The Mel Robbins Podcast
9 Habits That Will Change Your Life: The Best Expert Advice I’m Using This Year
25 Dec 2025
Chapter 1: What are the nine impactful moments from The Mel Robbins Podcast this year?
Hey, it's your friend Mel, and welcome to the Mel Robbins Podcast. Okay. You want to hear something awesome? So my team and I went back through every single episode of the Mel Robbins podcast that we have released this year. I'm talking all 106 of them. And we got our shovels out and we dug into the data.
We looked at the shares, the saves, the replays, the comments, the clips, and the moments that went insanely viral. And There are nine moments this year that mattered most to you. These are the nine moments that stood out above everything else. Nine moments that weren't just popular, they were powerful on a global scale. These nine moments helped you feel less alone.
They helped you make real change. They helped you heal. They helped you breathe again. And they made you feel empowered. These nine moments are the moments you shared with the people that you care about. And these are the top nine moments from the number one most followed podcast in the world. That's right. The Mel Robbins Podcast is the number one most followed podcast in the world this year.
We are the third largest podcast in the world in terms of downloads, in terms of the listener base globally. And so today, this is the cool thing that we're doing. I'm going to share with you the nine most impactful moments of the entire year. These are the moments that you need to hear right now. And I think a few of them are going to surprise you because they definitely surprised me.
Hey, it's your friend Mel, and I just want to say thank you. Thank you for making the Mel Robbins podcast the most followed podcast in the entire world. And as a thank you, I have a gift for you. I want to guide you step-by-step through the process of creating your best year yet in 2026. How? Simple. With a free 20-page science-backed workbook that I've created just for you.
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As your friend, I'll tell you, you deserve to have the best year of your life, especially after everything you've been through this year. Here it is. I'm offering to help you. Why wouldn't you take it? Just sign up at melrobbins.com slash bestyear. Hey, it's your friend Mel, and welcome to the Mel Robbins Podcast. I am so excited for today. I'm glad you're here.
It's such an honor to be together and to spend this time with you. If you're a new listener or you're here because someone shared this with you, I just wanted to take a moment and personally welcome you to the Mel Robbins Podcast family. I cannot tell you how excited I am for today's conversation.
And before you and I get started, though, on these most unforgettable moments of the Mel Robbins Podcast in 2025, I just want to say something to you. Thank you. You made this year extraordinary. I mean, this was a year for the record books.
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Chapter 2: How did Jay Shetty redefine the concept of feeling stuck?
So at the level of DNA, it can reduce oxidative stress. So oxidative stress is what comes from us from everything as simple as breathing oxygen from the environment to having any stressors in life. It's just really living. We get this oxidative damage that builds up. Certain foods can even kind of cause this trigger as well.
But what these little magical fruits do is they go in and they help to turn off that oxidative stress. They come to the rescue.
I mean, don't you just love her? If this is the first time you're experiencing the magic of Dr. Dawn Musalem, you have got to listen to the entire episode. Because she just... You know what I almost imagine when I'm listening to her? I'm imagining being a patient in a hospital, and in she walks, and you could see her wearing a cape. I love the words. She's talking about science. Super cool.
Beautiful meta-analysis. Fun facts. Tumor genes turning. I mean, it's just like... She has this ability to bring something to the conversation about a topic that's terrifying, cancer. And as you listen to her, you feel hopeful. You have clarity. You believe the science.
She's so enthusiastic about how your body can heal and these things that you can eat that, I mean, these are her words, tumor genes turn off. I mean, I just, I just, photo nutrients. I'm so excited. by the fact that you have this episode as a resource.
I'm excited that you have a world-renowned Mayo Clinic cancer doctor who's a stage four breast cancer survivor who is sharing this with you because cancer is one of those topics that we tiptoe around. And I know it feels big. It's heavy. It's scary. It's out of your control. You doubt whether or not your body can manage it. But Dr. Musalem, she doesn't speak to you from fear.
She speaks to you from power, from lived experience, and from science, science that she is so excited about. And that's what made this moment explode. Dr. Musalem is living proof that your body wants to heal and it knows how to heal. And she gave you the very specific takeaways backed by extraordinary research to prove to you that there are things that you can do.
She's reminding you that your future, it's not passive. It's your responsibility. She's telling you your choices matter. Your habits matter. The food you eat, it matters. You matter. That's why this episode took off the way that it did. It didn't scare you. It empowered you. It made you smarter.
Now, the success of the episode with Dr. Dawn Musalem didn't surprise me because you deeply care about your health. It's one of the reasons why you listen. But the next top moment of the entire year of the Mel Robbins podcast was shocking. I did not expect this. The team didn't expect this. I am startled by this next moment. And so here's what we're going to do.
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Chapter 3: What insights did Danielle Bayard Jackson share about adult friendships?
I hope you are. I hope you are. But you may be thinking and have this renewed sense of hope for one of your aunts or maybe for your mom or for your grandma or for your older sister who has been so busy taking care of her aging in-laws that she's let herself go and she's kind of saying, I don't know how I got here. That's why this episode was one of the biggest across every platform because
And Dr. Wright started something that also went viral. She started something called the Viral Push-Up Challenge. You loved it. She told you and me that we had to be able to do 11 push-ups. I was like, on our knees? She's like, nope, on your toes. And she shared how to do this challenge with a level of humor and passion. You can start against the wall. You can start against your kitchen counter.
When you're ready to get down on the knees, you can do it on the knees. And over time, she wants you and me to be able to do 11 pushups And you loved the challenge and so did I. In fact, I did my pushups this morning. I've been working on them all year thanks to Dr. Wright. I'm still doing a couple on my knees. I'm not to the toes yet. It takes time, but I feel the strength.
Now, if you have not listened to the entire conversation or you listened and you're like, oh my God, I remember how amazing that was. I got to listen again. What are you waiting for? Your best fears are not behind you. You are building your best years right now. And Dr. Wright is here with one of the most popular episodes of all time to give you the playbook on how to do that.
Now, after hearing Dr. Wright and feeling that jolt of urgency and the hope about your intelligence and your body and the strength that you can build, now I want to pivot and take you somewhere deeper. Because one of the biggest patterns that we saw when we looked back at the entire year was you weren't just working on your health. You weren't just focused on building better habits.
You were also working on healing. And when it comes to healing, there's one voice globally that rose above almost every other guest Because he has this ability to help you understand yourself on the deepest level. And that is Dr. Gabor Mate.
Dr. Gabor Mate is a world-renowned physician and number one best-selling author whose groundbreaking work reveals how childhood experiences and trauma shape your emotional patterns, your relationships, and even your physical health across a lifetime. His insights have transformed the global conversation on healing, and his clarity and compassion help people like you and me
finally understand themselves in a way that opens the door to real change, real connection, and real freedom. This episode was nothing short of a global phenomenon because Dr. Gabor gave you the single most viral moment of the entire year, the moment you're about to hear had 25 million people watch it because it clicked for so many of you.
If you've ever wondered, why does my childhood impact me, but it doesn't seem to impact my brother? Why do I have a terrible relationship with my dad, but my sister has a great relationship? Why is it that I'm more sensitive and I don't feel very connected to my family? I feel like an outsider.
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