What if midlife is about redefining “selfish” as finally caring for yourself?
In this episode of Gen X Crisis, Robert talks with writer Joanna Baxter for a conversation about resistance, recalibration, and midlife reinvention. From her roots in West Vancouver to crossing the Atlantic on a sailboat, Joanna shares how writing, letter-keeping, and slowing down became ways to record and reframe her life.
They explore what it means to move from giving endlessly to everyone else toward claiming space for yourself—without apology. Joanna calls it becoming selfesque: caring for the self so you can show up with more clarity, honesty, and energy for others. Along the way, the two talk about generational shifts, parenting without a handbook, why Gen X might be the last analog generation, and how to recalibrate your life when everything feels like it’s speeding up.
It’s a conversation about slowing down, listening harder, and learning to drop the act so you can live from a truer place.
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