This is a YouTube video titled "Rhonda Byrne: How THE SECRET Sold 34 Million Copies (You Can Do It Too!)" featuring an interview between Lewis Howes and Rhonda Byrne. The conversation, recorded in July 2025, covers Rhonda Byrne's experience writing her first book, The Secret, her visualization and manifestation process, and the role of the Law of Attraction in her success. Lewis Howes and Rhonda Byrne discuss the connection between thoughts, feelings, and taking action in achieving goals.
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Were you a writer before this?
No. Do you know what this was?
This your first book? The Secret is your first book, and you sold 34 million copies. That is crazy.
I know, right? I remember when Beyond Words contacted me and said, we want you to do the secret book. Well, I knew there'd be a secret book because I'd seen it in bookstores in my mind, all around the world, in the front window. I'd seen it. I didn't know what it looked like, but I could feel the book. And I said, yes, I knew there'd be a secret book. And I said, okay. And they said, and we want you to write it. And I said, I'm not a writer. And guess what? I heard those words, and I'm like, yes, I am.
You switched it. Yeah.
Because I'm not a writer means that you will not be a writer. Right? And I'm like, yes, I am. Because I can do anything that I put my mind to. Everybody can do anything they put their mind to. And so I. And so I wrote. And I was very specific. I wanted to write to people as though I was just talking to them and not, you know, any kind of incredible, huge words or anything like that. I just. I wanted to be super, super simple. Because Law of Attraction was a hard concept to get your head around at that time. It's a lot. It's understood a little more these days, but.
And this is. This is what I love about what you did, because you first said you saw it in your mind and you felt the book in bookstores when you felt it. So you were connecting the thought, the visualization of what you saw in your mind, and the feeling you had. Those two things connected. It sounded like. And this is where I think some people get wrong about the Law of Attraction or the Secret is they, you know, you had those two things, the thoughts and the feelings, as if it was already happening. But then you took action. You wrote the book. You didn't just say, it's magically going to, like, be in bookstores. There had to be some action. Action somewhere, whether it was you or someone else.
Yeah. But I had the publisher come to me to say, you're gonna write the book.
You drew it in.
So I attracted that. But do you know what? With that book, I honestly feel like I was just the stenographer.
You were just dallowing it.
And that's why, in answer to your question, how did I manage all of that? Honestly, I never. I just felt like I was the luckiest person in the world to be a part of that journey. But I know without a doubt, the universe was just there. It just. This had to come out into the world, and it was there to help at every turn.
