Topics Hub

Topics that run across the show. Each hub gathers every episode on the subject, from every generation.

• 9/11 Experiences & Memories

  4 episodes

  A where-were-you day for this generation, remembered by guests whose lives ran through New York and the military.

• Divorce & Co-Parenting

  23 episodes

  Growing up through it, living through it, and rebuilding after, across every generation.

• Addiction & Recovery

  9 episodes

  Sobriety, growing up around substances, and the long road back, told by people who lived it.

• Women's Midlife Health & Menopause

  7 episodes

  Perimenopause, thyroid and pelvic health, and reclaiming your energy, the conversations GenX women weren't handed growing up.

• Military & Veteran Life

  7 episodes

  Those who served and those who grew up in the ranks, from the Navy through 9/11 to a Bosnia deployment.

• Dating & Modern Relationships

  7 episodes

  How dating actually works now, across the generations, from GenZ's app era to starting over after divorce.

• Music & Concert Memories

  6 episodes

  Working musicians, first concerts, and the MTV-era soundtrack that scored a generation's youth.

• Entrepreneurs & Founders

  14 episodes

  Startup founders, coaches, and creators who built something of their own, across GenX, millennials, and GenZ.

• Grief & Loss

  8 episodes

  Losing a parent young, carrying grief into adulthood, and the turning points that come out of it.

• Immigrant Family Stories

  5 episodes

  Families who crossed oceans, kids raised between cultures, and the weight of being first-generation.

• Trauma & Breaking Cycles

  10 episodes

  Growing up in chaos, naming what happened, and choosing to parent and live differently.

• Creators & Podcasters

  11 episodes

  The GenXers who built an audience, a podcast, or a brand, often reinventing themselves in midlife.

• Coaches, Therapists & Healers

  8 episodes

  Guests who turned their own hard-won lessons into helping others: coaching, therapy, and healing work.

• Parenting & Raising Kids

  9 episodes

  Raising kids as a GenXer, from latchkey independence to smartphones, adult children, and doing it differently.

• Authors & Storytellers

  6 episodes

  Guests who turned their lives into books, screenplays, and stories, making meaning out of the hard parts.

• GenX Childhood & 80s/90s Culture

  5 episodes

  Latchkey kids, MTV, mixtapes, and the analog childhood that made GenX who they are.

• Hot Topics & GenX Takes

  5 episodes

  The hosts off the interview couch, weighing in on the debates, culture, and controversies of the moment.

• Health, Wellness & Chronic Illness

  6 episodes

  Sobriety, midlife fitness, and living with chronic conditions, health as a GenX reckoning.