Mel Robbins

Yeah, well, actually, you and I are going to be on Jimmy Fallon on the 17th of September, and I'm sorting through your garbage to see if you've hidden underwear in there under a Diet Coke can.

Get the DC out of the way, man.

You know, I am really grateful that all this happened later in life.

I really am because, you know, when you go through an experience where you literally almost lose everything that matters to you, whether that's your marriage or your family or your home or your sanity.

Yeah, all of it.

Oh, my God.

Our kids would come downstairs at night after Chris and I had been fighting and screaming at each other, and they would find us collapsed in chairs, like hungover.

You know you're not winning at the parenting game when your kids wake you up so they can catch the bus.

Like it was not good.

And so all of this that you see now, whether it's the massive scale of the podcast or the number one book, I mean, this book is on track to be the most successful nonfiction book ever launched.

Six million copies in six months.

Amazing.

Wow.

And part of it is because I'm just reminding you guys of what you know to be true.

Like stoicism is not a new idea.

Viktor Frankl, man's search for meaning.

What's happening out there is not where the power is.

Your power is in your response to it.

But these are all intellectual ideas.

What I love about saying let them and then let me, which is let them is where you release the control over something you can't control, and let me is where you take the power back and focus on what you can control, which is your response to what's happening.