The Words You Need to Hear Today: The Power of Hope

Hey, it's your friend Mel, and welcome to the Mel Robbins Podcast. If you're feeling overwhelmed, numb, afraid, exhausted by what you're seeing in the news, and you're wondering, how do you hold on to hope when the world feels so scary and uncertain? Well, today I want to put my arm around you and I'm going to tell you, you're not alone. I'm feeling it too. I don't know about you, but when things feel so terrifying, when it's hard to know what to do or to say or if doing anything matters, I always look to my heroes.

And Brian Stevenson, he is one of them. If there's one person that can convince you that right now you need to keep hope alive, to stand up, to be brave, to challenge the injustice that you see, and understand that your voice, your actions matter. They matter in a moment like this. It is Brian Stevenson.

Brian Stevenson is a world renowned constitutional law and civil rights attorney, the founder of the Equal Justice Initiative, the author of the generation defining New York Times bestselling book turned award winning film Just Mercy. Now I wanted you to hear from Brian today because I'm just as upset as you are. And if you're looking for answers, I have been too. And so just a couple days ago, I went back over the almost 400 episodes that we've released.

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