Feeling Used? 5 Ways to Take Your Power Back | The Mel Robbins Podcast

ℹ️ EPISODE INFO

Released

April 6, 2023

Duration

1h 20m

Channel

The Mel Robbins Podcast

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📝 EPISODE DESCRIPTION

Order your copy of The Let Them Theory 👉 https://melrob.co/let-them-theory 👈 The #1 Best Selling Book of 2025 🔥 Discover how much power you truly have. It all begins with two simple words. Let Them. — In this episode, we are calling BS on partners, friends, siblings, colleagues, and roommates who ride on your coattails, mooch off your generosity, and love the fact that you do everything. (While they do next to nothing.…) It’s time to take your power back with 5 actionable takeaways to get people in your life to step up and do their part. By enabling other people, you are part of the problem. There are 5 things you need to know that will change this dysfunction now. Xo Mel In this episode, you'll learn: 2:37: Do you have people in your life who rely on you a little too much? 4:14: Maybe you’re being used or maybe it’s this instead. 7:38: Is it time for you to be the parent now? 10:15: This is how to get your entire family on the same page. 14:00: Your siblings will understand your expectations if you do this. 17:01: Do this to make people feel that they’re doing the right thing. 21:16: Have a partner that isn’t pulling their weight? You need to hear this. 34:42: This is how you start a conversation when it’s time to set boundaries. 39:08: In a toxic partnered relationship? This is the truth bomb you need. 40:00: Has it become more important to be loved than to love yourself? 44:45 Let me coach you through this exercise to help you change your future. 48:12: Another truth bomb you need to hear today, no matter what you’re doing. 51:45: Listen to Brooke set a courageous boundary for the first time. 54:05: Keep little ears away, because this is what tough f’n love sounds like. 56:41: Stop letting your patterns make choices for you and step up. Listen to the #podcast episode "5 Ways to Take Your Power Back When People Disrespect You" - https://link.chtbl.com/DAinFkFf?sid=ep55_description #relationships #relationshipadvice #advice #coaching Sign up for my weekly newsletter at https://www.melrobbins.com/newsletter — Looking for my books on Amazon? Here they are! High 5 Habit: https://amzn.to/3fMvfPQ The 5 Second Rule: https://amzn.to/3372Rl9

🎤 SPEAKERS

• Mel Robbins

  host

• Crystal

  guest

• Brooke

  guest

🧾 EPISODE SUMMARY

In this episode of The Mel Robbins Podcast, featuring Mel Robbins and Crystal, Feeling Used? 5 Ways to Take Your Power Back | The Mel Robbins Podcast explores feeling Used? How To Set Boundaries And Take Power Back Mel Robbins explores the difference between truly being used and being in a situation others are simply used to, and what to do in each case. Through two in-depth coaching conversations—with Crystal, supporting unemployed siblings, and Brooke, whose boyfriend hasn’t worked in two years—she shows how learned helplessness, trauma, and low self-worth trap people in unhealthy dynamics. Robbins lays out a practical framework: clarify what you need, set SMART goals or clear conditions, communicate them with love and firmness, and be willing to let people walk away. The core message: you’re complicit if you stay silent; reclaiming your power starts with raising your standards and enforcing boundaries.

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