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 workplace: as seen on TV!
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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?
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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