India, Nov. 15 -- She arrived in Australia as one of the most listened-to voices in the world on the subject of self-improvement, and promptly told the Sydney Morning Herald that the entire premise of self-improvement might be wrong.

people are f-ing annoying, and they stress you out, and they hurt your feelings, and most of the things that make you stressed have to do with other people," Mel Robbins told Australia's No Filter podcast during her 2026 Australia and New Zealand tour, explaining the foundational insight behind the Let Them theory that has made her book a publishing phenomenon and her podcast the most downloaded in the world.

The remark was typical Robbins: blunt, funny and carrying something genuinely subversive beneath th...