Latest / Uncluttered and Unfiltered: The Podcast For Women Over 50 / WOMEN OVER 50 ON THE MEL ROBBINS "LET THEM" THEORY AND BOOK
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- 1:03Welcome to Uncluttered and Unfiltered, the podcast urging
- 1:07you to let it go and don't look back, with nationally acclaimed
- 1:11professional organizer Christine Stone and self-proclaimed Hot
- 1:16Damn Mess radio and TV personality Eden Kendall.
- 1:20Welcome everybody to Uncluttered and Unfiltered, the podcast for
- 1:23women over 50. My name is Eden Kendall.
- 1:25Christine Stone is a professional organizer, so any
- 1:29organizing tips you take away from this will certainly only be
- 1:32from her and not me. But be careful, you might just
- 1:36learn something. How are you good?
- 1:37How are you after the race? Oh well, How?
- 1:40Am I? I just sat there and like,
- 1:42clapped and you know. We we have a very, very big
- 1:46weekend event here in North Florida called the Donna
- 1:50Marathon weekend. And our mayor, coincidentally,
- 1:53she's now our mayor, but she used to be a news anchor.
- 1:56Found Donna Deegan, who has had three bouts with breast cancer,
- 2:01has this gigantic marathon weekend to finish breast cancer.
- 2:06It's called the marathon to finish breast cancer.
- 2:08I ran the half marathon and it goes right by your house.
- 2:10Yes, which is so fun. Isn't that funny?
- 2:13Yeah. I love that I get a chance to
- 2:14see you. But it was fun.
- 2:15But what what happened the next day was this always happens on a
- 2:19Sunday. So I ran this half marathon.
- 2:22A lot of people ran the full marathon.
- 2:24A lot of people was for the first time I try to go every
- 2:27year. We had photos here at the TV
- 2:30station and that was on Monday and I only had one pair of shoes
- 2:35to match my dress and these are full length photos.
- 2:38I couldn't get them on my feet. See I have these really high
- 2:41heeled shoes, could not get them on my feet the next day after
- 2:44the race. But I had no choice.
- 2:46I had to cram them in and walk around in these shoes because
- 2:49they were what I had chosen ready for the photos.
- 2:51But you know, first world problems as they.
- 2:54Well, I laughed so hard that I'm sitting there just clapping
- 2:58away, telling my husband I can't see far away.
- 3:00I can only see close up, find her and let me know so I can
- 3:04videotape it. And he kept saying the whole
- 3:06time, that's her. No, it's not, that's her.
- 3:09No, it's not. I'm like, I'm not going to take
- 3:11you seriously in a minute. I'm going to miss it.
- 3:14So that that's what happens. As you're older, you have to say
- 3:17which one do you want to see better up close or far away you
- 3:20have. To make these choices.
- 3:21You have to make these hard choices.
- 3:23I saw YouTube before you saw right, so I was able to run and
- 3:25get right in your faces and I loved it and I loved having that
- 3:28video afterwards. Oh my God, it was very.
- 3:30Rarely do I ever get to see. I always want to see.
- 3:32Do I look like I'm dying? Do I look like I'm having fun?
- 3:34And I Oh, no, you look like you were having fun.
- 3:37I look like I was dying just watching people running.
- 3:40I'm like, that looks painful. Like I would have commentaries
- 3:44of like, God, that maybe I should go give them something.
- 3:47You know what I mean? Some people look like they are
- 3:50in pain, yes. I mean, and that that's very
- 3:53often is me too, but not in this case.
- 3:55Not in this case. So today's episode is about a
- 3:58book that is sweeping the nation.
- 4:00It's by Mel Robbins, who we. Love, I love Mel.
- 4:04And she has written a book along with her daughter Sawyer called
- 4:08the Let Them Theory. And this was after making some
- 4:13videos from her podcast where she was talking about the Let
- 4:17Them theory. And it went so viral that she
- 4:20thought, I need to make this into an entire book.
- 4:22Yes, there was some backlash as to whether or not did she really
- 4:25create the Let Them theory. I don't know that she ever
- 4:28really said she created it. But whether she did or she
- 4:30didn't, she's the one who wrote a book.
- 4:33So that's what we're talking about today.
- 4:36And I think when you get as big as she is, you're going to have
- 4:40backlash because people want to, you know, poo poo all over
- 4:43whatever good things are happening.
- 4:44So I kind of ignore that a little bit.
- 4:46Did. You let them.
- 4:47You just said I. Just said, you know what, you're
- 4:49going to always have those detractors and people who are
- 4:54not happy for your success, whatever it may be.
- 4:58It's, I mean, listen, I I think she's amazing.
- 5:01I. Yes.
- 5:02So. When she speaks, she speaks at
- 5:06you so confidently, like when she says listen and do this.
- 5:09She even has a book or a podcast called This is What You Should
- 5:12Do. She's very specific and
- 5:14intentional. But when we discussed the idea
- 5:17that we should read this book and also the Brooke Shields book
- 5:20and talk about it on the podcast, I didn't realize you
- 5:24were stressing. Out.
- 5:25Oh my God, why? Because I wrote this down
- 5:28because I couldn't even remember the last time I read a book.
- 5:32I mean, a real book was the James Fry when was on Oprah's
- 5:37book club. Million Little Pieces.
- 5:38Oh. OK, that's been a minute.
- 5:42OK. And Prince of Tides.
- 5:45Oh my gosh, so my kids even bore me.
- 5:47When I came out, right, no, I wasn't even married.
- 5:50OK. So I was like, how am I gonna do
- 5:54this? And then my daughter said, do it
- 5:57on tape. And I like, you know, Audible,
- 5:59Audible. And I go, what?
- 6:02She goes, you can listen to it. So I go on and I'm listening,
- 6:08but I don't want to tell you because I feel like I'm
- 6:10cheating. What does she know?
- 6:14And I'm an I consider myself a prolific reader.
- 6:17I read, I'm always reading a book.
- 6:20But here's here's what I guess I should also mention when I tell
- 6:25people I'm reading a book, I'm not reading and I'm listening.
- 6:28To OK, why do you know that? Every single book that I've read
- 6:32since you've known me, I have only listened to it because in
- 6:36my mind it's the same thing. I've absorbed everything that
- 6:40the author wrote and what I love about when I read a book, read a
- 6:45book that is a a memoir, I feel like the author told me their
- 6:50life story. Personally, like Cher, I feel
- 6:53like I know her right now so well because she just read me
- 6:56her life story. So it's it's great.
- 6:59And the narration on the Let Them book.
- 7:01Is fantastic, is fantastic. You feel like she's your best
- 7:04friend and you're sitting at her house and she's telling.
- 7:06I thought that I thought that's better than reading the book.
- 7:11Sorry, everybody, but I really, really did.
- 7:13I thought that her the way she even gets emotional while she's
- 7:18reading it, it just feels more authentic and more real in my
- 7:22opinion. It was great.
- 7:24I so now what we aim to do is discuss the book, the premise,
- 7:29not in a way where you don't need to go out and get the book
- 7:32right, but in a way where if you're never going to go out and
- 7:35get the book, you at least can benefit from the words that we
- 7:38read. But I think you you're going to
- 7:40want it. And also at least some of her
- 7:41podcasts where she discusses it. Getting opinion from women over
- 7:4652 because you and I both had a couple of opinions.
- 7:49We did. Not everything will get in agree
- 7:52with well, not everything was really relatable to people over
- 7:5550 either, like some of the things so.
- 7:59Yeah, it's a 2 fold premise. It's let them let me.
- 8:03So let them means, oh, your friends all went out and had a
- 8:07happy hour and they didn't invite you and you only just
- 8:10found out from seeing it on social media.
- 8:13Let them, let them. They're grown women.
- 8:16They can invite who they want to invite, but let me think about,
- 8:21should I do some reaching out on my own?
- 8:23Should I be the one maybe suggesting some get together so
- 8:27they know I'm game for the next one?
- 8:29Should I, you know, drop these friends?
- 8:32What should I be doing about it? So let them and then let me.
- 8:37So most of it is common sense. I thought a lot of it was, and
- 8:42what happened was I couldn't get the Jerry Maguire scene out of
- 8:47my head. Let me help you once.
- 8:51She said it once. I'm like, oh God, now I can't
- 8:54get that Cuba Gooding Junior Tom Cruise scene out of my head
- 8:57because that's all I kept thinking, Let me help you.
- 9:02But one of the things I love too was she was talking about her
- 9:07son's prom. And this was a classic example
- 9:11of using the let them philosophy, which is he didn't
- 9:15put a lot of planning into his prom.
- 9:19He asked her at the last minute, the date he he is asked by his
- 9:24mom, Mel Robbins, does he want a corsage?
- 9:27And he's like, Nope, she doesn't need a corsage.
- 9:29She does not let them. She goes and gets a corsage
- 9:33anyway because she's like going to be the hero if at the last
- 9:36minute he needs a corsage. And then not only that doesn't
- 9:40plan for where they're going to go eat afterwards.
- 9:42There's a reservation and she's losing her mind versus what let
- 9:46them would be, which is let them go.
- 9:49Let them let them show up to the restaurant and not get a table.
- 9:51Let them stand in the rain because they didn't plan.
- 9:53Let them let these things happen.
- 9:56And I am that mom that would have bought that corsage.
- 9:59Oh, I am the mom. It like I don't know what
- 10:02happened but my older daughter said oh I need a boot near.
- 10:10I said the prom is tomorrow. Well I need 1 so of course I run
- 10:16out all over town, people even. Because every.
- 10:20Prom is the same time. Exactly.
- 10:22And even the woman at the florist like bullied me and was
- 10:25like, you're waiting until now. I said it's a long story.
- 10:30Is there any way? I mean, I've done that so many
- 10:34times. So that really rang true for me.
- 10:36But especially when you have girls, you feel like you need to
- 10:39step in and you know better and you've been there.
- 10:42And, you know, I, I just think that that really was exactly
- 10:46what a lot of moms tend to do. They just step in and say, you
- 10:50can't do this without making a reservation.
- 10:53You can't. You know, I think now hindsight,
- 10:57I might have let them, Yeah, you know.
- 10:59Yeah, and that's exactly what happened there.
- 11:01She went ahead and she did pull that corsage out when the girl
- 11:04gave him a boutonniere. Only after she did that did she
- 11:08realize in a very embarrassed state, that she had made her own
- 11:12corsage. So it was kind of an
- 11:14embarrassing situation. Now the girl's like, oh OK, I'll
- 11:17wear it and the the sun's. Furious.
- 11:19Whereas that's when sometimes you just, as you said, have to
- 11:23let. So another part of the book that
- 11:26really stood out to me, and I've struggled with this.
- 11:30I want to save my whole life and now I'm just going to stop.
- 11:33So I say is when someone has an issue with something you do,
- 11:37they think that maybe you're, I don't know, a pain in the neck
- 11:41when you're doing this or they just have these little beefs
- 11:44with you. It doesn't mean they don't love
- 11:46and like you, right? And that's something that for
- 11:49me, I always have stressed uncontrollably about.
- 11:52If I do or say something that I know might have been a misstep,
- 11:56I think that person is going to hate me.
- 11:58And in reality, you have things your husband does that drive you
- 12:03crazy. There are things that my
- 12:04daughter does or my son does that I don't love.
- 12:06About that. But I love them unconditionally.
- 12:10I think with friends some and coworkers and what have you,
- 12:15sometimes you think if you make a mistake that you're they're
- 12:17just not going to like you anymore.
- 12:19That's just not the case. So I took that away from this
- 12:22book. If you're a regular listener to
- 12:24this podcast, you know that I, Eden, just went back into a
- 12:27career situation where I have to actually get dressed and be seen
- 12:31in public. Well, it's not just public, it's
- 12:33TV. Well, that is true, but even if
- 12:35it weren't for TV, I'd still be starting from Ground Zero
- 12:38because my style has changed, the trends have changed.
- 14:20I wrote it down because I was pretty impressed with the five
- 14:24whys. Yeah, let's talk about that.
- 14:26The reason why I liked that so much, and it's the premise is if
- 14:30something bothers you about somebody else five times, you're
- 14:35supposed to ask, ask yourself why.
- 14:37So you dwindle it down to the real reason by the 5th why.
- 14:41That's what I took away from. It So let's put that in
- 14:43practice. How can we do that?
- 14:44All right, let's say the daughter doesn't have a
- 14:48boutonniere and it's the day before.
- 14:50Why are you upset? Right, because you don't want
- 14:54her to. You don't want her to be the
- 14:56only one that didn't do a boutonniere.
- 14:59Well why? Why would you be upset that she
- 15:02isn't the only because she would feel out of place?
- 15:06Well, why would she feel out of place?
- 15:09You know, like you're really dwindling it down to the point
- 15:12where you're like, really, it's about you.
- 15:14That's what I think the 5th why is always like, well, why do you
- 15:19care? Yeah, well, how is this your?
- 15:20Right, right. How is this your issue?
- 15:23So you could do that with someone who drinks too much,
- 15:26someone who you know doesn't have the same values as you.
- 15:30Anything that you kind of differ, it's like, well, why
- 15:33does that bother you really? What is that?
- 15:38I just love really. I never really thought of it
- 15:41that way before. You have to keep asking why.
- 15:44And to me, that was a really kind of eye opening thing.
- 15:49Yeah, because 9 out of 10 things that I worry about or or stress
- 15:53about that keep me laying awake looking at the ceiling at night
- 15:57are either a text that somebody didn't reply to.
- 16:00What could they be thinking? What could they possibly be
- 16:02thinking? Well, why?
- 16:03Why do why does it matter, right?
- 16:06Why, right. And also things that are never
- 16:09going to happen but could potentially happen, right.
- 16:12And for example, you know, say you have a job that this is not
- 16:18a personal experience at all, but say, you know, you have a
- 16:21job at a business that you don't think is going to be a
- 16:26successful business, You know, and you want to look for a new
- 16:28job, but you know, it's going to make everyone else upset.
- 16:30And why why are you not going to move on that?
- 16:34You know, there are just a lot of different.
- 16:36You have. To talk to yourself more than we
- 16:37do I. Think, yeah, it's it's about
- 16:40finding out really, what is the bottom line problem that's
- 16:44making you so upset about this? And without being defensive when
- 16:49you're talking also to the person, you know, without,
- 16:52you're not allowed to be defensive.
- 16:54You're not allowed to make statements.
- 16:57It's always, well, why, Why do you feel this way?
- 17:00And they say, I don't know, I just do.
- 17:03And not nagging them, not going on and on and on about it,
- 17:08which, you know, sometimes you can be like, especially as
- 17:11women, I'm not trying. Right, Right, right.
- 17:14Right. Exactly.
- 17:15So that was a big one for me and also friendships later in life I
- 17:22that really made a lot of sense because you know me, we always
- 17:25talk everybody about what a homebody I am and it really made
- 17:28sense. Like if you want to be included
- 17:32in things, then make an effort. If you want, if you move
- 17:36somewhere new and you have no friends, make an effort.
- 17:39And people think everybody should come to them and
- 17:43everybody should call them and include them.
- 17:46And I love that. It kind of turned that whole
- 17:49thing around. Like no, you, you reach out to
- 17:52people, you make an effort if. They, if they rather than feel
- 17:55slighted, right? If somebody has a party and
- 17:59you're not invited, and this is the example we used earlier, let
- 18:03them, but let me do things now that are more actively moving
- 18:10towards solidifying my friendship.
- 18:12So there are parties that I get invited to, right?
- 18:14And that's the difference between just saying let them and
- 18:18then also figuring out, OK, I'm going to let them do their thing
- 18:22and I'm not going to get myself all wrapped up in it, but I'm
- 18:25also going to take some action and I'm not going to sit back
- 18:27and let it happen again. Because if, you know, fool me
- 18:29once, shame on you twice, shame on me kind of thing.
- 18:32That's not something from the book.
- 18:34That's just saying like, if that keeps happening, sometimes a
- 18:38pattern really is a pattern. And if you're the only
- 18:40consistent in that. Pattern.
- 18:42Then yes, you have to think, OK, I've got to do something
- 18:45different. I love the section, even though
- 18:47it doesn't apply to me on dating because when she's talking to
- 18:50these young women and saying if you're getting nothing back in
- 18:55your text, that's how he feels, how he feels, you have to.
- 19:00If they want to show you who they are, let them, right?
- 19:04Don't go out of your way to make excuses for them.
- 19:06Let them show you who they are. And then I can't remember
- 19:09exactly how she said it, but it was something to the effect of
- 19:12if you're wondering if you're confused there, there's your
- 19:16answer. Because if you're wondering if
- 19:19he likes you and you think he does, there's your answer.
- 19:21If you're confused about his feelings, there's your answer,
- 19:25because when he if he has legitimately good feelings and
- 19:28good intentions or she it's going to, it's not going to be a
- 19:33confusing situation. It's going to be crystal clear.
- 19:37Right, well, and I saw in TikTok one of these where they put a
- 19:41bunch of Carrie and Big scenes together, but they they put them
- 19:45together for how pathetic she was.
- 19:48On constant the city. Yeah, and constantly, you know,
- 19:52going after him even though he wasn't interested.
- 19:55And they, they clipped them all together.
- 19:57And I thought about that because I'm like, Oh my God, when you
- 20:00see it like that, you're like, gosh, she was just driving that
- 20:05man insane and like kind of just really.
- 20:09Inappropriate when you see it all lined up together and not
- 20:12letting him make any moves or any feelings really towards her,
- 20:17of course, until the movie. But it just yeah.
- 20:21I mean, like, it's great for younger people in my opinion, to
- 20:25be reading that chapter because with social media and
- 20:27everything, people read into things when they're dating that
- 20:31I mean. Well, there's a great country
- 20:34song called. If he wanted to, he would.
- 20:36Right. And it's like, you know, just
- 20:38'cause he wished you happy birthday on your birthday.
- 20:41Right. You know he didn't text you and
- 20:43say let's get back together, 'cause guess what?
- 20:45If you wanted to, he would he. Would.
- 20:47And that's kind of the deal with most people in this world.
- 20:49If, you know, if they wanted to, they would.
- 20:52I mean, I've made millions of excuses for people over the
- 20:54years, and I'm sure people have done that for me.
- 20:57But at the end of the day, you got to let people show you who
- 21:01they are. I agree.
- 21:03And the other part that I loved was rescuing people.
- 21:06You need to step back and allow adults to face consequences for
- 21:10their actions. I have to be honest.
- 21:12I don't think I did that until my late 50s, honestly.
- 21:17Maybe, yeah, Late 50s. Oh yeah.
- 21:19Oh yeah. I had to, like, fix everything.
- 21:22I had to. Yeah, I'm a fixer.
- 21:25And I had to, you know, I couldn't just sit back and watch
- 21:29a train wreck. Now I I can do it.
- 21:32It's not easy, by the way. It took a lot of work, but I
- 21:37knew better. I could fix the situation if
- 21:40they would just listen, you know what I mean?
- 21:42And after. This book is for really is the
- 21:45fixers out there. Yeah, I'm a former fixer, but.
- 21:48Fixers and the naggers. I'm the naggers and I'm the
- 21:51fixer. The fixer because I have all the
- 21:53answers. And if you would just listen,
- 21:56your life would be so much easier.
- 21:57And people have to learn on their own.
- 22:00And that's what that's why I said some things in this book
- 22:02are common sense, because I kind of learned that way before this
- 22:05book. And you have to let people,
- 22:09they're grown adults, let them fall, let them make mistakes,
- 22:13let them do things you wouldn't approve of.
- 22:16They're grown adults. They're grown ass.
- 22:20Yes, and you just have to let them be.
- 22:23And yeah. So as long as we're on the
- 22:26subject of Mel Robbins, there's something else she made a video
- 22:29about. And I just love it so much.
- 22:31And I, I, I've never done this. If I did anything, my husband
- 22:35would think I'm crazy. And I know you're never going to
- 22:37do it, but it's called Slytherin.
- 22:38Have you ever seen her video about Slytherin?
- 22:40She suggests, look this up, Mel Robin Slytherin, that when you
- 22:46wake up in the morning, you should slither out of bed.
- 22:49And then she does it. She's in her bed.
- 22:52And if I wasn't wearing a dress right now and these ridiculous
- 22:55shoes that I can't walk in, I would show you.
- 22:57But she slithers out of her bed and she basically slides into
- 23:04the bathroom or wherever she's got to go next and doesn't even
- 23:07stand up until she's been out of the bed for like at least 1520
- 23:10seconds. She's just Slytherin from the
- 23:12bed. Her idea being that that's how
- 23:14you're going to very gradually get out of bed and wake up in
- 23:16the morning. You're going to slither out of
- 23:18the bed. You're looking at me like it
- 23:20makes sense. Yeah, well, only because I'd be
- 23:22the one that would like not be able to get up like I'd have, I
- 23:25told you. This before I think I have now
- 23:27that I think about it, but it's obviously not made an impression
- 23:30on you. Why would you want to do that?
- 23:33I don't know. I would never want to do that.
- 23:36I know you wouldn't. You know me.
- 23:37I would never slip out. Of bed or do.
- 23:39You No, I don't bolt out of bed because I don't get up to an
- 23:44alarm. I automatically get up around
- 23:465:30, quarter six automatically. It's just in my clock.
- 23:50So I lay in bed and like, you know, watch TV for 15 minutes,
- 23:56watch the news for 15 minutes. But I I'm not a pop out of bed
- 24:01kind of person. I have to gradually, slowly get
- 24:05up well. I'll find this and I'll put it
- 24:07on our Instagram stories or in our ladies only Facebook.
- 24:10I'm going to make a prediction, though.
- 24:12She is the Oprah of this generation.
- 24:15She's going to have her own talk show.
- 24:17She's going to have many, many books in her future and she is
- 24:22going to be what Oprah was to us, to this next generation.
- 24:26I think it's fantastic. Everyone needs an Oprah in their
- 24:28generation. But that's my prediction just
- 24:32from listening to this book. She has that very Oprah feel to
- 24:37her and she's highly connected in the world of having people on
- 24:43her podcast, and I just think she's going to just take this
- 24:48ball and roll with it, which is fantastic, so.
- 24:52Yeah, she's got some pearls of wisdom in that book for sure.
- 24:54And if you have a daughter? Oh, I agree.
- 24:58Like you gave it to your daughter.
- 24:59So anyway, we want to tell you how much we appreciate you being
- 25:03with us for this podcast. We hope you're listening to it.
- 25:05And if you want to see it, stay, stay tuned for all different
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- 25:15unfiltered ladies only. We'll let you write in and.
- 25:19And we're doing Brooke Shields book next.
- 25:22Yeah, next month. So ladies, if you want to read
- 25:25along, but I am excited for that book.
- 25:28I really am. I've heard, I've heard her talk
- 25:30about it on different social medias and on, you know, the
- 25:34Today show and stuff. So I'm excited to read that
- 25:37book. Me too.
- 25:38Me too. It's called.
- 25:39Well, not really. Read.
- 25:40Listen. Shields is not allowed to get
- 25:42old is what it is. So one of the things in Mel
- 25:45Robbins book she talks about is the difference between let it go
- 25:48and let them. So even if someone comes along
- 25:51and writes a book called Let Them and says that it's
- 25:55different than Let it Go, you can still read Let them and then
- 25:59let it go. And don't look back.