398. 5 ways to get unstuck in your 20s
The Psychology of your 20s
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4.8 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 21 March 2026
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
Feeling stuck in your 20s is a rite of passage, but it's can also feel deeply hopeless when nothing in your life seems to be moving or changing in the way you want it to. In today's episode, we break down some of the reasons we feel stuck and the five things you can do in the next 6 months to change that, including:
- The 10 minute mind map tool to get you out of a funk
- Why you need to stop asking other people for advice
- The 6 month challenge project
- Plus so much more
Happy listening!
The episode I mentioned: How to feel like yourself again
The book I mentioned: The Anatomy of a Breakthrough
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.5 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:08.5 | Hello everybody. |
| 0:10.0 | I'm Jemma Spike and welcome back to the psychology of your 20s, the podcast where we talk |
| 0:15.4 | through the biggest changes, moments and transitions of our 20s and what they mean for our psychology. |
| 0:28.5 | Hello everybody. Welcome back to the show. Welcome back to the podcast. It is so great to |
| 0:34.0 | have you here back for another episode as we of course break down the psychology |
| 0:38.3 | of our 20s. Guys, today we're doing it old school. I'm not in the studio. I'm in my bedroom. You |
| 0:44.6 | may even hear some like birds tweeting in the background throughout this episode. But yeah, |
| 0:50.6 | I had this idea for this episode the other day. I've been really thinking a lot about what gets us stuck in our 20s, how to get out of it. |
| 0:58.3 | And I thought, I'm just going to, I'm just going to record it. |
| 1:01.1 | I'm just going to go back to how we used to do episodes and do a little bonus episode |
| 1:05.0 | for you guys this weekend in my bedroom, under the covers, into the mic. |
| 1:10.4 | That is exactly what we're doing. And like I said, |
| 1:13.4 | today we're talking about stuckness, why it is that we get so stuck in our 20s and kind of the |
| 1:20.5 | five simple ways I've been thinking about a lot that we can get out of it. There are definitely, |
| 1:27.1 | I think very few feelings as frustrating as knowing you |
| 1:31.2 | are not happy with your life, feeling restricted, feeling pessimistic, feeling hopeless, and at the |
| 1:37.4 | same time, having no clue how to change it. Having no clue like what, what is even going on, what step in what direction |
| 1:46.7 | do I take first? It is like, claustrophobic is the best word I could use for it. And honestly, |
| 1:53.0 | I think the longer you wait, um, the more entrenched in the situation you can become. And it's not to say |
| 1:58.8 | you won't ever get out of this situation, |
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