Last month, I received my 2025 Spotify Wrapped, and I was very shocked to learn that my listening age was 84 years old. I was apparently not alone in my befuddlement, as many others posted online about their outrageously old listening ages as calculated by Spotify’s algorithm.

Upon reflection, it was actually pretty easy to figure out why I had racked up an octogenarian listening age. One of my all time favorite movies is American Graffiti, the 1973 coming of age film that is set in the early 1960s and focuses on “cruising” culture in California. When I was a kid, we had the soundtrack of that movie on an eight-track tape, and I would listen to that tape with my dad whenever we would drive around in his street rod or muscle cars during the 1970s. In a fit of nostalgia, I started listening to that soundtrack again on Spotify, and I really enjoyed hearing all of that iconic rock & roll music of the 1950s and early 1960s. When you factor that development in with the late-1960s and early-1970s classic rock that I usually listen to, not even the occasional contemporary Taylor Swift song could bring down my Spotify listening age!

After I got over the initial shock of my Spotify Wrapped, I received my LinkedIn Wrapped (I can’t recall what LinkedIn called this thing), which fortunately did not trigger the same sort of existential soul-searching, but it did indicate that the person I was most connected with on LinkedIn during 2025 was Liz Dunshee.

The confluence of these two events led me to the idea of recording a “Wrapped” edition of the “Mentorship Matters with Dave & Liz” podcast. We managed to cover so much ground in the inaugural year of the podcast, we thought it would be great to recap all of the insights and takeaways from our extraordinary guests. In this 26 minute podcast, the topics we cover include:

1. The reason we launched the podcast.
2. Perspectives from Dave & Liz on recurring themes from our 2025 episodes.
3. Practical tips gleaned from our podcast guests.
4. Gratitude for our guests and listeners.

Liz and I are very grateful for all of the amazing guests that were willing to share their insights on mentorship and career development with our audience. We also appreciate all of our members who have tuned into this podcast during 2025. We will continue to bring you new episodes of “Mentorship Matters with Dave & Liz” in 2026 and beyond. If you have a topic that you think we should cover or a guest who you think would be great for the podcast, feel free to contact us by LinkedIn or email.

– Dave Lynn