Melissa Urban: How Direct Communication, Boundaries Can Strengthen ALL Relationships

The Mark Drager Show

Melissa Urban is a 7x New York Times best-selling author who specializes in helping people establish healthy boundaries and successfully navigate habit change. She has been featured by the New York Times, People, the Wall Street Journal, Forbes, The Today Show, and Good Morning America, and is a prominent keynote speaker on boundaries, building community, health trends, and entrepreneurship.

Key Takeaways:

1. Melissa is launching a health and wellness company and is feeling exhausted, burned out, stressed, and not sleeping due to a lack of boundaries.
2. They struggled with saying no to clients, team members, and friends because they felt like they had to say yes to everything in order to maintain their business and personal life.
3. Setting boundaries can improve relationships and protect one's business.
4. The speaker learned the importance of setting limits from a story about Oprah saying no to her mother's request to stay for more than four nights.
5. The speaker also emphasizes the importance of checking in with oneself regularly through practices like meditation or exercise.
6. Getting comfortable with discomfort is key in setting boundaries and making changes in one's life.
7. It's important to communicate effectively when setting boundaries and some people may not be willing to come along on the journey, but eventually people will self-select out of one's life.