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American author, podcast host and former lawyer known for The 5 Second Rule and The Let Them Theory. She sells self-help books and audio programs and offers free video trainings on her website.
Mel Robbins (Melanie Lee Robbins, née Schneeberger) is an American author, podcast host and speaker. According to Wikipedia, she was born on October 6, 1968, in Kansas City, Missouri, and grew up in North Muskegon, Michigan. She holds a BA from Dartmouth College and a JD from Boston College Law School (1994). After law school she worked as a public defender in New York, including at the Legal Aid Society, and from 1999 as a life and executive coach in Boston. She later hosted local radio shows in Boston, worked as a CNN legal analyst during the 2013 George Zimmerman trial coverage, and hosted The Mel Robbins Show, a daytime TV program distributed by Sony Pictures Television that ran for one season (2019).
Her content is produced through 143 Studios Inc., which is named as executive producer of The Mel Robbins Podcast in SiriusXM's 2022 announcement. The podcast launched on October 6, 2022, with SiriusXM's Stitcher; on October 23, 2024, SiriusXM announced a new three-year agreement that keeps the show on the SiriusXM Podcast Network and adds a weekly show for SiriusXM subscribers.
She publishes on YouTube, where her official channel @melrobbins showed 6.17 million subscribers when read on September 14, 2026, as well as on Instagram, TikTok, Facebook and LinkedIn, all linked from her website. Her website states she has "40 million followers worldwide"; that aggregate figure has no independent source.
What she sells is mainly books and audio programs. Her books are Stop Saying You're Fine (2011), The 5 Second Rule (2017), The High 5 Habit (2021) and The Let Them Theory (2024, co-written with her daughter Sawyer Robbins and published by Hay House). Hay House lists The Let Them Theory hardcover at $29.99. Her website describes it as having sold 10 million copies in 12 months; Hay House's own page gives a figure of over 4 million copies. Neither figure has been independently verified. On Audible she has several Audible Originals, including Kick Ass with Mel Robbins, a 6-hour-25-minute program built around coaching sessions with real people, and Take Control of Your Life. On LinkedIn Learning she teaches Mel Robbins on Confidence, a 32-minute course released on October 6, 2021, available with a LinkedIn Learning subscription. On her own website, the two video trainings Make It Happen and Take Control are listed as 100% free with email sign-up, each with a companion workbook. She also works as a paid keynote speaker; her speaking page directs bookings to an agent at Powell Speakers and does not publish a fee. In 2026 she ran the Let Them Tour, a ticketed live show of about 90 minutes to two hours sold through Ticketmaster, AXS and Ticketek; when checked on September 14, 2026, her tour page said there were no further show dates and did not publish ticket prices. On that date her website did not list any paid course, membership or coaching program of her own.
On reputation: her awards, according to Wikipedia, include a Gracie Award (2014), Webby Awards (2023 and 2025), Forbes 50 Over 50 (2023), the iHeartRadio Podcast Award for Best Overall Host (2025) and Time100 Creators (2025). The main documented controversy concerns the origin of "Let Them." On March 12, 2025, the New York Post (Michael Kaplan) reported that Virginia writer Cassie Phillips said her 2022 viral poem "Let Them" predated the book and was not credited. Robbins told the paper she had not seen or read the poem and that it was not the source of the book, which she said draws on the work of more than 50 experts. The same article reported that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office refused her trademark application for "Let Them" as commonplace language. No legal action was mentioned in that article. According to Wikipedia, The Atlantic revisited the same question in April 2026, and a representative for Robbins again said that neither she nor her team had seen Phillips's work.
Not confirmed: the price of her Audible Originals and the other books from an official seller page, her speaking fee, TikTok and Instagram follower counts, and whether any regulatory or consumer-protection action exists under her name (FTC search page could not be loaded on September 14, 2026).
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| Program | Type | Published price | Link |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Let Them Theory Self-help book co-written with Sawyer Robbins (Hay House, December 24, 2024, 336 pages) on letting go of control over other people's opinions and actions. Hay House lists the hardcover at $29.99. | Book | $30 Checked Sep 14, 2026 | View |
| The High 5 Habit Book published in 2021. No official price was confirmed. | Book | Not published Checked Sep 14, 2026 | View |
| The 5 Second Rule Book published in 2017 that presents her technique of counting down from five to act on a decision. No official price was confirmed. | Book | Not published Checked Sep 14, 2026 | View |
| Mel Robbins on Confidence 32-minute LinkedIn Learning course released on October 6, 2021, on building self-confidence, with quizzes and a certificate of completion. It requires a LinkedIn Learning subscription or free trial; no standalone price is published. | Course | Not published Checked Sep 14, 2026 | View |
| Kick Ass with Mel Robbins Audible Original (6 hours 25 minutes) built around coaching sessions with real people on relationships, careers, productivity and habits. The price was not confirmed from an official page. | Other | Not published Checked Sep 14, 2026 | View |
| Make It Happen Free two-part video training on her website with a 29-page workbook; access requires email sign-up. | Course | $0 Checked Sep 14, 2026 | View |
| Take Control Free three-part video training on her website with a 21-page workbook; access requires email sign-up. | Course | $0 Checked Sep 14, 2026 | View |
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An American author and podcast host, born October 6, 1968, in Kansas City, Missouri, according to Wikipedia. She is a former New York public defender and CNN legal analyst, and she wrote The 5 Second Rule and The Let Them Theory. She hosts The Mel Robbins Podcast on the SiriusXM Podcast Network.
Her own website lists two video trainings, Make It Happen and Take Control, as 100% free with email sign-up, and when checked on September 14, 2026, it listed no paid course or membership of her own. Her paid material is sold through other channels. Mel Robbins on Confidence is on LinkedIn Learning with a subscription, and her Audible Originals, such as Kick Ass with Mel Robbins, are on Audible. Her books are sold through publishers and bookstores; Hay House lists The Let Them Theory hardcover at $29.99.
A self-help book by Mel Robbins and her daughter Sawyer Robbins, published by Hay House on December 24, 2024. It teaches readers to stop trying to control other people's opinions and actions and to focus on their own choices. In March 2025, poet Cassie Phillips told the New York Post that her 2022 poem "Let Them" came first. Robbins said she had never read it and that it was not her source.
What can be checked: her law degree and legal career, her CNN and Sony Pictures Television work, her publishing and SiriusXM contracts, and industry awards such as Webby and iHeartRadio awards, as listed on Wikipedia and in SiriusXM's announcements. Her sales and follower figures come from her own website or her publisher and have not been independently verified. The one press controversy located concerns the origin of the "Let Them" idea, and Robbins has publicly responded to it.
In the press, the most widely reported point is the dispute over the "Let Them" idea. The New York Post covered it on March 12, 2025, and The Atlantic returned to it in April 2026, according to Wikipedia. In both reports Robbins denies using Cassie Phillips's poem.
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