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It's All Relative with Dr Eliza Filby
'Different generations, same family.' Join writer and historian Dr Eliza Filby as she sits down with relatives from different generations to explore life through a generational lens, discussing how things have changed from jobs to dating, music to money, asking how different are we really? Teasing out quirky family traditions and hilarious anecdotes, It's All Relative is like eavesdropping on a Sunday family roast.
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Episodes
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Why Women Are Having Babies Later And Why Work Makes It Harder
Why are women having babies later, yet feeling more pressure than ever to get the timing right?We're seeing falling birth rates, later motherhood, and more…
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What Happens When She Becomes the Breadwinner?
Women are earning more than men in more relationships. So why does being the breadwinner still feel like a trap?Female breadwinners, women earning more than…
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Is Being Childfree Really an Economic Advantage? | The Hidden Economics of Being Childfree
We’ve spent years talking about the motherhood penalty. It’s time we talked about the eldercare penalty.The number of childfree women and women without…
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Should We Retire With Our Friends? How Older Women Are Redefining Retirement
Have I saved enough for retirement? Perhaps we should also be asking: who do I want to spend retirement with?We talk endlessly about retirement planning…
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Female Time Penalty | Why Corporate Time Favours Men Over Women
Women and men don't start the working day with the same relationship to time and we rarely talk about it.The pink tax, female time penalty, mental load, women…
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The Generational Inequality of Housing
The housing ladder is broken. For Millennials and Gen Z, buying a home increasingly requires a leap.The UK housing crisis, first-time buyers, house prices…
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The Bank of Mum and Dad Is Making Adults Financially Dependent | It's All Relative | Dr Eliza Filby
Do you still lie to your parents about money? Even in your 40s? You are definitely not alone.The Bank of Mum and Dad, inheritance, generational wealth…
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Why Elon Musk Is Wrong About AI and The Future Of Work | It's All Relative
Elon Musk thinks we will have AI Abundance in 10 years. Everyone is asking whether AI will replace jobs. The AI bubble is potentially on the horizon. Beyond…
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Why Men and Women Are Drifting Apart | The Gender Divide
I address the gender divide, the manosphere, the femosphere, dating, social media algorithms, birth rates, and loneliness in this episode.Are men and women…
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Who Earns the Most in 2026? | The Answer Will Surprise You | It's All Relative
Which profession earns the most? Corporate lawyers, doctors, teachers, Tech? In the context of the housing crisis, the Bank of Mum and Dad, social mobility…
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Gen Z Aren’t Lazy | They’re Adapting to a Broken System | It's All Relative | Dr Eliza Filby
Gen Z, AI, the future of work, hybrid working, graduate jobs and career advice. Why has an entire generation been labelled lazy when the real story is that…
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Baby Millionaires | Why Parents Are Saving for Their Kids’ Pensions | It's All Relative | Dr Eliza Filby
More parents than ever are opening pensions for their children, but this trend isn't really about retirement. It's about how families are adapting to an…
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Career Advice Nobody Tells You | Freedom, Agility & Uncertainty | It's All Relative
The future of work is changing. Entrepreneurship, AI, portfolio careers, career advice, Gen Z, millennials, small business, financial resilience, purpose, and…
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Capitalism Is Not Free Market | Grace Blakeley Explains Why | It's All Relative
The defining political emotion of the 21st century is powerlessness, says Grace Blakeley who I sat down with on this episode. Capitalism, inequality, stagnant…
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Why Are Birth Rates Falling? The Real Cost of Having Children | Dr Paul Morland | It's All Relative
Birth rates are collapsing. Fertility rates are falling. Populations are ageing. And governments around the world are starting to panic. I sit down with…
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Is Gen Z the Most Misunderstood Generation? | It's All Relative with Konrad Collao
I'm joined by youth culture expert and researcher Konrad Collao to unpack one of the most analysed, stereotyped, and misunderstood generations on the planet…
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The Rise Of The Moonlighting Middle Class | The New Reality Of Work In 2026 | It's All Relative
Multiple income streams, side hustles, moonlighting, portfolio careers, AI disruption, and remote work. Why are more professionals working two jobs, building…
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Gen Z’s Money Problem Is Worse Than You Think | Gen Z Money Habits Explained | With Claer Barrett
This week on It’s All Relative, I sit down with Financial Times columnist Clare Barrett to unpack one of the defining generational questions of our time:What…
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Who Can Afford To Be An Artist in 2026? | Why Art Is Only for the Rich Now | It's All Relative
This week on It’s All Relative, I explore one of the defining cultural questions of the 2020s: Who gets to be creative anymore?Because increasingly…
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Side Hustles, Wages and the New Cost of Living Reality | It's All Relative
This week on It’s All Relative, I unpack exclusive polling data from OnePoll, looking at how under-45s in Britain are really coping financially.And the…
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The Workplace Is Not Human Anymore | Why Gen Z Doesn’t Trust Work | It's All Relative
This week on It’s All Relative, I unpack my recent conversation with Simon Sinek and explore why AI is transforming work and exposing everything that was…
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People on 100K Think They’re Poor | The Salary That Doesn’t Mean What It Used To | It's All Relative
Are you actually rich? Middle class wealth, income vs wealth, cost of living, generational wealth and inequality, why so many people feel poor in a rich…
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Money Is Ruining Romance | The Real Cost of Love | It's All Relative
Are women becoming more “materialistic”… or just more realistic? In this episode of It’s All Relative, I unpack one of the most controversial conversations…
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Is University A Rip-Off? | AI, Students And The Future Of University | It's All Relative
AI in universities, ChatGPT students, is a degree still worth it? Future of education, student debt, and assessment — is AI exposing a deeper problem with…
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How Money Is Changing Friendship | Hidden Cost for Millennials & Gen Z | It's All Relative
Friendship and money, class differences, millennials, Gen Z, social mobility, and the Bank of Mum and Dad. How money is reshaping our friendships.We don’t like…
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The Lost Pension Generation - Gen X & Millennials
Pensions, retirement planning, millennials, Gen X, and money. Why ignoring your pension could cost you hundreds of thousands.At 28, I made what I now think is…
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Gen Alpha vs Gen Z | 8 Charts On Screens, Spending, Parenting, Gaming & More
Gen Alpha charts, Gen Alpha data, Gen Alpha parents, Gen Alpha childhood trends – 8 charts every parent must see. This week on It’s All Relative, Dr Eliza…
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Prenups Rising | Why 40% of Gen Z Women Want One | It's All Relative | Dr Eliza Filby
Are prenups just for billionaires, celebrities and oligarchs… or are they becoming a normal part of modern marriage?In this episode of It’s All Relative, I…
It's All Relative with Dr Eliza FilbyDouble the Time, Half as Rich
This week on It’s All Relative, I’m unpacking one of the biggest economic shifts of the last 40 years: the rise of the dual-income household, and why it’s no…
It's All Relative with Dr Eliza FilbyWhy Rich Kids are Miserable (Prof. Daniel Markovits)
This episode of 'It's Relative' explores the concept of meritocracy and argues why it has become a trap. Featuring Daniel Markovitz, Yale professor and author…
It's All Relative with Dr Eliza FilbyInheritocracy: Is Meritocracy a Myth? (Polly Toynbee)
Are we living in a world where hard work isn't enough? In this episode of It’s All Relative, join Dr Eliza Filby with guest Polly Toynbee as they dissect the…
It's All Relative with Dr Eliza FilbyJaded The Must Read Novel of 2024 (with Author Ela Lee)
'Jade isn't even my real name. Jade began as my Starbucks name, because all children of immigrants have a Starbucks name.' Jaded is the must read novel of…
It's All Relative with Dr Eliza FilbyBeyond the Scaremongering: Here's what AI is really going to do (Dr. Lewis Liu)
Is AI over-hyped? Or do we dangerously underestimate its looming impact? Which businesses should embrace AI, and which might resist it? In this fascinating…
It's All Relative with Dr Eliza FilbyWhy Generations DO and DON'T MATTER (Prof. Bobby Duffy)
Eliza speaks to Prof. Bobby Duffy about the strengths and weaknesses of generational analysis; why it is useful, why it is not and how we can understand the…
It's All Relative with Dr Eliza FilbyHow We Address White Supremacy in Our Education System (Jeffrey Boakye)
Today Eliza sits down with writer, campaigner and educator Jeffrey Boakye to discuss the intersection of race and education. Race is inescapable when it comes…
It's All Relative with Dr Eliza FilbyWhy TikTok is BAD for the creator economy (Sam Barcroft)
It is the most desired profession for young people today but only 4% of influencers earn more than $100k a year... that means a lot of frustrated wannabes in…
It's All Relative with Dr Eliza FilbyA History of Working Motherhood (Professor Helen McCarthy)
Eliza is joined this week by Professor Helen McCarthy to discuss the history of working motherhood in the UK from the 1900s to the present day. Helen manages…
It's All Relative with Dr Eliza FilbyHow pretty people RUINED the internet (Marie Le Conte and Chris Stokel-Walker )
Join Eliza on an nostalgic tech trip with journalists Marie Le Conte and Chris Stokel-Walker in which we discussed millennials' relationship with the internet…
It's All Relative with Dr Eliza FilbyWhy ONE simple change would trigger a revolution in fatherhood (Elliot Rae and Dr. Jasmine Kelland)
Eliza sits down with fatherhood speaker, activist and mobiliser, Elliot Rae and academic Dr. Jasmine Kelland to discuss whether we are seeing a revolution in…
It's All Relative with Dr Eliza FilbyWhy Millennials Need to Have Kids! (Dr. Paul Morland)
Eliza chats to demographer Dr. Paul Morland about what Elon Musk has defined as a "bigger risk to civilisation than global warming", the demographic ticking…
It's All Relative with Dr Eliza FilbyWhat are young people thinking in China? Part II (Zak Dychtwald)
In this second part of my sit down with China expert, Zak Dychtwald, we delve a little deeper into some key themes: In what ways are attitudes towards work…
It's All Relative with Dr Eliza FilbyWhat are young people thinking in China? (Zak Dychtwald)
In this first episode of Season 2, Eliza speaks to China expert, Zak Dychtwald, about the generational and familial dynamics within the world's fastest growing…
It's All Relative with Dr Eliza FilbyIt's All Relative: Series 2 Trailer
Join speaker and writer, Dr. Eliza Filby, as she seeks to explore how society and generations are changing in this permacrisis age. Hosted on Acast. See…
It's All Relative with Dr Eliza FilbyBonus: Jenk Oz and Carmen Greco
In this bonus episode of It's All Relative, Eliza speaks to Jenk Oz and Carmen Greco, mother-son co-founders of Thred Media. They discuss the social activism…
It's All Relative with Dr Eliza FilbyBonus: Alastair & Grace Campbell
In this bonus episode of It's All Relative, Eliza speaks to Alastair and Grace Campbell. They discuss political fatigue, navigating the culture wars and…
It's All Relative with Dr Eliza FilbyJonny & Katie Owen
Flying the flag for the Valleys of South Wales are father and daughter, Katy and Jonny Owen. Jonny is an acclaimed producer, director, writer and actor, with a…
It's All Relative with Dr Eliza FilbyPatrick & Jimmy McLoughlin
What is it like to grow up with a government minister for a Dad? Eliza speaks to Patrick and Jimmy about the changing nature of conservatism, the power of…
It's All Relative with Dr Eliza FilbyJohnny & Nile Marr
Is music the potent force in culture that it once was? Eliza speaks to musicians Johnny and Nile Marr about how the industry has changed (for the better and…
It's All Relative with Dr Eliza FilbyTricia & Anna Cusden
Eliza speaks to Tricia Cusden who started an on-line beauty business, Look Fabulous Forever, in her sixties, and her daughter, Anna, who also works for the…
It's All Relative with Dr Eliza FilbyPrue Leith & Li-Da Kruger
In this episode, Eliza speaks to Prue Leith and her daughter, Li-Da Kruger. Dame Prue Leith is one of our leading culinary entrepreneurs and TV personalities…
It's All Relative with Dr Eliza FilbyJulian & Jessica Fellowes
Can we agree to disagree? In this first episode, Dr. Eliza Filby speaks to uncle and niece, Julian and Jessica Fellowes. As creator and writer of the…
It's All Relative with Dr Eliza FilbyIt's All Relative: Trailer
Join writer and historian Dr Eliza Filby as she speaks to two different generations from the same family to discuss their contrasting lives. 'It's All…