Tony Robbins

Tony Robbins born Anthony Jay Mahavoric ht 67 is an American author coach speaker and philanthropist he is of Croatian heritage He is known for his infomercials seminars and selfhelp books including the books Unlimited Power and Awaken the Giant Within Hes also known for his role in the film Shallow Hal as himself and appeared in Men in Black as an alien being watched on a monitor His parents divorced when he was 7 and his mother remarried several times including a marriage with Jim Robbins a former semiprofessional baseball player who legally adopted Anthony when he was 12 During high school Robbins grew ten inches in a year a growth spurt later attributed to a pituitary tumor When he was 17 years old he left home and never returned 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 Robbins began promoting seminars for motivational speaker and author Jim Rohn when he was 17 years old He subsequently learned to firewalk and incorporated it into his seminars Robbins has worked on an individual basis with Bill Clinton Justin Tuck Hugh Jackman and Pitbull He has counseled American businessmen Peter Guber Steve Wynn and Marc Benioff In July 2010 NBC debuted Breakthrough with Tony Robbins a reality show that followed Robbins as he helped the shows participants face their personal challenges NBC canceled the show after airing two of the planned six episodes due to low viewership In March 2012 the OWN Network picked up the show for another season beginning with the original first season set to rerun and thereafter leading directly into the new 2012 season In April 2012 Robbins began cohosting Oprahs Lifeclass on the OWN Network In 2015 filmmaker Joe Berlinger directed and produced the documentary Tony Robbins I Am Not Your Guru about the Tony Robbins event Date with Destiny after filming it in Boca Raton Florida in December 2014 It premiered at the South by Southwest film festival in March 2016