Slate Money - Money on the Mind: Prepping for Retirement Without Losing Your Mind
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4.5 • 6K Ratings
🗓️ 6 November 2025
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
In a new, very special, Death, Sex and 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? What apps should I delete? They’re joined by Felix’s financial advisor Adrianna Adams from Domain Money, to dig into these questions and so much more.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to what the hell is this Anna. |
| 0:10.0 | We're chatting again about money, Slate Money, DSM, Depsex and Money mashup. |
| 0:17.0 | We are, this is the greatest crossover event of the century. |
| 0:22.1 | This is, this is where Slate Money, where we nerd out about finance and money stuff, 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, |
| 0:39.7 | death, sex and money. Anna, you are the heart, if I am the brain. I'm not much of a brain, |
| 0:45.9 | but you are, you definitely have, you have brain and heart. And we are here to talk a little bit |
| 0:51.1 | about the emotional side of money, which I feel is something that people |
| 0:55.0 | don't talk enough about. Here's how I think of it. If you've ever pulled up a retirement calculator |
| 1:01.6 | and tried to figure out if you're on track, we're going to talk about all the things that come up |
| 1:06.9 | in your body. You talk about when you put in those numbers. |
| 1:11.6 | Exactly. |
| 1:12.6 | So I know, this is great. |
| 1:13.6 | And I, and if everyone who's watching this on the YouTube, which is the perfect place to watch this, the other person here is genuinely, for real Z, no joke, my financial advisor. |
| 1:25.6 | Adriana, welcome. Introduce yourself. Hi, Felix and Anna. Thank you so |
| 1:31.5 | much for having me. I'm really excited to chat today. As you introduced, I'm Adriana Adams. I am the head |
| 1:37.1 | of financial planning at Domain Money, but I'm also a certified financial planner, which is really |
| 1:43.2 | just a fancy way of saying I help people deal with their money every day. |
| 1:47.2 | So, okay, so you help people deal with their money. And this is the thing that I have realized. I first realized this about 10 years or so ago when I was talking to someone who was working for one of the big Swiss bank, um, |
| 2:03.1 | private banks. And they were talking about the people who do, you know, they, they look after |
| 2:07.5 | the money of very, very rich families. People who bank with private banks. People who bank with |
| 2:13.5 | private banks. Exactly. And they were saying that in when they were recruiting people into this job of being a private |
| 2:21.1 | banker in Switzerland, the place that they recruited was not business schools. |
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