400. 15 things everyone should do in their 20s
The Psychology of your 20s
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🗓️ 26 March 2026
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
It's our 400th episode! Today is a special episode. Feeling stuck, behind, or like you’re wasting your 20s is not a rare experience. But you might just be focusing on the wrong milestones... In this episode, we break down 15 unconventional things I think everyone should do in their 20s and the psychology behind why.
Some of the bucket list items we discuss:
- The best money lessons you learn through experience
- The importance of yearly challenges and quitting the things you depend on
- The plan you can make for your life, today
- Why we all need to do a social audit
- Solitude, relationships and the love you should find in your 20s
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everybody, I'm Jemma Spake and welcome back to the psychology of your 20s, the podcast |
| 0:10.2 | where we talk through the biggest changes, moments and transitions of our 20s and what they |
| 0:16.4 | mean for our psychology. |
| 0:26.2 | Hello everybody. Welcome back to the show. |
| 0:28.7 | Welcome back to the podcast. |
| 0:30.3 | It is so great to have you here back for another episode as we break down the psychology |
| 0:36.4 | of your 20s. |
| 0:37.6 | Today, we have a very special episode. |
| 0:39.9 | It is our 400th episode of the psychology of your 20s, 4-0. |
| 0:48.7 | That is honestly kind of difficult to fathom at this stage. I don't know, every year when we hit like |
| 0:56.5 | the next 100th mark of episodes, the next milestone, I always get so emotional and like |
| 1:02.2 | sappy about, I don't know just how far we've come, how amazing the community is. I just feel |
| 1:09.3 | like this podcast has such an amazing, an amazing, |
| 1:12.8 | like, origin story in that I started it really not thinking it was going to be anything. |
| 1:17.0 | It was just a personal project for me to document my 20s. And it's just turned into such, |
| 1:23.9 | it's just turned into the coolest community and now having all of these opportunities |
| 1:28.5 | to obviously be on Netflix, like to go and tour and meet so many of you guys and the book |
| 1:34.3 | that came out last year, like it really is the coolest freaking job ever. Thanks to you guys. |
| 1:41.3 | And so when this comes around every year, when the birthday rolls around, |
| 1:45.4 | I always try and do, yeah, I guess a special, a special episode. And this is what we're going to |
| 1:51.9 | talk about today. Today I want to talk about this list I've been working on for, I think, |
| 1:57.9 | like over the past month or so, the list of 15 things I think everybody should do |
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