The Karol Markowicz Show: Gen X & Midlife Reset: Lisa De Pasquale on Weight Loss, Financial Comeback, and Thriving in Middle Age
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🗓️ 10 December 2025
⏱️ 20 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.5 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:09.5 | Hi, welcome back to the Carol Markowitz show on IHartRadio. |
| 0:13.8 | My guest today is Lisa DePosquale. |
| 0:16.3 | Lisa is author of the GenX Handbook for Middle Age, |
| 0:19.6 | writer and substacker at getbright.substack.com, |
| 0:23.2 | and the former director of CPAC. Hi, Lisa. So nice to have you on. Hi, Carol. Thanks for having me. |
| 0:30.4 | So the Gen X Handbook for Middle Age, I guess this is it. We're middle age. This is a fact. |
| 0:34.8 | Yeah. I mean, we should feel lucky, right? |
| 0:37.9 | Right, I guess. |
| 0:39.0 | Also true, yeah. |
| 0:44.2 | What made you write the Gen X handbook? |
| 0:48.4 | Well, basically for me, at like age 41, I found myself single, unemployed, over 300 pounds. |
| 0:59.5 | And basically, oh, and in about $50,000 in credit card debt. |
| 1:06.4 | This is all, like, post-C-PAC. |
| 1:08.7 | Wow. |
| 1:09.0 | And basically just spending too much time working for political non-profits. |
| 1:13.5 | Yeah. |
| 1:15.1 | And I started with weight loss to just get my health back on track. |
| 1:20.5 | There was a Bible verse that I had read from Moses. |
| 1:26.9 | I have put before you uh light and dark um therefore choose or life and death light |
| 1:35.9 | and dark therefore choose life and that's kind of when i went from the mindset of rather than |
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