Money on the Mind: Prepping for Retirement Without Losing Your Mind

Death, Sex & Money

Slate Podcasts

Business, Health & Fitness, Society & Culture, Careers, Relationships, Sexuality

4.6 • 7.6K Ratings

🗓️ 8 November 2025

⏱️ 28 minutes

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In a new, very special Death, Sex & Money and Slate Money crossover, Felix Salmon and Anna Sale dig into the stressful world of financial advice and planning for retirement. How do you know if you’re set up financially to retire? Is it possible to think about retirement without having a panic attack? How much should you track your 401k? They’re joined by Felix’s financial advisor Adrianna Adams from Domain Money, to dig into these questions and so much more. For a visual experience, you can watch this episode on YouTube. Podcast production by Cheyna Roth. Video production by Micah Phillips. Get more Death, Sex & Money with Slate Plus! Join for exclusive bonus episodes of DSM and ad-free listening on all your favorite Slate podcasts. Subscribe from the Death, Sex & Money show page on Apple Podcasts or Spotify. Or, visit slate.com/dsmplus to get access wherever you listen. If you’re new to the show, welcome. We’re so glad you’re here. Find us and follow us on Instagram and you can find Anna’s newsletter at annasale.substack.com. Our email address, where you can reach us with voice memos, pep talks, questions, critiques, is [email protected]. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey, it's Anna, popping in with another special conversation with you about money from
0:06.6	death, sex and money and slate money, hosted by my colleague Felix Salmon. As I mentioned last
0:12.3	week, Felix and I have been getting on video calls together to talk about the most core
0:16.9	decisions we make about money and our big feelings around those decisions. In our first chat,
0:24.5	Felix and I discussed how your financial life is impacted when you raise kids of your own,
0:30.1	or don't. This week, we're talking about something that is coming for all of us, should we have
0:36.9	the privilege of aging, the question
0:39.4	of how to support yourself in old age, retirement. And for this chat, we were joined by Felix's
0:47.2	actual personal financial advisor, and she answered so many of our questions about how to
0:53.1	save for retirement and how to manage your feelings that come up when you are thinking about saving for retirement.
0:59.6	You can also watch this conversation on YouTube if you want to see how our faces contorted as we ask some of the scarier questions.
1:07.6	You can find that at YouTube.com slash slate. I hope you enjoy it.
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1:54.7	Hello, and welcome to what the hell is this, Anna.
2:01.8	We're chatting again about money, slate money, DSM, debt sex and money mashup.
2:06.3	We are, this is, this is the greatest crossover event of the century.
2:13.0	This is, this is where slate money, where we nerd out about finance and money stuff,
2:25.8	crosses over and is, and which is hosted by me, Felix Salmon of Bloomberg, crosses over and incorporates the best podcast in the entire slate universe, which is Anna Sales, death, sex and money.
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