{"podcast":{"title":"I'd Like To Thank Myself","slug":"i-d-like-to-thank-myself-7665047","podcast_index_feed_id":7665047,"rss_url":"https://feeds.transistor.fm/id-like-to-thank-myself","website_url":"https://www.cynthiagarcia.com/podcast","image_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/t0VqQWhLTIftLDM8Hrm01E9RBqqMb9gNVoCWyM1PfZE/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:1400/h:1400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS80Nzdh/MTAzYzZjNmYyYTIx/ODYwZTgyMDFkZDdi/NDdmNy5qcGc.jpg","author":"Cynthia Garcia","episode_count":25,"summary":"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.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-22T04:17:56.264217+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/i-d-like-to-thank-myself-7665047"},"episode":{"title":"10 Things That Got Rid Of My Menopause Belly At 48","slug":"10-things-that-got-rid-of-my-menopause-belly-at-48","published_at":"2026-07-21T13:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/i-d-like-to-thank-myself-7665047/10-things-that-got-rid-of-my-menopause-belly-at-48","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/i-d-like-to-thank-myself-7665047","url":"https://share.transistor.fm/s/f7267d55","audio_url":"https://media.transistor.fm/f7267d55/fd5392aa.mp3","summary":"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 an…","meta_description":"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 n…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":1591,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/i-d-like-to-thank-myself-7665047/episodes/10-things-that-got-rid-of-my-menopause-belly-at-48/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/i-d-like-to-thank-myself-7665047/10-things-that-got-rid-of-my-menopause-belly-at-48.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}