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Kick Ass with Mel Robbins
Want more out of life? You're not alone. And best-selling author Mel Robbins is here to help with no-bullshit life and business advice that you won't get anywhere else. This follow-up to The 5-Second Rule - available only in audio - takes the classic talk-show format and elevates it to a premium audio experience. Listen to private coaching sessions between the celebrated motivational speaker and people like you - people who want better relationships, to be healthier and more productive, to get unstuck from the destructive habits holding them back, and to take action on their dreams. Packed with simple yet transformative tools, you can hear Kick Ass with Mel Robbins one session at a time or binge on them all. As brilliant and inspiring as she is entertaining, Mel Robbins will empower you to live the kick-ass life that's been waiting for you.
**This product features adult language and themes**
**This product features adult language and themes**
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First published May 8, 2018
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About the author
Mel Robbins
26 books6,857 followersMel Robbins is an Ivy League educated criminal defense attorney and entrepreneur whose quick wit and fresh take on current affairs has helped her become a sought-after commentator, internationally recognized speaker, Contributing Editor to SUCCESS Magazine, best-selling author, relationship expert and Common Sense Activist.
Her advice and fiery opinion have been seen by tens of millions of viewers nationwide on shows ranging from Dr. Phil, Anderson Cooper, The Today Show, The Talk, Oprah, CNBC, and FOX Business.
Mel’s first book, STOP SAYING YOU’RE FINE – The No B.S. Guide To Getting What You Want – is now available in paperback and is published by Crown. It’s the best-seller that teaches readers how to stop procrastinating by using the latest neuroscience research and ingenious strategies to achieve goals.
Mel loves speaking to large audiences and delivers action-inspiring keynote speeches and workshops at large business conventions and leadership conferences worldwide. She also hosts leadership and training programs for companies ranging from Johnson & Johnson, Fidelity, Partners Healthcare, Wells Fargo; to leading law firms, family businesses, and privately held companies across America.
Mel is a graduate of Dartmouth College and Boston College Law School. She’s a working mom with three school-aged kids and is married to fellow entrepreneur Christopher Robbins, the co-founder of Stone Hearth Pizza.
Her advice and fiery opinion have been seen by tens of millions of viewers nationwide on shows ranging from Dr. Phil, Anderson Cooper, The Today Show, The Talk, Oprah, CNBC, and FOX Business.
Mel’s first book, STOP SAYING YOU’RE FINE – The No B.S. Guide To Getting What You Want – is now available in paperback and is published by Crown. It’s the best-seller that teaches readers how to stop procrastinating by using the latest neuroscience research and ingenious strategies to achieve goals.
Mel loves speaking to large audiences and delivers action-inspiring keynote speeches and workshops at large business conventions and leadership conferences worldwide. She also hosts leadership and training programs for companies ranging from Johnson & Johnson, Fidelity, Partners Healthcare, Wells Fargo; to leading law firms, family businesses, and privately held companies across America.
Mel is a graduate of Dartmouth College and Boston College Law School. She’s a working mom with three school-aged kids and is married to fellow entrepreneur Christopher Robbins, the co-founder of Stone Hearth Pizza.
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April 9, 2025
This is an epic life changing book! I love all Mel’s books and her audiobooks too. I always read them and listen to her audiobook narrated by her! It is a whole new level!! She is my inspiration and hero.
February 25, 2025
Audiobook on Audible
Mel Robbins, Human Healer extraordinaire 👏🏻
Mel Robbins, Human Healer extraordinaire 👏🏻
September 19, 2025
Wow! This was so interesting to listen to and I learned something from each session. Very powerful and Mel Robbins is just the best! Was a free pick on audible and a great listen!
August 8, 2025
I listed to this book on audible which I believe is the best way to access this book because you hear from the individuals that take part as those that are getting coached.
A number of the people that were coached were very relatable with their processing in response to a situation. If someone listens to this and doesn’t resonate with at least one person, I’d be shocked. It’s a fantastic experience which is an honour to be a part of, hearing the challenges and how they have overcome what they have to date. Mel Robbins can certainly be direct at times and I think it was needed in areas, some I felt uncomfortable but I know Mel would pick this up and have an answer as to why it made me feel uncomfortable at times.
This is the third Mel Robbins book I have finished and it was certainly alternative but resounding with the same messaging. I believe everyone should have a Mel Robbins in their life, if only accessing via social media or reading her material. It’s made a huge difference to my life.
Thank you Mel
A number of the people that were coached were very relatable with their processing in response to a situation. If someone listens to this and doesn’t resonate with at least one person, I’d be shocked. It’s a fantastic experience which is an honour to be a part of, hearing the challenges and how they have overcome what they have to date. Mel Robbins can certainly be direct at times and I think it was needed in areas, some I felt uncomfortable but I know Mel would pick this up and have an answer as to why it made me feel uncomfortable at times.
This is the third Mel Robbins book I have finished and it was certainly alternative but resounding with the same messaging. I believe everyone should have a Mel Robbins in their life, if only accessing via social media or reading her material. It’s made a huge difference to my life.
Thank you Mel
January 3, 2025
Not what I would call a ‘book’ or even an audiobook - it’s more like a series of podcasts backed together into one recording.
Some interesting ideas and I don’t mind Mel Robbins’ no nonsense straight talk but at times it does feel like she acts in a role that she doesn’t have the credentials for - one of therapist. She’s careful to remind everyone that she isn’t a therapist and encourages several of the people she speaks with to speak with professionals but her manner and method feels like therapy and I don’t know how I feel about that.
Anyway, I’m not going to count this towards my reading goal for 2025 because it’s not a book but I’m glad it’s off my Audible TBR list.
Some interesting ideas and I don’t mind Mel Robbins’ no nonsense straight talk but at times it does feel like she acts in a role that she doesn’t have the credentials for - one of therapist. She’s careful to remind everyone that she isn’t a therapist and encourages several of the people she speaks with to speak with professionals but her manner and method feels like therapy and I don’t know how I feel about that.
Anyway, I’m not going to count this towards my reading goal for 2025 because it’s not a book but I’m glad it’s off my Audible TBR list.
July 7, 2025
Ehhh. Podcast turned book. Not for me.
January 11, 2026
I'm going to at least attempt to review each book I read in 2026, I'm aiming for 50 (last year was 80, which I just made at the last minute by reading a bunch of short books).
This one is basically a podcast combined with coaching-therapy sessions as a book, a series of interviews with people who have various problems and who eventually change when they realize that they are the problem rather than (just) everyone else around them.
So it's kind of like a message of 'taking accountability' for oneself, for example there was a gay man who was bullied in church when younger and eventually devolved to sitting on his couch all day and not going outside for weeks, putting a strain on his relationship with his mother who is taking care of him due to him not working or doing any chores and just watching tv all day. The guy blamed the church for his life, rather than himself, but she eventually got him to realize that his own decisions and reactions to his circumstances played a part in how his life ended up, and once he took at least a little responsibility, and begin to see himself as not just a victim, he was able to decide to make some changes to improve his life.
That sort of thing is characteristic of each chapter/interview/session, each one has a slightly different problem, but usually they are the root cause of their own misery, despite also being victims, they learn to take responsibility for improving their life rather than just blaming others.
So it's a fairly classic formula with and old but still important theme. However, it still wasn't perfect in a couple of ways, I've two major complaints: first is the complaint most others have, that this would work better as a podcast than as a book. I don't see the "book" element to this at all. There's no pdf with lessons or strategies to apply to your own life, there's *just* the interviews, and the listener is expected to extract the lesson and apply it to their own life with no actual help from the "author". Which most people *should* be able to do, but many will not.
Second complaint (and I know not all of you will like this complaint) is a very "heterosexual man in his 40s" (me) style complaint: that there were no straight men represented among the dozen or so interviews in the book. There were about 10 or so people/chapters, and it was about 3/4 women, and 1/4 gay men. There were no men who were not gay represented in the book. I know that shouldn't be important, but other groups often talk about how representation is important, so the same applies to the complete absence of a group which is often over-represented in other books. I think this would have helped the theme of the book too, because it'd show that even guys who are in privileged positions in society can learn to take accountability for their own problems; like how much more powerful would the message of the book have been if even a straight guy could realize that he's the problem rather than everyone else, rather than only women and gay men realizing that truth.
So basically as I was listening to the book I was thinking it'd be nice to have like, one token straight guy in the book talking about his own problems, just to make the book more relatable to people like me, but, I probably wasn't really the target audience of the book, so it's not a huge complaint, it's just that with 1) that issue, and 2) the issue of the book feeling like a podcast, and 3) that there's no actual theory or discussion of the ideas of the book except through the lens of interviews, I have to dock one star, but it's still a highly enjoyable 4/5 book that is not at all similar to the typical self-help book, and a good start for the first book I completed this year.
Actually, all of her books that I've read so far are 4/5 books for me. She very consistently seems to write great self-help books that often have a few things I don't like that keep them out of being impeccable masterpieces (though I still have a few of her books to go, I've now read the majority of her books). But that itself can be seen as something special, I can't think of any other author (nonfiction or fiction) who consistently writes "almost perfect" books. Even my favorite authors (like Haruki Murakami), who can create masterpiece after masterpiece, still have a few lackluster books that I'd rate 3/5. So Mel Robbins may be the most consistently "great, but not perfect" author I can think of.
This one is basically a podcast combined with coaching-therapy sessions as a book, a series of interviews with people who have various problems and who eventually change when they realize that they are the problem rather than (just) everyone else around them.
So it's kind of like a message of 'taking accountability' for oneself, for example there was a gay man who was bullied in church when younger and eventually devolved to sitting on his couch all day and not going outside for weeks, putting a strain on his relationship with his mother who is taking care of him due to him not working or doing any chores and just watching tv all day. The guy blamed the church for his life, rather than himself, but she eventually got him to realize that his own decisions and reactions to his circumstances played a part in how his life ended up, and once he took at least a little responsibility, and begin to see himself as not just a victim, he was able to decide to make some changes to improve his life.
That sort of thing is characteristic of each chapter/interview/session, each one has a slightly different problem, but usually they are the root cause of their own misery, despite also being victims, they learn to take responsibility for improving their life rather than just blaming others.
So it's a fairly classic formula with and old but still important theme. However, it still wasn't perfect in a couple of ways, I've two major complaints: first is the complaint most others have, that this would work better as a podcast than as a book. I don't see the "book" element to this at all. There's no pdf with lessons or strategies to apply to your own life, there's *just* the interviews, and the listener is expected to extract the lesson and apply it to their own life with no actual help from the "author". Which most people *should* be able to do, but many will not.
Second complaint (and I know not all of you will like this complaint) is a very "heterosexual man in his 40s" (me) style complaint: that there were no straight men represented among the dozen or so interviews in the book. There were about 10 or so people/chapters, and it was about 3/4 women, and 1/4 gay men. There were no men who were not gay represented in the book. I know that shouldn't be important, but other groups often talk about how representation is important, so the same applies to the complete absence of a group which is often over-represented in other books. I think this would have helped the theme of the book too, because it'd show that even guys who are in privileged positions in society can learn to take accountability for their own problems; like how much more powerful would the message of the book have been if even a straight guy could realize that he's the problem rather than everyone else, rather than only women and gay men realizing that truth.
So basically as I was listening to the book I was thinking it'd be nice to have like, one token straight guy in the book talking about his own problems, just to make the book more relatable to people like me, but, I probably wasn't really the target audience of the book, so it's not a huge complaint, it's just that with 1) that issue, and 2) the issue of the book feeling like a podcast, and 3) that there's no actual theory or discussion of the ideas of the book except through the lens of interviews, I have to dock one star, but it's still a highly enjoyable 4/5 book that is not at all similar to the typical self-help book, and a good start for the first book I completed this year.
Actually, all of her books that I've read so far are 4/5 books for me. She very consistently seems to write great self-help books that often have a few things I don't like that keep them out of being impeccable masterpieces (though I still have a few of her books to go, I've now read the majority of her books). But that itself can be seen as something special, I can't think of any other author (nonfiction or fiction) who consistently writes "almost perfect" books. Even my favorite authors (like Haruki Murakami), who can create masterpiece after masterpiece, still have a few lackluster books that I'd rate 3/5. So Mel Robbins may be the most consistently "great, but not perfect" author I can think of.
December 16, 2025
I like Mel Robbins a lot. What stood out to me with this book was that the featured “clients” had different problems, by far, but the themes as to why and how to move forward were pretty much the same. 1. Identify the underlying and REAL issue, 2. Own it, 3. Name the old problematic behavior, 4. Put it in the past and move forward (but expect and accept that regression happens and it’s ok). Also, I like that she is clear about being a coach, not a therapist, and firmly directs the people who should be at a therapeutic level of care to one. My only ding on the whole book is that a 40 minute coaching session rarely brings the clarity and resolution that all of these do… a little unrealistic but it works for the format!
December 10, 2025
What a Great Book!
If you're struggling in your life, and
know you can't do it all on your own,
give this book a read, or two, or three,
to see if any ideas here might help.
Perhaps just knowing you aren't the only one
going through what you're going through, will help.
From reading this book I feel like I listen and talk with people more Empathetically now.
This book is now on my Christmas Gift Giving List.
If you're struggling in your life, and
know you can't do it all on your own,
give this book a read, or two, or three,
to see if any ideas here might help.
Perhaps just knowing you aren't the only one
going through what you're going through, will help.
From reading this book I feel like I listen and talk with people more Empathetically now.
This book is now on my Christmas Gift Giving List.
June 27, 2025
I bought this during a recent Amazon sale and I almost threw in the towel immediately when I learned this is basically a podcast interview with a handful of people that have severe issues. But I stuck around mostly for MR’s summary and takeaways at the end of each chapter. These issues are way too specific to apply to most, but it was entertaining.
January 22, 2025
3.6 Mel listens to people with different stories assisting them in realising where they are stuck snd how they are being held back.
I listened to this on audible and think for this book it is the only way to go as she is literally interviewing people.
I listened to this on audible and think for this book it is the only way to go as she is literally interviewing people.
September 1, 2025
I didn’t realize this was what seemed like excerpt from her podcast / show. I skipped over the last like 4 coaching sessions since they didn’t seem like topics I wanted to hear. Overall, an interesting book but am hoping I didn’t pay for this one and it was a deal or free!
January 10, 2025
8 podcasts that are inspiring and motivating.
November 5, 2025
Not a fan of Mel.
I didn't realize she was a therapist.
I'm glad 54321 was great for folks.
This book and this work is a waste.
I didn't realize she was a therapist.
I'm glad 54321 was great for folks.
This book and this work is a waste.
November 14, 2025
Good stories of tough love that forces participants to acknowledge and face personality, traits and characteristics that are negatively impacting their life.
February 12, 2026
Tuff luv from Mel
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