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

There's been a topic that's been coming up a lot in my life lately,

and it's not exactly the lightest topic so I was thinking should

we even talk about this but the theme just keeps coming up so I decided to pay attention to it and lean in

because everything that happens to you in your life

is teaching you something.

Your relationships, your mistakes, your wins, the things that trigger you and just get you so mad.

All teachers, and perhaps one of the most impactful teachers is death. It's a natural part of life. And lately it's

been everywhere. I mean just yesterday my daughter was at a funeral for

somebody who died so suddenly. Just a few days ago I was talking to our other

daughter who lives out in Los Angeles and she was mentioning all these natural

disasters in California that have been in the news and how much it scared her and I

said well why is it scaring you and she said well what happens if something happens and I die?

My mother-in-law, she's been coughing a lot, like a lot.

And it's been going on for almost two years and she keeps and says oh it's I oh it's nothing we all

want her to get a scan why because we're afraid we're afraid she might have

something that's undiagnosed and might be dying.

And in just a few hours I'm hopping on a plane to fly to Nashville and give a speech and it's

you know one of those little planes and as much as I love flying, I don't know about you, but I can never get on a plane and not have the thought of my death cross my mind.

And I'm not afraid of dying anymore because I've gotten to the point in my life

where I'm so proud of all the things that I've accomplished and changed in my life and I'm also so proud of the person that I've worked

so hard to become, the amends that I've made. But whenever I do think about death,

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