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 something.
Why nobody is the spokesperson for women who refuse to fade. So I'm doing it now.
This episode is for the woman in the back who's been clapping politely for a decade while everyone around her disappeared quietly.
In this episode:
- Why "aging gracefully" is just a nice way to tell women to disappear
- The dirt road in Appalachia where I learned the rule at seven (and why I'm still on her side)
- Why most meanness is just fear in nicer clothes
- What refusing actually costs me… the friends, the time, the Olympic-sport routine
- The "for her age" comment in a coffee shop that I should have corrected (and didn't)
- The years I dressed down on purpose… and why that wasn't grace, it was hiding
- Why wrinkles aren't badges. They're salt on a wound.
- The bigger, louder, more audacious life I'm refusing to age gracefully FOR
What is I'd Like To Thank Myself ?
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.