Confessions of a Gen-X Mind: Mental Health, Family Systems, and Personal Growth
Confessions of a Gen-X Mind is a reflective mental health podcast about family systems, identity, and what happens when you finally see your life clearly.
Told from a Gen-X perspective shaped by media, technology, and decades of lived experience, each episode explores the quieter side of mental health. Not crisis. Not quick fixes. But awareness, integration, and emotional adulthood.
Through personal storytelling, cultural observation, and honest self-examination, the show looks at inherited roles, family dynamics, neurodivergence, boundaries, and the process of choosing healthier ground later in life. It is about naming patterns without bitterness, honoring what was good, accepting what never was, and building forward with clarity.
This is a podcast for listeners who are thoughtful, self-aware, and no longer interested in pretending. For those who have reached a point where reflection matters more than performance, and peace matters more than approval.
New episodes arrive as part of ongoing thematic arcs rather than constant noise. This is a place to slow down, think clearly, and feel a little less alone.
Episodes
After Awareness: Building Forward With Chosen Family
Never Meet Your Radio Heroes: The Gap Between On-Air Personas and Real Life
Turning Fifty Isn’t a Crisis. It’s a Reckoning: Midlife, Neurodivergence, Love, and Loss
The Holidays After You See the Masks: Family, Mental Health, and the Labels We Inherit
Energy Independence Is a Myth: Fracking, Landmen, and the Global Price of Oil
A Chevy Citation, a Cow, and the Texas Rangers: Memory, Myth, and Growing Up Gen-X in Texas
No Trump Without OJ: Justice, Fear, and Identity Go Live on CNN
The Radio Jobs No One Warned Us About: Automation, Layoffs, and Why People Stayed
The Death of Gatekeepers: A Media Origin Story From MTV to the Algorithm Age
Confessions of a Gen-X Mind: Why This Show Exists and What I’m Exploring
The Sound You Never Want to Hear Twice: A Real-Life ER Story
My Dream Job at Yahoo: The Layoff, the NDA, and What It Actually Cost
The Story I Couldn’t Tell Until Now: Autism, ADHD, and Some Kind of Monster
Creative Accounting and White Collar Fraud: How Systems Protect the Powerful
Where I Went and Why: Mental Health, Neurodivergence, and Rebuilding a Life
A Ticket Story, Psycho Genesis: How Dave Martin became "Psycho Dave"
Mental Health Friday, Neurodiversity Awareness Rising
Are We Sure Private School Is the Answer?: Faith, Fear, and What We Taught Kids Too Young
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My Uncle’s Mercedes and the Church of Creative Accounting: Family Mythology and White-Collar Crime
The Garden Within: A Sleep Story for Rest and Calm
Alice in Slumberland: A Gentle Sleep Story
Inside a Life in Broadcasting: A Conversation About Radio, Voice, and Longevity