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
Our Ultimate Guide to Friendship: from childhood BFFs to adult social circles
Is your social circle shrinking? Learn the rules of making and keeping friends, no matter your age.
Why is it so much harder to make new friends after school? From the playground to the workplace, the rules of friendship change drastically. In this Ultimate Guide, Chris and Lily break down the lifespan of your social circle.
We share our stories about those childhood BFFs and dive into the tough adult realities: different roles in a friendship group, what you risk ‘borrowing’ friends from your partner and the impact social media and AI is having on really connecting with your friends.
You’ll learn:
- How and why our friendships change as we get older
- Gender differences in friendships
- Why it’s nearly impossible to maintain more than 150 relationships in total
- Causes of loneliness
- How to manage friendship breakups
- How to get better at making and keeping friendships as an adult
If you've ever felt the pang of loneliness or wondered how to build a stronger crew, this episode is for you.
Whether you’re Gen X trying to juggle your friendships and your partner’s, or Gen Z figuring out social media's impact, listen in to transform your social circles and get better at the art of being a friend.
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1.34 Lily and Chris’ best friends
5.13 Defining friendship
6.37 Can you be friends with someone you’ve never met?
9.10 Loneliness limbo
10.40 Earliest friendships
15.48 Gender differences in friendships
21.15 Social media’s impact on friendships
23.30 Dunbar’s number explained (why you can only handle about 150 social relationships)
25.56 Roles in a female friendship group
29.40 Roles in a male friendship group (spoiler: not as many!)
30.45 Are your friendships ‘side-by-side’ or ‘face-to-face’?
34.00 The risks of ‘borrowed’ friends
36.19 Ways to overcome loneliness
37.53 Modern solutions to creating new friendships
40.55 Friendship breakups
42.42 How to get better at making friends and keeping friends
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