Generation X | Gen X Girls Grow Up

WHO IS GENERATION X?
We are sandwiched between 80 million Baby Boomers & 78 million Millennials. Born 1965 - 1980, we have just 46 million members. Small, but mighty!

19 hours ago
3 min

What Olivia Newton-John Gave Generation X

Grease was the word, but it’s "Sandy" we heard. Olivia Newton-John helped Generation X believe. In the possibility of reinventing...

Erin Mantz

Jul 27
2 min

Book Review: Midlife Bites, BY JEN MANN

I wish I'd read this book sooner. I wish I'd had a friend like author Jen Mann over the past decade. In Midlife Bites (Ballantine Books,...

Erin Mantz

Jul 26
2 min

internship insights from a gen x girl

Maybe some things don't change across the decades. I found a photo (Polaroid of course) from my college internship today. WLS-TV (ABC)...

Erin Mantz

Jul 22
1 min

Love's Baby Soft - The Film!

If growing up in the '70s and '80s had a scent, it would be Love's Baby Soft. And now a special film is bringing us back to those...

Erin Mantz

Jul 11
1 min

Tomorrow Night, 7/12, at 8pm ET! Love's Baby Soft Film Behind The Scenes

If growing up in the '70s and '80s had a scent, it would be Love's Baby Soft. And now a special film brings us back to those amazing...

Erin Mantz

Apr 30
3 min

tv characters I love to hate...but i'm not supposed to

I hate most of the TV characters I watch, yet I can't stop watching. Why? The older I get, the more I find myself hating on most of the...

Erin Mantz

Apr 16
3 min

book review - kids in america: a gen x reckoning

An engaging book and revealing look at Generation X that goes behind the nostalgia and makes us wonder... how did we turn out so well?...

Erin Mantz

Apr 3
4 min

a gen x girl goes to italy...

Top Five Observations From My Trip I was a little hesitant to plan a trip alone to Italy to visit my oldest son, a college junior who’s...

Erin Mantz

Mar 20
2 min

X says, z says

A new monthly series by Gen X Girls Grow Up Just how much do the decades and times we grew up in shape our perspectives and beliefs? How...

Erin Mantz

Mar 11
1 min

Tune in tonight! 3/11/22, 7pm - 9pm ET

Pop into Gen X Radio on iHeartRadio- 7pm - 9pm ET for the "Gen X Girls Takeover!" Hear great 80's music by female artists we loved and...

Erin Mantz

Mar 1
1 min

introducing the "gen x girls" playlist on iheartradio!

Gen X Girls Grow Up has teamed up with iHeartRadio to celebrate Women's History Month and some of the best 80's songs by female artists!...

Erin Mantz

Feb 20
2 min

book review: the pandemic midlife crisis - gen x women on the brink

As a Gen X woman living in a strange, “middle age” period, in a pandemic, I knew I wasn't alone. But I wasn’t sure how much I would be...

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WHO IS GENERATION X? We are sandwiched between 80 million Baby Boomers & 78 million Millennials. Born 1965 - 1980, we have just 46 million members. Small, but mighty!

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WHO IS GENERATION X?
We are sandwiched between 80 million Baby Boomers & 78 million Millennials. Born 1965 - 1980, we have just 46 million members. Small, but mighty!