Mel Robbins (on the Let Them Theory)

Episode overview

Mel Robbins (The Let Them Theory, The High 5 Habit, The 5 Second Rule) is a podcast host, entrepreneur, and best-selling author. Mel joins the Armchair Expert to discuss feeling every day in college like the only one who couldn’t make it work, how the human brain is wired to avoid what’s hard, and all the attributions kids make growing up in an unsafe environment. Mel and Dax talk about the reason getting out of bed when you don’t feel like it is a skill, why we are one decision away from a different life, and the fact that there’s always an excuse not to do something. Mel explains when she began course correcting her life one five-second interval at a time, the reality that there’s no amount of talking yourself out of what’s meant for you, and The Let Them Theory.

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1. 0:00Welcome, welcome, welcome to armchair expert experts on expert. I'm Dan Buck Rogers Shepard and I'm joined by Lily
2. 1:10:10you die. And it is there because it is there to wake up something inside you. And your
3. 2:21:59That was a hard one for you to take. But Duth was 30,000, so it's a push. It's a push.