Gen X: The Forgotten Middle Child of History

Stuck between the Boomers who raised us and the Millennials who reshaped culture, Gen X has always been the overlooked middle child of history. We grew up self-sufficient, shaped by a world that was changing faster than anyone could process—surviving the crack era, the AIDS crisis, multiple wars, and the collapse of the Soviet Union, all while witnessing the rise of cable TV, home computers, video game consoles, MTV, Hip Hop, and Grunge. We learned resilience from our Boomer parents, but we’ve also had to unlearn their grind-until-you-break mentality. In this episode, we reflect on what it means to age as Gen Xers, how we navigate being sandwiched between two larger, better-defined generations, and why we’re probably lucky there was no internet to document our dumbest moments.