Ed Mylett
American entrepreneur, motivational speaker, podcast host and author of The Power of One More
Ed Mylett (American entrepreneur, motivational speaker, podcast host and author of The Power of One More) has appeared as a guest on 1 episode in TMT. Topics they speak about most include Self-improvement, Addiction and recovery, Worry and anxiety.
In their words
Positions and remarks grouped by topic, each with the exact quote and where it was said.
Self-improvement
Mylett says his catalyst habit is exercising early in the day, even though he rarely enjoys it.
“I've lifted weights for 35 years. I've enjoyed maybe seven of those days”
The Mel Robbins Podcast: It’s Not Too Late: The 5 Shifts That Will Change the Rest of Your Year with Ed Mylett (Oct 26, 2026) · Listen from 48:02
Mylett names the people one associates with as the biggest influence on one's identity setting.
“You know the number one impact on your thermostat setting? Associations”
The Mel Robbins Podcast: It’s Not Too Late: The 5 Shifts That Will Change the Rest of Your Year with Ed Mylett (Oct 26, 2026) · Listen from 46:39
Mylett claims that, next to God, the strongest force is the drive to stay consistent with one's self-image.
“I believe next to God, the most powerful force in the world is to be consistent with the way you view you”
The Mel Robbins Podcast: It’s Not Too Late: The 5 Shifts That Will Change the Rest of Your Year with Ed Mylett (Oct 26, 2026) · Listen from 23:36
Mylett argues that improving life is often about removing things that no longer serve you rather than adding more.
“sometimes in life, it's not about adding a bunch more stuff. It's the reverse. It's about re-auditing”
The Mel Robbins Podcast: It’s Not Too Late: The 5 Shifts That Will Change the Rest of Your Year with Ed Mylett (Oct 26, 2026) · Listen from 10:53
Mylett recommends that people who feel helpless try to help others.
“When you feel the most helpless, attempt to become the most helpful”
The Mel Robbins Podcast: It’s Not Too Late: The 5 Shifts That Will Change the Rest of Your Year with Ed Mylett (Oct 26, 2026) · Listen from 5:22
Mylett argues that a person is always one decision away from changing their life and means it literally.
“You are literally one decision away from changing your life. And that is not rhetoric to me in any way”
The Mel Robbins Podcast: It’s Not Too Late: The 5 Shifts That Will Change the Rest of Your Year with Ed Mylett (Oct 26, 2026) · Listen from 3:31
Addiction and recovery
Mylett says the man who helped his father get sober had himself been sober for only 31 days.
“That man, by the way, was only sober 31 days the day that he held my dad”
The Mel Robbins Podcast: It’s Not Too Late: The 5 Shifts That Will Change the Rest of Your Year with Ed Mylett (Oct 26, 2026) · Listen from 34:37
Mylett argues that past struggles qualify people to help others facing the same problems.
“The reason that that qualified him is you're most qualified in life to help the person you used to be”
The Mel Robbins Podcast: It’s Not Too Late: The 5 Shifts That Will Change the Rest of Your Year with Ed Mylett (Oct 26, 2026) · Listen from 35:24
Mylett says his father stayed sober for the rest of his life by committing one day at a time.
“my dad stacked up those one more days, the rest of his life, never had another drink, never used another drug”
The Mel Robbins Podcast: It’s Not Too Late: The 5 Shifts That Will Change the Rest of Your Year with Ed Mylett (Oct 26, 2026) · Listen from 31:55
Mylett argues that lasting change requires linking it to love for someone else, oneself or God.
“If you want to make one of these changes in your life, you've got to link it to your love of someone else that you care about”
The Mel Robbins Podcast: It’s Not Too Late: The 5 Shifts That Will Change the Rest of Your Year with Ed Mylett (Oct 26, 2026) · Listen from 30:40
Mylett recounts being raised by a father who was an alcoholic and drug addict.
“I was raised with an alcoholic and a drug addict dad”
The Mel Robbins Podcast: It’s Not Too Late: The 5 Shifts That Will Change the Rest of Your Year with Ed Mylett (Oct 26, 2026) · Listen from 4:44
Worry and anxiety
Mylett believes chronic stress and worry contributed to his heart breaking down in his early 50s.
“I physically think my heart just could not take any more stress”
The Mel Robbins Podcast: It’s Not Too Late: The 5 Shifts That Will Change the Rest of Your Year with Ed Mylett (Oct 26, 2026) · Listen from 22:11
Mylett argues that worry makes people relive bad events many times, even those that never happen.
“Worrying allows you to live through an event multiple times that even if it happened, should only happen to you once”
The Mel Robbins Podcast: It’s Not Too Late: The 5 Shifts That Will Change the Rest of Your Year with Ed Mylett (Oct 26, 2026) · Listen from 19:40
Mylett says he experienced two cardiac events, which he saw as a forced slowdown.
“I had two, what I would call, we'll call them cardiac events”
The Mel Robbins Podcast: It’s Not Too Late: The 5 Shifts That Will Change the Rest of Your Year with Ed Mylett (Oct 26, 2026) · Listen from 14:44
Mylett says writing down his fears made them lose much of their power over him.
“And once I wrote them down, they lost a lot of their power over me”
The Mel Robbins Podcast: It’s Not Too Late: The 5 Shifts That Will Change the Rest of Your Year with Ed Mylett (Oct 26, 2026) · Listen from 14:01
Fatherhood
Mylett says he came to see his mother, not his father, as the hero of his family.
“it took me a long time to figure out, my dad's not the hero of our family. It's my mom”
The Mel Robbins Podcast: It’s Not Too Late: The 5 Shifts That Will Change the Rest of Your Year with Ed Mylett (Oct 26, 2026) · Listen from 52:48
Mylett argues that children absorb habits like worry by example, as he did from his father.
“I think with children, things are caught, not taught. I caught that from my old man”
The Mel Robbins Podcast: It’s Not Too Late: The 5 Shifts That Will Change the Rest of Your Year with Ed Mylett (Oct 26, 2026) · Listen from 19:45
Journaling
Mylett describes a daily 30-minute writing practice in which he must start writing within one minute.
“And my thing is I have to write within one minute. I have to put something on that paper”
The Mel Robbins Podcast: It’s Not Too Late: The 5 Shifts That Will Change the Rest of Your Year with Ed Mylett (Oct 26, 2026) · Listen from 50:03
Self-confidence
Mylett, following Wayne Dyer's advice, says confidence can be drawn instantly from one's good intentions rather than ability.
“And I would say our friend listening to this, you know what, you can shift your confidence in an instant”
The Mel Robbins Podcast: It’s Not Too Late: The 5 Shifts That Will Change the Rest of Your Year with Ed Mylett (Oct 26, 2026) · Listen from 40:48
Appearances
It’s Not Too Late: The 5 Shifts That Will Change the Rest of Your Year with Ed MylettThe Mel Robbins Podcast · Oct 26, 2026 · 1 h 4 min
Mel Robbins talks with Ed Mylett about his father's death, heart problems, worry, identity, intentions and why it is never too late to change your life.
Often appears with
- Mel Robbins · 1 shared episode