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058: Ada Calhoun on Why Gen X Women Can’t Sleep
Gen X Amplified with Adrion Porter
English - February 11, 2020 10:00 - 41 minutes - 39 MB - ★★★★★ - 44 ratingsCareers Business Education genx leaders leadership business entrepreneur generationx genxers millennials Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Previous Episode: 057: Melissa Proctor on Going from Ball-Girl to CMO of the Atlanta Hawks
On this episode of Gen X Amplified, highly acclaimed journalist and author Ada Calhoun joins Adrion to discuss her latest book and New York Times bestseller Why We Can’t Sleep: Women’s New Midlife Crisis – which is an expansion of her viral story for Oprah.com and a “generation-defining exploration of the new midlife crisis facing Gen X women.
In Why We Can’t Sleep, Calhoun opens up the cultural and political contexts of Gen X’s predicament and offers solutions for how to pull oneself out of the abyss—and keep the next generation of women from falling in. The result is reassuring, empowering, and essential reading for all middle-aged women, and anyone who hopes to understand them.
Resources mentioned in this episode: Ada Calhoun’s Website “Why We Can’t Sleep” on Amazon Ada’s original article “The New Midlife Crisis” on Oprah.com Ada at The Milken Institute Ada’s Personal Theme Song “Unsatisfied”, by The Replacements Thank you for listening!