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The Jennie Allen Podcast

What I Wish I Knew In My 20's

The Jennie Allen Podcast

Jennie Allen

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.86.1K Ratings

🗓️ 4 November 2025

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

Your 20s are overwhelming, daunting, and humbling in every way. So many of us fight to build the perfect plan, be known, and get it all right.

In this episode Jennie talks things she wishes she would have known in her 20's - about letting go of our plans, saying "yes" to God over and over again, and finding community where you can be fully known. If you’ve ever felt behind, uncertain, or alone, this one will remind you: you don’t have to have it all figured out.

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0:00.0

If you just are in your 20s, young 20s, you just hit the part where nobody's telling you what to do for the first time.

0:05.9

It's like the tracks of the rail just ran out.

0:08.9

I mean, I remember that feeling.

0:10.8

And it is terrifying.

0:12.4

Lean into it.

0:13.4

The uncertainty is the place that we learn to trust God.

0:16.1

Accept it and lean into it.

0:29.7

Okay, today I'm going to talk about 10 things that I wish I'd known in my 20s.

0:31.7

And this is going to apply to all of us.

0:34.9

I mean, when I was 20, I got married young.

0:43.4

So I was having kids young. And that decade for me was full of insecurity.

0:48.9

It was full of fear that I was missing something. I think I lived every single day feeling like there's something more and I'm missing it. And I look back knowing today all that God would do and all that

0:57.6

he had planned for me. And I wish I could have just rested into that season and enjoyed it.

1:04.5

But even when I was meeting Zach and dating and in college, it just always felt like, is there more? Is there better? Is there something

1:14.7

different? I just had so much fear and so many questions about life. And I lived so

1:24.6

unsure of myself, unsure of God, and unsure of the way that I was living. But I look at myself

1:31.0

back then, and I'm so proud of who I was and how I was trying to be faithful. And even that

1:39.0

questioning, I think it was just a result of really wanting to please God, really wanting to live

1:43.8

a beautiful life, and really wanting to please God, really wanting to live a beautiful life,

1:45.5

and really wanting to not miss whatever I was supposed to be doing. And I think those are

1:51.8

beautiful desires, but man, did that fear steal a lot of those years for me. In fact, when I look

1:59.1

back at that decade in my life, yeah, I think

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