Mel Robbins is the creator and host of the award-winning The Mel Robbins Podcast, one of the most successful podcasts in the world, and a #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Let Them Theory. She's also the founder and CEO of the media production company 143 Studios. She has amassed 40 million followers online and is one of the most respected experts in mindset, life improvement, and behavior change. The Wall Street Journal calls her a “billion-view podcaster” and TIME Magazine says she gives millions of listeners around the globe “a reason to believe in themselves.”

Her books have been translated into 63 languages and include the #1 New York Times, #1 Amazon, #1 Audible, and #1 Sunday Times bestselling The Let Them Theory, which is the top selling book of 2025 according to Publisher’s Weekly, with 7 million copies sold within nine months of its release date. It is on pace to have the best non-fiction book launch of all time. She is also the author of the multimillion-copy-selling The 5 Second Rule, The High 5 Habit, and seven #1 audiobook releases on Audible.

USA Today calls Mel “a force to be reckoned with.” She is a global phenomenon in the publishing industry and podcasting. Her Boston-based media production company, 143 Studios, produces award-winning content, podcasts, events, audio series, online courses, journals, and books, along with professional development education forpartners likeStarbucks, Ulta Beauty, JP Morgan Chase, LinkedIn, Headspace, and Audible.

The Mel Robbins Podcast has won some of the most prestigious awards given to podcasts, including Webby, Signal Awards, and iHeart. It was also recognized as one of Apple Podcasts' Top Shared and Followed Shows of 2024 and 2023 and Spotify Top Global Shows of 2024. Notable accolades for Robbins include being named to Time 100 Most Influential Digital Voices of 2025, a Forbes 50 Over 50 Honoree, USA Today Top 5 Mindset & Performance Coaches in the World, and one of the fifty most influential influencers on The Hollywood Reporter’s Creator A-List in 2024.

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You’re not “just being realistic” - you’re rehearsing a reality that might not ever be real. 

Worrying, ruminating, trying to plan for every worst-case scenario… that all FEELS safe and productive. But doing it too much will exhaust you and hold you back. 

So make a plan for if everything goes wrong, then put it away.

Then ask yourself, “what if it all works out?”

You can’t argue with that question. 

Because just like you have no proof that everything will work out, you have no proof that it won’t.

So while you’re rehearsing for futures where it all goes wrong, rehearse for the ones where it all goes right.

There’s something about your unique DNA, your inner compass, your soul, that pulls you towards your dream.

Your dream is personal. It’s not meant to make sense to anyone else.

So if other people’s opinions are currently holding you back from pursuing the thing you’ve always wanted to pursue, the most important thing you can do is Let Them.

Let Them judge you.
Let Them misunderstand you.
Let Them worry that it might not work out.

Then say to yourself:
“Let Me walk in the direction of things that call to me.”
“Let Me do what matters to me.”
“Let me live the kind of life I want to live.”

Their doubt is theirs. Your future is yours.

#1 NYT Best Selling Author of The Let Them Theory | Host of Award-Winning The Mel Robbins Podcast | CEO, 143 Studios | “Mel gives millions of people a reason to believe in themselves” - TIME

As the stuff on your end-of-year to-do list starts piling up, here’s a little reminder if you’re sitting there stressing about the week ahead:

Don’t waste your precious Sundays worrying about Mondays.

The end of the year has a way of turning into a sprint - getting ahead at work, travel, schedules, managing family dynamics, cooking for the holidays, and the pressure to be “on.”

It’s easy to slip into a spiral right now.

But while you can’t control what’s coming this week, you CAN control how you show up for it and how you spend this moment.

Maybe that means closing the laptop a little earlier tonight, getting outside for a walk, or just letting yourself enjoy your night without having your mind think about holiday chaos.

Or maybe it means making tomorrow morning easier by picking out your clothes, prepping your lunch, or taking 5 minutes to write a to-do list - so you’re starting Monday organized and grounded.

Monday - and the pressure cooker that is the holiday season - will come no matter what. And you can decide to arrive resentful that you spent your Sunday worrying about the week, or glad you spent it taking care of yourself in whatever way you needed to.

When Dr. Karl Pillemer interviewed thousands of people in their 80s, 90s, and 100s, he asked them what they regret most about their lives.

Their answer wasn’t the mistakes they made.

It was the chances they didn’t take.
The job they talked themselves out of.
The move they were too scared to make.
The idea they kept saying they’d get to “someday.”

And here’s the wild part:
These are people who lived through the Depression, scarcity, and real risk - yet they STILL say their biggest mistakes were the things they didn’t say yes to.

So if an opportunity is sitting in front of you right now, and your only hesitation is fear or uncertainty?

Their advice is simple:

Unless you have a really strong reason to say no… say yes.

Future-you will thank you for it.

This is the career advice 80, 90, and even 100-year-olds want you to know NOW:

It comes from thousands of people in their 80s, 90s, and 100s who were interviewed by Cornell University professor Dr. Karl Pillemer about the biggest lessons of their lives:

1. A job you love is worth more than any salary.

At the end of your life, you won’t say, “I wish I’d chased a bigger paycheck.”
Doing anything just for the money will cost you. You’ll regret the years you spent in jobs that made you miserable. 

Money matters, for sure. But once your basic needs are met, meaning and fulfillment matter way more.

2. Say yes to opportunities.

Your biggest regrets won’t be about what you did. 

They’ll be about what you didn’t do.

The chances you never took, the cool role you turned down, the move you were scared to make, the idea you never tried.  

Unless you have a strong reason to say no, say yes and just go for it.

And remember: this advice is coming from a generation that…

Lived through the Depression Era and understands financial hardship and scarcity…

Stayed in one job or at one company for most of their careers…

…and they STILL say no amount of money is worth toiling away at something you don’t enjoy.

So here’s your nudge from future-you:

You’re gonna spend so much of your life at work. 
You owe it to yourself to enjoy it.

I talked to Dr. Pillemer on The Mel Robbins Podcast about what people in the later years of their lives have learned about regret, happiness, and purpose. If you’re searching for more meaning in your life, start with our conversation - it’s linked in the comments.

If you weren’t spending your time in the job or career you’re in right now - how would you spend your time?

Would you finally explore that dream business?
Learn a new skill?
Try something creative?

This question isn’t about blowing up your life. It’s about seeing that you’ve always had more options than you realize.

Most of us don’t give ourselves permission to change until life forces it.

But what if you gave yourself that permission now?

In this episode of The Mel Robbins Podcast, I’m sharing the 3 questions you need to ask yourself today, developed by professors at Stanford University, that will shake up how you think about your work, your relationships, your life purpose, and the direction you’re heading right this second. I’ll link it in the comments.

Hoda Kotb is a reminder that you’re allowed to outgrow that career you’ve built - whether you’ve been in it for years or decades.

She started out as a journalist, and worked her way up to one of the most coveted roles in news: co-anchor of the Today Show. 

She loved her job. She excelled at it. But after almost 20 years of doing it, something shifted.

It was during her 60th birthday party that the Today Show threw for her in Rockefeller Plaza. People flew in from all over the country to celebrate with her. Two of her favorite bands performed. 

It was a beautiful celebration. And in that moment, she felt an inner knowing that  this was the best it was ever going to get. 

As she told me on The Mel Robbins Podcast, she realized she had climbed to the top of that tree - and it was time to find a different one.

So, at the peak of her career, she quit. 

Since then, she launched a tech company. She’s never worked in tech. She’s never run a company. But at the age of 60, this was a new tree she was called to climb.

And in September, she released her second #1 New York Times bestseller, Jump and Find Joy.

Hoda is proof that it’s never too late to…

Reassess your current path…
Try something new…
Be a beginner again…
Reinvent yourself…
And find immense success doing it.

So if your gut’s been telling you it’s time for a new chapter, listen to it. This conversation with Hoda on The Mel Robbins Podcast will give you the courage to take the next step. I’ll link it in the comments.

5 Lessons on Career Reinvention from Hoda Kotb

There’s something you need to hear: venting doesn't work. 

According to a study from The Ohio State University, when you vent and replay the drama over and over, you’re not releasing the anger - you’re reinforcing it.

Venting to your coworker when someone’s bothering you at work feels good in the moment…but it’s actually wiring your brain to stay angry. 

That’s why it feels like nothing ever changes.

You’re just reliving the same emotional loop.

So here’s your challenge:

The next time someone’s behavior triggers you, don’t vent - pause.

Use The Let Them Theory as your tool:

Let Them act how they’re going to act.
Let Me remember why I’m here.

You’re not there to fix them. You’re there to do your job. 

Focus on your “why” - maybe it’s to grow in your role, or to push the work forward.. Maybe it’s just to do work you’re proud of.

When you ground yourself in that, you take your power back instantly. Because when you don’t let yourself get dragged into other people’s drama, you free up time and energy to focus on what’s important.

In a recent episode of The Mel Robbins Podcast, I shared 5 powerful rules for dealing with difficult people - so you can stop reacting, start responding, and take your peace back.

🎧 “The Let Them Theory: How to Take Back Your Peace & Power” - linked in the comments.

Here’s why your habits don’t stick:

It’s not because you’re lazy.
It’s not because you “lack discipline.”

It's because you’re missing one bit of information that will change everything.

In today’s episode of The Mel Robbins Podcast, I’m joined by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and bestselling author Charles Duhigg, who is breaking down the three small habits that change your life with the least amount of effort.

This is the reset you need to finish the year with energy and focus.

🎧 “Get Back on Track: 3 Small Habits That Change Your Body, Energy, and Life” - listen now or watch on YouTube - search “Mel Robbins Charles Duhigg Habits.” I’ll also link to it in the comments.

If you’ve been waiting for a sign to step outside your comfort zone - this is it.

And who better to share her journey than Shonda Rhimes, who came to the hard realization that she was hiding behind her fears and her characters, denying herself the chance to create the life she wanted?

In this recent episode of The Mel Robbins Podcast, I sit down with the legendary Shonda Rhimes - the creator of Grey’s Anatomy and Scandal, and Executive Producer of Bridgerton and How to Get Away with Murder - to talk about the life-changing lessons behind her book, Year of Yes.

She’s sharing 5 rules that will help you stop hiding behind fear and start living the life you actually want.

This conversation is your wake-up call to take action, even when it’s scary.

🎧 “The Secret to Stopping Fear & Creating the Future You Want with Shonda Rhimes” - linked in the comments.

The people who earn REAL status at work are not the people with fancy titles or a million years of tenure.

They’re the ones who’ve mastered communication. 

According to Harvard Business School’s Dr. Alison Wood Brooks, there are four communication skills you should master in order to boost your status.

And it’s extra important to get good at these skills if:

- You don’t have a lot of formal authority - but want to get ahead;
- You have projects you need to push forward;
- You want better opportunities at work;
- You lead a team and need people to listen when you speak.

Because the way you communicate shapes how people see you, and whether or not they take you seriously.

Here are the four skills, and how you can practice each one:

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The Word Distiller - Copy & Content Writing

Marketing without the right messages is like selling steaks to vegetarians.

Your messaging is the linchpin of your business success. 

Understanding your uniqueness and all that you have to offer allows you to show up confidently as the expert that you are - and without any of the doubt that is holding you back. How you show up and what you share about yourself is the key to resonating and connecting with your audience, to demonstrate your expertise, and gain their trust. 

Understanding your audience on a deep and psychological level, allows you to serve your clients on a higher level. Knowing exactly what they need and leading them through a transformation that allows them to belong and grow - empowers them to achieve all they want and need.

Creating an offer that is free of fluff and gives your clients the best and fastest results allows you to confidently price and sell your offer based on its real value. But that requires you to be able to express your offer's benefits and long term outcomes in a way that extends beyond your clients' immediate benefits and connects them with their aspirational goals and purpose - and with those that they serve. 

The insights that you have about yourself, your ideal clients, and your offer allow you to build a highly personalised brand that is recognisable and memorable. With the clarity that you have about your psychological brand foundations, you won't feel the need to constantly change little details and be concerned about colours, images, logos, design etc. - because all your visuals will naturally flow from your foundations and your brand personality.

Brand and marketing messaging clarity do all sorts of magic and magnetic things. Like connecting on a human and emotional level through copy and content that sells and leaves an impact. 

If you need help getting absolute messaging clarity to be able to write amazing and heartfelt copy and content that influences your audience, then please send me a message.

Brand Messaging Strategist & Copywriter

Aotea Consulting

"Transform your Expertise" is a part-time programme to help career professionals transition out of their job into a consulting business by laying solid business foundations. 

I helped clients building businesses that reliably replace their incomes within 3-6 months. 

Together with my business partner, I created a business programme that helped high-performance business professionals transition from their 9-5 jobs into their own businesses.

To create the programme I tested some new & psychology-driven approaches that work in this scenario. The programme consisted of:

	• Re-programming minds for success - shedding limiting beliefs and adopting an entrepreneur mindset
	• Finding the perfect niche - & defining a personal advantage to achieve results for their clients
	• Crafting an irresistible offer - & designing powerful solutions to end niche pains
	• Designing an authentic brand - using psychological insights to connect & transform client lives
	• Establishing proof of concept - by testing the market & fine-tuning their offer
	• Learning organic & paid marketing - to reliably create leads & transform these into clients

Business Consultant for high-performing career-professional Women

Home

After leading a high-demand corporate career, studying for an MBA, and being a mother to two young children, I decided to stop having no life and took a sabbatical.

My family moved to New Zealand and I spent more time with my children, checked out the New Zealand business landscape, decided to build my own dream business instead of someone else's, reconnected with my old passion for writing, got a copywriting qualification, and prepared to launch my first business.

Sabbatical

Calibre Events

Calibre Events was a small event management business, specialised in organising global investigator meetings for clinical trials. 

After leaving my corporate career, I explored the coaching/consulting world to gain more in-depth knowledge about SMEs and SME/entrepreneur coaching.

Working with a one-person business taught me how different the struggles and needs of a small business are in comparison with a big corporate. 

Being an SME providing services to large pharmaceutical corporates was the most difficult business model and the hardest struggle I've ever encountered.

During the few months I was working with Calibre Events, I re-wrote all business documentation, wrote proposals and participated in bid defences.

With re-written business documentation and a clearer market positioning, Calibre Events was able to lead much stronger bid defences that led to new contracts.

Consultant

MedAvante

I found that strategy is the one aspect that holds a business together and keeps it on course. It must be in place and shared between all employees. 

Strategy feeds the WHY of a business and helps employees understand what the business is about and how every single employee can whole-heartedly contribute to their company's success. 

The following are just some of the steps I took to help people understand and support the company's WHY:

§ I formed a cohesive high-performance office team & introducing a supportive, collaborative and quality-oriented team culture
§ I improved office & inter-office communication while overcoming cultural differences (communication & working style)
§ I established a self-managed team to improve processes and their contribution to the company
§ I developed and implemented cross-functional process improvements
§ I improved meeting reporting systems to clarify the purpose and progress that each meeting made to the company's strategic goals
§ I drove collaboration improvements partnering in a Russian-German steering committee
§ I changed mindsets to think and operate strategically rather than being reactive
§ I took initiative and resolved conflict, performance issues and business challenges

Corporate businesses operate on a different scale but the main point remains the same for large corporates and for entrepreneurs: Understanding your WHY and communicating that to your audience is the key to success.

Office Head

Delivering results - that's what operations management is about and when the main focus is on utilisation and profitability - you think about how the output of each utilised minute can be maximised. 

The extreme pressure of maximum people utilisation, standardised processes, and project related billing creates an artificial lens through which each employee is measured by the same parameters. 

While this seems to be a very efficient way of generating profit, it is also a very ineffective way of trying to get top performance from highly skilled knowledge workers. 

The fact that every employee was highly skilled, is an advantage, but only if the variance of skills and the range of different skills is appreciated. People have different skills and talents and are naturally motivated or even passionate about their work - if they can work within their zone of passion and their preferred style.  

I transformed a group of individual contributors from different cultures (and with different languages) into a team of high performing collaborators where each could accelerate through their strengths, communicate effectively and complement each other's talents to deliver better team results.

Operations Manager

Covance

Covance is a global Clinical Research Organisation with now over 50k employees.

I was part of this corporate giant for almost 13 years - learning and developing knowledge, experience, and many skills that I am teaching my clients now.

Above all, I discovered the significance and power of sharing knowledge and building relationships.

Responding to new market needs, Covance needed to expand to emerging markets. I created a business case and a model that included a financial profitability analysis for several emerging market countries. The model played through different expansion strategies and became the default model for geographic expansion. 

Writing a convincing business case required an in-depth understanding of every little detail and the ability to translate these into a convincing set of documents. 

This is the same understanding that entrepreneurs need when raising funds or persuading potential clients to buy their services.

Manager, Clinical Vendor Management

I focused on coordination, integration & management of processes & procedures and the streamlining of vendor management efforts. 

I concentrated on building and maintaining relationships. The right choice of language was crucial to success, especially in a position with no power to negotiate. In such a situation, you need to speak the language of persuasion and rely on the quality and strength of the relationships you've built through sensitive communication.

This is one of the foundations that I teach my clients - copywriting as the craft of written persuasion. No matter what, you are always talking to another human being. And the deeper your relationship is - the better you understand which language to use to communicate clearly.

Resource Co-ordinator & Specialist Clinical Vendor Management

Much of my work was centered around process development & management, performance & knowledge management, competitor research & benchmarking, and partnership management.

Covance has a highly qualified workforce (and business partners), hired purely for their knowledge and expertise. I created and introduced a vendor knowledge management system that made crucial information accessible to everyone in the company, leading to better service quality and saving resources through sharing information in a manner that is digestible for all stakeholders.

I understood that knowledge and expertise were assets to be applied in the right way and in the right place to make a valuable impact.  The same is true for communication. As an expert, your knowledge and expertise create value for your clients and you must be able to communicate to your clients how you can help them satisfy their most burning needs. 

But it is crucial that you "unlearn" how to write as a subject matter expert and learn to write in a way that your non-expert audience understands and resonates with.

Admin Assistant

RENA LANGE Fashion

Working in Haute Couture fashion was a learning experience on the importance of authenticity. While I was responsible for the back office management, I improved co-ordination with other departments. Mediating and managing inter-departmental conflict was a large part of my day-to-day job. 

I discovered that being authentic, syncing my language with my counterparts, and being my natural self helped to connect and create relationships - and it motivated people to perform at their best possible level. 

Today, I help my clients understand their strengths and talents and show them how they can be their authentic selves to accelerate their business by working with and expressing their strengths. I teach my clients which language to use to differentiate their service and stand out simply by being authentic.

Assistant to the Sales Manager

Artograph Publishers

Office management in a small, multinational business taught me about different communication styles and all the moving parts that create a successful business. From marketing, HR, bookkeeping, sales, and branding to project management - I learned my basics about every different aspect of running a small business. 

Being involved in so many different aspects of business showed me how strongly each area can influence the other -  and that it is crucial to understand every single foundation of the business to be able to talk about it in a concise and convincing manner.

And that's something that I make sure my clients know - understanding the foundations of your business allows you to adapt your language to any situation.

Office Manager

Comprehensive School No. 1, Kokshetav, Kazahkhstan

Teaching in Kazakhstan continually got me out of my comfort zone. On a daily basis, I had to resolve problems that I had never encountered before. 

Kazakhstan challenged and stretched me in ways that were scary and unfamiliar - but I learned that it is important to step out of your comfort zone and address issues head-on. 

Especially when was forced to communicate in a language that I hadn't quite mastered. Operating in a completely different culture and building relationships truly challenged and developed my communication capabilities. 

I learned that finding the right words is a matter of very close listening and feeling into other peoples' personalities. 

There was no room for a "talker's block" if the situation demanded it. I was forced to be very specific in my choice of words and had to pay attention to delivering exactly the right message.

German Teacher

Bridgewater School, Surrey, England

Working with teenagers on projects and igniting their interest for an "unpopular" language created the first fundamental insights about what teaching and coaching is about for me. 

Teenagers are brutally honest and if they are bored, they won't participate, they won't learn, and they will miss out on an opportunity to shape their lives through knowledge. 

Making the learning relevant for your pupils is one of the most important rules that I learned. If pupils cannot make a real-life connection to the content you are delivering, then it's difficult for them to find value in your teaching. 

Understanding the reality of your audience to deliver relevant teaching is a concept that I apply to my programme - because - if you do not understand wants, needs, and desires - you cannot write authentic copy that captivates your audience.

Assistant teacher for German

Clarity leads to messages that grow your visibility, impact, and revenue.

People listen to people who clearly communicate something that truly matters to them. Those who have messages that speak to their audience's (sub)conscious desires, aspirations, struggles, and needs are able to connect with and serve people who value their messages and offers. 

The trouble with this is: What can you do to find the messages that matter to the right people? 

A few years into my copywriting business, I noticed that messages that matter are driven by clarity and rooted in a deep understanding of yourself, your perfect client, your offer, and your brand. And because I love to empower people rather than serve them done-for-you copy (that they can only use for one specific purpose), I developed a framework that stops business owners... 

🙁 Burning themselves out with posting at an insane frequency 
🙁 Struggling with creating high-quality content 
🙁 Attracting no one or the wrong people 
🙁 Wondering what to write about 

And enables them to... 

😍 Show up with confidence 
😍 Identify the messages that attract quality leads 
😍 Build a well-respected brand based on their knowledge 
😍 Skillfully create clear content & copy that connects & converts 

From a corporate misfit to clarity-obsessed Copywriter & Brand Messaging Strategist, I serve coaches, consultants, and small business owners to build a personalised messaging framework (and the skills) to create content, copy, and marketing messages that make them visible, valued, and trusted – and allows them to sell with confidence and authenticity.  

There are three ways in which I'll help you to achieve that... 

✒ Content & copywriting services (based on a personalised messaging framework) 

🛠  A 1:1 workshop series (to create clarity about YOU, YOUR IDEAL CLIENTS, YOUR OFFER, YOUR BRAND & YOUR CONTENT STRATEGY including a personalised messaging framework that infinitely inspires you) 

🗓 My monthly content & copywriting membership (where I empower you with all the knowledge, tools, and techniques to write all the content and copy that you need to market your business) 

More details about my framework & services are in my featured section.  ☝ 

And if you still have questions – then book a free 30-minute session with me:  👇

👉https://calendly.com/kirsten-wd/30min

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