25 ROCK STAR MILLENNIAL BLOGGERS THAT YOU NEED TO KNOW

The big difference between a successful blogger and one that isn’t is their list. Many of the bloggers I have mentioned in this post have managed to successfully conquer the one-year blogging obstacle. Most bloggers start their blogs and in less than a year quit. Google penalizes new blogs so any blog that hasn’t been out there for at least a year fails to get traction. And fails to get a huge following and therefore doesn’t make as much an impact as they want. The reason why these bloggers are rock stars because they have changed the world through their blog, built business, created an impact and used their platform to help people. These 25 millennial bloggers kept going despite the numerous obstacles in their way. 

More and more millennials are quitting their day jobs to pursue blogging and often they don’t have the right teachers to steer them on the right path. That is why I created this list as inspiration and so you know it is absolutely possible to go for your dreams no matter how weird it may be. A lot of the bloggers here started without any money or help and a lot of them are millionaires. It isn’t about how much you have, but how much you are willing to go for your dreams. It is possible that you can achieve what they have. Here’s a post on how you can start your business in just three months. 

These millennial bloggers have changed the game and have made it easier to implement their success by offering guidance. I have listed three main categories foe millennial bloggers. There are other niches I excluded such as the travel and food niche. However, we can learn a lot from these millennial bloggers. I hope this serves as encouragement to go for your dreams. 

Career and Entrepreneurship

Chelsea Krost

If you have no idea who Chelsea Krost is you are missing out on knowing an exceptionally motivational and millennial blogger. Chelsea is the type of woman you want to know or be friends with, her energetic personality has made it impossible to forget her Ted Talks. If I am being honest, I didn’t know who Chelsea was and now I regret that. She has been rated as the top Millennial Influencers, she’s a sought out keynote speaker and she has been changing the game since she was just sixteen years old. She was the youngest broadcast radio producer way back in 2007. It was then that she created a talk show called Millennials by Millennial. There’s an awesome blog post about how to get a breakthrough by creating long-term goals and working backward.

Erin Flynn

Erin’s blog is all about teaching you how to create a business without driving you crazy. Her blog focuses on ways that you can build your brand and do what you love so that you can live your best life no matter what. She mainly focuses on helping web designers create a sustainable business that you can use to leave your 9 – 5 job. A lot of her services are focused on helping web designers create businesses that don’t require you working like a donkey. That is what is great about Erin’s blog, she shows you all the ways you can achieve this without having to work tirelessly to achieve it. There’s an awesome post she wrote about why you are attracting cheap clients.

GenTwenty

Gentwenty has been around the block since 2013 and it was created as a way to dispell myths about generation Y. If you are a millennial in your twenties then this is a great blog because it talks about everything from career to self-development to health and the list goes on. It also has an extensive library of free resources on how to build your career. The main purpose of GenTwenty is to teach you how to rock in your twenties so this is a great place to start if you need help with what steps you should take next in your life. Here is a blog post on how to make more money. 

Neil Patel 

 Neil Patel is known as the online marketing guru, he teaches people how to make money from their businesses by marketing it the right way. I came across Neil Patel’s blog in 2017 and I realized he has been there for a couple of years. I would say he focuses more on how to improve your business growth. His other blog Quicksprout shows people how they can grow their business a lot faster by improving their traffic. The reason I put Neil here in the Career and Entrepreneurship category is he is one of the first online marketers who came and showed that there was a better way to grow your business. His quick tactics have changed thousands of people’s lives and helped them understand all about SEO, traffic, and ranking in Google. 

Joel Brown

 Way back in 2016, I came across Joel Brown’s website. It was here that I discovered more about him and I was intrigued about his personal journey to success. He started in the music industry in Australia, but something felt off and it was then that he decided he wanted to do more so he started learning from gurus. It was here that he decided to start a blog. Addicted2Success is the number 1# motivation site in the world. He has been featured in 4 Documentary films and has been featured in a number of publications. With his website, he plans on changing the world and raising enough money to build a school in Laos with Pencils of Promise. Addicted2Success teaches people how to do more with less, improve their lives, start and grow their businesses. It is the ultimate site for motivation.  

Jen Carrington 

Jen helps creatives make their own rules and live by their own terms. If you are a freelancer than she’s a great option. There are a lot of great things she helps creatives with such as tackling fear, being mindful, helping creatives move forward with their businesses and the list goes on. She’s even deliberate with her time, taking 18 weeks off in the year to travel, enjoy life and spend quality time with her family. Check out her latest posts.

Ashley Stahl

Ashley Stahl is all about helping you decide what career is the best for you. In University we all wish that the career counselors could give us advice that actually works, but most of the time their advice doesn’t do the trick. It doesn’t show us who we are meant to be or what we should do with our lives. Ashely has a unique career journey, she once was a government entrepreneur and now she’s a badass entrepreneur. She’s one of the best millennial bloggers out. Her whole experience resonates with me since I have had a similar experience after leaving university. She shows you want you are meant to do and how to get there. So, maybe the career that you are doing right now isn’t the right fit, Ashley helps you get crystal clear on your goals and which direction you should take. Job hunting shouldn’t be so hard and Ashley makes it easier for you. Being an entrepreneur is hard, Ashley understands this better than anyone and she wrote a blog post on how to let your why be your guide.

Daniel Dipiazza

Daniel is one of my favorite millennial bloggers, simply because of how inspirational his story is. He was a broke waiter at 24 who decided he wanted to change his outcome so he started to work as a freelancer on Upwork. He made $24,000 in a couple of months and managed to quit his 9-5. He created two awesome brands, the first one is still popular today Rich20Something. He wrote a book in 2017 about how you can achieve a rich lifestyle and quit your job. The book was a bestseller. He also has an awesome Youtube channel and a podcast where he helps people to build a lifestyle that they want. You can find out more about him here.

Foundr

Nathan Chan is the founder of Foundr. I contemplated whether I should put it here or not because Foundr is more of an online magazine. However, I realized that the resources that it has are unparallel to a lot of blogs out there. The main purpose of Foundr is to help entrepreneurs to create businesses that work and to make an impact. Nathan Chan created this way back in 2013 when he caught the entrepreneurship bug. The first person he actually interviewed was Richard Branson and since then they have released awesome publications every year since then. The great thing about Foundr is they have podcasts, books and courses all created so that you can live your best life and achieve greatness. Here are a couple of articles on how to start a business the right way.

Mariah Coz

Mariah Coz is like a younger Marie Forleo. She demonstrates what it means to be a millennial blogger. She’s the epitome of girl boss and even her website makes you want to know more about her. She offers great resources to help build your business without stressing over it. What makes Mariah so great is that she talks to you like you are chums. She’s so relatable that it is incredible to have someone like her offer keys to success. Her advice is solid and she helps you get over the barriers that push you back. You definitely need to read more about her. Here is a post on how to be profitable at blogging.

Lifestyle Millennial Bloggers

The Confused Millennial

If you have no idea who Rachel is, you need to go to her site as soon as possible. What makes Rachel’s blog great is she’s a multi-passionate millennial who helps other millennials figure out all this adulting thing. She’s like the friend we all want and she helps us navigate through life. Her blog has a lot of awesome blog posts on personal development, career and lifestyle tips. She’s also one of the most popular Millennial Lifestyle Bloggers out there so you definitely need to check out her site. Here’s a blog post about how millennials can live their best life.

The Motivated Millennial

Hannah does it all, she teaches computer studies and business at two colleges. She has an MBA, is a marketing consultant and a caregiver advocate. She also manages to maintain her travel, lifestyle and career blog. I have no idea where she finds the time, but she still does all this. Proving that you don’t have to just do one thing, you can have various careers. Hannah is one of the best millennial bloggers out there. That is what makes Hannah’s blog great because she teaches you that you don’t have to be focused on going one route. The Motivated Millennial is dedicated to teaching you how to progress in your career, find work you love, enjoy the world by traveling and change your life.  Check out her latest post on entrepreneurship.

All Groan Up

All Groan Up just happens to be one of my favorite Millennial Lifestyle Blogs. Simply because it helps you navigate your twenties. As teens we all think that it is hard being a teenager then you enter your twenties and life shifts. You are given more responsibility and everyone expects you to be grown up, but you still feel as though you are a teenager. You are still as confused as you were when you were eighteen. You keep being friends with the wrong people and your dating life hasn’t exactly improved. Paul Angone gives insight on how to make your twenties rock. He’s more than just a blogger, he’s a speaker, consultant, and author. His website makes you feel warm inside. If you want to know more about Paul, just go here. 

Miss Millennia Magazine

What if you wanted to learn how to improve every aspect of your life? What if you could get out of college debt? Come in Miss Millennia Magazine that is dedicated to helping Millennial women improve their lives. It features advice on how to enhance your career, improve your relationships and finances. Jasmine Watts takes your hand and helps you change your life by moving the obstacles in your way. Maybe you can’t build your dream because you have no money. She helps you with that. If your relationships are a mess, she’ll give you strategic advice on how to improve them. Jasmine knows how to speak to millennials by focusing on improving certain areas in your life. She also offers insight on how to cultivate the millennial mindset. 

 Gen Y Girl

 Maybe, you have no idea how to do this whole adulting thing. You aren’t alone right there. Twenty comes and we are supposed to know how to be adults, but we don’t. There are a lot of millennials who struggle with it, but we can cope better than the generations before us because of our honesty. Our parent’s generation would never discuss such a thing. Thankfully there are awesome websites like Gen Y Girl. This site is dedicated to making life so much easier for you. She gives real unfiltered advice on how to be a mother, improve lifestyle and career. She’s a millennial blogger who knows how to inspire millennials to take charge.

Making it Millennial

We all have those moments when we are not sure what comes next. Whether it be a new job, how to dress the part, building confidence and the list goes on. It is hard trying to find a way to cope especially when there are so many in-between moments. Making it Millennial started on July 2016 by Marah Elizabeth. She started the blog after being laid off work in a program management position at her start-up education nonprofit organization. She was never truly satisfied with the job, but it still was an ego crusher. She shares tips on personal development, lifestyle, career, and relationships. She also gives insight into what quotes will inspire you to overcome the situation you are in. Marah Elizabeth is one of the top millennial bloggers now and her success story will inspire you. Here’s one article that will inspire you. 

Finance and Money Millennial Bloggers

I Will Teach You To Be Rich

Ramit Sethi is the Richard Kiyosaki for millennials. His whole premise is he will help you to become rich and his best selling book I Will Teach You To Be Rich does that. Ramit Sethi has made a name for himself by being the nonsense financial guru we all want, but can’t afford. He enters showing the various ways you can save money, make more money in a week than you did in a month and giving you guidance on how to change your life. Let’s be real, we all want to change our lives, but we feel as if we can’t. There’s so much that comes at us and we find ourselves stuck. How many Youtube videos do you watch about how to make money online. Most of them don’t work, but Ramit Sethi’s methods work. He once was like us, broke and unemployed and he changed his life. You can find his latest blog articles here.

Broke Millennial

Erin is the real deal, she shows you how to change your life and your bank account. She has been featured in Cosmopolitan, The New York Times, CNBC and the Wall Street Journal. She has the credentials. She’s all about changing your life and giving you the tools to go from being broke to being successful. Her advice is practical and there are no frills. So you don’t need to jump three times and click your heels. There’s no magic genie either. Erin is dedicated to helping you invest in your life so that your future is set. You can find her latest blog articles here.

Millennial Money

Grant Sabatier created Millennial Money in 2015 and since then he has changed the world with his insight on how to gain financial independence. He did what most people struggle to do. At the time he only had $2.6 in his bank account. Now he owns three companies and has over $2 million in his bank account. He achieved financial freedom at 30 years old and now he dedicates his time to helping millennials do the same thing. His insight will help you cut the learning curve. You can find his latest blog posts here. 

Millennial Money Man

 I follow Millennial Money Man almost religiously, his experience is pretty much what most people go through after graduating from University. After graduation, discovered he was $150,000 in debt and he started doing his teaching job. He hated it, most of us go through this sickening feeling that we don’t particularly enjoy what we are doing. That is what he went through. Bobby Hoyt quit his teaching job after he made $3 from display ads. He teaches millennials how to make and save money and do side hustles. His life story is inspirational because it proves that we all have the skillset and talent to go for our dreams, but what stops us is because we don’t believe in ourselves. Bobby didn’t learn finance in university, he learned music and yet he has a blog about advising people on how to make money. Any skill can be learned, all it requires is dedication. Here’s one post where he writes about how you can make money online.

 Amanda Abella

 Amanda has been making strides since 2010. She found herself in a position that many millennials do, she couldn’t find a job after graduating from university. She knew that the only way to survive in the job recession was to create her own job and that is when her blogging journey began. She is also an Amazon best-selling author and has been featured in Forbes and Inc. Amanda Abella teaches people how to make money online and sort out their financial problems. Her strategies are straight to the point and she guides you on how to change your life. Her top blog posts show how you can get what you want in life by focusing on it. 

Whitney Hansen

 I was introduced to Whitney Hansen by Hannah from The Motivated Millennial. She described Whitney’s blog as awesome and I have to agree it is. Her story is also different from most people on this list. She bought her first house at 19. When I read that I couldn’t believe it, that in itself is shocking and she managed to pay off $33 000 in debt in 10 months. I mean if that doesn’t make her a rock star, I have no idea what will. She teaches millennials how to pay off debt and gain financial independence. What makes her great is she has a BA in Accounts and an MBA in Business, she also has a true started from the bottom kind of story. Her story is beyond inspirational. What made Whitney’s journey to financial success all comes down to the lessons she learned from her mother. 

Young Adult Money

David Carlson understands what it means to be a millennial who is striving to make it. If you want to know everything there is to know about financial freedom he is your guy. If you want to know how to make money online then hop onto his site and he’ll show you how to do it the right way. If you have a problem with saving money (don’t we all,) then David is your guy. There’s a great post he wrote about how to make money the lazy way.

Frugal Millennial

I don’t know about you, but in my early twenties, I had a problem with overspending. I would walk into a shop and walk out with something I knew I didn’t need or would never use. There were so many times when I was broke because of this need to just spend. Jen like most millennials believed that getting a Master’s degree would set off her career. After she graduated in 2013, she found herself jobless and $75,000 in debt. It was then that she realized she needed to make a choice. She teaches millennials how to make smarter financial choices. One thing I have realized is that it is easier to spend money and harder to earn it. So having Jen guide you so you can make smarter choices is a win. Jen teaches millennials how to make smarter choices, she’s a down-to-earth blogger who has the approach that she’s not a guru. All she wants is to help millennials do better with their money. Here’s a great post on how to save money.

 Life And My Finances

Derek Sall started his blog in 2010 and he was $18,000 in debt. Within 14 months he had paid off the debt. At the time he was married, but his wife wanted a divorce and in 2012 they divorced. She wanted half of their income and he found himself back in debt. Along the way Derek has learned a lot of invaluable lessons, but he strives to teach people how they can become completely debt-free. Here’s a great post about short-term financial goals to strive for.

 I am planning on featuring more millennials, if you know any who you think will inspire other millennials, contact me at nessa@vanessagowora.com

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