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The Ryan Vet Show

The Ryan Vet Show

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To lead well today, you have to understand the forces that shaped yesterday and the ones reshaping tomorrow. You were made to Inspire Forward...and every episode helps you do just that.


The Ryan Vet Show is where leaders come to understand why the world, and the people in it, work the way they do. Hosted by Ryan Vet, USA Today bestselling author, generational futurist, and contrarian leadership thinker, the show blends research, lived experience, and narrative to help you navigate tomorrow with more insight, perspective, and practical wisdom.


Each week, Ryan explores the ideas shaping today’s workplace and culture:

  • Generational dynamics and the behaviors that form each cohort
  • Leadership and organizational psychology
  • Change management and the forces driving adaptation
  • Entrepreneurship and real-world decision making
  • Communication, influence, and human behavior
  • How the past explains the present and the present shapes the future


The show features two core formats:

  1. Long-form interviews with leaders, thinkers, entrepreneurs, and creators whose stories reveal the “why” behind their work, decisions, and impact.
  2. Weekly readings of the COLLIDE newsletter, where Ryan breaks down cultural shifts, generational insights, and leadership lessons with a story-rich, research-backed lens.


Whether you’re an executive, a manager, an entrepreneur, an educator, or simply navigating cross-generational tension, The Ryan Vet Show gives you the insight and tools to lead with clarity, curiosity, and intentionality.

If you want a show that’s intellectually grounded, practically useful, and deeply human — welcome.


This is your place to understand the world more clearly and lead it more thoughtfully.

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  • Is the American Dream Dead or Just Different?

    Is the American Dream Dead or Just Different?
    May 28 2026
    The American Dream isn't dead. It's been redefined. And the generation rewriting it isn't asking permission.Generational futurist, USA Today bestselling author, and keynote speaker Ryan Vet traces the rise, the reality check, and the reframing of the most powerful idea in modern American identity. From historian James Truslow Adams coining "the American Dream" in 1931 to the Baby Boom suburban script of cars, mortgages, and the white picket fence, to Gen Z trading possessions for possibilities and collectivism for individualism, this episode follows the arc of an idea that built a nation and the cultural shift now rewiring what success even means.Ryan walks through the perfect storm that made the mid-century Dream feel statistically normal: postwar productivity nearly doubling, homeownership jumping from 43.6% to 61.9% between 1940 and 1960, the 1956 Interstate Highway Act funding 41,000 miles of road, television going from 9% of households in 1950 to 85% to 90% by 1959, the pill reshaping who could pursue a self-directed life starting in 1960. Then he zooms in on the present: real median earnings for 25 to 34 year olds matching Gen X at the same age, household wealth under 40 climbing about 30% from 2019 to 2024, fertility down to 1.6 children per woman, marriage ages climbing, and a generation defining wealth as flexibility, mobility, and experience instead of square footage.And he takes on the contradictory survey data head on. Only 27% of Americans told ABC News/Ipsos in 2024 that hard work still reliably gets you ahead. Yet 53% told Pew the same year that the American Dream is still possible. And 69% told the Archbridge Institute in 2025 that they have achieved the Dream or are on their way, with freedom of choice and a good family life ranking far above wealth as the markers of having made it. Three surveys. Three different stories. One country. Ryan explains why, and what it means for anyone trying to lead, hire, sell to, or raise the next generation.In this episode:Where the phrase "the American Dream" actually comes from, and why James Truslow Adams wrote it in the depths of the Great DepressionThe R.E.S.P.E.C.T. framework and how nearly every pillar of generational momentum accelerated the mid-century DreamWhy the Baby Boom Dream wasn't just a story Americans told themselves, it was a statistically normal outcome for a large share of the populationThe data that quietly refutes the "young people are poorer than their parents" narrativeWhy housing affordability is only part of the reason Gen Z and Millennials are delaying or skipping the suburban starter homeHow three major 2024 and 2025 surveys produce three different answers about whether the American Dream is dead, and what that contradiction revealsThe shift from collectivism to individualism, and why that single move reframes work, family, faith, geography, and ambitionWhat leaders, parents, and organizations get wrong when they assume the next generation is chasing the same Dream their grandparents wereReferenced in this episode:The Epic of America by James Truslow Adams (1931)Generations by Jean M. Twenge (2023)Pew Research Center, 2024 survey on the American DreamABC News/Ipsos, 2024 poll on hard work and getting aheadArchbridge Institute, 2025 American Dream SnapshotFederal Reserve Distributional Financial Accounts (2024)COLLIDE Newsletter by Ryan Vet: ryanvet.com/collideFull essay version of this episode: Is the American Dream Dead or Just Different?Subscribe to The Ryan Vet Show on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, and wherever you get your podcasts. New COLLIDE essay episodes release every Thursday at 7am ET. Guest era episodes release Monday mornings at 6am ET. Join the COLLIDE newsletter at ryanvet.com/collide for the research, reflections, and frameworks behind every episode.Send us Fan MailAbout Ryan VetRyan Vet is a USA TODAY bestselling author, futurist, and international keynote speaker whose insights on generations, culture, and the future of work have been featured in Forbes, Financial Times, ABC, NBC, and CBS. His research helps leaders understand emerging generational patterns and anticipate societal shifts before they fully unfold.Join 20,000+ Leaders for Weekly InsightsIf you want deeper research and behind-the-scenes insights on generations and the future of culture and society, join Ryan’s weekly newsletter:👉 https://ryanvet.com/collide
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    13 Min.
  • Start Here: What Shapes Us, and Where Are We Going

    Start Here: What Shapes Us, and Where Are We Going
    May 25 2026

    What shapes us? And where are we going? This is the Start Here episode of The Ryan Vet Show, the line in the sand between the essays that built this podcast and the conversations that will define what comes next.

    Generational futurist, USA Today bestselling author, and keynote speaker Ryan Vet introduces the next chapter of The Ryan Vet Show, a podcast about generations, culture, leadership, and the forces actually shaping the future. After more than a year of solo essays on generational change and what forms a culture, the show is expanding to include conversations with researchers, founders, reporters, educators, New York Times bestselling authors, and people with remarkable stories to tell. This episode is the bridge.

    Ryan walks through why generational labels like Boomer, Gen X, Millennial, and Gen Z so often fail us, why formation matters more than chronological age, and what it actually looks like to lead, parent, work, and build across generations in a culture that increasingly confuses disagreement with danger. He shares his personal origin, from incorporating his first business at fourteen years old to writing AI algorithms on napkins in 2009, long before the current generative AI wave. He sets the ground rules for how the show will handle conversation, curiosity, and disagreement in the next chapter.

    He also previews the guests joining year two of The Ryan Vet Show, including NPR global health correspondent and bestselling author Michaeleen Doucleff (Hunt, Gather, Parent and the dopamine kids book), Lenore Skenazy (founder of Free Range Kids and the TED speaker once called America’s worst mom), a third-grade teacher rebuilding play and recess, Facebook’s employee number 57, a digital nomad on his eighth country, an expert on private equity’s role in youth sports, and more.

    In this episode:

    • Why The Ryan Vet Show is expanding from solo essays to guest conversations in year two
    • The label lie, and why Boomer, Gen X, Millennial, and Gen Z shorthand misses what actually forms people
    • How formation, not chronological age, shapes a generation
    • Ryan’s personal origin, from his first business at fourteen to early work in AI and machine learning starting in 2009
    • The disagreement ground rules for the next chapter of the show
    • Why curiosity is one of the few real defenses against modern manipulation
    • What guests are coming next in year two of The Ryan Vet Show

    Referenced in this episode:

    • Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln by Doris Kearns Goodwin
    • COLLIDE Newsletter by Ryan Vet: ryanvet.com/collide

    Subscribe to The Ryan Vet Show on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, and wherever you get your podcasts. New episodes of the guest era release Monday mornings at 6am ET. The COLLIDE essay podcast continues every Thursday at 7am ET. Join the COLLIDE newsletter at ryanvet.com/collide for the research, reflections, and frameworks behind every episode.

    Send us Fan Mail

    About Ryan Vet

    Ryan Vet is a USA TODAY bestselling author, futurist, and international keynote speaker whose insights on generations, culture, and the future of work have been featured in Forbes, Financial Times, ABC, NBC, and CBS. His research helps leaders understand emerging generational patterns and anticipate societal shifts before they fully unfold.

    Join 20,000+ Leaders for Weekly Insights

    If you want deeper research and behind-the-scenes insights on generations and the future of culture and society, join Ryan’s weekly newsletter:
    👉 https://ryanvet.com/collide
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    12 Min.
  • Gen Z Is Ungrounded and Going Back to the Mall - The Generational Pendulum Swings Back to In-Person

    Gen Z Is Ungrounded and Going Back to the Mall - The Generational Pendulum Swings Back to In-Person
    May 21 2026

    The most digital generation is going back to the mall. Generational futurist Ryan Vet explains why Gen Z's IRL revival is a leadership signal.

    Ryan Vet, generational futurist, expert in generations, and AI keynote speaker, unpacks the resurgence of physical retail, the Generational Pendulum, and what Gen Z's return to malls, bookstores, and coffee shops reveals about how this generation was formed. A generation that was tracked, supervised, and over-scheduled is now hunting for the unstructured, in-person moments older generations took for granted. The workplace is next.

    Key Takeaways

    • Gen Z's foot traffic at malls is up 57% year-over-year, and 82.2% of Gen Z mall-goers say they are there to socialize, not to shop (Placer.ai, 2026).
    • The Generational Pendulum is swinging back: 83% of 18-to-24-year-olds say social retail environments improve their sense of connection (Lightspeed, 2026).
    • Gen X was rarely watched. Gen Z has been over-watched. That difference is formative, not cosmetic.
    • The mall was practice. It taught budgeting, trade-offs, self-control, and watching peers make bad decisions in real time. A generation that skipped that practice arrives at work without those reps.
    • Gallup (2025) reports Gen Z is the loneliest generation at work, nearly twice as likely as Gen X to say they experienced loneliness a lot of the previous day.
    • Leaders cannot replace lived experience with a Slack onboarding checklist. Workplaces need more unstructured time, multi-age interaction, and real apprenticeship.
    • The recalibration has already started. Gen Alpha (currently 1-13) may be the generation whose parents intentionally design a more analog childhood.

    Research and Sources Cited

    • Lightspeed. (2026). Gen Z wants more than products: 83% of 18-24-year-olds say hangout stores boost connection.
    • Placer.ai. (2026). How malls can win in 2026.
    • Pew Research Center. (2014). Generation X: America's neglected middle child.
    • Pew Research Center. (2025). Americans' trust in one another.
    • Gallup. (2023). Gen Z voices lackluster trust in major U.S. institutions.
    • Gallup. (2025). State of the global workplace: 2025 report.
    • Starbucks. (2025). Starbucks coffeehouse designs enter a new era.
    • City of St. Charles, Illinois. (n.d.). Charlestowne Mall redevelopment.
    • Business Insider. (2025). Starbucks plans to phase out its mobile-only stores for a future with more warmth and human connection.

    Connect with Ryan Vet

    • Read the full essay: Gen Z Is Ungrounded and Going Back to the Mall
    • Subscribe to Collide: www.RyanVet.com/collide
    • Website: www.RyanVet.com
    • LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/ryanvet
    • YouTube: @RyanVet
    • Book Ryan to speak: ryanvet.com/booking

    About Ryan Vet
    Ryan Vet is a generational futurist, USA TODAY bestselling author, international keynote speaker, and host of The Ryan Vet Show. As an expert in generations and an AI keynote speaker, he helps leaders, parents, and organizations make sense of how Boomers, Gen X, Millennials, Gen Z, Gen Alpha, and Gen Beta are reshaping work, family, and culture. Collide is his weekly research-backed newsletter on generational leadership, read by 21,000+ leaders.

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    Send us Fan Mail

    About Ryan Vet

    Ryan Vet is a USA TODAY bestselling author, futurist, and international keynote speaker whose insights on generations, culture, and the future of work have been featured in Forbes, Financial Times, ABC, NBC, and CBS. His research helps leaders understand emerging generational patterns and anticipate societal shifts before they fully unfold.

    Join 20,000+ Leaders for Weekly Insights

    If you want deeper research and behind-the-scenes insights on generations and the future of culture and society, join Ryan’s weekly newsletter:
    👉 https://ryanvet.com/collide
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    15 Min.
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