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Tony Robbins: Unshakeable Impact, Transforming Lives and Building Legacies

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Jan 23, 2026

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Tony Robbins

Tony Robbins, life and business strategist and bestselling author, shares how emotional fitness and clarity shape your story. He discusses why challenge builds resilience, how scaled giving multiplies impact, and the future skills needed for AI disruption. Short, energetic insights on state, meaning, and recognizing patterns that drive lasting change.

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ANECDOTE

Thanksgiving Delivery That Changed Everything

Tony Robbins describes receiving donated groceries as a child and how that event shifted his meaning and life purpose.
He turned that moment into feeding millions and scaling philanthropy to billions of meals.

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INSIGHT

Emotion Drives Human Action

Emotion, not intellect, drives decisions like war, marriage, and action according to Tony Robbins.
Building emotional fitness requires challenge and new experiences, not comfort and self-focus.

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ADVICE

Use Focus, Meaning, Action

Choose your focus, assign meaning, then act because those three decisions shape every moment.
Deliberately change meaning to convert painful events into opportunities for growth.

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Tony's Multi‑disciplinary Influence

02:10 • 1min

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Tony's Upbringing and Emotional Lessons

03:10 • 3min

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Why Challenge Builds Emotional Fitness

05:40 • 35sec

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The Thanksgiving Meal That Shaped Him

06:15 • 4min

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Scaling Philanthropy into Millions of Meals

10:03 • 2min

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Changing Beliefs That Limit People

12:20 • 1min

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Gratitude, Tithing, and Abundance

13:21 • 2min

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Contribution Produces Lasting Pleasure

15:49 • 2min

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Common BS Beliefs: 'I've Tried Everything'

17:20 • 3min

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Money Is Emotional: What It Really Buys

20:36 • 3min

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Investing Lessons from Masters

23:35 • 5min

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Ray Dalio's Diversification 'Holy Grail'

28:17 • 1min

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Accessing Private Equity and New Rules

Influential Investors: Dalio, Bogle, Icahn

33:06 • 2min

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Macro Risks and Debt Concerns

35:23 • 2min

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Energy, State, and Lasting Change

37:05 • 2min

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Why 'How' Traps People; Start With State

39:23 • 2min

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Identity Drives Performance and Motivation

41:06 • 3min

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AI Disruption: Prepare, Don't Panic

44:28 • 4min

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Three Future Skills: Pattern Mastery

48:33 • 6min

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From Recognition to Creation

54:30 • 19sec

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Living in a Beautiful State

54:49 • 4min

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The Power of Questions and Primary Question

59:05 • 4min

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Stanford Studies: Rewiring For Lasting Change

01:03:30 • 6min

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Business Engagement Gains from Emotional Rewiring

01:09:47 • 18sec

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Time To Rise Summit: Global Free Event

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MONEY Master the Game

7 Simple Steps to Financial Freedom

Tony Robbins

In 'MONEY Master the Game: 7 Simple Steps to Financial Freedom,' Tony Robbins provides a comprehensive blueprint for securing financial freedom. The book is based on extensive research and interviews with legendary investors such as Warren Buffett, Ray Dalio, Carl Icahn, and John Bogle. It outlines seven steps: making the most important financial decision of your life, becoming an insider by knowing the financial rules, making the game winnable, making the most important investment decision, creating a lifetime income plan, investing like the top 0. 1%, and taking action. The book emphasizes the importance of education, diversification, and developing the right financial strategies to achieve long-term financial security and freedom.

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Unshakeable

Your Financial Freedom Playbook

Tony Robbins

Unshakeable is a comprehensive guide to personal finance and investing. Written by Tony Robbins and Peter Mallouk, the book provides a simple, actionable plan to deliver true financial freedom. It is divided into three sections: 'Wealth: The Rule Book' which explains the rules of the financial world, 'The Unshakeable Playbook' which offers strategies for investing and maintaining investments, and 'The Psychology of Wealth' which discusses the psychological aspects of wealth and happiness. The book includes insights from top investors and practical advice on avoiding financial loss, managing taxes, and diversification. It also emphasizes the importance of psychology in investing and provides techniques for maintaining a positive mindset during economic downturns.

Join Peter Mallouk and Tony Robbins for powerful strategies on emotional mastery, wealth building, and future-proofing your career. Discover why your emotional state controls your story, how to recognize and create patterns that drive success, and what questions to ask yourself that will transform your quality of life — no matter what's happening in the world around you.

(00:03) Tony Robbins: why his work resonates and how it can impact your life

(02:06) What “holistic” wealth planning means

(03:25) Tony’s origin story: instability, family stress and learning emotional control

(04:28) Emotional fitness, the need for challenges and what modern comfort costs us

(06:07) A lesson on ego and receiving help when you need it

(08:04) A simple three-step framework: focus, meaning and action

(09:34) How to scale giving, from small local acts to global giving

(12:15) Getting unstuck: separating your past from your future

(13:28) Stress, scarcity and how gratitude and giving impact our lives

(16:53) The lie people tell themselves: “I’ve tried everything” and reframing adversity

(20:18) Money is emotional: what people really want (freedom, security and choice)

(23:15) Investing principles: asymmetric risk, diversification and private equity

(31:48) How to think clearly about markets: mentors, mental models and macro risk

(36:52) How to create change: manage emotions, change your story and develop a strategy

(44:25) AI disruption and how to recognize patterns in life

(54:45) Living in a “beautiful state” and asking ourselves the right questions

(1:03:30) Stanford research results and the Time to Rise Summit invitation (Jan. 29-31)

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