Robbins also donated profits from Unshakeable: Your Financial Freedom Playbook to Feeding America. In 2014, he donated the profits of his book, Money: Master the Game, along with an additional personal donation, through Feeding America to provide meals to people in need. Independent charity watchdog Charity Navigator gave the foundation a rating of four out of four stars in 2017. In 1991, Robbins founded the Anthony Robbins Foundation, intended to help the young, the homeless, the hungry, the elderly, and the imprisoned.
Robbins holds multiple seminars annually, most of them with a "self-help" and "positive thinking" theme, with a fire walk mindset practice, exercises for strengthening your beliefs, audience participation and physical exercises. He later posted an apology on his Facebook page. Robbins was criticized for comments alluding to the Me Too movement at a seminar in San Jose, California, on March 15, 2018: "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." He went on to tell 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". He was named one of the "Top 50 Business Intellectuals" by Accenture and one of the "Top 200 Business Gurus" by the Harvard Business Press, and in 2007 was ranked on the Forbes Celebrity 100. He has counseled American businessmen Peter Guber, Steve Wynn, and Marc Benioff. Robbins has worked on an individual basis with Bill Clinton, Justin Tuck, Wayne Gretzky, Serena Williams, Hugh Jackman, and Pitbull. In 2017 Team Liquid won The International 7, a Dota 2 tournament with a prize pool of over $24 million.
In 2016, Robbins partnered with Golden State Warriors co-owner Peter Guber and Washington Wizards co-owner Ted Leonsis to purchase Team Liquid, an eSports professional gaming organization. The soccer team entered competition in 2018. In 2014, Robbins joined a group of investors to acquire rights to launch a Major League Soccer franchise in Los Angeles, California, referred to as the Los Angeles Football Club. Together with Cloé Madanes, Robbins founded the Robbins-Madanes Center for Intervention, an organization that trains life skills coaches to help families and individuals deal with addiction and other issues. In 1997, Robbins launched the Leadership Academy seminar. In 1988 Robbins released his first infomercial for his self-help program "Personal Power," which was produced by Guthy Renker. He subsequently learned to firewalk and incorporated it into his seminars. In the early 1980s, Robbins, a practitioner of neurolinguistic programming (NLP) and Ericksonian hypnosis, partnered with NLP co-founder John Grinder. Robbins began promoting seminars for motivational speaker and author Jim Rohn when he was 17 years old. Robbins later worked as a janitor, and did not attend college. When he was seventeen years old, he left home and never returned. He has said his home life was "chaotic" and "abusive". ĭuring high school, Robbins grew ten inches, a growth spurt later attributed to a pituitary tumor. His mother then remarried several times, including a marriage with Jim Robbins, a former semi-professional baseball player who legally adopted Anthony when he was 12. Robbins is the eldest of three children and his parents divorced when he was 7. Mahavoric in North Hollywood, California, on February 29, 1960. 5.5 2019 sexual harassment and abuse allegations.