What Mel Robbins has said about Career ambition in relationships
2 quotes · 1 episode · Oct 29, 2026
Mel Robbins, American author, podcast host and former lawyer who hosts The Mel Robbins Podcast, has been quoted on Career ambition in relationships 2 times in 1 episode of The Mel Robbins Podcast, most recently on October 29, 2026. Each quote below is verbatim and links to the moment it was said.
In their words
Robbins argues there are periods in life when pursuing one's ambition should take priority over relationships.
“There are periods in life where focusing on your ambition and the thing that you want to create comes first”
The Mel Robbins Podcast: The Best Relationship Advice I’d Give My 27-Year-Old Daughter (Oct 29, 2026) · Listen from 23:36
Robbins says the higher earner typically drives a couple's decisions, which is why she has urged her daughters to earn their own money.
“That's one of the reasons why I have been adamant with you and your sister that you need to make your own money”
The Mel Robbins Podcast: The Best Relationship Advice I’d Give My 27-Year-Old Daughter (Oct 29, 2026) · Listen from 26:57
Episodes
The Best Relationship Advice I’d Give My 27-Year-Old DaughterThe Mel Robbins Podcast · Oct 29, 2026 · 56 min
Mel Robbins answers her daughter Sawyer's questions about love, dating, compromise, ambition, being single, and breakups, drawing on her 30-year marriage and past regrets.
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