Lara Boyd and Ina Garten explore change with Mel Robbins
Neuroscience, career visibility and the Barefoot Contessa's reinvention story connect a week of eleven uploads.
Why this story? The channel's weekly summary: what went up this week, what is drawing views now, and where the channel stands among similar channels.
#1 Neuroscientist: After Watching This, Your Brain Will Not Be the Same
Changing direction can mean learning something difficult or walking away from a career that no longer fits. Mel Robbins gave both possibilities room this week, with neuroscientist Dr. Lara Boyd and Ina Garten bringing very different experience to the conversation.
Boyd's episode, "#1 Neuroscientist: After Watching This, Your Brain Will Not Be the Same", was the week's most-watched new upload, approaching 700,000 views. The University of British Columbia professor explains how practice and challenging tasks reshape the brain, with exercise getting its own companion Short about creating better conditions for learning. In the comments, viewers discuss learning English through the podcast and using videos as a kind of rehearsal for unfamiliar activities.
Garten's "The Power of Reinvention: Switching Things Up at Any Age" arrived later and is currently drawing the most daily views of any upload on the channel. The Barefoot Contessa joins Robbins for a conversation about changing careers, trusting your taste and testing a dream before committing to it. There's room for a favorite recipe, too, but this is more life decisions than dinner instructions.
Professor Marina Cooley supplies the workplace counterpart in "How to Stop Being Overlooked & Start Getting What You Want": making your contributions visible without feeling as though you're performing a personality transplant.
Robbins added about 30,000 subscribers over the week. Her weekly views were the largest among the nearby self-improvement channels with weekly totals available, while CareerVidz is also having a notably busy day. Robbins's own birthday reflection remains among her fastest-moving uploads, adding a personal example of starting over alongside the guest conversations.
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What viewers say
Im learning English and I chose your podcast because I love it. It’s interesting, convincing and you always have wonderful people in the conversation ❤❤❤
@angelicarivera1494See it on YouTubeI love that analogy of being a mechanic that doesn't understand how the car works. Fantastic
@tamimerlie3941See it on YouTubeThis was great. I’m going to replay this episode with my iPods on so to catch everything. 😊 Thanks, Mel.
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- Channel
- Mel Robbins
- Subscribers
- 6,320,000 ▲ 30,000 this week
- Channel views, last 7 days
- 6,386,390
- Videos published this week
- 11
- Video published
- October 12, 2026
- Video views so far
- 698,279
- Views on its first day
- 291,687
The numbers
Here is how Mel Robbins's audience and uploads moved over the week.
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At which university does neuroscientist Dr. Lara Boyd teach?
Boyd is a professor at the University of British Columbia and directs its Brain Behaviour Lab.



