The Mel Robbins Podcast · 2026-07-20 · 64 min · 10,486 words

The Manipulation Expert: 4 Hidden Signs You’re Dealing With a Toxic Person

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Hey, it's your friend Mel, and welcome. To the Mal Robins Podcast. Have you noticed that nowadays people just throw words around like, oh, this person's toxic, that person's a narcissist, this person's a psychopath? As if it's nothing. But these words do mean something very specific.

And our expert today. Is gonna take you and me Into the world. Personalities.

Because what she calls poisonous people. Aren't just The subjects of true crime investigation or sitting in jails. They're in boardrooms. They're in public office, you might encounter them in your living room or at work.

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