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The Mel Robbins Podcast · Oct 9, 2026 · 8 min read
Mel Robbins' Million Dollar Morning: Five Promises to Start Every Day

Mel Robbins explains why the snooze button sabotages your day and lays out a five-step morning routine built on small promises you keep.

The Mel Robbins Podcast · Oct 9, 2026 · 7 min read
Mel Robbins on the Art of Doing Nothing: Why Rest Isn't Laziness

Mel Robbins makes the case for intentionally doing nothing, why online advice rarely fits real lives, and how to quiet a racing mind.

The Mel Robbins Podcast · Oct 9, 2026 · 9 min read
How to Set and Achieve Goals: The Will, the Way, and Five Common Mistakes

Mel Robbins walks through research on goal setting, the why-and-how that make goals stick, and five mistakes to fix, refining her own goals live.

The Mel Robbins Podcast · Oct 9, 2026 · 8 min read
How to Motivate Yourself When You Don't Feel Like It: Your Why, Dopamine, and Just Do It

Mel Robbins uses her son's college rejection to explain why motivation fails you, what dopamine really does, and two steps to act anyway.

The Mel Robbins Podcast · Oct 9, 2026 · 10 min read
Mel Robbins on Happiness as an Inside Job: Drop the Sword and Let the Good In

Mel Robbins shares three ways she was blocking her own happiness for years, and the simple practices that helped her let the good back in.

The Mel Robbins Podcast · Oct 9, 2026 · 8 min read
Mel Robbins on Achieving Big Goals: Plant Yourself and Grow Like Victoria Monet

Mel Robbins uses Victoria Monet's Grammy speech to show how to start, stay patient and keep growing toward your biggest ambitions.

The Mel Robbins Podcast · Oct 9, 2026 · 9 min read
Mel Robbins on 3 Small Morning Decisions: Get Up at the Alarm, Seek Natural Light, Drink Water Before Coffee

Mel Robbins explains how false confidence wrecks your mornings and three simple decisions that boost mood, energy, focus and sleep.

The Mel Robbins Podcast · Oct 9, 2026 · 10 min read
Mel Robbins: 13 Things I Wish I Knew in My 20s

Mel Robbins shares 13 blunt lessons for surviving your 20s, from the great scattering and money to relationships, routines and risk.

The Mel Robbins Podcast · Oct 9, 2026 · 8 min read
Mel Robbins' 4-Step Evening Routine for Better Sleep and Easier Mornings

Mel Robbins shares a simple evening routine: pick a real bedtime, clean up, prep for morning, take five for yourself and tuck in your phone.

The Mel Robbins Podcast · Oct 9, 2026 · 10 min read
Tiffany Aliche's 5 Rules of Money: Budget, Debt, Savings, Credit and Income

Tiffany Aliche, The Budgetnista, shares her comeback from debt and scams plus practical rules for budgeting, paying off debt, saving, credit and earning more.

The Mel Robbins Podcast · Oct 9, 2026 · 12 min read
Dr. Tara Swart Bieber on the Neuroscience of Manifesting, Vision Boards, Stress and Intuition

Neuroscientist Dr. Tara Swart Bieber explains how to rewire your brain to manifest goals, why stress causes belly fat, and how intuition really works.

The Mel Robbins Podcast · Oct 9, 2026 · 6 min read
Mel Robbins on the 5 Things You Can't Control and How to Take Your Energy Back

Mel Robbins names five things you waste energy trying to control, from the weather to the future, and the shift that gives you your power back.

The Mel Robbins Podcast · Oct 9, 2026 · 8 min read
Mel Robbins: The One Question That Decides Your Next Six Months

Mel Robbins runs a solo workshop on one question, what do you want to make happen in the next six months, and how to turn wishes into action.

Huberman Lab · Oct 9, 2026 · 11 min read
Dr. Keith Humphreys on How Addiction Works and How People Overcome It

Stanford's Keith Humphreys on alcohol, cannabis, gambling, psychedelics and stimulants, and what the evidence says about recovery.

The Mel Robbins Podcast · Oct 9, 2026 · 10 min read
Erin Walsh on Intentional Dressing and the Six Words to Ask Yourself Every Morning

Stylist Erin Walsh teaches Mel Robbins to ask "How do I want to feel?" before getting dressed, using clothes you already own.

Huberman Lab · Oct 9, 2026 · 14 min read
Dr. David Eagleman on Neuroplasticity, Time Perception, Memory and Why We Dream

David Eagleman explains how the brain rewires itself, why time slows in a scare, why we dream, and how to bind your future self.

The Mel Robbins Podcast · Oct 9, 2026 · 11 min read
Dr. Maya Shankar on Rebuilding Your Identity When Life Changes Without Asking

Cognitive scientist Maya Shankar shares tools for unwanted change: possible selves, reframing, self-distancing and betting on your future self.

The School of Greatness · Oct 9, 2026 · 11 min read
Shi Heng Yi on the Five Hindrances, the RAIN Method and the Path to Self-Mastery

Shaolin master Shi Heng Yi explains the five mental hindrances, the RAIN method, and how to turn a vision into a real skill.

The Mel Robbins Podcast · Oct 9, 2026 · 9 min read
Mel Robbins on the Science of Unexpected Connections and Happiness

Mel Robbins shares research and five true stories showing how saying hello to strangers can boost happiness, health and change your life.

The Mel Robbins Podcast · Oct 9, 2026 · 12 min read
John Grisham on Golden Moments, Rejection and Writing One Page a Day

John Grisham tells Mel Robbins how drifting, rejection and one page a day at 5 a.m. turned a small-town lawyer into a bestselling novelist.

The Mel Robbins Podcast · Oct 7, 2026 · 10 min read
Tal Ben-Shahar on the Five Elements of Happiness, Tiny Daily Interventions and Growing Through Hardship

Harvard happiness teacher Tal Ben-Shahar explains why chasing happiness backfires and how the SPIRE model and tiny daily actions make you happier.

The Mel Robbins Podcast · Oct 6, 2026 · 13 min read
5 Small Habits That Will Change Your Life: Mel Robbins' Best Expert Advice on Health, Anxiety, Money, Confidence and Purpose

Mel Robbins replays five fan-favorite expert moments: a 10-day food reset, an anxiety trick, a money list, confidence body language and a purpose lesson.

The Mel Robbins Podcast · Oct 6, 2026 · 7 min read
Mel Robbins on Using Joseph Campbell's Hero's Journey to Understand Your Life

Mel Robbins uses four stages of Joseph Campbell's hero's journey to help you recognize your call to adventure and keep going through the hard middle.

The Mel Robbins Podcast · Oct 6, 2026 · 8 min read
Mel Robbins' 7 Truths for Building Real Confidence and Being Your Authentic Self

Mel Robbins shares seven truths about confidence and authenticity, from accepting that you'll disappoint people to having it all, just not at once.

The Mel Robbins Podcast · Oct 6, 2026 · 10 min read
Dr. Adam Alter on Nature, Color, Mirrors, Clutter and Getting 20 Years Back From Your Phone

NYU psychologist Adam Alter shares research on how nature, colors, mirrors, clutter and screens quietly shape how we feel and behave.

The Mel Robbins Podcast · Oct 5, 2026 · 11 min read
Dr. Aditi Nerurkar's Five Resets for Stress and Burnout

Harvard physician Dr. Aditi Nerurkar explains how stress hijacks the brain and shares five free, science-backed resets to calm it.

Huberman Lab · Oct 5, 2026 · 9 min read
Huberman Lab Essentials: Tools to Improve Your Focus and Concentration

Andrew Huberman's toolkit for focus: 90-minute sessions, meal and caffeine timing, cold exposure, a 13-minute meditation and a few supplements.

The School of Greatness · Oct 5, 2026 · 10 min read
David Bach on Paying Yourself First, Automating Your Savings and Owning Stocks and Real Estate

David Bach tells Lewis Howes why budgets fail, how saving one hour of pay a day builds wealth automatically, and why owning a home matters.

Book summary · Oct 5, 2026 · 6 min read
Dopamine Nation

Stanford psychiatrist Anna Lembke explains why chasing pleasure leaves us in pain, and how abstinence, self-binding and honesty restore balance.

Book summary · Oct 5, 2026 · 6 min read
Goodnight Insomnia

Gregg D. Jacobs's six-week, drug-free CBT program retrains thoughts and habits to end chronic insomnia.