Mel Robbins for the cover of PEOPLE; Mel Robbins in Vermont on Oct. 7Credit: Allison Michael Orenstein
Mel Robbins slaps a strip of blue painter’s tape emblazoned with “M-E-L” in Sharpie onto her shirt as she breezes into the kitchen of her Vermont home on a brisk October morning.
The New York Times bestselling self-help author and Golden Globe-nominated podcast host greets the PEOPLE crew by earnestly shaking hands and dismissing the idea that she doesn’t need a name tag: “Sure I do,” she says. “I’m part of the team.”
Down-to-earth despite her skyrocketing stardom, Robbins, 58, doesn’t take one single moment of the big life she’s built for granted. Before she published the…