411. Growing up online, early fame and rediscovering your creativity ft. Arden Rose

The Psychology of your 20s

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Relationships, Education, Society & Culture, Self-improvement, Health & Fitness, Fitness, How To, Mental Health, Social Sciences, Science

4.8 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 30 April 2026

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

TW: this episode includes discussions of eating disorders.

What happens when millions of people watch you grow up online? How do you navigate change, love and making mistakes in front of a massive audience? And how do you rediscover your creativity after creating content about your life, becomes your job? In today's episode we talk to one of the original YouTube 'it-girls', Arden Rose, about early fame, body image, art and her life lessons as she enters her 30s. We discuss:

How making YouTube videos at 14 turned into a full-time job
The dark side of Hollywood and the entertainment industry
The biggest opportunity she missed out on...and why
Veganism, diet culture and self-esteem
The path back to creativity
Her greatest pieces of advice for people in their 20s
PLUS SO MUCH MORE

Happy listening!

Watch on Netflix: HERE

Follow Arden here: @ardenrose

Watch her YouTube HERE

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0:00.0	This is an I-Heart podcast.
0:02.5	Guaranteed Human.
0:09.6	Hello everybody.
0:11.0	I'm Jemma Spike and welcome back to the psychology of your 20s, the podcast where we talk
0:16.4	through the biggest changes, moments and transitions of our 20s and what they mean for our psychology.
0:29.3	Hello everybody. Welcome back to the show. Welcome back to the podcast. It is so great to have you
0:34.5	here back for another episode. I have been really looking forward to this episode because today, not only do we have our
0:41.2	first guest for our Netflix episodes, if you are watching over there, but we are talking
0:47.1	about something a lot of us have experienced in very small ways, but very few people have experienced
0:52.3	on a massive kind of life-defining scale, which is growing up on
0:57.8	the internet. Over the last two decades, as social media has become more omnipresent and posting
1:04.6	our entire lives has become more normalized, I think a lot of us are having this weird experience
1:09.6	whereby our identity, our mistakes, our
1:12.6	awkward years, our best years, our relationships are all documented, not just for us, but for other
1:18.8	people. On a small scale, that might mean like embarrassing Facebook memories. For others,
1:23.9	it means like millions of people getting to see you as you are still trying to
1:28.5	figure out your life, expecting you to be the same, expecting you to grow in a certain way.
1:33.4	And today's guest is somebody who has lived through all of that.
1:36.4	And more, she is one of the original YouTube creators or I would say YouTube It Girls
1:41.7	of our generation.
1:43.7	And she built a platform where I think at a time when nobody really understood what the internet could really become.
1:49.7	And now as she enters her 30s, she is here to talk to us about that experience and how it has shaped her and her relationship to creating now.
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