Growth Essentials for your 20s

Alina Rauch is 22 years old and already interviewing New York Times bestselling authors, Hollywood actresses, billion-dollar company founders, psychologists, and executive coaches on her podcast. Growth Essentials for your 20s is an interview-format show that punches well above its weight class in terms of guest quality and the depth of conversation Alina manages to draw out. The show is still young at 17 episodes, but the content density per episode is impressive. Topics include navigating uncertainty with confidence, building self-confidence from scratch, loneliness in your twenties, creating luck through science-backed strategies, and entrepreneurship fundamentals. Each episode pairs Alina with an established professional who brings years of expertise to a topic that twentysomethings are actively wrestling with. What makes this show stand out from the crowded self-improvement space is the interview style. Alina asks questions from the genuine perspective of someone in her twenties -- not performative curiosity, but real questions from someone who actually needs the answers. The production quality is clean and the conversations run at a comfortable pace. The show is still building its audience, with just one review so far, but the caliber of guests suggests it is only a matter of time before it finds a wider listenership. For twentysomethings who want expert-backed guidance on career, relationships, and personal growth delivered through focused conversations rather than solo monologues, Growth Essentials fills a specific and valuable niche.