Hosted by Robert Guess · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 26 episodes
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Gen X Crisis is a podcast about hitting your 50s and realizing you’re still trying to make sense of it all - career, identity, aging, purpose, and how we got here. And more importantly, where do we go from here? Hosted by Robert Guess, each episode features raw, honest, and often funny conversations with old friends, thinkers, and fellow GenXers navigating the complexities of midlife. From the exhaustion that follows decades of grinding to the disorientation of a world that feels increasingly unrecognizable, we explore what it means to slow down, redefine ambition, and find meaning in the chaos. We talk about aging, reinvention, the weirdness of midlife, and what it means to slow down, show up, and keep going when the world looks nothing like the one we grew up in. New episodes every week. Learn more or sign up at www.genxcri
Robert Guess hosts Gen X Crisis with Robert Guess, a society show with 26 episodes published.
What happens when you spend almost year digging into your past through conversations with GenXers about aging, purpose, identity, and the strangeness of midlife? If you’re me, you find a path to curing your own midlife c
In this week’s episode of Gen X Crisis, Robert expands the generational boundaries with his first non-Gen X guest, Felix McCormick, a Gen Z philosophy major at The University of Galway. Robert has known Felix since he wa
What if uncertainty isn’t something to escape but the space where reinvention begins? In this episode of Gen X Crisis, Robert talks with journalist, podcaster, and Substack writer Jonathan Small, whose career spans the m
What if reinvention means returning to the music that made you who you are? In this episode of Gen X Crisis, Rob talks with Rob Janicke, a writer and lifelong student of music whose book Slacker: 1991, Teen Spirit, Angst
What happens when your job becomes your identity - and then it’s gone? In this episode of Gen X Crisis, Robert talks with Marc Liepis, whose three-decade career took him from NBC publicity to producing late night with Ji
What if midlife is about redefining “selfish” as finally caring for yourself? In this episode of Gen X Crisis, Robert talks with writer Joanna Baxter for a conversation about resistance, recalibration, and midlife reinve
What if midlife isn’t a crisis - but a chance to reprogram the algorithm that’s been running your whole life? In this episode of Gen X Crisis, Robert sits down with Joanna Bissada, a former corporate lawyer turned execut
What holds us together as life keeps changing? In this episode of Gen X Crisis, Rob reconnects with musician and recording engineer Greg Curtis, nearly two decades after Greg produced Robert's The Letter Green EP in his
How do you redesign a life at 50 - agile and without regret? In this episode, Robert talks with technologist and agile coach Reggie Valentine, whose career spans reinsurance, dot-com media, and fintech. Reggie shares how
What does it mean to come of age as a “forgotten generation” - and carry those lessons into midlife? In this episode of Gen X Crisis, Robert talks with Liz LaPoint, writer and creator of GenXcellent on Substack, where sh
What if the only path to a purposeful life is working through your personal trauma? Rob sits down with writer and Gen Xy co-host Lawrence Winnerman to unpack how childhood loss, identity, and reinvention can become a pat
What happens when you leave your roots behind as a kid—and spend midlife searching for where you truly belong? In this episode of Gen X Crisis, Rob and his childhood friend George reflect on their parallel paths: Rob mov
What does a life spent managing global fragility teach us about navigating our own in midlife? In this episode of Gen X Crisis, Rob chats with his friend Jens Hesemann, a longtime international development leader whose 2
What if midlife isn’t about decline—but about rediscovering your strength, voice, and identity in ways you never imagined? In this episode of Gen X Crisis, Robert reconnects with Shari Ciapka, a old friend he hasn’t spok
What if midlife isn’t about winding down—but about redefining relevance in a world that won’t stop moving? In this episode of Gen X Crisis, Robert sits down with Suzanne Lindbergh, a longtime marketing leader whose 23-ye
What if chasing the dream isn’t the point—and the real win is still loving creating music decades later? In this episode of Gen X Crisis, Robert talks with Jim Gerdeman, an old friend whose life has been shaped by a life
What if midlife isn't about resting on your laurels—but redefining what success truly means? In this episode of Gen X Crisis, Robert sits down with Ken Gelman, a lifelong friend he met on a teenage bus tour across the Un
What’s essential at 55? Maybe it’s not slowing down—it’s going deeper. In this episode of Gen X Crisis, Robert reconnects with John Minutaglio, a lifelong friend whose passions, quirks, and obsessions have only intensifi
What does it mean to live an examined life—and make peace with the version of yourself you became? In this episode of Gen X Crisis, Robert reconnects with Paul Westcott, a childhood friend from early 1980s Livingston, Ne
What if all it took to change your life was one honest step in a new direction? In this episode of Gen X Crisis, Robert reconnects with Lainie Reisman, a childhood friend he hasn’t spoken to in nearly 40 years. What star
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Gen X Crisis with Robert Guess is hosted by Robert Guess. The show is categorised under society (culture) and has published 26 episodes.
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