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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

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

future of work

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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

future of work

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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

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

future of work

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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

future of work

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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

future of work

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Leaning Into What's Next: AI First, Podcasts, Video, and Acoustic Gin Blossoms

Jun 22, 2025

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10 min read

Leaning Into What's Next: AI First, Podcasts, Video, and Acoustic Gin Blossoms

This week's mixtape: How to lean into AI for human impact, seizing podcast and video opportunities and and a mellower '90s favorite

Corey Koehler
Corey Koehler

future of work

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The AI-Resistant Mindset, Why You Need a Perry And Some John Waite

Jun 15, 2025

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10 min read

The AI-Resistant Mindset, Why You Need a Perry And Some John Waite

This weeks mixtape: AI resistance, proactive thinking, smart mentors and a new twist on Missing You

Corey Koehler
Corey Koehler

future of work

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From Mixed Tapes to Multiple Income Streams: The Gen X Guide to Never Really Retiring

Nov 3, 2024

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6 min read

From Mixed Tapes to Multiple Income Streams: The Gen X Guide to Never Really Retiring

How the generation that mastered playlist curation is now mastering the art of work-optional living

Corey Koehler
Corey Koehler

future of work

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Why I’m Amping Up Music Over Retirement

Mar 10, 2024

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3 min read

Why I’m Amping Up Music Over Retirement

How The Corey Story Blueprint Changed My Outlook

Corey Koehler
Corey Koehler

future of work

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AI vs Human: What John Bonham and Eddie Van Halen Can Teach Us

Feb 19, 2024

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4 min read

AI vs Human: What John Bonham and Eddie Van Halen Can Teach Us

Clues to human relevance in the future from three music legends.

Corey Koehler
Corey Koehler

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Music Monday: Dee Motivation

Feb 12, 2024

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3 min read

Music Monday: Dee Motivation

What the Lead Singer of an 80s Metal Band Can Teach Us About Attitude and Mindset

Corey Koehler
Corey Koehler

future of work

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Unique Story-Driven Path To Income Diversification - Part One

Jan 28, 2024

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10 min read

Unique Story-Driven Path To Income Diversification - Part One

How To Use A Story To Transform Risk into Resilience

Corey Koehler
Corey Koehler

future of work

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Retirement Planning: Why Gen Xers Must Understand Marketing

Dec 17, 2023

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11 min read

Retirement Planning: Why Gen Xers Must Understand Marketing

Marketing as Gen X's Path to Relevant, Passionate Work as Storytellers and Toolmakers

Corey Koehler
Corey Koehler

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Unexpected Adventures In A Post 9-5 Life

Nov 26, 2023

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4 min read

Unexpected Adventures In A Post 9-5 Life

How My Unfulfilled Travel Dreams Led To Greater Personal Discoveries

Corey Koehler
Corey Koehler

future of work

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Deep Dives On The Significance of AI

Nov 5, 2023

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5 min read

Deep Dives On The Significance of AI

Plus AI as a cheat code and how to avoid the fate of the Normie.

Corey Koehler
Corey Koehler

future of work

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Revolutionizing Expertise: My Odyssey from Web to AI

Oct 29, 2023

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5 min read

Revolutionizing Expertise: My Odyssey from Web to AI

How To Fuse Our Time-Honored Skills with the Future's Most Potent Tool

Corey Koehler
Corey Koehler

future of work

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Gen Xers: What Are You Worth As A Freelancer On Upwork?

Oct 15, 2023

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5 min read

Gen Xers: What Are You Worth As A Freelancer On Upwork?

Use Your Experience to Determine Your Worth

Corey Koehler
Corey Koehler

future of work

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Staying In Front Of The Hearse

Oct 1, 2023

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5 min read

Staying In Front Of The Hearse

Ageless Insights from Men Who've Walked the Walk.

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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