Anthony J. Mahavoric, popularly known as Tony Robbins, came to life on February 29th 1960. He is a Native American and was born in North Hollywood, California, U.S. Tony is known to have a characteristic tall height and is 6 feet 7 inches tall or 2.01 meters in Height. He is said to have grown abnormally in height while he was studying at High School. Tony was born to his parents who divorced very soon in his childhood when he was just 7 years of age.


His mother later on married many husbands and took care of Tony as well. His childhood was not very comfortable as his mother was an alcoholic and used to beat him up very often. He also had to work at a young age as a primary care instructor to support his 3 siblings. Tony was also chased by his mother with a knife in hand but Tony ran away from his house because of this incident and never came back home. Tony has remained in many relationships in the past and had a girlfriend named Liz Acosta and had a son with his girlfriend as well. However Tony later on got married to his first wife Rebecca "Becky" Jenkins. The relation with Jenkins continued for 14 years but on they got separated because of internal differences. Post that Tony married Bonnie "Sage" Humphrey in 2001 and is staying currently with her in his house in Manalapan, New Jersey, Florida.

According to his biography, Tony started his career while promoting certain shows for the celebrity Jim Rohn. While doing the promotions he was himself motivated to do his own shows as a promotional and motivational speaker. He later on started his own self-help and motivational programs and included many tricks like Fire walk and Skydiving in these to help people come out of their fear. Tony gained much popularity because of these programs. He also started appearing in the TV shows like ‘Personal Power’ and the viewership for these shows was immense. Later on Tony also started delivering a seminar called ‘Leadership Academy seminar’. He was a speaker in the seminar and the seminar went on to appear as a top Ted Talk show. Robbins is also a writer and has written a series of inspirational books. He is the author to the books ‘Awaken the Giant Within’, ‘Unlimited Power’ and ‘Money: Master the Game’. All of his books have been bestsellers in their categories and many copies were sold for the books across the world.

Tony came up with multiple quotes in his lifetime and these quotes have become much popular and followed by many people. He also came with a diet plan to remain healthy by the name ‘The 10-Day Challenge’ wherein he suggested the diet chart for 10 days to remain healthy. Tony’s various promotional videos and videos regarding diet recommendations can be easily found on the website the YouTube where he has got millions of hits on his videos. Tony also has his own website where he came up with a personality test called Disc Test which people can take to know more about their personality.

Last Modified: Apr 7, 2020


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