
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
The Gen X/Z Quiz - how much do you know about the other generation?
It’s an inter-generational battle!
Well, not quite. More a fun and light-hearted quiz on how much Gen X and Gen Z know about some of the defining aspects of the other generation’s formative years.
Ten questions each, four rounds:
- Popular culture (TV, movies and music)
- Historic events
- Youth culture
- Life and tech
If you’re Gen X, you’ll easily get full marks on the Gen X questions. Same for Gen Z on your questions. But that’s not the point.
How will you score on your knowledge of the events that shaped the other generation’s coming of age?
With a special guest joining Lily on team Gen Z, you’ll hear:
- Gen Z debate what was a New Romantic band
- Gen X completely flummoxed by which rapper got shot when
- Confusion over date format leading to a huge misunderstanding about a big Gen X historic event
- A Gen Z slang term that is actually made up of two normal words, not a mash-up
- How it all comes down to the last question….and which generation takes the win!
We promise neither side knew any of the questions in advance and the fact that it ended up being so close was a total fluke.
As well as having a bit of a laugh, there is an explanation of the context to each question, so you will learn something from this.
Let’s just say both generations have a lot to learn, and there will almost certainly be a rematch at some point…
Listen in and laugh at the other generation’s near-total absence of understanding about what was really important to you growing up. And test yourself on how well you’d do.
Hit play now.
2.40 Popular culture
10.30 Historic events
17.25 Youth culture
23.34 Life and tech
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