Mel Robbins Explains Why You’re Losing Friends + How to Stop Self-Sabotage

Pretty Basic with Alisha Marie and Remi Cruz

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Alishamarie, Society & Culture, Remicruz, Prettybasic, 601834

4.8 • 36.5K Ratings

🗓️ 10 December 2025

⏱️ 105 minutes

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Summary

Today on Pretty Basic, we are joined by the ICONIC Mel Robbins — best-selling author, motivational powerhouse, and host of one of the top (and we mean TOP) podcasts in the world.

Mel breaks down what the Let Them Theory actually is, how to use it, and how your perception of control might actually be ruling your life. She dives into the million little things you don’t need to hold onto, the daily habits that transform your energy, and the single most valuable insight you NEED to know to become the best version of you.

And by the end… you’ll understand exactly why you (and your mother) really need to read this book!

The Let Them Theory: A Life-Changing Tool That Millions of People Can't Stop Talking About by Mel Robbins - https://www.melrobbins.com/book/the-let-them-theory/

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Transcript

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0:00.0	We have a true global phenomenon, the Mel Ropin.
0:05.5	Wow!
0:07.2	And at 41, I woke up unemployed in $800,000 in debt.
0:10.8	Laid in bed, drank myself into the ground, blamed the world.
0:14.1	And when this stuff happens to you, milk it.
0:16.2	Knowing what to do doesn't make you do it.
0:17.8	And that skill of forcing yourself to do the things you don't
0:21.6	feel like doing is what will give you everything you ever wanted. Oh, see that. Yeah. Here's the
0:25.9	Let Them Theory. I knew this would be the single best thing I would ever do in my entire life.
0:29.9	They like, pick this thing up and then you're going to go like this. My mother needs this.
0:35.7	The following podcast is a dear media production.
0:44.6	Pretty basic.
0:46.4	Hey guys, what's up?
0:47.4	I'm Alicia Marie.
0:48.2	And I'm Remy Parsons.
0:49.4	And we are very excited.
0:51.8	I think, Rem, this is the first time I've actually had to read a bio because it's too long for me
0:57.0	to memorize because I'm not an actress. It's too iconic. It's too iconic. Too many numbers,
1:01.4	too much stuff happening. Too many number ones. Too many number ones are so right.
1:06.9	We can't get it wrong. We have to get this right. Ladies and gentlemen, today on Pretty Basic, we have a true global phenomenon joining us.
1:16.6	Mel Robbins.
1:17.6	There's more.
	...

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