The Gen X/Z Exchange
You might be wondering why you aren’t happier, where your career is going, or feeling adrift without a clear sense of direction. You’re asking, “How do I figure out what I’m even supposed to be doing?”
If you feel that familiar knot of confusion, dissatisfaction, or just plain stuckness, you've just found your kindred spirits.
This is The Gen X/Z Exchange. Where a Gen X dad and his Gen Z daughter bridge the generational divide to tackle modern life’s biggest headaches.
These aren't just your problems, they're the unspoken struggles of an entire generation - or two!
You're not alone in battling the quiet anxieties of a life that feels off-kilter. Happiness can be hard to find. Perhaps concerns about your mental and physical wellbeing are always bubbling away. Your most important relationships might feel strained, or the relentless demands of your career and finances are leaving you exhausted. These are the universal whispers that, surprisingly, span generations. We can help you untangle all this.
Chris has navigated layoffs, career pivots and found happiness after the infamous midlife slump, while Lily is figuring out her career after changing her degree path and reflecting on her early choices in the world of work. Our different generational viewpoints bring new ideas to tackling the big issues we’re both grappling with.
We chat about all this with honesty, realism and the openness a father-daughter relationship brings.
Our candid conversations will help you realise that you’re not alone in feeling this way too. You’ll gain fresh perspectives, practical insights, and the comforting realisation that many of your worries are universal – and solvable.
We’ll get to the heart of your frustrations, offering solutions we figure out together that you won't find anywhere else.
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The Gen X/Z Exchange
How to tell if you’ve got Imposter Syndrome - and what to do about it
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/chrisperkins172/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/lily-perkins-8446a82bb/
