Tony Robbins | All-In Live from Miami
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Our next guest needs no introduction, Tony Robbins.
You have to figure that out. Like I always say, if you want to take the island, you burn the boats. I got a chance to work with the President of the United States, Clinton, and he calls me one day, true story, and says, Tony, they're going to impeach me in the morning. How many of you ever achieved a goal you worked your guts out for and then achieved it and went, is this all there is? Horrific. Horrible.
It's great to meet you. Thank you. You're bigger in person. You're a big man. Compared to what? A normal human. Okay. You're large. You're like two deep. Let me see your hands. Yeah. There you go.
There you go. It's like you're a big guy. You're glad he just said his hand.
It could have gotten really interesting. You're true. True. I mean, maybe not if he was in the cold plunge. You never know. Okay, enough. When I told people you were coming, I got like a range of responses. And your poor assistant chief of staff is in a total panic about all the questions I'm going to ask you.
I don't care.
Yes, I know you don't care. But I got the range of the infomercial guy He has had a profound impact on my life from very significant friends of mine, who we know in common, who have been to your seminars, to he's kind of a guru, self-help, it's all kind of like snake oil. I want to know where this all started because my perception of you was the late night when I was growing up in the 80s, the infomercials. Yes. And then I looked into it and I started looking into the self-help space. You actually were inspired by a self-help guru who you went to work for in the, I think the late 70s.
Yeah, Jim Rohn.
Yeah, Jim Rohn. And you have been on this for a while and a lot of the techniques that you studied are very real. These are real techniques in psychology. And when I looked at them, and I was looking at the history of it, you look at Ralph Waldo, Emerson, self-reliance, Freud, Young, NLP, natural neuro-linguistic programming, and even L. Ron Hubbard, who took it in a different direction. A lot of these self-help things. Are you getting to a question? I am. I am.
He wants to show you that he spent two hours on Wikipedia before we started.
I went down the rabbit hole. Who is Tony Robbins? And why did you get addicted to all this self-help stuff? And then it's kind of been packaged in a couple of different ways in your life. So I'm curious, this sort of arc of how you got into this and then what you do for people now, because my friend Mark Pincus, and then we have Benioff, a friend of the show, my friend Kevin Rose, these guys, and then civilians. One of my wife's friends goes and runs over coals. with you in hawaii and she she's a makeup artist and she loves it and she can't shut up about it so tell me how you got into self-help how you package it and why you decided to be a coach and do these seminars instead of starting a cult or religion
I got to unpack that. Yes, please. Well, people know me at different stages. I was on television every 30 minutes, 24 hours a day for about 12 years during the infomercial days. And I hated infomercials, but there was no real vehicle. You could get out to a mass number of people other than writing a book. And most people don't read. But it started for me. I grew up in a pretty tough environment. I was born in downtown LA. I had four different fathers. I had a very powerful father. Mom, who I love dearly, has since passed. Beautiful soul. She created a lot of my success to her. But also when she drank alcohol and took prescription drugs, she was a different person. Very violent. I have a younger brother, younger sister.
So I really became a practical psychologist in my youth, learning how to manage her emotions in her states and how to really get things done. and um and then probably the thing that changed my life the most though was when i was 11 years old my fourth father and he got fired from his job and it was thanksgiving we had no money and no food when i say no food we had crackers and peanut butter but you know not a thanksgiving dinner which kind of depressing and my parents were fighting and
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