The School of Greatness
Mel Robbins: The #1 Skill To Master To Create Your Most Abundant Life
Mon, 21 Apr 2025
Get my New York Times Bestselling book, Make Money Easy!Despite achieving massive success with her latest book “Let Them", today Mel Robbins shares how she spent decades battling self-hatred and constant anxiety until she finally addressed her nervous system's fight-or-flight response rooted in childhood trauma. Mel also reveals how her groundbreaking "Let Them Theory" emerged from a transformative moment at her son's prom, where her daughter's blunt advice changed everything. Her powerful perspective on building self-belief through consistent action rather than external validation offers a blueprint for anyone feeling stuck—success isn't about perfect habits or natural talent but simply showing up when you don't feel like it and refusing to let discouragement win.Mel’s books:The Let Them Theory: A Life-Changing Tool That Millions of People Can't Stop Talking AboutThe 5 Second Rule: Transform your Life, Work, and Confidence with Everyday CourageThe High 5 Habit: Take Control of Your Life with One Simple HabitIn this episode you will learn:Why success is ultimately about not quitting, even when everything feels impossibleHow to develop faith in yourselfThe two biggest obstacles to achievementWhy external success never repairs internal self-worth, without addressing your relationship with yourselfHow to recognize and reset your nervous system when it's stuck in chronic fight-or-flight modeFor more information go to https://www.lewishowes.com/1761For more Greatness text PODCAST to +1 (614) 350-3960More SOG episodes we think you’ll love:Mel Robbins – greatness.lnk.to/1710SCGabby Bernstein – greatness.lnk.to/1714SCMelissa Wood-Tepperberg – greatness.lnk.to/1690SC Get more from Lewis! Get my New York Times Bestselling book, Make Money Easy!Get The Greatness Mindset audiobook on SpotifyText Lewis AIYouTubeInstagramWebsiteTiktokFacebookX
Chapter 1: Who is Mel Robbins and what is The Let Them Theory?
Welcome back, my friend, to another episode on the School of Greatness. We have a massive guest today. Her name is Mel Robbins. I've known her for over eight years, and she is literally exploding everywhere right now with her new book, The Let Them Theory, which I think has been number one on Amazon for almost three or four months now.
and number one in the New York Times bestseller list for the last few months. It is everywhere. And we sat down during my book tour in the last few weeks ago. We sat down and talked about her personal journey of how she's actually navigating this cultural phenomenon that's happening with her book, The Let Them Theory.
And she shares how she's dealing with success and staying grounded and staying present. This is the type of goal, success, or dream that most people who have an idea, who want to launch a product or a book or a course or anything like that, this is the dream most people have. They want to be number one on the bestseller list. They want to be number one on the New York Times list.
They want to have the number one podcast in the world. This is the dream. If you have a podcast, a book, if you're trying to do anything in this industry online, Mel is at the top
of the game right now and if that's something you've ever wanted to learn how to do or even just get your stuff started and learning how to manage and navigate the success the weight the pressure of it all because there is extremes once you hit the extreme she's going to be sharing some of this process and she really opens up about her personal journey of healing childhood trauma breaking free from destructive patterns that have held her back
and finally learning to feel at peace with herself regardless of the achievements and the criticism and all of it. She doesn't hold back about her struggles with self-doubt, anxiety, and the constant need for control that plagued her for decades. If anyone here listening right now
has ever wanted to control everything about your work or your career or your message that goes out and you've wanted to look a certain way and you want everyone to like you, this is going to be perfect for you.
If something's been holding you back on your insecurities or your self-doubt, you're going to want to listen to this over and over again and you're going to want to share this with your friends and family because I know you have people in your life who are blocking their ability to create freedom inside of them and externally to get to the next level of what they want.
There's a lot of talented people out there who are being held back by some of these things. So if you know someone in your life like that, then please send them this link because you're going to get a ton out of this conversation. Again, we got to share during my book tour.
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Chapter 2: How is Mel Robbins navigating success and staying grounded?
Like that's what it comes down to. It really does. And, you know, more than anything else, like I just was like a tenacious person. I'm just like, I'm not going to stop here. And there were so many things that I did not do well. Not at all. I mean, like in terms of like just the talk show that literally got canceled because it sucked. Oh my God, I love you. Thank you for being there.
I'll blame the fact that it was canceled on me and not on you, okay?
Here's the thing. It didn't suck though. I mean, how many episodes did you do?
Well, we taped like 174.
So it can't suck if you do 174 episodes.
That's true. But they were airing it. Well, it can really stink.
But also, there was COVID, right? It stopped because of COVID. Yeah, but you know what, Lewis? I'm going to be honest. You're discounting yourself, though. I'm going to be honest. I'm going to stop Mel for a second because you're discounting yourself.
No, you've got to look at the ratings. People were not watching. And when they don't watch, you don't make money.
And then they cancel the show. Just because people don't watch doesn't mean it sucked.
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