Remember when we drank from the hose, stayed out until the streetlights came on, and somehow survived fashion choices that should probably never make a comeback?

In this episode, Paula and Karen take a hilarious trip through GenX nostalgia before turning their attention to something a little more serious: what it actually means to hit midlife when nobody really prepared us for it.

We put our generational knowledge to the test with a round of Generationally Speaking, talk about the trends we lived through (and the ones younger generations have inexplicably brought back), and get into money, aging, changing priorities, and those midlife moments that make you go "Hmmmmm..."

It's funny, nostalgic, a little ridiculous, and very real because we may have figured out how to survive childhood without helmets, but apparently there was a whole lot nobody taught us about surviving midlife.

In this episode:

• Gen X nostalgia and the things we can't believe we survived
• Generationally Speaking: How well do we actually know other generations?
• Fashion trends that disappeared — and somehow came back
• The money lessons many of us never learned
• How our ideas about aging have changed
• The unexpected realities of midlife
• Why every generation seems convinced the others are doing it wrong

Chapters

00:00 — Nostalgic Reflections
06:37 — Generationally Speaking
21:06 — Midlife Realizations
25:41 — Midlife Revelations
44:17 — Generational Fashion Trends