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Reply to comment by Illustrious-Kick-871 in Hi, I’m Mel Robbins, host of the #1 ranked The Mel Robbins Podcast and one of the most successful self-published authors in the world. I think motivation is garbage and I figured out how to cure my own anxiety after struggling with it for 30 years – AMA. by Mel-Robbins

I'm so glad you're loving The Mel Robbins Podcast.

I was inspired to start it for a number of reasons:

  1. I wanted to find a way to connect with you more deeply on a personal level and share what's going on in my life and work in real time
  2. I wanted to dig deeper into topics and have more meaningful, tactical tools for you, because there's only so much you can do on a topic in a 60 second TikTok or reel.
  3. I wanted to build a community of people who were positive and inspired to do the work to create a better life for themselves. And I knew that I could start to find a like-minded global tribe of awesome people by launching this podcast. So thank you for being a part of that force for good.
  4. I wanted to be able to give you the tools and inspiration that you need at zero cost and I wanted it to be available everywhere. You can listen on every podcast platform, and you can watch unabridged versions of every episode on YouTube. Because of our advertisers - we can bring all of this to you for zero cost twice a week.
  5. I also wanted to feel like I was learning alot again. When you write books or produce audiobooks or give speeches for a living, you do a lot of talking. One of the things I love most about this podcast - is how much listening and learning I'm doing. Like this one on narcissism - wow did I learn a lot from Dr. Ramani Durvasula: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-mel-robbins-podcast/id1646101002?i=1000583254647

What has surprised me about doing this podcast?

I did not expect to come out of the gates and top the charts the way that we have.

I know how hard it is to create a really great podcast, and it has been a lot of work.

And I also know how many other podcasts are out there (there are 5m of them on Spotify alone).

I thought it would take at least a year before we even broke into the top 100 - and right now we are #9 overall of all podcasts on Apple - and have consistently been the #1 education podcast in the world on every podcast platform since we have launched in October.

And you know what this tells me?

It tells me that we are doing something that was missing. And that only makes me more motivated and hardworking to continue to deliver something that is valuable, entertaining, and most importantly - impactful in your life.

So from the bottom of my heard - thank you.

I don't consider this my podcast, I consider it ours.

We scour the DMs, read your topic submissions, we will take your Reddit questions and probably create episodes based on this.

I often say - this isn't just a listening podcast, it's a doing podcast, and you're helping us do something that makes a big impact around the world - so thank you

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