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The Gen X Creativity Reboot: How to Build a Business Without the Trap

Dec 7, 2025

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6 min read

The Gen X Creativity Reboot: How to Build a Business Without the Trap

This week’s mixtape: buried creativity, the return of builders, the midlife pivot and Brett Michaels sweaty t-shirts

Corey Koehler
Corey Koehler

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The "Quiet" AI Side Hustle That’s Perfect for Gen X (No Coding Required)

Dec 6, 2025

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5 min read

The "Quiet" AI Side Hustle That’s Perfect for Gen X (No Coding Required)

Stop trading time for money. Here is how to use AI and Beehiiv to build a digital asset without dancing on TikTok.

Corey Koehler
Corey Koehler

life lessons

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Gen X Is Quietly Dominating the Gig Economy, and TikTok Doesn't See It Coming

Nov 30, 2025

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6 min read

Gen X Is Quietly Dominating the Gig Economy, and TikTok Doesn't See It Coming

This week’s mixtape: corporate chaos, experienced workers demand, gig work, freelance statistics and Semi Charmed Life

Corey Koehler
Corey Koehler

life lessons

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How a Laid-Off Gen Xer Used Category Design for a Comeback

Nov 23, 2025

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6 min read

How a Laid-Off Gen Xer Used Category Design for a Comeback

This week’s mixtape: midlife pivots, category design, Gen X grit, and some LL Cool J

Corey Koehler
Corey Koehler

future of work

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The Gen X Creativity Comeback Building Skool Communities That Pay

Nov 16, 2025

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6 min read

The Gen X Creativity Comeback Building Skool Communities That Pay

This week’s mixtape: midlife reinvention, creative sparks, new communities, and a quiet shift happening right under our noses.

Corey Koehler
Corey Koehler

future of work

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The AI Leverage Ladder: See Where AI Fits in Your Business

Nov 9, 2025

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7 min read

The AI Leverage Ladder: See Where AI Fits in Your Business

This week’s mixtape: From AI prompt dabbler to systems thinker, how to stop wasting AI’s potential (and yours) and the Power of Love

Corey Koehler
Corey Koehler

future of work

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The Leverage Game, How Gen X Entrepreneurs Can Win Without Working More

Nov 2, 2025

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5 min read

The Leverage Game, How Gen X Entrepreneurs Can Win Without Working More

This week’s mixtape: leverage, frameworks, Richard Koch, Naval Ravikant, and some Bowie.

Corey Koehler
Corey Koehler

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Why The Power of Community Is Key for Gen X to Stay Relevant

Oct 26, 2025

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5 min read

Why The Power of Community Is Key for Gen X to Stay Relevant

This week’s mixtape: collaboration, staying relevant, AI, building smarter together...

Corey Koehler
Corey Koehler

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The AI-Proof Human Moat, What BeardMeatsFood Taught Me About Being AI-Proof

Oct 19, 2025

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7 min read

The AI-Proof Human Moat, What BeardMeatsFood Taught Me About Being AI-Proof

This week’s mixtape: empathy, risk, truth-seeking, and a man who ate ten pounds of pancakes.

Corey Koehler
Corey Koehler

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Affiliate Marketing for Gen X: Simple Side Hustles for 50+ With Passive Income

Oct 12, 2025

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8 min read

Affiliate Marketing for Gen X: Simple Side Hustles for 50+ With Passive Income

Finding side hustles that don't suck, the magic of passive income, and a story about selling guitar lessons while I slept.

Corey Koehler
Corey Koehler

life lessons

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From Napster to ChatGPT: What Musicians Already Know About AI

Oct 5, 2025

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7 min read

From Napster to ChatGPT: What Musicians Already Know About AI

This week’s mixtape: the Napster effect, AI lessons from musicians, digital chaos, and creative control.

Corey Koehler
Corey Koehler

life lessons

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Career Change After 40 And Why Average Won’t Cut It in the AI Era

Sep 28, 2025

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5 min read

Career Change After 40 And Why Average Won’t Cut It in the AI Era

This week’s mixtape: career burnout, midlife pivots, building your own income, calming AI fears, and some Tears for Fears

Corey Koehler
Corey Koehler

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The Fastest Way to Start an Email List And Some Tom Petty

Sep 21, 2025

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6 min read

The Fastest Way to Start an Email List And Some Tom Petty

This week’s mixtape: overcomplicating newsletters, the waitlist shortcut, how to write your two-liner, and 2 Gen X Music icons for the price of 1.

Corey Koehler
Corey Koehler

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Can Starting A Newsletter Be Part Of A Gen Xer's Retirement Plan? Find Out

Sep 14, 2025

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5 min read

Can Starting A Newsletter Be Part Of A Gen Xer's Retirement Plan? Find Out

This week’s mixtape: newsletters as a retirement asset, AI productivity, smarter AI prompts, and a soul-shaking Bon Jovi remix.

Corey Koehler
Corey Koehler

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The Audience Analysis Strategy That Makes Your Message Stick

Sep 7, 2025

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6 min read

The Audience Analysis Strategy That Makes Your Message Stick

This week’s mixtape: cultural codes, audience analysis, flipping pain points, Dale Carnegie wisdom, Reddit rants, and The Eye Of The Tiger.

Corey Koehler
Corey Koehler

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AI-Proof Skills Every Gen Xer Should Double Down On

Aug 31, 2025

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6 min read

AI-Proof Skills Every Gen Xer Should Double Down On

This week’s mixtape: AI-proof skills, spotting B.S., a new affiliate play, a creativity unlocker, and Stone Temple Pilots on repeat

Corey Koehler
Corey Koehler

life lessons

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The Five Pillars of Redefining Retirement: 2025 Gen X Retirement Planning

Aug 24, 2025

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6 min read

The Five Pillars of Redefining Retirement: 2025 Gen X Retirement Planning

This week’s mixtape: staying relevant, playing offense, a little luck and an 80s music comeback?

Corey Koehler
Corey Koehler

life lessons

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How I Broke Out Of The Wage Mindset (To Think Like An Entrepreneur)

Aug 17, 2025

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8 min read

How I Broke Out Of The Wage Mindset (To Think Like An Entrepreneur)

This week’s mixtape: the mindset shift from hourly worker to entrepreneur, building assets, showing up daily, and some Pat Benatar to get you fired up.

Corey Koehler
Corey Koehler

future of work

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How to Build a Content Repurposing System And Bring Old Skills Back Into Play

Aug 10, 2025

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8 min read

How to Build a Content Repurposing System And Bring Old Skills Back Into Play

This week’s mixtape: your compounding content system, why old skills still matter, using your strengths, and some good old fashioned 80s road trippin' music.

Corey Koehler
Corey Koehler

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The Business You Never Built, and the Stories You Forgot to Tell

Aug 3, 2025

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7 min read

The Business You Never Built, and the Stories You Forgot to Tell

This week’s mixtape: overlooked assets, LinkedIn leverage, missed momentum, a one-way door and a Van Halen combo platter

Corey Koehler
Corey Koehler

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Career Change at 50: The Price of Doing Your Own Thing (And the Cost of Not)

Jul 27, 2025

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6 min read

Career Change at 50: The Price of Doing Your Own Thing (And the Cost of Not)

This week’s mixtape: midlife reinvention, compounding effort, energy shifts, and some Hall and Oates.

Corey Koehler
Corey Koehler

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A New Gen X Retirement Plan: Your Personal Brand Flywheel

Jul 20, 2025

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8 min read

A New Gen X Retirement Plan: Your Personal Brand Flywheel

This week’s mixtape: a new 401K, content compounding, attention ownership, offensive retirement portfolio and some Ozzy

Corey Koehler
Corey Koehler

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How to Attract Luck and Work You Love, Without Changing Who You Are

Jul 13, 2025

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7 min read

How to Attract Luck and Work You Love, Without Changing Who You Are

This week’s mixtape: individuality, meaningful work, creative breadcrumbs, and Jason Isbell

Corey Koehler
Corey Koehler

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Audience Building To Freedom And The Day I Got Escorted Out

Jul 6, 2025

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6 min read

Audience Building To Freedom And The Day I Got Escorted Out

This week’s mixtape: cubicle to camper, audience building, hidden leverage, and an overlooked Alanis Morissette line.

Corey Koehler
Corey Koehler

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Why Your Voice Beats AI: UGC, Branding, and the DIY Mindset

Jun 29, 2025

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9 min read

Why Your Voice Beats AI: UGC, Branding, and the DIY Mindset

This week’s mixtape: creator leverage, Gen X cringe-free self-promotion, brand identity, and a DIY White Zombie shirt.

Corey Koehler
Corey Koehler
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Redefining Retirement

Too young to retire? Too old for the Rat Race? Let's work on that. Join Gen X solopreneurs, creators, and side-hustlers getting the weekly mixtape of AI info, self-marketing, and motivation to stay relevant, make some cash, and create a lifestyle you won’t want to retire from.

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