Gen X Legends
Gen X Legends
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While the internet obsesses over Gen Z and glorifies Boomer dominance, Gen X remains the generation history keeps skipping. This show changes that.
Gen X Legends features real Gen Xers: coaches, creators, founders, executives, and reinvention artists who’ve outgrown the old playbook and designed careers worth living.
Forget the hype, the hustle-posting, and the midlife glow-up myth. This is the generation that weathered dot-com crashes, financial crises, and digital disruption without performative reinvention—and came out smarter, sharper, and still in motion.
We don’t chase virality. We design for longevity.
If you’re tired of the noise and hungry for honest, grounded, human wisdom…You’re in the right generation. And now, you’re on the right show.
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#47 Darcy Eikenberg: Red Cape Rescue for Burnt-Out Gen Xers
Meetings are endless, your manager’s Slack tone feels like a personal attack, and quitting sounds like the only escape plan. But Gen Xers know better than to throw it all away without a backup…
#46 Benedikt Oehmen: Turning Layoffs into Life Lessons
What happens when the company you’ve devoted half your life to suddenly disappears? Benedikt Oehmen spent 17 years at Blizzard Entertainment, moving from gamer support to managing teams across seven…
#45 Collin Plume: Ownership, Not Optics—Teaching Real Wealth to the Next Generation
In the second half of his conversation, Collin Plume moves beyond financial products into financial legacy—sharing how Gen Xers can teach resilience, ownership, and critical thinking to the next…
#44 Collin Plume: Golden Rules for People-First Wealth Building
Collin Plume didn’t build Noble Gold to chase hype—he built it to restore trust in a system Gen X knows can break. In this first of a two-part series, Collin shares how early lessons from insurance…
#43 Waverly Deutsch: Coaching the Founders Most Systems Miss
In Part 3, Waverly Deutsch steps into her latest role: founder of Wyseheart, a coaching firm designed to help the most overlooked founders build ventures that last. Focused on meaningful business,…
#42 Waverly Deutsch: Coaching the Logical, Leading with Love
In Part 2, Waverly Deutsch opens up about her decades at Chicago Booth, where she helped founders refine not just their business models but their ability to lead. She discusses how emotional…
#41 Waverly Deutsch: Computer, Broadway, and the Beautiful Mess of Career Design
Waverly Deutsch, the former Clinical Professor of Entrepreneurship at the Chicago Booth School of Business, didn’t follow a path—she composed one. From falling in love with theater to entering…
#40 Jennifer Selby Long: Politics, Power, and the Choice to Stay or Go
In this final installment, Gen X executive coach Jennifer Selby Long goes deep on the real decision behind office politics: should you stay or should you go? Drawing from decades of experience…
#39 Jennifer Selby Long: Office Politics Without the Eye-Roll
In this third installment with Gen X executive coach Jennifer Selby Long, we zoom in on one of the messiest, most misunderstood realities of modern work: office politics. Jennifer breaks down why…
#38 Jennifer Selby Long: Gen X Wisdom for Saboteur Survival
Jennifer Selby Long is no stranger to messy transformations. With three decades of experience in executive coaching, digital change, and tech leadership, she helps seasoned professionals navigate the…
#37 Jennifer Selby Long: Personal Change First, Tech Change Second
Jennifer Selby Long has spent 30 years helping leaders navigate change—long before “change management” became a buzzword. In this episode, the Gen X executive coach reflects on how she stumbled into…
#36 Dominic Carter: Future-Proofing Life After 50
Dominic Carter, CEO of the Carter Group, shares how a personal frustration with his aging parents’ care became a long-term mission: building real, user-driven aging tech in one of the world’s…
#35 Dominic Carter: Burnout at 24, Building for 2040
Dominic Carter, the CEO of the Carter Group, didn’t become an aging tech founder by chasing trends—he got there by building slowly, listening deeply, and surviving the kind of early burnout that…
#34 Gary Bremermann: Clarity Over Comfort—Career Change on Your Own Terms
In Part 2 of his conversation, Tokyo-based American Gary Bremermann moves beyond his own story to share the frameworks and realities that shape career reinvention today. From his Seven Steps to…
#33 Gary Bremermann: Hitchhikes, Burnouts, and Building a Career Worth Living
Tokyo-based American Gary Bremermann didn’t stumble into career clarity—he fought for it across countries, careers, and crises. From hitchhiking North America to building and burning out of his first…
#32 Erica Sosna: Build the Career You Want—Before Someone Else Designs It for You
In Part 2 of her conversation, Erica Sosna bridges personal resilience and professional wisdom—sharing how The Career Equation helps both individuals and organizations build careers that actually…
#31 Erica Sosna: Walking Again, Working Again—Redesigning Life on New Terms
Erica Sosna was already a respected career strategist, author of The Career Equation, and founder of a successful consultancy. But when a near-fatal accident left her paralyzed in 2022, everything…
#30 Nina Sossamon-Pogue: Build a Life You’re Proud Of—Not Just a Career You Survive
In Part 2 of her conversation, Nina Sossamon-Pogue moves from storytelling to strategy—offering real-world tools for navigating change, resilience, and reinvention. From building a reverse resume to…
#29 Nina Sossamon-Pogue: Reinventing Before Reinvention Was a Buzzword
Nina Sossamon-Pogue didn’t build a personal brand around change—she built a life out of it. In this first of a two-part series, she shares how elite gymnastics hardwired her resilience, how…
#28 Edward & Tricia: Collaborate to Compete—The Human Advantage
In the second half of their conversation, Edward J. van Luinen, Ed.D. and Tricia Cerrone reveal the system behind their decade-long collaboration—and the framework that became their book, Collaborate…
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Gen X Legends has published 47 episodes since May 2025, covering topics in Business, Careers.
Gen X Legends is currently dormant with new episodes daily. Average episode length is 32m.
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