The amazing Kate Casey.

Welcome back for another episode of Reality Life with Kate Casey.

I hope that you have had a great new year and I've got a great episode for you today.

Remember I told you to watch a show on Netflix called Members Only Palm Beach while I've got a cast member with me today.

Palm Beach, it seems like a place slightly outside

of time. It's manicured mythic. It's where the ocean sparkles just a little bit brighter. The hedges

are always perfectly trimmed and tradition quietly dictates who sits where, who's invited, and who truly belongs.

Long before it became a headline-making zip code, Palm Beach was designed as a seasonal refuge

for America's ultra-wealthy. It was never meant to be a year-round home destination. It was a winter

address, a second or third home for families

who had already claimed Newport, the Hamptons, Park Avenue, and Palm Beach Society itself.

So you would arrive for the season, you followed the calendar, and you played your role.

From Henry Flager's original vision to the rise of these private clubs that still

quietly governed social life today, Palm Beach became less about real estate and more about

belonging. Wealth alone was never enough. Access, inherited, curated, protected. And those clubs,

they matter. Charity boards, they matter. Who introduced you and who

vouched for you? That mattered most of all. Palm Beach, I wouldn't say it's really that

flashy because it doesn't need to be. Its power lives in the understatement, in discretion,

and the unspoken understanding that not everybody who can afford to be there will ever

truly be in. But like every closed system, Palm Beach, it could be changing because surprisingly,

there's a reality show there. Now, it's my understanding that they can't really film inside Palm Beach,

but the fact that there

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