The self-deprecating podcast host, author and motivational speaker wears her typicality on her sleeve and even flaunts her biggest failures as launchpads for her most listened-to and hard-earned words of advice. Among them is a particularly painful period that occurred 15 years ago.
She was drinking too much. Robbins was desperate to get back on course, but she kept finding herself doing the opposite: nothing. The motivation just would not surface. That is, until she tried a little trick. She imagined she was a rocket preparing for launch, and she silently counted down: With this simple practice, she noticed she was able to get out of bed before her brain could protest.
The discovery was straightforward but effective: She had five seconds to act on any given thought before her mind could shut down the idea. She started using the countdown for everything she had been avoiding: getting up on time, confronting her overdrinking, finding a new job, opening a stack of long-ignored bills and making a plan to get out of debt. A video of the talk made its way online shortly after the live event and has since been viewed more than 33 million times.
Within three years, she was giving nearly speeches a year and became the most-booked female speaker in the world. A book of the same title was published in and has sold millions of copies; its recording became the No. Since then, Robbins has built a formidable media enterprise around her ideas, research and conversations with experts.
She founded Studios, which now employs 30 team members. Many are middle-aged womenβa source of pride for Robbins, who is herself The bedrock of the business is The Mel Robbins Podcast , which launched in and almost instantly shot to the top of the charts. It routinely ranks within the top 15 podcasts in the U.
