Mel Robbins and Plagiarism
Meet Cassie Phillips, the original author of Let Them
Photo of Cassie Phillips published October 2022.
This story was used by major news outlets, popular podcasts, and numerous social media content creators without any financial compensation to the author who broke the story and put in the initial research and hours to write it and follow it for 18 months now. The author’s home was part of the Orange County evacuation orders due to a possible chemical leak. She and her daughter have moved abroad and could use financial support by being paid for the work others have profited from. Thank you for your paid subscription and/or cash donation.
It was New Year’s Day 2025; and to help set my intentions for the year, I chose a self-help audible to accompany me on a day’s long nature hike: The Let Them Theory by Mel Robbins. I thought, how cool for someone famous to take a poem written by an unknown and turn it into a book. I was looking forward to hearing about the woman who originated the entire “Let Them Movement” (not to be confused with originating the philosophy of “let Them” as a concept), Cassie Phillips, in her poem Let Them that went viral in 2022 after she got a tattoo of the words she penned.