Remember when Saturday mornings meant getting covered in gunge on Tiswas and late nights meant watching The Young Ones while your parents thought you were asleep?

If you do, there is a big chance you were born between 1965 and 1980 and are part of the best generation, the GenXers!

We grew up blasting Don't You Want Me on our Walkmans, rewinding Come On Eileen on dodgy TDK D90 tapes, and slow dancing to Careless Whisper at the school disco. And who could forget recording the Top 40 off the radio, trying (and failing) to stop the DJ talking over the best bits?

We came from a time before health and safety took all the fun away. When we did death-defying stunts on BMXs with no helmets, drank Panda Pops that probably contained 90% E-numbers, smoked and dank underage, our first cars were usually some rusting deathtrap and somehow we survived.

We got through school without needing a "safe space." We grew up in a world where sticks and stones was the rule, and nobody got cancelled for having a different opinion. If you messed about in class, you got a slap from the teacher and another one at home if you mentioned it. Life was tough, but so were we.

We were taught to "just get on with it", and we did. We stayed silent and just carried on regardless.

But here's the thing: now, in our 50s, many of us are running on empty, physically, mentally, and emotionally. Our kids have grown up, and we can feel lost, frustrated and increasingly irrelevant.

It's time to change that!

So, I've decided to start "Be A Better YOU", a FREE private community for GenXers who want to break the cycle of silent suffering and start thriving. No judgment. No toxic positivity. Just real talk, real support, and real strategies to help us all become the best version of ourselves.

So why am I starting this group?

To be honest, I've been helping people for a long time now, I like doing it, and i'm pretty good at it. GenXers are the most reluctant to ask for help, but they do like to have a laugh and be around others, so having a group where I can practice my stuff, have a bit of fun and help some others along the way sounds like a win-win to me.

Think of it like finding an old-school pub, with a tap room. But instead of serving fosters and rum and black, we've got proper, practical self-development on draught!

A place where you finally, after years of looking after others, can prioritise yourself and start looking after you.

Where we learn, share, and grow together.

It's FREE to join, and we have only a few rules. All that is required from you is to be kind and support each other. Don't be a tw*t, basically; that's it.

These young pups may see us as old, greying and increasingly irrelevant, but I believe we're not done yet. In fact, we're just getting started.