About this podcast

In this episode of The Mel Robbins Podcast, Mel Robbins reveals her counter-intuitive truth about motivation: "Motivation. Is. Garbage." Drawing from her personal rock-bottom experience in 2008, where she faced bankruptcy and divorce, Mel shares how she cracked the code on hacking motivation. She dives into the neuroscience behind why change is hard and introduces a simple yet powerful, research-backed "cheat code" tool for breaking old habits, creating new ones, and mastering what neuroscientists call "activation energy." This episode promises practical, science-backed tools to help listeners develop a "bias towards action" using metacognition techniques, ultimately empowering them to make any desired change in their lives, regardless of how motivated they feel.