The $800,000 debt is the staggering sum Mel Robbins says she and her husband owed before her self-help career began — the financial hole at the centre of this story. Dug by a failed business and years of avoiding the problem, the debt shaped her depression and drinking, and climbing out of it became the proving ground for the advice that later made her famous.
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