The Gen X/Z Exchange: Navigating Career, Purpose & Modern Life Across Generations
Ever find yourself wondering why you aren’t happier, where your career is going, or why life suddenly feels uncertain — even when everything looks fine on paper?
If you’ve ever felt stuck, off-track, or unsure what comes next, you’re not alone.
The Gen X/Z Exchange is a life navigation podcast where a Gen X dad and his Gen Z daughter explore the biggest challenges facing modern life - from career direction and purpose to relationships, wellbeing, identity and the changing world of work.
Across generations but facing many of the same questions, Chris and Lily bring honest conversations and real-world perspective to the uncertainty so many people feel today. Chris has navigated layoffs, career pivots and the realities of midlife change, while Lily is figuring out early career decisions, identity and adulthood in a fast-changing world.
Together, they bridge generational perspectives to help you:
- make sense of career and life transitions
- navigate work and purpose in a changing economy
- improve relationships and wellbeing
- feel less alone in the challenges of modern life
These aren’t expert lectures or quick fixes. They’re candid conversations about figuring life out - together.
If you’re navigating a career change, questioning direction, dealing with midlife or quarterlife uncertainty, or simply trying to understand how life looks different across generations, this podcast is for you.
Follow us now and join a growing community learning how to navigate modern life - one honest conversation at a time.
The Gen X/Z Exchange: Navigating Career, Purpose & Modern Life Across Generations
Latest Episodes
Sabbatical Announcement
We were so taken with the idea of a sabbatical from the last episode that we decided the podcast needed to take one.We will back in mid-December with a Gen X/Z Christmas Quiz!For the last few episodes, we'd been chasing our tails ...
What If We Borrowed Time From Retirement? How to Take a Sabbatical Every Decade
What if, instead of saving all our freedom for retirement, we borrowed some of those years and sprinkled them throughout our working lives?Designer Stefan Sagmeister shuts down his entire business for a year every seven years. And resear...
Why Does Gen Z Love Love Island? How Our Media Habits Are Changing
Why does Gen Z still tune in every night for Love Island when they barely watch broadcast TV at all?And why do shows like 'Love Island' and 'The Traitors' still manage to get different generations sitting on the same so...
How to Find Meaning in Life (It's Not About Finding Your Purpose)
What if the biggest mistake we've all made about meaning is thinking we have to find it?If you've ever wondered "What am I supposed to do with my life?", felt pressure to discover your purpose, or questioned why your achievements haven't...
The Gen X/Z Quiz Returns! Who Knows More About the Other Generation? (Anniversary Special)
It's back... and this time we've brought reinforcements.One year after launching The Gen X/Z Exchange, we're celebrating our first birthday with a rematch of one of our most popular episodes: The Gen X/Z Quiz.When we star...