Jemma Spike

It is our 400th episode of the psychology of your 20s, 4-0-0.

That is honestly kind of...

Difficult to fathom at this stage.

I don't know, every year when we hit the next 100th mark of episodes, the next milestone, I always get so emotional and sappy about, I don't know, just how far we've come, how amazing the community is.

I just feel like this podcast has such an amazing...

an amazing like origin story in that I started it really not thinking it was going to be anything.

It was just a personal project for me to document my twenties.

And it's just turned into such, it's just turned into the coolest community.

And now having all of these opportunities to obviously be on Netflix, like

to go and tour and meet so many of you guys and like the book that came out last year like it really is the coolest freaking job ever thanks to you guys and so when this comes around every year when when the birthday rolls around I always try and do yeah I guess a special a special episode

And this is what we're going to talk about today.

Today, I want to talk about this list I've been working on for, I think like over the past month or so, the list of 15 things I think everybody should do in their 20s.

The 15 things that may not be the most widely applauded achievements or

or milestones that society wants you to celebrate, but which I think will help us make the most of this decade and enter our 30s and enter the rest of our lives feeling like we really did and saw and directed our lives in like the best possible way.

I obviously think about my 20s, our 20s a lot as a concept and as like an important life chapter and

But I especially think about how to make the most of them.

This decade feels kind of like the last time when we're truly able to experiment, take risks, make mistakes, get away with things.

Obviously, like life continues after our 20s and we are able to reinvent ourselves until the day we die and able to take risks until the day we die.

But I do think there are some experiences that are really crucial just to have during this decade to

if not for the first time, the only time.