Tony Robbins

Robbins' got married to Becky Jenkins in 1982. Becky had 3 children from her former marriages; Robbins adopted them. They got divorced after 9 years of being married. He got married for the second time to Sage Robbins.

Tony Robbins was born as Anthony J. Mahavorick in North Hollywood, California. He belonged to Croatian origin and adopted his stepfather’s surname ‘Robbins’ later in life. He was raised in Azusa and went to Glendora High School.

Robbins started his career by promoting Jim Rohn’s motivational seminars. Jim Rohn was a motivational author and speaker as well as an entrepreneur.

Jim Rohn taught him that happiness and success is not a matter of how much a person has got, it depends on what he does with the available resources in his life. Robbins took inspiration from him and began life coaching.

He started teaching at neuro-linguistic programming (NPL) and Ericksonian Hypnosis after getting trained from the co-founder of NPL and in 1983 he learnt to firewalk from Tolly Burkan, father of the global firewalking movement, and started integrating it into his seminars.

Robbins career as a self-help guru started to escalate when he started selling his programs through books and TV infomercials. He popularized himself as a ‘peak performance coach’ and gained a lot of recognition.

His first major book, ‘Unlimited Power’ was published in 1987. It deals with topics of health and energy, overcoming fears, persuasive communication, and enhancing personal relationships. Although the book was a bestseller in America, its originality was disputed.

Robbins’ four-day seminar ‘Unleash the Power Within’ is considered to be the most prominent work of his career. The seminar is based on the concept of how successful people overcome their fears. ‘Mastery University’ is another successful work of his.