Video taking off 17x its usual first day

Vivian Tu's money talk sends Mel Robbins' new episode sixteenfold

A day after a divorce short led her crowded week, a nearly hour-long conversation about debt, raises and rent is now the channel's standout.

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Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 291,579 views a day, 17 times a normal first day on this channel (17,556).

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A brand-new full episode of The Mel Robbins Podcast usually draws a little under eighteen thousand views on its first day. "How to Stop Living Paycheck to Paycheck & Finally Get Ahead" opened at nearly three hundred thousand, about sixteen times that pace.

Yesterday a short led her week. Today the attention is on a long conversation. The guest is Vivian Tu, a former Wall Street trader who built a large following as Your Rich BFF by explaining personal finance in plain language, and whose 2023 book "Rich AF" carried the same idea. The description introduces her as the founder of Your Rich BFF and of a finance app called Ask Dolly.

The chapters cover the practical side of being broke: auditing your spending, building an emergency fund, asking for a raise, and one story about fighting a medical bill and winning. Tu also makes the case, as the description puts it, that living with your parents can be a power move. The episode closes on a chapter about rewriting the money narrative for women.

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