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The Mel Robbins Podcast

The Ultimate Advice for Your Next Chapter (After Your Kids Have Left Home)

The Mel Robbins Podcast

SiriusXM Podcasts

Education, Mental Health, Relationships, Self-improvement, Society & Culture, Health & Fitness

4.810.6K Ratings

🗓️ 9 September 2024

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Summary

In today’s episode, you are getting the ultimate advice for navigating any major life change. Mel is now an empty nester and is giving her best wisdom about how to step into a new chapter. She is sharing deeply personal advice about her experience with this transition. Whether you’re also figuring out your next steps after the kids have left home, or are navigating a move, relationship change, or new job, this advice is exactly what you need to hear. This episode will be your guide for how to take on the unknown with ease and comfort. It’s exactly what you need to find peace and live a more fulfilled life. The truth is, things don’t change with time. It’s what you do with that time that matters. And you’re getting the playbook you need today. For more resources, click here for the podcast episode page. Connect with Mel: Get Mel’s new free 26-page workbook, What Do You Really Want, to finally answer that question and redefine your future. Watch the episodes on YouTube Follow Mel on Instagram The Mel Robbins Podcast Instagram Mel's TikTok Sign up for Mel’s personal letter Disclaimer

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey, it's your friend Mel and welcome to the Mel Robbins podcast.

0:04.2

So I'm sitting here above the garage in Vermont and it's just a few days after dropping our son off at college.

0:15.0

And I gotta be honest with you.

0:18.0

I didn't expect to have this empty feeling right now. I mean the house is so quiet and it's just me and my husband.

0:30.9

This is a huge transition.

0:34.0

And I know I'm not alone in dealing with a major life change right now.

0:38.0

I know I'm not the only one dealing with this topic of now transitioning to an empty nest and how you create a whole

0:47.2

new chapter of your life, you know, like that. In fact, this is the single biggest topic that I'm getting questions about right now.

0:55.0

Our inbox at Mel Robbins.com is so overloaded about this topic.

1:00.0

So I've taken a few days to process my own experience and how bizarre it is to suddenly come home to an empty house.

1:10.0

And I have so much that I want to share with you.

1:13.0

This is the advice that I'm given to myself right now,

1:16.0

and I know it is exactly what you need to hear too. Hey it's Mel and welcome to the Mel Robbins podcast. I am so excited to spend this time together with you not only because I'm alone in this empty house and I want to be together with you but also because I cannot wait to share what I've been experiencing with you.

1:42.0

And if you're brand new, I just want to take a moment and to share what I've been experiencing with you.

1:42.6

And if you're brand new, I just want to take a moment

1:44.8

and welcome you to the Mel Robbins Podcast Family

1:47.2

and say, I am so glad you're here.

1:49.7

I also want to acknowledge you for taking the time

1:52.0

to listen to something that could help you

1:54.0

be happier and improve your life. And this conversation that you and I are going to have

1:59.2

today, I can already feel the ripples of positive change it's going to create in your life

2:04.8

and in so many people's lives that you care about because you and I are going to

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