No guest, five favorite books: Mel Robbins' 'The Life Advice I Wish Someone Had Given Me'
Her solo episode of listener questions runs from moving away from family to getting over a breakup, and a good part of the comment section doubled as birthday cards.
Mel RobbinsStory of Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 161,270 views a day, 8.2 times a normal first day on this channel (19,601).
The Life Advice I Wish Someone Had Given Me
For once, the guest chair stayed empty. The week before, Mel Robbins had filled her shorts with John Grisham and Oprah. Her newest full episode of The Mel Robbins Podcast is just her, answering what listeners sent in, and it drew about 146,000 views in its first 19 hours. A new episode here usually ends its whole first day under 20,000.
The chapters read like a list of the questions people ask at 2 a.m.: how to know when it is time to move, how to get your passion back, what to do when emotions take over, whether to change careers, how to get over a breakup. There are three fitness tips in the middle. Near the start comes a stretch on her five favorite books right now, which takes up most of nine minutes.
That book list is what many viewers write about. One praises The Correspondent, and another teases Mel about how long she spent selling books. The passion chapter starts the most conversations. Its simplest advice, to make a list of the things you like to do, tops the comments. A viewer who dreams of being an author asks for an episode on making that leap, a fitting request after a week of Grisham's one-page-a-day rule.
Several regulars say they had been waiting for exactly this: no guest, only Mel and her listeners. Others came for another reason. The episode went up the day before her birthday, and the well-wishes arrived from South Africa, Colombia and elsewhere.
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What viewers say
Everyone should listen to this: “Make a list of things you like to do.” I will add: “Do it!” ❤️
Thank you, Mel. ❤️@nadiaargesanu3830See it on YouTubeI’ve been waiting for episodes like this for so long. Just you and us. ❤️ You’re the most inspiring person of all your guests to me, and I want to hear so much more from you. Love you, Mel! ❤️
@RojgerboKurdistanSee it on YouTubeI am a English learner and I like all of your videos. Watching your videos is like learning both of English and self-improvement tips.
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- Channel
- Mel Robbins
- Subscribers
- 6,280,000 ▲ 40,000 this week
- Channel views, last 7 days
- 9,013,812
- Channel views, pace per day
- 1,094,429 (on a normal day: 940,470)
- Video published
- October 5, 2026
- Video views so far
- 146,133 (less than a day online)
- Video views, pace per day
- 161,270
The numbers
A solo question-and-answer episode, and a first day far busier than her new episodes usually see.
💡 Test your knowledge
John Grisham, featured in Mel Robbins' recent shorts, wrote his first novel one page a day. Which novel was it?
A Time to Kill, published in 1989, was Grisham's first novel, written in the early mornings while he was working as a lawyer in Mississippi.
