The Mel Robbins Podcast
Your Summer Reset for More Energy, Fun, & Happiness (Backed by Science)
04 Jun 2026
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Chapter 1: What is the purpose of a mid-year reset?
Hey, it's your friend Mel, and welcome to the Mel Robbins Podcast. Oh my gosh, I am so excited that you're here. I have been dying to get on this microphone and to catch up with you. I feel like we have not had the kind of episode where it's just been you and I talking for months. And look, I just got back from being on tour, holy cow, 56 days.
15 cities, 21 sold out shows, almost 100,000 of you came who are fans of this podcast. I'm back at home in Vermont. I've slept for like a week to try to recover from being on tour. I'm back above the garage. I'm back on this microphone. I am so excited to be back here with you. And I was thinking about, okay, what is the first thing that I want to talk to you about today?
I just really wanted to connect with you. I mean, here's the thing. While I've been on tour, I know you've been busy. You're busy living your life. I mean, can you believe that this year is almost halfway over? The time was like, what the heck? So here's what I thought we could do. We could hit the pause button together.
You know, almost like support each other and doing a little reset right now and help each other take stock of all the things that happened this year. The hard things that you got yourself through, the progress that you made, the moments that you handled so much better than you used to, the ways that you keep showing up even when no one else notices. And here's how we're gonna do it.
As we kind of go on this little walk and catch up together, I'm just gonna throw out two questions that force you to pause, probably for the first time in months, And questions that help you reflect on all the things that you've experienced and done so far this year. And then we'll get to the second question. And the second question I love because the second question is grounded in research.
And it's also the kind of question that a good friend asks you when you're going for a walk after a couple months. And that question is, what are you looking forward to? And there's fascinating research about why this question and having something to look forward to is so important in life.
And I promise you, by the time we're done with this conversation, you're gonna feel so much better because we're gonna reconnect and we're gonna reset. I love spending time with you and I love being together. And today, that's what we're doing. It's just you and me, two friends catching up, hitting the reset and reconnecting over these two powerful questions.
Hey, it's your friend Mel, and welcome to the Mel Robbins Podcast. I am so glad you're here. It's an honor to spend this time together. If you're new or somebody shared this episode with you, I just want to start by personally welcoming you to the Mel Robbins Podcast family. And today, it's just you and me.
And I have been so looking forward to this conversation with you because it's been a long time since you and I just hung out without experts, without somebody else, without a ton of things to do. And there's a lot that's happened in the last three months while I've been on tour that I've been wanting to share with you. Funny stories, a bunch of insights.
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Chapter 2: How can I reconnect with myself mid-year?
You're taking care of dishes. Like so much going on that you might be in that mode where it's like the year is like a blur and you wake up and you're like, oh my God, how are we already here? Right? This year is flying by. And so I want you to really take a pause. And I'm gonna ask you these two questions and I'm gonna answer them as well because they act like a reset.
They allow you to take a step out of your life and to see what's already transpired this year That's the first question. And then the second one has you look forward so that you and I make sure that we don't just put our heads down and race through the second half of this year and then look up and go, oh my God, the year's over already? I didn't get to this, this, this, and this.
And don't worry, this is not a productivity conversation. There's nothing you need to do. This is not gonna be hard. We're gonna have a lot of fun as I ask you these two questions, okay? Are you ready? I'm so excited for this. So the first question is a really important one. And the question is this.
If you look back to the beginning of this year, what's something that you're really proud of that you either did or that you experienced or that happened this year? I want you to take a step out of your life for a minute and think back, what are you really proud of? Because I don't think you're giving yourself enough credit.
I think you're so busy doing things in your life that you're not taking time to stop and pat yourself on the back for all the little things you're doing well, all of the little challenges you've overcome, all of the weight that you're carrying.
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Chapter 3: What powerful questions can help me reflect on my progress?
And so that brings me to my answer to this question. What are you proud of that you've either done or experienced so far this year? The thing that I'm the most proud of isn't the tour itself.
What I'm most proud of is before I went on tour, I was so freaking stressed about all the things that were going to go wrong, about whether or not I was going to be able to manage the amount of work it was going to be, whether or not I'd be able to do that and perform and run the company and, and, and, and, and. And my therapist, Ann Davin, said to me, she said, Mel, before you get on that plane,
I need to tell you, you are in a very dangerous moment because if you get on that plane and you start this tour as stressed as you are right now, you are going to miss the entire thing.
You are going to be so in your head and so just intense to make sure everything is right, and of course you can't guarantee that everything's going to go right, that you're going to miss one of the greatest experiences of your life. And it scared me. And so I said, okay, what should I do?
And she said, you have to get so serious about how you're going to manage your sleep, how you're going to manage your emotions, how you're going to manage the food that you're eating, how you're going to manage taking care of yourself so that you can both move every other day to a new city, a new hotel, a new venue, a new this, all while managing all these people and get on a stage and perform in front of 9,000 people every night.
And she was right. And it scared the daylights out of me. And so I made a whole new schedule. I prioritized sleep. I got serious about eating really good food. I walked every single morning, regardless of what city we were in, or I lifted weights. I really like cut back way, way back on the alcohol.
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Chapter 4: What strategies can I use to create anticipation in my life?
And I had a laser focus on my emotions. And it worked. And I got to tell you, the thing that I am so proud of about that happened is for the three months that this tour was happening, I maybe snapped and was kind of bitchy only twice. And in both cases, I was exhausted and hungry. Do you have any idea how revolutionary it is
that I could take on one of the most stressful things in my life, both good stress and like a lot of hard work stress, and be in a state where I was present and I was calm and non-reactive. And I was optimistic. Like, I barely recognized myself. That's how different this was. And again, I know you're going to flood me with emails about, well, Mel, how did you do it?
I'm telling you, before any reaction.
Whew.
let them just say let them and release control and then say let me and choose your response because there were things that went wrong every single day and instead of allowing it to freak me out I just rode the wave and that allowed me to have so much fun I mean half the stuff that I'm going to tell you about I can remember because I was calm I can remember because I managed my stress.
I can remember because I actually took care of myself. And that's why I enjoyed this so much, even though it was the hardest and most grueling amount of work that I've ever done in a three-month period of my entire life. And I'm 57, and that says a lot about how hard this was. But that's the thing I'm proud of. And I wanted to share that with you to start off because...
It was a real revelation to me that, you know, you can have something really challenging going on and you can change how you show up to it. I have two very close friends who have parents who have both been diagnosed with something extremely scary. One is late stage Alzheimer's. The other is a stage four cancer diagnosis. And in life, there will be things that happen that are out of your control.
I mean, that's what life does. It knocks you on your ass. We can't control that. But I'm proud of the fact that I learned through this experience how to control my response and my stress levels regardless of what was going on around me. And I'm very proud of that.
And I'm sharing it because if you're going through something stressful right now, whether it's something scary like my two close friends or maybe you're doing something that's exciting, you're starting a new job or you're planning a wedding or you just got into graduate school or you're moving or you're in a new relationship and it's really exciting but there's that stressful excitement,
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Chapter 5: How does having something to look forward to impact my happiness?
In fact, you know, if you're watching on YouTube, there's a photo of her next to me. You pull the hood over and it's all the shark teeth. She even had on shark slippers. She had glasses on that were the shark teeth and and we were like, Lynn, what are you doing?
And she just laughed and said, well, if we're going to go down and sharks are going to be around, I want them to see me and think I'm a shark, and so they go after you. I mean, that was the beginning of the trip, first flight. Second thing that happened that was really funny is traveling is stressful. Traveling internationally, way more stressful. And different rules apply.
And I know we have a ton of people that listen in New Zealand and Australia. And I got permission to tell you this story because it features one of our incredibly talented videographers, editors, and directors, who is also in the room right now recording this. Shout out to David Faxon. Hello. So...
We are in New Zealand and we have to take a flight from Auckland to Brisbane, Brisbane to Sydney, Sydney to Melbourne. Now, here's the thing. We are packing for three weeks on tour. And it turns out, I did not know this, that Australia and New Zealand are very strict about the weight limit for the luggage.
Like if you're here in the United States and you think about luggage and weight limits, you think, okay, if I'm gonna have to pack for three weeks and bring all this equipment and also bring all these outfits to be able to be in different climates and to be on stage, you just pay extra. Right? I mean, that's what you do. You bring an extra bag, you pay extra.
That's not what you do in Australia and New Zealand, apparently. They're so strict. that number one, you cannot pay extra. Number two, you can't just check extra bags to distribute the weight limit. It's literally by person. So Faxon has packed his suitcase and this huge backpack, not only with all of his camera gear and all of the clothes that he needs for multiple different climates,
But he has also decided, because we're traveling for three weeks, that he needs to bring journals and some books in case, you know, when you're on tour, you might just have time to kick back and read some books. And he's already laughing. Are you hearing this, Faxon? I feel like we need to put him on a microphone because he's starting to chuckle. And not just any books.
You want to know what three hardcover books Faxon packed in his luggage to New Zealand and Australia? Three Harry Potter hardcover books. And here he comes. David, this is like 30 pounds alone.
It's very heavy. It's a lot of journals. Well, this is a screenplay. This is my journal to write my screenplay. This is Harry Potter. This is another journal. This is two filmmaking books. Robert Rodriguez. He met once upon a time in Hollywood. A lot of books. I thought I would have the free time to finish this Harry Potter, read this Harry Potter, write a screenplay. Didn't have the free time.
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Chapter 6: Why is it important to acknowledge what I've accomplished this year?
That takes until about, I don't know, 3 p.m. Then we roll over for tech rehearsals because we've got to set all the cameras. There are five cameras. We've got to run through the show. We've got to run through changes. We've got to meet the local team that's going to be moving sets on and off. Then I go out into the lobby. I sign... 500 books.
Then I introduced myself to all of the people that are working as ushers at the event.
Chapter 7: What are some personal stories that illustrate the episode's themes?
We were also doing some activations for Pure Genius Protein, my protein shot company, handing out free samples. And so I then greeted all of the people that we were hiring in each city to be handing out samples and talking to the fans that were coming. Then I go backstage, and this is probably now about... 5.30 or 6 o'clock. Now we're doing makeup and getting ready. Doors open at 6.30.
The crowd is running through at 6.30. The show begins at 7.30 with a friend of mine, Sam, who dresses as a drag queen version of me named Melodrama. Oh my God, I got to tell you about this thing that happened. This might be my favorite moment of the entire tour. This happened in Vancouver. the matinee show on Mother's Day. If you were there, you know how extraordinary this is.
So Sam is dressed as the drag queen version of me, melodrama, and he kind of, you know, warms up the audience, is funny as hell, then he goes out in to the audience because I really wanted the audience, and every person there, because a lot of people come alone, to feel threaded through the entire experience and to feel connected to and part of the community that's there.
And so he goes out and he, you know, talks to people and it's hilarious. And he came up to this woman, I believe her name was Colleen. And he was asking, does anybody have a birthday? And she raised her hand and she said, my birthday was last week. And he said, well, what are you celebrating for your birthday? And she said, well, my birthday wish is to beat this damn cancer.
And Sam turns around to the entire group of, there's almost 3,000 people, this is pre-show, at the Orpheum in Vancouver and says to the crowd, all the lights are on, show's kind of like we're in pre-show zone, says to the entire crowd, who here wants to grant that birthday wish for Colleen.
So she beats the entire theater, erupted onto their feet, jumping up and down and screaming and shouting for Colleen. She collapsed in tears. I was backstage kind of watching the whole thing. And Marcus, who is our tour director, ran up to me and said, let's sign a book for her. So I'm backstage signing a book because this is all going down live.
To see people walk into a theater as strangers and in one sentence, get up on their feet in celebration of someone's fight for their life as she's facing this cancer diagnosis was for sure the highlight of the tour. And again, if I had been stressed out backstage worrying about all kinds of stuff, I would have missed it.
And I am coming back from this tour not only proud of myself that I managed my stress and had fun and was present and calm and experienced all the magic, but I feel so full from that energy of you and your fellow listeners and so clear about some of the topics we need to be discussing, some of the changes I want to make to the... types of episodes that we've been doing on this podcast.
And I also am very clear that I want to have a closer connection to you. And so one thing I'm going to tell you is if you're not on the newsletter that goes out twice a week, it is free. Go to melrobbins.com slash newsletter because I write a personal letter twice a week. And that way you don't miss a thing.
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