The Mel Robbins Podcast · 2025-11-13 · 79 min · 11,964 words

The Exact Words You Need to Hear Today If It Feels Like Nothing’s Working

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Hey, it's your friend Mel and welcome to the Mel Robbins podcast. Have you ever had one of those days where the world, it just feels like too much? Whether it's the news that's depressing or there's just so much going on at work or your life is so overwhelming. And you just are not sure how you're even going to get through the day. But then all of a sudden, out of nowhere, you crack open a book and you read a passage, or you hear a song playing, or you see a quote online, and it just boom, drops into your day like an anchor.

cuts right through all the noise of the world and the headlines and it lands square in your heart. And suddenly you can't explain it, but you just feel a little bit better. It's almost as if that passage that you read or that song that you heard was meant just for you. at this moment. Your shoulders drop, you can breathe again, you feel a little better.

Well I believe that this episode is going to do exactly that for you. That it was meant to find you at this moment in your life. that it's going to cut through the noise of the world and land deep in your heart. That's the magic of my guest today, Mark Nipo. He's the number one New York Times bestselling author of the seminal work, The Book of Awakening, which has changed millions of people's lives, including mine and my husband, Chris.

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