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Her money comes to you through PRX. Hi I am Jean Chatsky and welcome to her money. I was on my way over here this morning to do this show and the phone rang and it was my mother and we were talking about the fact that my son who I talk about a lot is in the market for a job these days.

He just graduated from college. He's looking for a job in in sports media and sports marketing

and about how different his reality is applying for jobs in the

world today where in addition to making a connection you have to fill out an

application online and everybody's on LinkedIn and how different his reality

is than my reality was when I was applying for my first job and my mother's reality

when she was applying for her first job and it all sort of came together with me when I realized I would be sitting down in the studio this morning with Robbie Ludwig, Dr Robbie Ludwig, who is a good friend of mine for many, many on the today show but author the also the

author of a great new book called Your Best Age is Now and Robbie's book

centers a lot on the fact that our midlife realities today are so

different from the midlife realities of any other generation not just when it comes to looking for a job, but when it comes to life in general.

So Robbie, it's great to see you.

It's so great to be here. I'm so happy to talk about this topic.

I feel like it's my responsibility to spread the word.

You know, it's interesting. I think the word midlife stops a lot of people.

Yeah. When I was putting this book together, I was thinking, oh, you know, you know, when you're thinking about titles, I was thinking the midlife myth, you know, and including midlife in there, and the editor said, whenever you mention midlife in a title it's like dirty diapers

nobody wants to touch it because it feels like you're over the hill it's just a really

unattractive branding that's associated with it. And yet I'm 51, right? I'm midlife.

No question I look at the longevity charts and I'm actually a little past midlife because

most women these days live to I think the number is 84 which

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