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
Bad bosses: why are they like that and what to do if you have one!
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We’ve all had them. Bad bosses. From the infuriating to the bad habits to the downright dangerous.
Whether it’s your first job and not knowing how you should react to something that seems off, or you’re in a senior role and someone is trying to move you out, dealing with a bad boss is tricky.
In this episode, we swap stories about some experiences with bad bosses and also look at the very real impact they can have on engagement and productivity.
You’ll learn:
- What impact bad bosses can have on the organisation
- What might cause them to become bad bosses
- Some crazy examples of bad bosses the Perkins family has worked for
- What to do when it’s seriously impacting you or you feel unsafe
- How you can deal with it day-to-day while you figure out what next
While some of these examples are funny to look back on now, when you’re working for a bad boss it can feel miserable.
So if you feel like you’re working for a bad boss, listen in and compare your story with ours.
Hit play now.
1.05 Some of Chris’ bad boss examples
2.18 Lily’s take on bad bosses
3.39 Facts and figures on the damage bad bosses can do
5.45 What causes people to be a bad boss?
19.19 Bad boss story: the letter
12.00 Bad boss story: mind-numbing tasks and round the clock contact
16.34 Bad boss story: boss skimming tips
17.58 Bad boss story: concocting things to trigger a performance plan
18.40 bad boss story: the passive-aggressive misogynist
19.25 When it’s serious - what to do if you have a bad boss
21.05 Dealing with a bad boss day-to-day - what you can control
Connect with us:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/chrisperkins172/
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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