Fifteen Minutes With Amy and Faith

In this episode of 15 Minutes with Amy and Faith: Life with a Gen X Slant, we talk honestly about what it feels like when your friends’ kids are getting engaged, getting married, and having babies…while your own kids aren’t there yet. It’s a mix of joy, pride for your friends, and that quiet ache of “Why not us?” Amy opens up about her own experiences, and Faith offers coaching tools to help you step back, reframe, and let go of comparison. This is a real, grounded conversation for every Gen X mom learning to celebrate others without losing herself in the process.

From turkey, pie, and stuffing to parades, football, travel days, and blended family traditions — this Thanksgiving episode dives into what the holiday really looks like for Gen X. Amy and Faith are sharing the memories they grew up with, the expectations we all try to manage, and the unfiltered realities of hosting, traveling, and navigating family dynamics during the holidays. Whether you’re cooking, traveling, hiding from your in-laws, or taking a quiet moment with coffee, this episode is for you!

In this episode, Amy and Faith sit down with Emily, their friend and fellow life coach, to talk Gen X parenting, raising adulting children and navigating the challenges of young adults living at home or boomeranging back and forth. From shifting expectations and emotional triggers to modeling resilience and knowing when "don't say anything" is the best move, this episode is packed with real talk, humor and insights every parent of adult kids will relate to.

With Tamar joining Amy and Faith, this episode dives deep into the friendships that shape our lives - the ones that stick, the ones that fade and the ones that were only meant to be part of a season. For Gen X women navigating everything from empty nests to life transitions, friendships play a more significant role than we often realize. In this episode, we talk about the joy of friends who have known you "way back when", the excitement of new connections later in life, what to do when friendships shift or fade and the realities of being the friend who always initiates.

In this episode, your hosts sit down with combat veteran, life coach and podcaster Christian Betancourt for a conversation about what to ask and not to ask a veteran and what every veteran wants you to know.

Why are the holidays starting earlier every year? We talk about the holiday creep, the loss of personal connection in celebrations and what it might say about a cultural shift - all from a Gen X perspective.

In this episode, we chat with Tamar and Sue, the Gen X friends behind Calling All Cupids, about why they started a podcast about love. They share how it began, how matchmaking became part of the story, and a surprise that proves Tamar might actually be a real-life Cupid!

This episode features a conversation with our colleague and friend, career coach Richard Taliaferro. We discuss repurposing strengths to create meaningful next chapters, the challenges of perfectionism and facing contention with curiosity.

In this episode, your hosts discuss the undeniable holiday creep, as holidays like Halloween seem to be celebrated earlier and earlier every year. We also talk about the impersonality of Halloween and how this could be a symbol of a shift in our cultural mindset.

This episode features a conversation with our colleague and friend, career coach Richard Taliaferro. He will talk about his work assisting others in repurposing their strengths, meeting roadblocks with curiosity and the challenges of perfectionism.