#89

Millennial

Megan Tan

United States

Millennial is Megan Tan’s earnest, searching dispatch from the purgatory between college dreams and adult reality, stitched together with the rawness of someone recording their life before they’ve had time to understand it. It has the charm and awkwardness of a debut diary entry—sometimes overly precious, but all the more moving for its vulnerability.

"As someone who watched a lot of YouTube around the time that Millennial first launched, this documentary style made me go 'a podcast can sound like this?' It sounded like an audio version of the YouTube vlogs I would watch and I loved the creative style to it. When we say there's an intimacy to audio, this is a show that exemplified that."

- Devin Andrade, Tink Media

Millennial, created and hosted by Megan Tan, is a podcast that begins as a personal diary and blossoms into something more delicate and searching—a kind of sonic coming-of-age film told in real time. Tan records from her closet, her car, her parents’ kitchen, capturing the hesitations and hopes of early adulthood with a diarist’s vulnerability and a documentarian’s ear. She’s not pretending to have the answers; she’s asking the questions as she lives them. The show is about work, love, identity, and the awkward, aching space between expectation and reality. But what makes Millennial sing is its emotional precision—how it lingers in the quiet moments of doubt, the missed phone calls, the job interviews that don’t go anywhere. Tan doesn’t editorialize; she reveals. In a podcast landscape full of polish and performance, Millennial feels lived-in and real, like reading someone’s journal and realizing it could be yours. It’s beautifully unfinished.