The New Normal We Built: Why Gen X Must Pass the Access Forward

In The Know with Tony Reeves · Aug 5, 2026 · 6m

For many members of Generation X, success did not come with a roadmap. We entered colleges, professions, leadership positions, and social spaces that were unfamiliar to our families. We learned through experience, experimentation, mistakes, and persistence. Along the way, we became the attorneys, doctors, judges, executives, educators, entrepreneurs, and mentors we may not have personally known when we were younger. That matters because the generations coming behind us are no longer starting where we started. They have access to us. In this companion podcast,I reflect on the responsibility…