Hey, it's your friend Mel, and welcome to the Mel Robbins podcast.

I am so excited about the extraordinary expert that you and I are going to learn from today.

Dr. Meg Jay is here in our Boston studios.

Now, Dr. Jay wrote the seminal book on what is the hardest decade

of everyone's life, which is your 20s. And today, you're going to get the most important advice

about your 20s that no one has ever told you. So if you're in your 20s and you're listening right now,

I am so thrilled that you're here because this is exactly what you need to hear right now. It's going to help so much. You probably thought your 20s were going to be amazing. So did I. But instead, you can't find a job you like. You're scared that you're not going to be able to pay for the things that you want or to meet somebody. And in between crying alone in your bedroom or being ghosted by people or never seeing your friends, you just feel lost.

Well, Dr. Jay is here to fix that. Or if you're like me and you have people in your 20s who you

love, for example, my husband and I, we have three kids in their 20s, or maybe you have nieces

or nephews, or friends in their 20s who are struggling with uncertainty, and you don't know how to motivate or support

them. Well, Dr. Jay knows how to, and she's here for you. And she has some really great news.

After two decades of studying and working exclusively with people in their 20s, she's going to tell

you what actually matters in your 20s, how to avoid the biggest mistakes

that people make, and exactly what to do right now if you feel lost or behind. Dr. Jay is also a

professor at the University of Virginia, and she's going to tell you the five things every college

student does wrong and the things their parents do wrong too. She's also going to tell you

what to do to make it right. I can't wait for you to listen. I can't wait for you to learn and to share

this with everyone that you know. Because based on the data, every person in their 20s is in the

most difficult decade of their life, whether they show it on social media or not.

But Dr. Jay also says, with some very simple steps, you can make it one of the most positive and defining decades, too.

These are the truths I wish somebody would share with me, and I can't wait to share them with every 20-something in my life.

Hey, it's your friend Mel, and welcome to the Mel Robbins podcast. It's always such an honor to be together and spend this time with you. And if you're a new listener or if you're here because somebody shared this with you, I want to personally welcome you to the Mel Robbins podcast family. And in particular, if you're in your 20s, I am so excited for you. Thank you for listening to this. I wish I had known what you're about to hear when I was in my 20s.

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