{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"I'd Like To Thank Myself ","title":"I Stopped Being Nice and Made More Money Than Ever","html":"<iframe width=\"100%\" height=\"180\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" seamless src=\"https://share.transistor.fm/e/8bbe9bc3\"></iframe>","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":1451,"description":"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.\n\nTake the free Hot AF quiz: https://www.cynthiagarcia.com/quiz\nJoin The Vanity Club. Where women over 40 come to look hot AF: https://www.cynthiagarcia.com/vanityclub\nRewritten Beauty. The serum I built when I refused to disappear at 40: https://rewrittenbeauty.com\nI grew up learning to read a room before I could read a book. If I made my dad laugh, the night went a different way. If I was sweet enough to a family member, I got to spend the night at a house with actual running water. People-pleasing wasn't a personality flaw. It was a survival strategy. And I carried it into every business, every relationship, and every room I walked into for the next three decades. Until one Instagram post at 48 accidentally blew the whole thing open.\nIn this episode, you'll discover:The childhood survival skill that became a $100M business strategy (and the bill that came with it)Why I paid a voice coach in Laurel Canyon to put a wine cork in my mouth for months (and what he finally told me)The two completely different versions of myself I performed depending on who was in the roomWhat I told Zak on his couch the night I decided to stop performing (and the one confession I was sure would end it)The post I almost didn't publish at 48 that got 20x the response of everything else I'd been doingWhy I thought I'd already beaten people-pleasing (and the moment at 48 I realized I was still doing it in a completely different disguise)What happened when my beauty content went head to head with my business content (and why the results made me rethink everything)\nIf you're a woman who's been calibrating herself for every room she walks into and wondering why success still feels like it belongs to someone else, this one's for you.\nFOLLOW CYNTHIA GARCIA\nInstagram:...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/brXHnwvuQEU1oc6xp6lWbfa7r7agMI16rwA38YhvvxE/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS80Nzdh/MTAzYzZjNmYyYTIx/ODYwZTgyMDFkZDdi/NDdmNy5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}