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169 - GEN Z ISN'T WAITING ANYMORE: WHY YOUNG AMERICANS ARE BUILDING BUSINESSES INSTEAD OF CAREERS

The Jeremy Hanson Podcast / Optimized Entrepreneur · 2026-06-02 · 52 min

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THE JEREMY HANSON PODCAST Episode: Gen Z Isn't Waiting Anymore: Why Young Americans Are Building Businesses Instead of Careers Something is happening across America that most people over forty have not fully registered yet. The youngest working generation in the country stopped waiting. They are not waiting for permission, not waiting for corporations, not waiting for an HR department to call them back, and not waiting for the economy to magically improve. They are building instead, from bedrooms and garages and pickup trucks and coffee shops and tiny apartments with bad Wi-Fi and enormous ambition. In this episode of The Jeremy Hanson Podcast, Jeremy speaks directly to young entrepreneurs, especially Gen Z, about why the old career map stopped working and what to do now that it has. He argues that this generation is being lied to from both directions at once: one side tells them to go to college, get a safe job, and stay stable, while the other side sells them overnight millionaire fantasies with rented Lamborghinis. Neither is reality for most people. But there is a real path, and this episode lays out the honest version of it.

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