The Mel Robbins Podcast
You can change your life and Mel Robbins will show you how. The Mel Robbins Podcast is the #1 podcast on the globe for a reason: Mel’s simple, research-backed advice has changed millions of people’s lives, and in every episode, she’s giving you all her hard-fought secrets, science-backed tools, and deeply personal stories, so you can change yours too. If you’re a new listener, you’re in the right place. Every episode will empower you to create a better life and help you take a step toward the life you want. Want more? Follow along at @melrobbins Subscribe to SiriusXM Podcasts+ to listen to new episodes of The Mel Robbins Podcast ad-free. Start a free trial now on Apple Podcasts or by visiting siriusxm.com/podcastsplus.
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How to Become 37.78 Times Better at Anything: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Habits
Thursday, 8 January 2026
In today’s episode, you’re going to learn an easy and proven way to build good habits and break bad ones. Here to offer you a guide to improving your life, no matter what your goals are, is James Clear – the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Atomic Habits, which is one of Mel’s favorite books. James Clear is one of the world’s leading experts on habit formation and behavior change. His work has helped millions of people lose weight, quit smoking and vaping, stop drinking, build businesses, start new chapters, achieve lifelong goals, and become the person they want to be. In this conve...
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7 Things to Tell Yourself Every Day
Monday, 5 January 2026
This episode is about taking your power back and giving yourself the credit you deserve. Everyone needs a friend who reminds you who you really are. Today, Mel is that friend. In this episode, Mel shares 7 powerful things to remind yourself every day. These carefully chosen sentences pull you back into your strength, your courage, and your confidence. They are the words you need to hear that activate the most capable version of you. This episode will help you: -Reclaim your power when you’ve been playing small or second-guessing yourself -Set boundaries that protect your energy without guil...
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2026 Body Reset: How to Get Stronger, Lose Fat, & Take Control of Your Health
Thursday, 1 January 2026
Today’s episode is a MUST listen. This is your 2026 Body Reset and it’s all about taking control of your health once and for all. If you want to get stronger, lose fat, move better, and feel good in your body again – without extreme workouts, punishing diets, or guessing what actually works – this episode will give you a clear, proven path forward. For too long, people have been told to ignore pain, push through exhaustion, and accept stiffness, weight gain, and chronic discomfort as “part of getting older.”That ends now. Today, Mel sits down with Dr. Betsy Grunch, one of the top neurosurg...
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Change Your Life This Year: How to Get From Where You Are to Where You Want to Be
Monday, 29 December 2025
In today’s episode, you’re going to learn exactly how to achieve your goals, stay motivated, and create real, lasting change in your life. If you’ve struggled to create change that sticks… If you know exactly what you want to change, but can’t follow through… If you’re tired of blaming willpower… This conversation will give you clarity, relief, and a proven way forward. Joining Mel today is Dr. Katy Milkman, PhD, one of the world’s leading behavioral scientists, an endowed professor at the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania, and co-founder of the Behavior Change fo...
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9 Habits That Will Change Your Life: The Best Expert Advice I’m Using This Year
Thursday, 25 December 2025
In this episode, you’re getting the best of the best of The Mel Robbins Podcast. These are the 9 moments people couldn’t stop talking about this year. In 2025, Mel released 106 episodes of the podcast and featured 75 experts who shared their transformative insights on health, relationships, mindset, and more. Together, this adds up to thousands of takeaways. Because your time is valuable, Mel is giving you a gift today: She and her team crunched the data, reviewed hundreds of hours of content, analyzed listener feedback, and pinpointed the moments you saved, replayed, and wrote about – the ...
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You’ll Never See Your Family the Same After This Episode
Monday, 22 December 2025
If your family stirs up feelings - stress, guilt, grief - this episode is for you. Whether you love spending time with them, can only handle them in small doses, or stay away for your own sanity, being around family has a way of pushing every button you’ve got. That’s why Mel invited Dr. Mariel Buqué, a Columbia-trained psychologist and leading expert on family dynamics and generational patterns, to share the real reason why your family stresses you out. Dr. Buqué will help you see how the home you grew up in and the role that you played in your family shaped you as a person. She will also ...
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#1 Mindset Expert: Simple Mindset Shifts That Transform Your Body, Energy, & Life
Saturday, 20 December 2025
Today, you are going to learn scientifically proven ways you can use your mind to upgrade your life, starting with your body, your energy, and your confidence. In this episode, Stanford professor and leading psychology and mindset researcher Dr. Alia Crum reveals the science behind how your thoughts shape your body, your energy, and your health. She’s proven over and over again that your thoughts about exercise, stress, and food are working against you – and how you can change them. She’ll explain that this isn't just about thoughts, but that you have settings in your mind that you need to ...
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Your Grief & Heartbreak Will Get Better the Moment You Listen to This
Thursday, 18 December 2025
In today’s episode, you’re going to learn what nobody tells you about grief and loss. Whether you’ve lost someone recently, years ago, or are anticipating a loss, this conversation will give you clarity, relief, and a way forward. Or if someone you love is grieving and you feel helpless and want to know how to support them, after this conversation you will know exactly what to say and do. Joining Mel today is David Kessler, one of the world’s most renowned experts on grief and loss and bestselling author of eight books, who has spent more than 40 years helping millions of people through th...
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How to Make 2026 the Best Year: 6 Questions to Ask Yourself
Monday, 15 December 2025
Do you want to make 2026 your best year yet? An amazing year doesn’t happen by chance. It happens by choice. And there are only 6 questions to ask yourself for instant clarity and insight. Your answers will show you what the very next steps are in your life. The brand new companion workbook to this episode can be found at melrobbins.com/bestyear. In this episode, Mel walks you through her empowering, research-backed, year-end ritual designed to set you up for success. By the end, you’ll know exactly where to steer your energy to make next year your best yet. She will cover: -The powerful y...
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5 Rules That Will Change Your Life Immediately
Thursday, 11 December 2025
This episode is a MUST listen. If you feel stuck right now - whether it’s with your health, your job, your habits, your relationships - this conversation is for you. Today, you’re getting a new framework that helps you create an instant shift, and it comes from one of Mel’s favorite thinkers on the planet: Mark Rober. Mark is a NASA engineer who turned his love of science and education into the #1 science education platform in the world, with 72 million YouTube subscribers. And here’s here to teach you a completely different way to approach goals, confidence, and happiness: Treat your entir...
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How to Reinvent Your Life Starting Today
Monday, 8 December 2025
If you’ve been feeling the itch for something more in life: a new chapter, a new dream, a new version of yourself – this episode is your green light. It is a guide to how you can transform your life at any moment. Today, Mel sits down with her friend Hoda Kotb. Hoda, more than anyone else, will prove to you that reinvention is something you CAN do. In her twenties and thirties, she climbed the ranks in newsrooms across the country and refused to quit until she landed one of the most coveted jobs in the world, a co-anchor of the Today Show. In her forties she became a breast cancer survivor,...
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If This Episode Doesn’t Motivate You, Nothing Will
Thursday, 4 December 2025
This is one of the most motivating episodes of all time on The Mel Robbins Podcast. If you’ve ever felt stuck, unmotivated, or like it’s too late to reach your potential, you need to hear this conversation. Today’s episode is a wake-up call. You can break free of regret, shame, and fear. You can become the person you know you’re meant to be. It’s not too late to change. And this conversation will show you how. Today, you’re going to meet one of the most inspiring and motivational human beings on the planet, viral powerhouse Wallace Peeples, also known as Wallo. Wallo spent 20 years in priso...
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The 7‑Day Habit Reset: Start Today, Feel Different By Next Week
Monday, 1 December 2025
If you are tired of your own excuses… If you are tired of starting out strong, only to end up in the exact same place… If you feel like you can’t get your life together… If you feel unmotivated and exhausted… That makes complete sense. The end of the year is almost here and you need a little PUSH to get over the finish line. So Mel is giving you the simple reset you need to finish the year with energy and focus. Today, Mel is joined by Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist and bestselling author Charles Duhigg, and he’s breaking down the three small habits that will quietly reset your mind and ...
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How to Live a Happier Life: Do THIS Gratitude Practice Today
Thursday, 27 November 2025
In today’s episode, you’ll learn a simple tool you can use to feel happier and more connected to your loved ones. Mel is teaching you a few simple gratitude practices, ones you can do with your family, your partner, or even in a group text, that are proven to lower stress and make any relationship better. Mel used to cringe at the word gratitude. The fake smiles. The toxic positivity. The pressure to be “thankful” while your life is falling apart. But then she uncovered the real science – and what it does to your brain and body is shocking.This episode is not about keeping a journal or fa...
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World Leading Therapist: Why You Feel Stuck in Life & How to Get Unstuck
Monday, 24 November 2025
In today’s episode, you’re going to learn the root cause of why you feel stuck. Whether you feel trapped in self-doubt, overwhelmed by anxiety, or find yourself in a dynamic that keeps repeating, this conversation will show you how to break free. Joining Mel today is Lori Gottlieb: world-renowned therapist, writer of the “Ask the Therapist” column for The New York Times, author of “Maybe You Should Talk to Someone,” which has sold 3 million copies, and host of the podcast Since You Asked. Lori is here to help you change the most powerful force shaping your life: the story you’re telling you...
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This One Study Will Change How You Think About Your Entire Life: The Cornell Legacy Project
Thursday, 20 November 2025
What if you could meet with your older, wiser self for a few minutes and get all the answers you need to live a life you’re proud of? A life with more joy and fewer regrets. A life of purpose and passion. That’s exactly what this episode feels like. In this powerful conversation, Mel sits down with Dr. Karl Pillemer, director of Cornell University’s Legacy Project. Dr. Pillemer has spent years researching the lessons and regrets of thousands of people in their 80s, 90s, and 100s. His mission? To gather the life lessons they most want you to know, before it’s too late. What his research revi...
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How to Deal with Difficult People & Not Get Stressed Out
Monday, 17 November 2025
Today, you are getting research-backed strategies for handling difficult people. If you’re done being dismissed, talked over, or made to feel small, this episode will help you show up with power - and walk away with peace.Whether it’s family, coworkers, friends, or anyone who knows how to trigger you, today you’re getting tools for dealing with difficult people.In this solo episode, Mel dives deep into how to respond to disrespect, deal with emotionally immature behavior without losing yourself, and finally stop overreacting and overexplaining around people who are never going to change.Me...
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The Exact Words You Need to Hear Today If It Feels Like Nothing’s Working
Thursday, 13 November 2025
Some days, the world feels like too much. The news, the stress, the noise. You start to wonder if you’ll ever feel right again. Then, out of nowhere, something lands in your lap that reminds you of what really matters. That’s what today’s conversation delivers: the exact words you need to hear if you’re feeling stuck in that negative place. In this deeply personal and moving episode, Mel sits down with one of the most extraordinary thinkers and poets of our time: Mark Nepo, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Book of Awakening, which has changed millions of lives – including Mel...
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The Secret to Stopping Fear & Creating the Future You Want with Shonda Rhimes
Monday, 10 November 2025
This episode is a MUST listen. If you’ve ever felt stuck, small, or tired of letting fear dictate your life, you need to hit play. This is the most eye-opening, empowering conversation you’ll hear this year. It’s time to stop playing small. There’s a bigger possibility for your life, you are more capable than you know, and you can manifest the future you want. Today’s episode will show you how. In it, Mel is joined by Shonda Rhimes. Shonda is one of the most powerful voices in entertainment history. She’s the creator of Grey's Anatomy and Scandal and the Executive Producer of Bridgerton and...
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How to Use AI to Make Money, Save Time, and Be More Productive
Thursday, 6 November 2025
What if the most powerful tool for saving time, making money, and transforming your life was already right in front of you? And yet you’re most likely using it incorrectly or not using it at all. That tool is AI – artificial intelligence. Have you noticed: it seems like everybody is talking about AI everywhere you turn? You’re already living with it every single day, whether you notice it or not. So, you might as well be the one in charge of how you use it. That’s why Mel has been searching for the right expert to come on the show to empower you, step by step, on how you can best use AI to ...
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3 Questions to Ask Yourself to Figure Out What You Really Want
Monday, 3 November 2025
If you’ve ever had that quiet thought – “There’s more I’m meant to do” – this episode is your sign to pay attention. What if the life you want isn’t as far away as it feels? What if you could start seeing new possibilities right now? In this episode, Mel shares 3 powerful questions you need to ask yourself this week. Developed by Stanford University professors, these questions have helped millions of people design lives they love. They’re simple, but they’ll shake up how you think about your work, your relationships, your life purpose, and the direction you’re heading right this second. By ...
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How to Communicate With Confidence & Ease (From Harvard Business School’s #1 Professor)
Thursday, 30 October 2025
This episode will completely change the way you think about communication. What you learn will boost your influence and make you more confident.If you… Overthink what you said hours after a meeting, Freeze up when it’s your turn to talk, Or want to sound more confident without faking it… This is your blueprint for better conversations at work, in relationships, and in life. Today, Mel sits down with Dr. Alison Wood Brooks: Harvard professor, researcher, author, and one of the world’s leading experts on the science of communication. Her course at Harvard Business School, all about communicat...
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12 Minutes to a Better Brain: Neuroscientist Reveals the #1 Habit for Clarity & Focus
Monday, 27 October 2025
If you’re feeling tired, unfocused, and like your mind is being hijacked, today’s episode is for you. The world today is designed to steal your focus. In today’s episode, cognitive neuroscientist Dr. Amishi Jha joins Mel to deliver a wake-up call: Every scroll, every ping, every mindless click – these aren’t just distractions. They are rewiring your brain and reshaping your priorities. If you can’t control your attention, you can’t steer your life. But the good news? You can train your brain to pay attention again. Dr. Jha is one of the world’s leading experts on the science of attention. S...
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Mayo Clinic Cancer Doctor: 5 Foods That Heal the Body, Starve Cancer, & Prevent Disease
Thursday, 23 October 2025
In this episode, you will learn what to eat to heal your body, starve cancer, and prevent disease - with the food you eat. Today, Mel sits down with Dr. Dawn Mussallem, a double board‑certified Mayo Clinic physician, the first cancer doctor ever on this podcast, integrative oncology pioneer, and stage 4 cancer survivor. Her colleagues at Mayo Clinic call her “the Magic Bullet” because of the incredible results she gets combining traditional medicine with lifestyle interventions. This conversation is going to change the way you think about food, exercise, sleep, stress, and disease. Inside ...
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If You’re Feeling Overwhelmed, You Need to Hear This
Monday, 20 October 2025
If you’ve been thinking, I can’t focus… I can’t catch up… I feel so behind… this episode is for you. Today, Mel breaks down overwhelm:why your brain feels overloaded and the 4 simple steps you can use today to clear your mind and finally get back on track. You’ll learn: -The real reason you can’t focus (and it’s not what you think) -The first thing to do when you feel paralyzed by stress or decisions -Why doing more is actually keeping you stuck -A quick 30-second reset that melts overwhelm fast -How to stop the “I’m so behind” spiral If your to-do list never ends. If your home, inbox, or m...
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Feel Better Now: Neurosurgeon Reveals the New Science of Healing Your Body & Stopping Pain Today
Thursday, 16 October 2025
In today’s episode, you’re going to learn the new science of healing your body, stopping pain, and feeling better now. One of the world’s most respected neurosurgeons and medical experts alive is here to reveal the new frontiers in pain management and how you can feel better in your body starting today. Whether you’ve been living with a chronic condition, you’re dealing with an injury that just happened, or you’re listening for a loved one, you’re going to learn so much from our expert. Dr. Sanjay Gupta, MD is a world-renowned neurosurgeon, CNN’s Chief Medical Correspondent, and author of ...
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How to Create a Successful Mindset: The Science of Passion and Perseverance
Monday, 13 October 2025
What if the one thing that matters most for your success isn’t talent, luck, or intelligence, but something you can build starting today? In this eye-opening conversation, renowned psychologist Dr. Angela Duckworth joins Mel to reveal the real science of success and what drives achievement – and it’s not what you’ve been told. You’ll learn why grit – the combination of passion and perseverance – matters more than talent, intelligence, or motivation alone. And today, you’ll learn exactly how to build it. Dr. Duckworth is a pioneering researcher in psychology, professor at The University of...
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It’s Not Too Late: How to Transform Your Life at Any Moment
Thursday, 9 October 2025
If you’ve ever felt stuck, behind, or like you’re not living the life you’re meant to, this conversation is for you. Today’s episode is a guide to how you can transform your life – at any moment. Mel sits down with New York Times bestselling author, ultra-endurance athlete, and host of one of the world’s top podcasts, Rich Roll, to reveal the lessons from his three jaw-dropping reinventions. From being an alcoholic who couldn’t make the ends meet, to an overweight lawyer who could barely climb a flight of stairs, to one of the fittest men alive with a global platform inspiring millions – Ri...
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Try It for 1 Week: 6 Small Ways to Bring Back the Happiness, Energy, and Fun
Monday, 6 October 2025
If you feel like nothing feels exciting or fun anymore, you’re not alone. In today’s episode, Mel shares 6 small ways you can break out of autopilot and live with more joy, fun, and energy. If you’re tired of feeling numb, heavy, or stuck in a routine, this episode is your wake-up call. Mel proves to you today that you can have more fun, even when life feels hard. Practice these simple shifts, and over time you’ll feel brighter, lighter, and more alive than you have in years. This episode will teach you: -Why having fun is the secret to a healthy life -How to stop taking everything so seri...
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Use Your Mind to Heal Your Body With the #1 Harvard Psychologist
Thursday, 2 October 2025
What if everything you’ve been told about health, stress, and aging is wrong? Today, the legendary Dr. Ellen Langer – pioneering Harvard psychologist and global mindfulness legend, renowned for her 50+ years of groundbreaking research – joins Mel for the conversation of a lifetime. She says you can use your mind to heal your body, and she has 50 years of headline-making science to back it up. You’ll hear about people healing faster when the clock on the wall sped up. Elderly men getting stronger and younger by pretending they traveled back in time. Hotel housekeepers losing weight simply b...
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