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
Launching on LinkedIn with Sarah Burgess - new grad or new job seeker? How to get started on LinkedIn
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If you’ve thought you need to be doing more with Linkedin, but don’t know how, this episode is for you. Whether you’re a student or new grad building your network, or a mid-career professional starting a job search, we break down how to get the most out of LinkedIn.
We’re joined by LinkedIn expert and career coach Sarah Burgess. For over 20 years Sarah has coached everyone from school leavers to C-suite execs, becoming an expert LinkedIn user along the way.
You’ll learn:
- The essentials of building your Linkedin profile
- LinkedIn etiquette for new users
- How to get started liking, commenting and posting (if you want to)
- Whether you should use AI for content
- How to get started job searching on LinkedIn
- How to get more recruiters looking at your profile
- Whether you should use the Open to Work green banner and LinkedIn Premium
We’ve split this episode in two, but Sarah offers so many great tips we think the whole episode is worth a listen, whatever stage you’re at!
To connect with Sarah about her workbooks and coaching, see below.
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3.25 Sarah’s journey to becoming a LinkedIn expert
PART ONE
6.15 Gen Z launching on LinkedIn - how to get started
6.53 Building your profile
7.57 Starting to build connections
8.20 Starting with liking and posting
9.08 Linkedin etiquette
10.52 What kind of posts get more engagement
12.25 The Three P’s for your post boundaries
13.22 How to get started with posting
14.20 Sophie Broome’s authentic, diary-like posts https://www.linkedin.com/in/sophie-broome/
15.05 What kind of tone of voice to use on LinkedIn
16.46 How to use your university’s alumni page for networking
18.13 Example of how powerful alumni connections can be
19.38 Shout out to our reviewers - Thank you!
20.25 How LinkedIn can help with your studies
22.34 Is there an acceptable amount of AI to use?
23.36 How JobMatch works
24.24 Sarah’s forthcoming workbooks
26.55 LinkedIn for Smart Students sessions and parent consultations on career choices
27.40 PART TWO
28.12 Gen X: the essential things to get started with LinkedIn’s job search capabilities
30.06 What’s the point - why should I bother?!
30.50 How to easily boost your visibility with people outside your network
31.20 How to get people looking at your profile - including recruiters
31.46 How commenting can showcase your expertise
33.21 Controversial topic 1: the green ‘Open to Work’ banner
35.54 The little known prompt the green banner triggers
37.18 The importance of ‘current role’ for recruiter searches - how to not be invisible
39.22 Controversial topic 2: LinkedIn Premium - is it worth it?
40.18 How taking the free trial and cancelling can work to your advantage
41.45 LinkedIn’s less well known features that are worth looking at
45.17 How to follow up with Sarah and learn more
Connect with Sarah Burgess
https://www.linkedin.com/in/sarahburgess/
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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Connect with us:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/chrisperkins172/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/lily-perkins-8446a82bb/
