The Gen X/Z Exchange

About The Gen X/Z Exchange

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.

Publisher

Chris and Lily Perkins

Category

education · society & culture

Language

en

Explicit

Yes

First episode

2 Jul 2025

Latest episode

9 Sept 2026

Latest episodes

35 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   9 Sept 2026

   Sabbatical Announcement

   We were so taken with the idea of a sabbatical from the last episode that we decided the podcast needed to take one. We will back in mid-December with a Gen X/Z Christmas Quiz! For the last few episodes, we'd been chasing our tails to get episodes recorded, edited and uploaded in time, and we need a little break to catch our breath and plan some new episodes to take us into 2027. If you have any topic ideas of suggestions for guests we could invite on, please send us a message using the Speak...

2. 

   26 Aug 2026

   What If We Borrowed Time From Retirement? How to Take a Sabbatical Every Decade

   What if, instead of saving all our freedom for retirement, we borrowed some of those years and sprinkled them throughout our working lives? Designer Stefan Sagmeister shuts down his entire business for a year every seven years. And research by DJ DiDonna, author of 'Big Time Off', suggests that people who take sabbaticals often describe them as some of the peak experiences of their lives — returning with less burnout, more creativity, stronger relationships and greater confidence to make chan...

3. 

   12 Aug 2026

   Why Does Gen Z Love Love Island? How Our Media Habits Are Changing

   Why does Gen Z still tune in every night for Love Island when they barely watch broadcast TV at all? And why do shows like 'Love Island' and 'The Traitors' still manage to get different generations sitting on the same sofa, rooting for their favourites, booing the villains and talking about what happened the next day? This episode starts with Chris trying to understand Lily's fascination with Love Island — and quickly turns into a much bigger conversation about how Gen X and Gen Z consume ent...

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

YouTube views

456

Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025

Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

4 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

9 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 46 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

53

Social presence

0

YouTube

63

Engagement

32

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