF, I’m sharing the real story behind what it actu...

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I'm 48. I'm building a new company. And last week I stood in my kitchen wondering if this was even a good idea.

It turns out, building a business at 48 is nothing like building one at 28. We're told that experience makes things easier. But experience doesn't account for perimenopause, raising a teenager, caring for aging parents, and the paralyzing fear of "what if I can't do it again?"

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I grew up on food stamps in the Appalachian Mountains with no running water in our house until I was fifteen years old. I took baths in the creek down the road, used an actual outhouse, and dumpster dived for skincare and makeup because somewhere in my thirteen-year-old brain I decided that being pretty would save me from poverty.

And then I built over $100M in businesses. My face ended up on a billboard in Times Square. I was on Dr. Phil - not as a guest with a problem, but as the expert. Newsweek put my...