Episode Details

This week on Party’s Over, Sandra Silverman explores power, reinvention, relationships, and the fear many women have of becoming invisible with age.

In Part A, Sandra sits down with author and creator Phoebe Devere for a fascinating conversation about Queen Elizabeth I, beauty rituals in the Elizabethan era, aging, visibility, and the enduring mystery surrounding Shakespeare’s authorship. From lead-based makeup and anti-aging practices to power, femininity, and image, the conversation reveals how women have long been pressured to preserve beauty while navigating public perception and authority.

Sandra and Phoebe also discuss why Queen Elizabeth carefully controlled her image, the emotional complexity of her romantic relationships, and how themes of aging, love, reinvention, and visibility still resonate with women today.

Then in Part B, Sandra and Veida welcome veteran divorce attorney Denise for an honest conversation about what really causes marriages to fall apart. Denise shares what she has learned after decades practicing divorce law, including the emotional patterns she sees repeatedly in long-term relationships. The discussion covers emotional neglect, resentment, infidelity, addiction, gray divorce, prenups, postnups, and the financial realities many women face later in life.

The episode closes with another candid installment of “Spill It,” where Sandra and Veida answer a viewer question from a newly engaged woman who wants a big wedding while her fiancé — already divorced once — only wants a courthouse ceremony.

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