I 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.
In 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 room
- What 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 doing
- Why 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)
If 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.
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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.