A Big Announcement, the Realities of Burnout & Semi-Retirement, and Buying Gold

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Money with Katie

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🗓️ 29 October 2025

⏱️ 80 minutes

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In today’s episode of Rich Girl Roundup: 👀 A little more about the changes coming at the end of the year 🏖️ Whether mini retirements or “semi-retirements” are unrealistic (and talking through a few remaining tactical questions) 🔥 Some burnout-reduction tips we’ve been experimenting with 📍 Thoughts on shifting asset allocation away from US dominance without jeopardizing 4% rule “eligibility” 🥇 What to make of the increasingly popular advice to buy gold Subscribe to our Wednesday email: https://moneywithkatie.com/newsletter Get your copy of Rich Girl Nation, recently named one of Barnes & Noble's Best Business Books of 2025:⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://moneywithkatie.com/rich-girl-nation⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Transcripts, show notes, resources, and credits will be available within a week at: ⁠⁠https://moneywithkatie.com/burnout-retirement. — Money with Katie’s mission is to be the intersection where the economic, cultural, and political meet the tactical, practical, personal finance education everyone needs. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	All of the water levels around the world rise by, let's take, five feet.
0:06.3	You think that people aren't going to just sell their homes and move?
0:08.8	Just want small problems.
0:10.8	Sell their house in for who, Ben?
0:13.0	Fucking Aquaman!
0:14.4	Girl Roundup!
0:18.7	Welcome back to another Money with Kitty show, Rich Girl Roundup.
0:23.5	I am, of course, Katie Adi Tossan in every few episodes.
0:27.4	My executive producer, Hena, and I sit down to discuss listener questions,
0:31.7	follow-up thoughts, and other material that just doesn't make the cut for its own full-length episode. So, Hena, where
0:39.7	would you like to start today?
0:42.7	Hi, Kitty. Let's start with the announcement that went out this morning in the newsletter. It's a
0:46.8	pretty big announcement. Yes. So, if you are a newsletter subscriber, you already know this,
0:52.7	but at the end of this year, I am bringing
0:55.8	money with Katie back to its humble, independent roots, and I am buying the brand back from
1:03.6	Morning Brew. So this is a pretty momentous occasion for me, partly because it gives me the
1:09.0	ability to step back and just think a little bit
1:11.9	more critically about what I want to spend my time working on moving forward. I think I have a
1:16.4	tendency to just like do everything, which exists in constant tension with my other tendency to
1:21.5	not be able to like half-ass stuff. So this creates kind of a negative end result of me constantly putting myself in situations where I feel spread thin and then complaining incessantly about it.
1:32.7	And so I'm going to stop doing that.
1:34.9	And I realized I needed to kind of take a step back and prioritize.
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