How To Find Meaning When Success Feels Empty with Tony Robbins | Ep 936
episodePreviously titled “How To Find Meaning When Success Feels Empty with Tony Robbins | Ep 994” — renamed by the publisher on Aug 2, 2026
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Who is Tony Robbins and why is he on this episode?
Tony Robbins, strategist to some of the most important people in the world, people that you have seen publicly and probably many more that you haven't seen privately that have impacted your life. And he's both a wealth strategist, but also a life strategist. And so we're talking politicians, royal families, U.S. presidents, Margaret Thatcher, Princess Diana, Andre Agassi, Mike Tyson, just the greats. And he's also published books. He's got 100 plus companies in his portfolio that do north of seven plus billion a year. And as impressive as that is, 12 billion. There you go. I was going to say, I was like, I hope this number isn't wrong. I like looked all over the internet. Most importantly, at least for me, me personally, is that you wrote books that changed my life directly.
Wow.
And in a couple of cool ways. So the first is there was an Indian guy who came here to the U.S., 20-something years ago. And he was working as a janitor. And he had such a thick accent that they said, you're never going to get employed anywhere. You have to learn how to speak. And he tried to get, you know, how to get rid of an Indian accent tapes, and those didn't really exist. And so they were like, well, you can check out these from the public library. It was Tony Robbins tapes. And so he would just mop the floors listening to Awake the Giant Within. Yes. Um... Sorry, I'm messing up. Personal power probably, yeah. Thank you, yes. And so he's mopping the floors, and he's doing it. And that man then started a software company, scaled that, sold it, started another company, sold that for $3.4 billion, did another company, took that from $200 to $1.2 billion.
And I met him right around that time, and he's my partner at Acquisition.com. Oh, that's beautiful. And so that's the first impact. What's his name? Sharon Cervantes. Please give him my best. That's awesome. I will. He would be here if he didn't have to. Oh, he's the man. The second direct impact is that there was a girl in Michigan who was 100 pounds overweight, had just been arrested six times just in the first couple years of college, and then was like, I need to change my life. And started listening to your tapes and reading your books, lost 100 pounds, competed in a fitness competition, and then got into business, built a whole roster of clients for herself. And that's when I met my wife.
The most...
The one that most significantly impacted me.
That's the most important person.
Of course.
And then the third was me, obviously. And my actually entry into your world was Money Mash the Game. That was the book that got me. And so for that reason, I want to say thank you for just everything you do. Well, thank you for all the kind words. I really appreciate it. I actually had like five words written down for this whole podcast. And I tried to compress a bunch of questions into just the most succinct thing that was actually top of mind for me that I know will be top of mind for many of the business owners in my audience. So I have probably 60% business owner audience. A third of them are doing over a million a year. We also have people who are just, you know, just getting started, but a lot of people are predominantly business.
There's more brothers and sisters out there.
Yeah, in the game, in the game.
And bet on yourself and grow, right? Find a way to give.
Yes. And so the first one was... How do you see the dichotomy between duty and enjoyment as it relates to the impact that you want to make with the business that you have?
It's interesting, you know, words are tricky. They can produce emotions, and sometimes we pick up words because the people were around. I used to play poker with a group of guys when I was in, like, 19, 20, 21. They were older than I was, and they were all married except one. And I was kind of surprised to see one day, well, one of them guys, I knew he loved his wife so much. But two of the other guys always were talking about their wives, like, I had to go back to the old ball and chain, you know? And one day, and I couldn't help see it.
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Chapters
5 chapters
1
Who is Tony Robbins and why is he on this episode?
0:00–4:01
2
How did Tony Robbins first influence Alex Hormozi and others?
4:01–8:20
3
How does Tony define duty versus enjoyment in business?
8:20–16:13
4
What is the difference between push motivation and pull motivation?
16:13–37:28
5
How did creating moonshot philanthropic goals change Tony’s fulfillment?
37:28–1:09:17
Speakers
2 identifiedMore from The Game with Alex Hormozi
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