{"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":"I Built $100M. Why Doing It Again at 48 Is Harder.","slug":"i-built-100m-why-doing-it-again-at-48-is-harder","published_at":"2026-01-27T17:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/i-d-like-to-thank-myself-7665047/i-built-100m-why-doing-it-again-at-48-is-harder","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/i-d-like-to-thank-myself-7665047","url":"https://share.transistor.fm/s/e78df46f","audio_url":"https://media.transistor.fm/e78df46f/87f763e5.mp3","summary":"FREE Guide – Download The 3 Questions I Ask Before Making Big Decisions (So I Don’t F It Up) here: https://www.cynthiagarcia.com/episode02-3questions 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?\" In 7th grade, my teacher asked what I wanted to be when I grew up. I said a secretary. That was the biggest dream I could see from where I was standing — bathing in a creek, wearing clothes from the donation bin, watching my mom stretch food stamps like they were made of rubber. 36 years later, I've built multiple businesses to over $100M. And now I'm starting over. Again. In an industry I've never been in. With a brain that leaves the building by 2pm and a phone that somehow ends up in the fridge. If you're a woman over 40 reinventing herself — part of the sandwich generation balancing entrepreneurship, motherhood, and aging parents — this one's for you. I'm sharing the brutal truth about the difference between the desperate hunger of my 20s and the complex reality of my 40s. In this video, we talk about: The Reality Check: Why starting a business later in life feels heavier than when you had nothing to lose. The \"Sandwich\" Struggle: Navigating entrepreneurship while balancing perimenopause, motherhood, and aging parents. The Identity Crisis: Why \"doing it again\" is scarier when you’ve already succeeded once. The Kitchen Moment: How to push through the doubt when you’re standing in your kitchen wondering if you’ve made a huge mistake. Sub…","meta_description":"FREE Guide – Download The 3 Questions I Ask Before Making Big Decisions (So I Don’t F It Up) here: https://www.cynthiagarcia.com/episode02-3questions I'm…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":1240,"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/i-built-100m-why-doing-it-again-at-48-is-harder/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/i-built-100m-why-doing-it-again-at-48-is-harder.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}