Mel Robbins

Most booked female speaker in the world and an international Best-selling Author.

Mel Robbins is an award-winning CNN on-air commentator and op-ed writer, a contributing editor to SUCCESS Magazine, best-selling author and one of the most sought-after keynote speakers in America. She began her career as a criminal defense attorney in New York City, then launched and sold several companies and hosted TV and radio programs for A&E, FOX, Cox Media, and CNN.

Now that she’s no longer arguing “reasonable doubt” inside the courtroom, she’s teaching leaders inside the world’s leading brands how to break the habit of self-doubt and build the habits of confidence and courage at work and in life. Mel is a Dartmouth College and Boston College Law School graduate. She and her husband of 18 years have three young kids. She lives in the Boston area, but remains a Midwesterner at heart.

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The 5 Second Rule

Transform Your Life, Work, and Confidence with Everyday Courage

by Mel Robbins

Mel Robbins is funny, witty and wise. Her TEDx Talk (called How to stop screwing yourself over) is one of the most popular of all time, with more than 18 million views. This book is also super popular—with over 1,000 Amazon reviews. It’s pretty awesome. Actually, the book is REALLY (!) good. In fact, Mel Robbins’ 5 Second Rule might just be one of THE most elegantly efficient Tools we can use to close the gap between who we’re CAPABLE of being and who we’re ACTUALLY being. (Seriously.) Big Ideas we explore include The 5 Second Rule (and how/when to rock it), how to win the game of life (hint: start, stay in, for the long game!), excitement + anxiety (and how they feel the same in the body), managing distractions (today a good day?), and changing your life with one moment of everyday courage.

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Mel Robbins has a super-popular TEDx Talk called How to stop screwing yourself. She also wrote a super-popular book called The 5-Second Rule. Now, I haven’t watched the TED Talk (I read books, folks!! lol) but I did happen to swipe Alexandra’s copy of this book off the kitchen counter before she had ...

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Now What Needs to Be Done?

In our last +1, we talked about Mel Robbins and her brilliant 5 Second Rule. When we know what we need to do (whether that’s getting out of bed or going to the gym or staying offline or…), it’s time to actually DO what we know we need to do. Enter: Optimus countdown: 5… 4… 3… 2… 1… BLASTO...

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… the Life out of Your Day

Continuing our trip through Mel Robbins’s great book The 5 Second Rule, let’s talk about why your snooze button sucks the life out of your day. (Seriously. Science says!) But, first, quick context: As we discussed a couple +1s ago, before she came up with her 5 Second Rule, Mel’s life was more than...

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Super Complicated: Go to Bed Earlier (🤓)

In our last +1, we talked about snoozing your alarm clock’s snooze button so you don’t suffer sleep inertia for the first four hours of your day—effectively destroying your ability to operate at a truly peak performance level. I mentioned the fact that your morning begins the night before. And the ...

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Science Says…

In our last couple +1s, we talked about snoozing our snooze buttons and then throwing away our alarm clocks entirely. (Dare to dream, eh? Hah. 🤓) Today I want to talk about how to spend those first few hours after you wake up feeling all bright and shiny. Let’s go back to Mel Robbins’s great book ...

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Throw Your Dart and DO IT!

Continuing our adventure through Mel Robbins’s playfully wise brain and equally fun book The Five Second Rule, here’s another gem. I actually got up and out of bed last night to jot down the title for this +1 so the idea didn’t slip into the ethers never to return. Side note1: When I interviewed Sc...

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Strap Yours on Today and GO!

Not too long ago, we had fun taking a quick tour through Mel Robbins’s wise and funny brain and book. We talked quite a bit about her 5 Second Rule but I realized I never formally defined it for us in her words. Here’s the official 5 Second Rule: “The Moment you have an instinct to act on a goal yo...

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