Money on the Mind: Can You Save for Retirement ... and Save Your Parents?
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4.5 • 6K Ratings
🗓️ 13 November 2025
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
In a new, very special, Death, Sex and Money and Slate Money crossover, Felix Salmon and Anna Sale are once again joined by Felix’s financial advisor Adrianna Adams from Domain Money to talk about…parents. They dig into the emotions of trying to take care of your aging parents while also growing your own wealth, the importance of setting goals, and to do with aging children AND aging parents at the same time, and so much more. Plus! Rent or buy?
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to Death, Sex, and Money. I'm Felix Salmon of Bloomberg. |
| 0:10.0 | Welcome to Slate Money. I'm Anna Sale. |
| 0:12.0 | We have crossed over. We have changed our job. |
| 0:16.0 | And for those of you who were here last time with Adriana Adams of Domain Money, I can tell you your infratrix because this time we have Adriana Adams of Domain Money. |
| 0:28.2 | Welcome back. |
| 0:29.7 | Thank you, guys. |
| 0:30.8 | I'm so happy to be here again. |
| 0:32.8 | Because we love you so much. |
| 0:34.1 | We cannot just have you on one show. |
| 0:36.2 | We need you back to help us even more with this intractable but fascinating subject of the sort of intersection of money and emotion. |
| 0:48.6 | And I have a kind of weird one for you this week, which is you were talking about the bookends last time. |
| 0:57.6 | You were talking about, do you have whatever liquidity you need to enjoy your life today? |
| 1:02.8 | And do you have the kind of savings you need to be able to be comfortable when you aren't |
| 1:07.8 | earning money anymore and you're an old? |
| 1:10.9 | And then the other big thing that always winds up happening in between, |
| 1:18.9 | in that like fuzzy middle ground that we don't care about so much, |
| 1:22.7 | is looking after your parents. |
| 1:28.0 | And suddenly, like, after all of those years when they were looking after you, you're |
| 1:33.4 | suddenly like, oh, shit, now I need to look after them. |
| 1:37.4 | And tell me a little bit about how people like, how you, people like you even think about that. |
| 1:45.4 | I'm a huge fan of taking care of yourself first, which can be shocking to some people, right? |
| 1:52.5 | Like in order to take care of other people, you need to take care of yourself. |
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