Before we get going, I want to make sure you heard about a special conversation we dropped last week on Friday that's exclusive to Slate Plus members.

In it, I talked with Tom, whom you heard in our advice episode about living at a crossroads.

He was struggling with isolation because a seizure disorder is preventing him from driving, and he doesn't know if it's forever or a temporary

condition. I called Tom back and in your feed in that exclusive conversation you

can hear the two of us talk together with Anna Z-Varts, a disability

advocate who doesn't drive because of an eye condition. She just wrote a new book

called When driving is not an option,

steering away from car dependency.

I learned a lot of things in our conversation,

but it was also really special to hear Anna and Tom

connect, after Tom had sounded so stranded. Anna and Tom

so stranded when he first reached out to us for advice.

This is our first exclusive Slate Plus member only drop in your feed, and there will be more of them.

It is part of our effort to try to encourage you to join in and support the financial

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To become a Slate Plus member, just click Try Free at the top of the Death Sex and Money Show

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Today's new episode also started from a listener email.

It arrived in my inbox a few months back and in it the

listener were calling Vivian told me about an obsession with food and weight that

had morphed into an obsession with money and budgeting.

She wrote, the restriction that once applied to calories found a new outlet in my approach

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