Tony Robbins | Struggle story of an American author

Tony Robbins Or Anthony Jay Robbins is an American author, coach, speaker, and philanthropist. He is known for his infomercials, seminars, and self-help books including the books Unlimited Power and Awaken the Giant Within.

Early Life

Born on February 29, 1960, Tony Ribbons is the eldest of three children of his parents. They got divorced when tony was merely 7-year-old. Following which, His mother remarried a couple of times. One of them was with Jim Robbins, who was a semi-professional baseball player. He legally took adoption of Tony when he was 12.

While attending High School, Tony grew rapidly, Like 10 inches a year. This growth spurt later attributed yo a pituitary tumour. He was sick of his home life an addressed it as chaotic and abusive. Consequently, at the age of 17, he left home and never looked back.Robbins later worked as a janitor, and did not attend college. One day he asked the landlord on site, who was a family friend, about how he became so successful. The landlord then told him that he started to turn his life around after going to a Jim Rohn seminar

Career

Being merely 17-year-old Tony Robbins began promoting seminars for motivational speakers and author Jim Rohn. Following this, Tom learnt firewalking, walking barefoot over a bed of hot embers or stones. He incorporated that into his seminars.

In the year 2014, Tony wanted to launch a franchise in Major League Soccer in Los Angeles. For this purpose, He joined a group of investors to acquire the needed rights to do so. It finally launched under the name of the Los Angeles Football Club. The soccer team entered into competition in 2018.

After two years, Robbins decided to acquire a professional gaming organisation for eSports. He came in partnership with Golden State Warriors, co-owner Peter Guber and Washington Wizards, co-owner Ted Leonsis.

Philanthropy

The year 1991 saw Tony Robbins inaugurate Anthony Robbins Foundation to help the young, the homeless, the hungry, the elderly and the imprisoned. It received a rating of four out of four stars in 2017 from the independent charity watchdog Charity Navigator.

In 2014, the profits that Tony earned through his book Money: Master the Game, were completely donated along with an additional personal donation. Also, Robbin works with Spring Health, a company which provides fresh water to small villages in rural eastern India.

Criticism

Tony Robbins faced criticism when he made comments on the Me Too movement at a seminar that took place in San Jose, California on March 15, 2018. He said, “If you use the #MeToo movement to try to get significance and certainty by attacking and destroying someone else… all you’ve done is basically use a drug called significance to make yourself feel good.” Further, he added a story about a very powerful man who passed on hiring a female candidate even though she was the most qualified because she was too attractive and would be “too big a risk”. For that, Tony later uploaded an apology on his facebook page.

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