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Last Updated Aug 1, 2023, 1:01am EDT

  • Podcast host, author, and motivational speaker Mel Robbins launched her eponymous show, The Mel Robbins, on the day she turned 54 in 2022.
  • In the first eight months, it has reached listeners in 194 countries and averages 1.5 million weekly downloads. In 2022, Robbins won the Webbys' People's Choice award for best podcast.
  • Her how-to advice channel on YouTube receives some 800,000 viewing hours per month and reaches close to two million subscribers on the platform.
  • Robbins is also the founder of 143 Studios, a production company that produces audiobooks for Audible and professional development education for corporate clients like Starbucks and JPMorgan.
  • Her two books have been published in 41 languages, and "The 5 Second Rule" remains the most-successful self-published audiobook by total downloads.

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