July 1, 2025 • 16 mins
In the dazzling debut of Invisible Glitter, host Sandy Parker Martinez chats with her 82-year-old friend and media legend, Diana Dee. From muddy cotton fields to radio stardom, Diana shares how reinvention, rhinestones, and a radiant attitude keep her thriving.
Expect big laughs, bold wisdom, and beautiful reminders that:
🌟 It’s never too late to pivot.
👠 Aging is glamorous when you own it.
📚 Staying curious keeps you vibrant.
🎯 Purpose is the secret to joy.
💖 And yes—you’re still glittering.
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Sandy (00:00):
Welcome to Invisible Glitter, the podcast for women
aging with attitude andsparkles. I'm Sandy Parker,
founder of the Pink Lady Posse,coach, cheerleader, and your
connector in chief for whateveryou need to go from what now to
what's next. Each episode bringsreal stories of women rewriting
(00:22):
their lives, leaving us withtools we can use and inspiration
that motivates. Because yournext chapter, it's not about
winding down. It's aboutlighting up, and the most
powerful glitter is the kind noone sees coming.
Let's go. I am Sandy Parker withPink Lady Posse, and you're
listening to Invisible Glitter,the podcast for aging with
(00:47):
attitude and sparkle. So I amhere today with Diana Dee, who I
love, love, love Diana Dee, andshe's kinda my idol, to tell you
the truth. But, we've known eachother since, I don't know, the
eighties. Diana has been inradio on the top morning show,
TV, radio, everywhere inbetween.
(01:10):
Since the seventy sixth year andI was on the radio with her and
her amazing husband, Lou Dee andI just wanna say, hey, Diana.
Welcome.
Diana (01:22):
Thank you, Sandy.
Sandy (01:24):
You know why I want you here on the very first podcast
is because you are my wingwoman.
Diana (01:31):
Well, we have done a lot of things together, haven't we?
Sandy (01:34):
I know. Well, I remember Lou on, we would get up at what
was it? 04:00 in the morning tobe on the radio at what the heck
was that about? And I would justcrawl out of bed and go to the
radio station. He go, what iswith that hair?
And I'm like, would say, look,Lou, it doesn't matter what my,
I'm so much more important thanmy hair.
Diana (01:57):
You should have Facebook radio. Our hair did for radio.
Sandy (02:01):
Is that what he said? Well, you know what's funny is
my hair, I've been using thatrudest and I think it's almost
as thick as the promo picture.No kidding. Yeah. Yeah.
Somebody said, man, that's agood that's a good day, a good
hair day. I'm like, yeah, it wasa real good hair day. Anyway,
(02:22):
I'm I'm glad you're here andwhat we're talking about is
aging with attitude and sparkle.So, I wanna ask you a couple of
things about your life and I'mreally curious to know the first
time you remember reinventingyourself.
Diana (02:44):
Oh, okay. I know that so well. First of all, I think we
probably need to establish thefact that I'm 82 years old now,
about to be 80 And so I canspeak for some of those ladies
out there that are seekingadvice. But the first time that
I reinvented myself living inMuleshoe, Texas, my husband was
(03:07):
a farmer and we were farmingcotton. And I remember helping
move the irrigation pipe and itbeing full of water and mud and
my son that was in the sixthgrade I mean in the second grade
(03:27):
he's helping me.
I'm walking in mud up to myknees lifting the heavy pipe and
I thought there has got to besomething better than this. I'm
not doing this all my life. So,that was when I started
(03:48):
reinventing myself.
Sandy (03:49):
Yeah, okay. So, that was a lot of years ago.
Diana (03:54):
Oh, yeah. Long time ago.
Sandy (03:55):
But isn't it interesting how that moment stuck with you
and altered your life forever?
Diana (04:03):
Yeah, I just remember saying I'm not doing this and
life has a way of just you knowtaking turns sometimes that you
don't have any control over andas it did that year was the year
a lot of farmers out there willremember that it came a freeze
in September, froze the crop,never harvested a bottle of
(04:25):
cotton and that's when I endedup going to work and started in
the fashion industry.
Sandy (04:32):
Now you were at Latham's, right?
Diana (04:34):
Yes, I was. He eventually let me do all the advertising,
the owner of Latham's, but I wasa buyer for the contemporary
department.
Sandy (04:44):
So you and a girlfriend came up
Diana (04:45):
with an idea. What tell me about your strategy? Well I
just thought you know you canget in a rut so easy and so to
avoid getting in a rut and I hada couple girlfriends that we
went to lunch together every dayI said we've got to do something
different that you're we don'tget in a rut I'm gonna drive to
work a different way every dayI'm gonna you know came up with
(05:09):
all these different ideas and Isaid I know we go to lunch every
day let's go to a differentplace every day for lunch and so
we did until we ran out ofplaces to go to lunch. One day
when it was my turn to pick Isaid okay we're going by a
hamburger place we're going to apark and we're going to have a
(05:30):
picnic. So it was just a funthing that we did to keep from
getting in a rut.
Sandy (05:35):
Well, and you were to Muleshoe. You were in Lubbock,
right? Right. So you'd alreadychanged your course of action,
but it's possible to run out ofrestaurants. Well, you're now
82, you said.
82 or three?
Diana (05:51):
I'm 82. I'll be 83 in October.
Sandy (05:54):
Now, how have you gone through so many years and look
the way you do like, what isyour
Diana (06:04):
secret? Well one thing that I can say for sure I'm a
lifelong learner, lifelonglearners live life longer and
I'm a reader I even when welived in Muleshoe and I wasn't
working except to help out onthe farm I went to the library
(06:24):
every day and checked out books.I read and read and I just feel
like that you're expanding everywhen you read you're expanding
your brain and it never goesback to the size it was before
you expanded it. I also feltlike first impressions are so
(06:45):
important and I have always gotup did my hair put my makeup on
you know I've heard the sayingdon't ever go to the grocery
store without your makeup on. OhDiana that is horrible.
Well just think about it youmight run into your ex husband
or his new wife so it doesn'tmatter where you go you've got
(07:08):
to have your makeup on have yourhair done dress you don't have
to always dress up but you knowlook nice grooming is very
important
Sandy (07:20):
well now that's why you look the way you do because I
have a lady at church and shealways says don't go on that
Facebook without your makeup.You know, I'm like, true. It
just drives her crazy becausesometimes I'm like, look. You
gotta take me like I am. That'swithout makeup.
Diana (07:37):
Yeah. I even even started a program that I talked to
different groups called Do YouNever Get a Second Chance to
Make a First Impression. Andit's amazing how you're always
judged by that first impression.So it's important.
Sandy (07:53):
Well, I tell you what, maybe the trailer is my first
impression on a podcast. I lovethe idea of showing up with my
bad hair, Dave. Well, one of thethings, you know, Frenchie, one
of the original pink ladies,sent me a video and she reminded
me of the pink lady pledge, andI'm not gonna quote it because
it's not true for me, all of it,but she said, you gotta be cool,
(08:15):
you gotta look cool, you know,and I'm like, okay, here we go.
So I'm 69. I'm gonna be 70.
But I thought it would be fun tohave a little part of every
podcast dedicated to what'scool. Like, I wanna know what's
cool. Don't everybody want to bein the cool cats club but you
know, so, I'm going to say, whatis cool for you?
Diana (08:42):
Well, of course, you know, it's going to be based on
health but peptides are such athing that's being talked about
so much.
Sandy (08:51):
Wait, wait, wait, wait, Peptides?
Diana (08:54):
Yes. Give it to me now. What's a peptide? Well, I'll
give you an example. A peptideis GHK CU.
Tony Robbins has a whole chapterin his book Life Force about
peptides and what they all do.There's one that helps you
sleep. There's all differentpeptides but the GHK CU is good
(09:17):
for your hair, your skin, youreyesight. Of course I'm
interested in what's going onwith my hair and my skin
particularly And I can tell thedifference. So I also I, I think
it's cool to always, I've madeit a habit to always know what's
(09:42):
going on, to be a part of theconversation regardless of who
you're with or if it's a groupof ladies or if it's a group of
men that you can be a part ofthe conversation.
And so you have to keep up withwhat's going on, whether it's
sports or headlines or politicsor you just and it's easy. You
(10:05):
don't think that it's as easy asit is. But you can do that
without ever turning yourtelevision on. You can just, you
know, look at your phone, andthere's so many subjects.
Sandy (10:16):
So you're saying You need to know something about. You're
saying be relevant. Yes. Like,join the join the world. Be be
relevant.
Alright. Now my cool thing isway different. I gotta tell you.
Now for those of you who listento this podcast, you're not
gonna see this, but it's onpinkladyposse.com. These are my
(10:37):
shoes for today.
These are my Snoop dog cool catshoes. I love them. Have to tell
I have to
Diana (10:48):
tell the story. I had some solid limestone tennis
shoes and I wore them everywherewe went. Well when Sandy got
married, she bought her a pairof those solid rhinestone tennis
shoes and those were her shoeswalking down the aisle.
Sandy (11:09):
They are.
Diana (11:10):
And that was cool. Many people stopped me and asked me
about those shoes.
Sandy (11:15):
Well, they're Betsy Johnson, rhinestone tennis
shoes. I mean, there's somethingcooler than that. The other
thing I wanna say that's cool isthat there's a movie on Netflix
called Live to a 100, and yousay worth a watch.
Diana (11:32):
I I think that it's important to watch it. It's
about the blue zones, and one ofthem is in Loma Linda,
California. One's in Italy,Sardinia, and Okinawa. There's
so many studies because thesepeople in these blue zones live
to be 100 plus. And so they'restudying them to find out what
they what do they do.
(11:53):
But just talking about the bluezones, you know, it's it's what
they eat. It's their movement.But more than anything, it's a
sense of community.
Sandy (12:02):
I think I told you I was doing research for the pink lady
posse and the average 60 yearold woman will live twenty six
more years and, like, ninethousand five hundred days.
Longer than it took to have yourkids, put them through school,
and have them leave the house.Right? So we've got twenty six
(12:27):
years and nine thousand days.That's what this podcast is
about.
How can you start and and Iforget the sentence, but it's
goes from what now to now what?
Diana (12:40):
I love that. Instead of what now with a sad face and
like what's gonna happen now?It's what's next? That awesome?
Yeah.
Sandy (12:53):
Diane, I wanna ask you, if you were going to give one
piece of advice to anyonelistening to this podcast, this
is it. This is your shot. Whatis your one piece of advice?
Diana (13:09):
Well, most people that know me think that it would be
have something to do with healthand longevity. But I just I just
think it's so important that youhave a bucket list, that you
have a purpose, that you everyday when you get up, there's
something important that youwant to do and accomplish that
(13:32):
day.
Sandy (13:32):
Well, I wanna thank you so much for being here. You
know, I love you to pieces. Ilove what you represent in the
world, what you represent to me,and, I can't wait to, see how
this podcast develops. And itstarted with you, Diana D.
Diana (13:49):
I love that! Thank you Sandy!
Sandy (13:51):
So good to be with you! Every week we're going to have
what we're calling a pink powerpush. July is here and we're not
just lighting fireworks we'relighting ourselves up. This
month we're declaringindependence from shoulds,
shame, smallness and silence.Grab the free printable workbook
(14:16):
and join us in reclaim yourvoice, your sparkle, and your
spot in the sparklight.
You can grab that atpinkladyposse.com. Look for the
podcast. Week one, we aredeclaring our independence from
declaring our independence fromshoulds. Ask yourself, what
(14:39):
should are you ready to release?And we want you to post your
freedom from shoulds statementin the Facebook group.
This is your permission slip tobe unapologetically you. Thank
you so much for being with us atInvisible Glitter for women
(15:00):
aging with attitude andsparkles. Go to
pinkladyposse.com where you willfind replays, links, and show
notes. Wanna know when the newepisodes launch? Be sure and
sign up for the glitter list.
So join us and enjoy beinglinked into our community of
bold, brilliant women who areredefining their next chapter
(15:21):
together. Invisible Glitter isfree to listen to and a proud
founding podcast of the LiminalNetwork. Please rate and review
the show on Apple Podcasts,Spotify, or wherever you listen
to your podcast. Share thisepisode and all of your favorite
ones with a friend and on socialmedia.
Welcome to Invisible Glitter, the podcast for women
aging with attitude andsparkles. I'm Sandy Parker,
founder of the Pink Lady Posse,coach, cheerleader, and your
connector in chief for whateveryou need to go from what now to
what's next. Each episode bringsreal stories of women rewriting
(00:22):
their lives, leaving us withtools we can use and inspiration
that motivates. Because yournext chapter, it's not about
winding down. It's aboutlighting up, and the most
powerful glitter is the kind noone sees coming.
Let's go. I am Sandy Parker withPink Lady Posse, and you're
listening to Invisible Glitter,the podcast for aging with
(00:47):
attitude and sparkle. So I amhere today with Diana Dee, who I
love, love, love Diana Dee, andshe's kinda my idol, to tell you
the truth. But, we've known eachother since, I don't know, the
eighties. Diana has been inradio on the top morning show,
TV, radio, everywhere inbetween.
(01:10):
Since the seventy sixth year andI was on the radio with her and
her amazing husband, Lou Dee andI just wanna say, hey, Diana.
Welcome.
Diana (01:22):
Thank you, Sandy.
Sandy (01:24):
You know why I want you here on the very first podcast
is because you are my wingwoman.
Diana (01:31):
Well, we have done a lot of things together, haven't we?
Sandy (01:34):
I know. Well, I remember Lou on, we would get up at what
was it? 04:00 in the morning tobe on the radio at what the heck
was that about? And I would justcrawl out of bed and go to the
radio station. He go, what iswith that hair?
And I'm like, would say, look,Lou, it doesn't matter what my,
I'm so much more important thanmy hair.
Diana (01:57):
You should have Facebook radio. Our hair did for radio.
Sandy (02:01):
Is that what he said? Well, you know what's funny is
my hair, I've been using thatrudest and I think it's almost
as thick as the promo picture.No kidding. Yeah. Yeah.
Somebody said, man, that's agood that's a good day, a good
hair day. I'm like, yeah, it wasa real good hair day. Anyway,
(02:22):
I'm I'm glad you're here andwhat we're talking about is
aging with attitude and sparkle.So, I wanna ask you a couple of
things about your life and I'mreally curious to know the first
time you remember reinventingyourself.
Diana (02:44):
Oh, okay. I know that so well. First of all, I think we
probably need to establish thefact that I'm 82 years old now,
about to be 80 And so I canspeak for some of those ladies
out there that are seekingadvice. But the first time that
I reinvented myself living inMuleshoe, Texas, my husband was
(03:07):
a farmer and we were farmingcotton. And I remember helping
move the irrigation pipe and itbeing full of water and mud and
my son that was in the sixthgrade I mean in the second grade
(03:27):
he's helping me.
I'm walking in mud up to myknees lifting the heavy pipe and
I thought there has got to besomething better than this. I'm
not doing this all my life. So,that was when I started
(03:48):
reinventing myself.
Sandy (03:49):
Yeah, okay. So, that was a lot of years ago.
Diana (03:54):
Oh, yeah. Long time ago.
Sandy (03:55):
But isn't it interesting how that moment stuck with you
and altered your life forever?
Diana (04:03):
Yeah, I just remember saying I'm not doing this and
life has a way of just you knowtaking turns sometimes that you
don't have any control over andas it did that year was the year
a lot of farmers out there willremember that it came a freeze
in September, froze the crop,never harvested a bottle of
(04:25):
cotton and that's when I endedup going to work and started in
the fashion industry.
Sandy (04:32):
Now you were at Latham's, right?
Diana (04:34):
Yes, I was. He eventually let me do all the advertising,
the owner of Latham's, but I wasa buyer for the contemporary
department.
Sandy (04:44):
So you and a girlfriend came up
Diana (04:45):
with an idea. What tell me about your strategy? Well I
just thought you know you canget in a rut so easy and so to
avoid getting in a rut and I hada couple girlfriends that we
went to lunch together every dayI said we've got to do something
different that you're we don'tget in a rut I'm gonna drive to
work a different way every dayI'm gonna you know came up with
(05:09):
all these different ideas and Isaid I know we go to lunch every
day let's go to a differentplace every day for lunch and so
we did until we ran out ofplaces to go to lunch. One day
when it was my turn to pick Isaid okay we're going by a
hamburger place we're going to apark and we're going to have a
(05:30):
picnic. So it was just a funthing that we did to keep from
getting in a rut.
Sandy (05:35):
Well, and you were to Muleshoe. You were in Lubbock,
right? Right. So you'd alreadychanged your course of action,
but it's possible to run out ofrestaurants. Well, you're now
82, you said.
82 or three?
Diana (05:51):
I'm 82. I'll be 83 in October.
Sandy (05:54):
Now, how have you gone through so many years and look
the way you do like, what isyour
Diana (06:04):
secret? Well one thing that I can say for sure I'm a
lifelong learner, lifelonglearners live life longer and
I'm a reader I even when welived in Muleshoe and I wasn't
working except to help out onthe farm I went to the library
(06:24):
every day and checked out books.I read and read and I just feel
like that you're expanding everywhen you read you're expanding
your brain and it never goesback to the size it was before
you expanded it. I also feltlike first impressions are so
(06:45):
important and I have always gotup did my hair put my makeup on
you know I've heard the sayingdon't ever go to the grocery
store without your makeup on. OhDiana that is horrible.
Well just think about it youmight run into your ex husband
or his new wife so it doesn'tmatter where you go you've got
(07:08):
to have your makeup on have yourhair done dress you don't have
to always dress up but you knowlook nice grooming is very
important
Sandy (07:20):
well now that's why you look the way you do because I
have a lady at church and shealways says don't go on that
Facebook without your makeup.You know, I'm like, true. It
just drives her crazy becausesometimes I'm like, look. You
gotta take me like I am. That'swithout makeup.
Diana (07:37):
Yeah. I even even started a program that I talked to
different groups called Do YouNever Get a Second Chance to
Make a First Impression. Andit's amazing how you're always
judged by that first impression.So it's important.
Sandy (07:53):
Well, I tell you what, maybe the trailer is my first
impression on a podcast. I lovethe idea of showing up with my
bad hair, Dave. Well, one of thethings, you know, Frenchie, one
of the original pink ladies,sent me a video and she reminded
me of the pink lady pledge, andI'm not gonna quote it because
it's not true for me, all of it,but she said, you gotta be cool,
(08:15):
you gotta look cool, you know,and I'm like, okay, here we go.
So I'm 69. I'm gonna be 70.
But I thought it would be fun tohave a little part of every
podcast dedicated to what'scool. Like, I wanna know what's
cool. Don't everybody want to bein the cool cats club but you
know, so, I'm going to say, whatis cool for you?
Diana (08:42):
Well, of course, you know, it's going to be based on
health but peptides are such athing that's being talked about
so much.
Sandy (08:51):
Wait, wait, wait, wait, Peptides?
Diana (08:54):
Yes. Give it to me now. What's a peptide? Well, I'll
give you an example. A peptideis GHK CU.
Tony Robbins has a whole chapterin his book Life Force about
peptides and what they all do.There's one that helps you
sleep. There's all differentpeptides but the GHK CU is good
(09:17):
for your hair, your skin, youreyesight. Of course I'm
interested in what's going onwith my hair and my skin
particularly And I can tell thedifference. So I also I, I think
it's cool to always, I've madeit a habit to always know what's
(09:42):
going on, to be a part of theconversation regardless of who
you're with or if it's a groupof ladies or if it's a group of
men that you can be a part ofthe conversation.
And so you have to keep up withwhat's going on, whether it's
sports or headlines or politicsor you just and it's easy. You
(10:05):
don't think that it's as easy asit is. But you can do that
without ever turning yourtelevision on. You can just, you
know, look at your phone, andthere's so many subjects.
Sandy (10:16):
So you're saying You need to know something about. You're
saying be relevant. Yes. Like,join the join the world. Be be
relevant.
Alright. Now my cool thing isway different. I gotta tell you.
Now for those of you who listento this podcast, you're not
gonna see this, but it's onpinkladyposse.com. These are my
(10:37):
shoes for today.
These are my Snoop dog cool catshoes. I love them. Have to tell
I have to
Diana (10:48):
tell the story. I had some solid limestone tennis
shoes and I wore them everywherewe went. Well when Sandy got
married, she bought her a pairof those solid rhinestone tennis
shoes and those were her shoeswalking down the aisle.
Sandy (11:09):
They are.
Diana (11:10):
And that was cool. Many people stopped me and asked me
about those shoes.
Sandy (11:15):
Well, they're Betsy Johnson, rhinestone tennis
shoes. I mean, there's somethingcooler than that. The other
thing I wanna say that's cool isthat there's a movie on Netflix
called Live to a 100, and yousay worth a watch.
Diana (11:32):
I I think that it's important to watch it. It's
about the blue zones, and one ofthem is in Loma Linda,
California. One's in Italy,Sardinia, and Okinawa. There's
so many studies because thesepeople in these blue zones live
to be 100 plus. And so they'restudying them to find out what
they what do they do.
(11:53):
But just talking about the bluezones, you know, it's it's what
they eat. It's their movement.But more than anything, it's a
sense of community.
Sandy (12:02):
I think I told you I was doing research for the pink lady
posse and the average 60 yearold woman will live twenty six
more years and, like, ninethousand five hundred days.
Longer than it took to have yourkids, put them through school,
and have them leave the house.Right? So we've got twenty six
(12:27):
years and nine thousand days.That's what this podcast is
about.
How can you start and and Iforget the sentence, but it's
goes from what now to now what?
Diana (12:40):
I love that. Instead of what now with a sad face and
like what's gonna happen now?It's what's next? That awesome?
Yeah.
Sandy (12:53):
Diane, I wanna ask you, if you were going to give one
piece of advice to anyonelistening to this podcast, this
is it. This is your shot. Whatis your one piece of advice?
Diana (13:09):
Well, most people that know me think that it would be
have something to do with healthand longevity. But I just I just
think it's so important that youhave a bucket list, that you
have a purpose, that you everyday when you get up, there's
something important that youwant to do and accomplish that
(13:32):
day.
Sandy (13:32):
Well, I wanna thank you so much for being here. You
know, I love you to pieces. Ilove what you represent in the
world, what you represent to me,and, I can't wait to, see how
this podcast develops. And itstarted with you, Diana D.
Diana (13:49):
I love that! Thank you Sandy!
Sandy (13:51):
So good to be with you! Every week we're going to have
what we're calling a pink powerpush. July is here and we're not
just lighting fireworks we'relighting ourselves up. This
month we're declaringindependence from shoulds,
shame, smallness and silence.Grab the free printable workbook
(14:16):
and join us in reclaim yourvoice, your sparkle, and your
spot in the sparklight.
You can grab that atpinkladyposse.com. Look for the
podcast. Week one, we aredeclaring our independence from
declaring our independence fromshoulds. Ask yourself, what
(14:39):
should are you ready to release?And we want you to post your
freedom from shoulds statementin the Facebook group.
This is your permission slip tobe unapologetically you. Thank
you so much for being with us atInvisible Glitter for women
(15:00):
aging with attitude andsparkles. Go to
pinkladyposse.com where you willfind replays, links, and show
notes. Wanna know when the newepisodes launch? Be sure and
sign up for the glitter list.
So join us and enjoy beinglinked into our community of
bold, brilliant women who areredefining their next chapter
(15:21):
together. Invisible Glitter isfree to listen to and a proud
founding podcast of the LiminalNetwork. Please rate and review
the show on Apple Podcasts,Spotify, or wherever you listen
to your podcast. Share thisepisode and all of your favorite
ones with a friend and on socialmedia.
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