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 workplace: as seen on TV!
We spend time at work, think about work, talk about work and then come home and watch TV shows about work!
Would you love to message ‘Urgent exit required’ to get out of boring meetings?
Would you sever your work self from your self outside work?
Could you work in Carmy’s kitchen from ‘The Bear’?
We talk about what we can learn from the portrayals of different workplaces in our favourite TV shows.
You’ll learn:
- How Chris learned to launder money from a TV show
- Which show Lily thinks is the offspring of a workplace drama and a Black Mirror episode
- Why Lily would want to have a failing business just so Nathan Fielder could visit
- How Ted Lasso formed a new Perkins family Christmas tradition
Whether you could see yourself working in Suits, Succession or Schitt’s Creek, join us for this episode to hear about how we’ve actually applied some things from TV shows at our work and what these shows have taught us about the workplace.
If you love a show we haven’t discussed below, get in touch and let us know as we might revisit this topic in a future episode….
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1.10 Lily’s top TV shows
1.47 Chris’ top TV shows
2.40 The Office (UK)
3.26 THe Office (US)
4.15 Mad Men
5.26 Line of Duty
6.50 Brooklyn Nine-Nine
7.25 Severance
9.48 Parks & Recreation
10.36 The Bear
13.15 Schitt’s Creek
15.03 Ozark
17.30 Nathan for You
19.37 The Curse
20.25 Suits
21.33 Succession
22.26 Ted Lasso
24.15 What does all this mean for us?
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