"I Felt Like a FAILURE at 41" - How to FIND YOUR PATH When You Feel LOST | Mel Robbins EP 631

The Daily Motivation

Lewis Howes

Education, Self-improvement

4.8 • 893 Ratings

🗓️ 31 May 2024

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

Mel Robbins, the renowned motivational speaker and author, shares her harrowing journey through financial ruin and personal turmoil. Robbins' raw vulnerability exposes the depths of her struggle, from the shame of collection calls to the heartbreak of pulling her child out of soccer due to lack of funds. Her narrative is a powerful reminder that even in our darkest moments, the path to transformation begins with a simple yet profound act: getting out of bed. Robbins' story is a testament to the resilience of the human spirit and the power of taking small, courageous steps towards change.

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0:00.0	Hi my name is Lewis Howes and welcome to the Daily Motivation Show.
0:07.0	Remember what we said earlier? You cannot control your feelings that rise up, but you can always
0:17.3	control how you think and what you do. So 2009, I was unemployed. I had had all these career changes and I got into the media business, again by mistake. I had a coaching business and Inc magazine was writing an article about coaches and they featured me in it and
0:33.7	CNBC called.
0:35.2	That led to me doing some stuff with CNBC and I spent a year still coaching people and
0:40.4	then doing some stuff for CNBC and then Fox called and they were interested in having me host a television show.
0:47.4	Now you got to understand I'm from North Muskega, Michigan.
0:50.4	I mean the media business, Fox, LA, the closest thing I had ever seen to a
0:55.9	celebrity Lewis was the Muskegan lumberjacks, the farm team, right?
1:00.8	Right, from our, for the Pittsburghins. Yeah, my dad was the hometown dock for the hockey team there right right right so I thought the mayor was a
1:10.3	My life's about to change. I'm about to be a celebrity. Wow, we're gonna solve all this is amazing
1:17.4	You know so I was originally going to be hosting a show for Fox where we were making over small businesses.
1:23.3	Nice.
1:24.3	Yeah, pretty cool, right?
1:25.3	We show up, we like do extreme home makeover for the office, everybody's happy.
1:29.0	We all know that doesn't solve business problems, but it makes for a nice television show.
1:33.2	By the time I get to LA, they've changed the format.
1:36.4	It's now called someone's got to go, and I'm going to be firing people on national television
1:40.4	from real jobs.
1:41.4	Wow.
1:42.4	That sounds fun. Horrible.
1:44.0	Oh my God. Plus we haven't told the offices that this is what we're doing.
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