Jay Shetty Podcast

The BEST Advice From This Year! (You Need to Watch This Before 2026)

Today, we reflect on the moments that shaped us, challenged us, and quietly transformed us over the past year. Not just the highlights, but the heartbreaks, the pauses, the uncomfortable in-between seasons that forced us to grow in ways we didn’t fully understand at the time. In this special end-of-year compilation, you’ll hear powerful, deeply human insights from voices like Selena Gomez, Cardi B, Madonna, Novak Djokovic, Mel Robbins, Codie Sanchez, and more. Each conversation reveals how love, loss, pressure, purpose, spirituality, money, and self-belief intersect in real life, and why growth so often comes from moments we never would have chosen. You’ll hear Selena and Benny reflect on how love grows through safety, patience, and showing up imperfectly. Cardi B opens up about depression, heartbreak, and how time, accountability, and resilience helped her reclaim her power. Madonna shares why cultivating an internal, spiritual life is essential in a noisy, distracted world, while Novak Djokovic explores the tension between ambition, self-worth, and purpose even at the peak of success. Mel Robbins challenges us to reclaim our energy by letting go of other people’s opinions, and Codie Sanchez reframes money, risk, and opportunity as skills that can be learned rather than fears to avoid. Together, these conversations remind us that growth isn’t linear, healing takes time, and the most meaningful progress begins when we listen inward, protect our energy, and move forward with intention. In this episode, you'll learn: How to Turn Hard Seasons Into Personal Growth How to Build Love Through Vulnerability and Safety How to Heal After Heartbreak Without Rushing the Process How to Embrace Failure as a Starting Point, Not an Ending How to Let Go of Other People’s Opinions and Reclaim Your Energy How to Build Resilience Through Accountability and Time How to Move Forward With Purpose, Not Pressure Give yourself permission to heal at your own pace, to learn without shame, and to start again as many times as you need. Protect your energy, listen to what truly matters to you, and trust that small, intentional steps create meaningful change over time. With Love and Gratitude, Jay Shetty. Join over 750,000 people to receive my most transformative wisdom directly in your inbox every single week with my free newsletter. Subscribe here. Check out our Apple subscription to unlock bonus content of On Purpose! https://lnk.to/JayShettyPodcast What We Discuss: 00:00 Intro 01:20 Selena X Benny: Love Story 04:48 A Misunderstanding In The Studio 10:35 Love Blossomed From Friendship 12:27 The Little Things Matter 13:01 Emma Watson: Day To Day Activities & Hobbies 16:53 Honesty In Hardships 18:04 Staying Authentic To Yourself 20:01 Four Steps Forward, Four Steps Deep 23:07 Embracing Failure Creates Space For Resilience 24:34 Depression, Vulnerability & Divorce 28:53 Time Heals All 33:48 Handling Constant Criticism & Pressure 36:45 Madonna: 28 Years On A Spiritual Path 42:24 The Third Space Theory 44:16 Spiritual Practices To Keep You Going 48:30 Have You Really Dated a Narcissist? 50:15 Why Money Breaks Relationships 56:51 When Intimacy Needs Don’t Match 01:00:37 Cody Sanchez: Using Credit Cards the Smart Way 01:03:57 Do You Really Need Money to Start? 01:08:23 When Success Still Feels Like Not Enough 01:17:28 Where Your Energy Is Really Going 01:22:44 The Let Them Theory Episode Resources: https://www.instagram.com/jayshetty https://www.facebook.com/jayshetty/ https://x.com/jayshetty https://www.linkedin.com/in/shettyjay/ https://www.youtube.com/@JayShettyPodcast http://jayshetty.me

Jay ShettyhostSelena GomezguestEmma WatsonguestCardi BguestCodie SanchezguestMel Robbinsguest

Dec 30, 20251h 28mWatch on YouTube ↗

WHAT IT’S REALLY ABOUT

Year-end lessons on love, resilience, spirituality, money, and boundaries

Selena Gomez and Benny Blanco describe how safety, humor, and small authentic moments helped friendship evolve into a committed relationship.
Emma Watson reframes “awkward transitions” and public mistakes as normal, emphasizing honesty, learning in public, and going “deep” before pushing forward.
Cardi B details how depression, relationship grief, and constant public pressure required accountability, support attempts (including therapy), and—most of all—time to heal.
Madonna argues that an internal spiritual practice (study, reflection, ritual) counters distraction, comparison, and the illusion that external success creates peace.
Experts and high performers (Orna Guralnik, Codie Sanchez, Novak Djokovic, Mel Robbins) unpack relationship patterns, financial literacy, purpose-driven ambition, and the “Let Them/Let Me” boundary tool to protect attention and agency.

IDEAS WORTH REMEMBERING

5 ideas

Authentic connection beats a “perfect” love story.

Selena and Benny’s story highlights that warmth, patience, and awkward honesty (even misunderstandings) create safety—often the real foundation for romance.

Small moments reveal big shifts.

The compilation repeatedly points to “micro-signals” (how you show up, how you listen, daily routines) as where identity and relationships quietly change.

Go deeper before you push forward.

Emma Watson and Jay’s “steps forward/steps deep” idea reframes stuckness as a cue to study, reflect, and build inner capacity before accelerating externally.

Failure is a legitimate starting point, not a verdict.

Emma normalizes being bad at basic things during transitions, arguing that willingness to try publicly is increasingly rare—and increasingly valuable.

Healing often requires time plus tolerance for loneliness.

Cardi B describes the gap between what your mind declares (“I’m done”) and what your heart accepts, and how the intensity fades in waves as time passes.

WORDS WORTH SAVING

5 quotes

We, most of us live in a state of, like, I'm just trying to kind of figure it out and keep it together, and the only thing that is different between us is people's willingness to be honest about that.

— Emma Watson

I used to be good at things, okay?

— Emma Watson

It was hard.

— Cardi B

I absolutely would not be where I am or who I am if I did not have that. It's helped me enormously, as I said, um, navigate the ups and downs of life... I just, um, I wanna share something with, with people that has pretty much saved my life. That sounds dramatic, but it's true.

— Madonna

That is a graveyard of energy you wasted-

— Mel Robbins

Friendship-to-love dynamics and emotional safetyVulnerability, authenticity, and “the little things”Learning through failure and life transitionsDepression, divorce/breakups, and time as a healerSpiritual practice and the “Third Space” for reflectionNarcissism as a label vs deeper relationship patternsMoney conflict, intimacy mismatches, and relationship “ideologies”Credit, leverage, and funding a business without personal cashPurpose vs “not enough” as a driver of successLet Them Theory: boundaries, validation, and attention management

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