Strangers With Kittens: Gen X Stories from the Least Parented Generation.
We're the so-called "slacker" generation but we somehow raised ourselves, our kids, and now our parents. Laugh between breakdowns and bad decisions, and let's finally give credit where credit is due. Here's to Generation EX-CELLENT!
Episodes
Don't touch that clicker. Keep it tuned right here for a special episode of Strangers With Kittens. This week, Eileen and special guest Cynthia Bemis-Abrams, host and creator of Advanced TV Herstory talk TV. Discussing feminism through the 60s, 70s, 80s, and even the 90s. Moments that we watched together, shows that captured time in a bottle, and the people that kept us watching.
Together, these two revel in ...
Back in the 70s and 80s, the pets were just as feral as the kids. Roaming the streets, marking their territory, and never hesitating to sink their teeth or claws into your skin if you got too close. They didn't go to the vet, they didn't get pampered with a groomer, there were no puppuccinos, no one celebrated a "gotcha day" and they certainly were not allowed in the bed.
But thankfully, we have e...
This week, Eileen meets a real-life stranger on the internet but you would have never known without us saying so. Special guest Kira Sabin joins the show this week to talk all things Gen X. From comfort toxic television, trauma, the perimenopause madness, to learning how to break the patterns that most of us weren't even aware existed. Kira and Eileen connect and cackle their way through the toxici...
Picture This: Summer 1980s You've got sunshine for days and a neighborhood ripe with opportunities. There will be movies at the drive-in, hours at the arcade, music pumping through the speakers from a homemade cassette tape, sunburns, sweat, ice cream for a dollar, and the company of your closest friends.
Could you do it all over again? This week Eileen is reminded to be greedy about her ti...
This week, Strangers With Kittens is celebrating National Gen X Day with a minisode. An episode that combines some of our favorite moments on the show.
Revisit clips with guests: Chris Shahnahian, Vijai Nathan, Cynthia Levin, and Becky Veduccio.
Strangers With Kittens returns to their regular scheduled programming next week!
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This week, special guest Becky Veduccio joins Eileen Kelly on the show. In an instant these two reconnect through invisible threads and shared memories.
"All The Things I Don't Wanna Tell You" is an episode that pulls out the dark, the ugly, the embarrassing, and the traumatic parts of our lives in an effort to find ourselves and become human once again. Often discovering that the part we REALLY don't wann...
This week, Eileen and special guest Kristi Belcamino discuss dating. Relationships are complicated, and if you are like many women who are finding themselves in toxic relationships or loveless marriages, this one is for you.
Your 50s are about three things: Fun, Peace, and Freedom. Listen to Belcamino as she details how she found unexpected freedom and happiness as a single woman thriving in her 50s, and how sh...
In this episode, Eileen recalls a poignant moment between Gen X and younger generations, recognizing that we are all living life for the first time. That no matter our age or season, we are all human. A gift not given to most of Gen X.
We grew up figuring it out for ourselves, fumbling miserably, and fighting for some sense of security, stability, and sanity. Our parents were detached and disappointed in our in...
Ushering in the summer season just a little bit early. Eileen recalls some of the more obscure products long forgotten from the 70s, were they too legit or just full of Formaldehyde? GLP-1s are giving major side-eye, but why? Plus, don't miss a Gen-X Spotify Hack for those of you who are sick of the algorithm trying to dictate your mood. Listen to the all-new minisode now!
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This week GenXer Taigi Smith joins Eileen on Strangers With Kittens. The studio audience grows by one canine and doubles the drama, (or maybe trauma). Listen as these two dredge up some collective trauma, and some stories that feel unreal but are 100% true.
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Taigi Smith is a Television Producer for the award-winning ABC NEWS Show, 20/20. She has an incredible f...
This one is for the moms. Join Eileen and special guest Audra Socinski while they hash out motherhood. In celebration of Mother's Day, this episode recognizes all the bits of motherhood, including the moments that nearly knock you out. Moms are constantly told to "enjoy it" but if we are being honest, this job is pretty freaking hard to enjoy most of the time. So this year, we are skipping the flowers, the cards, an...
Are we the only ones reading the news headlines and wondering what year it is?
This week on Strangers With Kittens, Eileen wrestles with time. In preparation of her own daughter's college graduation, Eileen acknowledges the similarities between Gen Z and Gen X. When Gen Xers were entering the work-force things were bad. As Gen Z enters adulthood, the workforce and beyond, it seems not much has changed. Tune in ...
This week Eileen and special guest Kimmi Berlin, founder and creator of the non-profit organization BuildUpBoys discuss parenting, mentoring, and nurturing boys. These two GenXers are all too familiar with the clear gender roles of generations past which is why they had so much fun criticizing cultural norms and challenging society's idea of what a man should or shouldn't be. Boys aren't bad, it isn't in their biolo...
Strangers With Kittens' Eileen Kelly welcomes Dr. Theresa Lyons PhD. Dr. Lyons is a Yale-Educated and trained Scientist, Medical Strategist, Autism Parent and Founder of Navigating Autism and www.awetism.net.
This week Eileen and Lyons get vulnerable and speak out on some of the issues surrounding Autism. It isn't so much about the kids in this episode as much as it is about navigating Autism, advocating as a ...
Consider yourself lucky if you don't have a scar or two that came from an older brother or your scrappy little sister. Sure, there were swirlies, and noogies, and yes, you can remember the way you would squirm to avoid the loogie stretching its way towards your face, but those aren't the only stories being shared on this episode. This week, Eileen dredges up the stories behind a lot of our scars and trauma. Gen X wa...
This week Gen X finds actually effective ways to enforce boundaries with the help of a licensed professional. Katrina shares her immense knowledge and expertise on the subject while teaching us how important it is to resist trickle-down trauma passed down to us from our childhoods.
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The birds are singing, the weather is warming and even though it's been decades since you've had a true Spring Break Vacation, you continue to yearn for those blissful spring days. There's swimming in sub-zero lagoons. Water slides made of concrete. A freshwater wave pool that kills. Your best friend had to leave earlier in an ambulance, and no one is even talking about the baboons on the lawn!
Not the spring b...
Did we really LOVE the 90s or should we all take off our rose-tinted glasses?
Remember when the only way to get ahold of someone who wasn't right next to you was through a landline? Maybe they had a pager. The music was loud, you saw movies at the theater, or 8 months later when you rented them from Blockbuster. New York was gritty and raw. Sexism and misogyny were the cultural norms and even though we were on ...
Generation X has been called a lot of things. Cynical. Slackers. We might be cynical, but that's because we got shafted on so many levels. We parented ourselves. We were responsible for ourselves. We became the ones who carried the burden of the environment. We were held responsible for so many people and problems that were not our problems to solve. After decades of aching for change. It's safe to say we are exhaus...
Eileen invites Nikki Mammano, author of Breaking Good to the show. Without spoiling the memoir the two discuss addiction, drug abuse, bad decisions, and even worse consequences. A harrowing and suspenseful glimpse in time that reminds us that sometimes breaking completely is the only way to become whole.
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