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The Mel Robbins Podcast

4 Simple Ways to Stop Giving a Sh*t About What Other People Think of You

The Mel Robbins Podcast

SiriusXM Podcasts

Education, Mental Health, Relationships, Self-improvement, Society & Culture, Health & Fitness

4.810.6K Ratings

🗓️ 22 May 2023

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Imagine how liberating it would be to not care about what other people think of you. You’d take more risks. You’d stop holding yourself back. You’d make more money and have more fun. That’s what happened to me when I learned the (not-so-subtle) art of not giving a sh*t. This is the best episode I've done so far. I mean it. The best. It’s hilarious. It’s relatable. It’s packed with takeaways and research. It’s entertaining and personal, and yet I still manage to empower you with 4 simple ways to stop caring about what other people think. Want to know what life looks like when you don’t care? I’ll go first. You’ll hear some outrageous, not-safe-for-work stories about your friend, Mel. And as you’re laughing at me, I’ll be laughing at me, too. One of the benefits of not caring about what other people think is that you don’t take yourself too seriously. Why? Because you have much more important things to care about. Xo Mel In this episode, you’ll learn: 4:00: Hilarious story of me taking my shirt off at an LA restaurant. 8:30: Christine says you’re not supposed to show up to meetings this way. 14:30: Here’s why wearing ballet flats would have been a failure for me. 16:00: Christine’s profound point about judgment really opened my eyes. 19:00: When you stop worrying about how you look, others around you will too. 23:00: What I think about ugly troll comments so that I can rise above it. 27:00: If you’re part of a gossip loop, here’s what you need to do. 28:00: It’s not normal to wear a child-size space suit in front of your students? 34:00: Jessie could not stop laughing after I did this. 36:00: How can you give honest feedback and not sound like a jerk? 38:00: The wake-up moment for me around relationships. 38:30: My four rules about how not to give a sh*t about stupid stuff. 48:30: Kendall revealed something to me that I still can’t believe. Disclaimer

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0:00.0

Hey, it's your friend Mel, and welcome to the Mel Robbins podcast.

0:04.6

All right, welcome to the Mel Robbins podcast.

0:09.7

I am excited for today because today is a little different.

0:13.5

We're doing something in prompt to so the rails could go off.

0:17.2

But the fact is, I've been wanting to talk to you about this topic for quite some time,

0:21.9

because you keep sending in question after question about how do I stop caring about what

0:27.2

other people think Mel?

0:28.6

How do I stop worrying about people's opinions?

0:31.1

How do I just be me?

0:33.0

Wouldn't that be amazing to be more of yourself?

0:37.0

I have worked so hard on this for myself personally.

0:40.6

It is easy to read a quote on Instagram and to feel inspired.

0:44.0

Yeah, the only opinion that matters is my own.

0:48.2

But it is so hard to put that into practice in life.

0:51.8

The art of not giving a shit is not so subtle.

0:54.5

It's actually very difficult.

0:56.4

And so I thought about how have I arrived at this point in my life at the age of 54,

1:02.3

where I can say to you honestly, I truly do not give a shit about the things that used

1:08.9

to hold me back.

1:10.4

And the number one thing that used to hold me back was other people's opinions.

1:15.5

So I'm showing up today with four takeaways that I want to teach everybody.

1:20.6

You could call them steps, but the realizations that I've had that have helped me learn how

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