Mel Robbins on Letting Go and Changing Your Life

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🗓️ 4 January 2026

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Mel Robbins is a New York Times bestselling author, entrepreneur, and Golden Globe nominated podcast host behind The Let Them Theory and The Five Second Rule, two frameworks that have empowered people around the world. Robbins sits down with Willie Geist to break down why other people are the biggest source of stress, how letting go of control creates freedom, and why real change starts with your response, not your circumstances. Plus, she reflects on nearly losing everything, the snowy morning that changed her life forever, and how a single decision set her on an entirely new path.

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0:00.0	Hey guys, Willie Geist here with another episode of the Sunday Sit Down podcast. My thanks as always for clicking and listening along. I am thrilled to bring you my conversation this week with one of the most popular podcasters on planet Earth and simply one of the most
0:22.1	influential voices in the country right now. She is Mel Robbins of Let Them Theory fame. Her book,
0:29.9	The Let Them Theory, was the number one best-selling nonfiction book of 2025. Her podcast, the Mel Robbins podcast, ranked only behind
0:40.6	Joe Rogan and Theo Vaughn in the world in most popular podcasts this year. She's now marking
0:46.7	the one year anniversary of that book, The Let Them Theory. She also was just nominated for a
0:52.7	Golden Globe Award. That's right. I said a Golden Globe Award for Best Podcast of the Year.
0:58.0	Her personal story is fascinating.
0:59.7	I'll let her tell you.
1:01.1	Started off as a lawyer, thought that's who she wanted to be.
1:04.6	Then with her family and her husband kind of hit rock bottom was finding a way to drag herself out of bed and found her way to having these ideas
1:12.0	and these motivational thoughts to get people going again who needed some help through.
1:16.4	Started doing a little speaking.
1:18.4	It got popular.
1:19.7	Her TED talk online caught fire.
1:22.6	One thing led to another.
1:24.2	And really just in the last couple of years, she has blown up with this kind of media
1:27.8	empire around podcasting and books and speaking and everything else. High energy, really smart,
1:34.2	really charismatic. I think you'll enjoy the conversation hearing about her journey and also
1:39.1	how you can apply a lot of what she says to your life. So I'm not going to sit here and explain
1:43.3	the Let Them Theory.
1:45.8	Why don't we have Mel Robbins do that?
1:52.5	So sit back, relax, and enjoy a Sunday sit-down conversation with Mel Robbins.
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