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Talking Real Money - Investing Talk

Retiremeet 2026 Part One

Talking Real Money - Investing Talk

Don McDonald

Investing, Education, Business, How To

4.5810 Ratings

🗓️ 10 March 2026

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Broadcast live from RetireMeet in Bellevue, Don announces that after nearly four decades of Saturday radio shows, Talking Real Money will end its live radio run on March 28 and continue exclusively as a podcast. The episode features conversations with Joe Saul-Sehy of Stacking Benjamins and Morningstar’s Christine Benz about how people should approach retirement. The central theme is flipping the traditional process: design the life first and the money second. Guests emphasize “play-testing” ...

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0:00.0

Reality Radio for a really great future.

0:08.0

We're talking real money.

0:09.9

Hey there, Puget Sound people listening on the radio and all of you listening on your electronic devices around the world.

0:19.6

And then, of course, all of you listening in a couple of days

0:22.7

on the podcast, I know it's very confusing. But you'll get it. Trust me. You'll get this down.

0:29.6

And it's really important that you get it down now because, well, I got some news for you. I'll

0:36.6

give it to you in a minute.

0:38.4

Hi there.

0:44.3

I'm Don McDonald live in Seattle on a Saturday, which doesn't happen very often.

0:54.4

I am here at RetireMeet, the annual get-together, and we've been doing these for like 11, 12 years, something like that.

0:55.9

I don't know the exact number I lost count.

0:56.2

I'm old.

0:57.3

I don't remember.

0:59.1

So welcome to the program.

1:04.8

Remember, you can call us on Saturdays live at 855-935-935-25-talk.

1:07.3

8-5-9-35-8-25-5.

1:15.2

Now, because we're at retire meet, we have a lot of great speakers speaking at retire meet. And today on the program, we're going to have a couple of those great speakers speak to you,

1:22.4

which is what speakers do. They speak. We have Joel Sol-Sehi eating his sandwich. How is that, by the way, Joe?

1:31.1

Good turkey sandwich. They do. They have great sandwiches here at Maidenvirus Center. And Debbie's here.

1:38.2

Hiding out behind me. She's just wrangling people. But she's not going to be on the show. She doesn't go on shows anymore.

1:43.3

She did that back in the 80s. Didn't go so well. So we're not doing that again. That experiment was a failure.

1:49.9

And also joining me in just a moment, as soon as I break the news to you, and this is a terrible

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