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
The Gen X/Z Quiz - how much do you know about the other generation?
Use Left/Right to seek, Home/End to jump to start or end. Hold shift to jump forward or backward.
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
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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