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.
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The Gen X/Z Exchange: Navigating Career, Purpose & Modern Life Across Generations
How to tell if you’ve got Imposter Syndrome - and what to do about it
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If you’re feeling like a fraud, like you aren’t good enough, or you’re going to get found out at work - you’ve got Imposter Syndrome.
This isn’t about not being good at your job. In fact, you know you’re more than competent - you just have this nagging feeling that you’re out of your depth and it’s all going to go horribly wrong any day now.
Those feelings of being out of your depth or inadequate are more common than you think.
In this episode we unpack just how common it is - across both generations. So if you’re feeling you must be the only one who feels this way, listen in and be reassured that your colleagues, young and old, have probably all felt Imposter Syndrome at some point.
You’ll learn:
- The five main types of Imposter Syndrome
- How to tell when these feelings are creeping in
- What you can do about it
We talk about our own experiences of feeling it at school and work and how it shows up now, and the techniques we use to combat it.
We talk about its origins in the 70s in observations of high-achieving women and, unfortunately, how not a lot has changed in the last fifty years.
And, if you’ve recently experienced a layoff, we talk about the impact that can have and how not to let yourself feel your Imposter Syndrome has been proved right.
So if you’re constantly thinking you’re about to be found out, listen in and feel reassured that most people around you are thinking exactly the same thing!
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3.10 Defining Imposter Syndrome
4.05 Some research on Imposter Syndrome
6.24 Five different types of Imposter Syndrome
11.50 What causes it?
17.45 Three ways of reframing Imposter Syndrome
20.36 The impact of a layoff on feeling Imposter Syndrome
21.38 Three things Gen Z can do to deal with it
23.45 How Gen X’s approach is different
24.30 How we can all get better at facing down the imposters in us
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https://www.linkedin.com/in/lily-perkins-8446a82bb/
The Gen X/Z Exchange is a UK podcast exploring career change, purpose, wellbeing and modern life through honest conversations between a Gen X dad and his Gen Z daughter - helping you navigate life’s transitions with perspective across generations.
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