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

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Podcast: [I'd Like To Thank Myself](https://stenobird.com/podcast/i-d-like-to-thank-myself-7665047)
Published: 2026-08-25T14:33:00+00:00
Episode link: https://share.transistor.fm/s/7bd22ff2
Audio file: https://media.transistor.fm/7bd22ff2/ea2372a6.mp3
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## Resource

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 birth…

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