I was lucky enough to meet Tony Robbins in 2005 when Chuck was training for Randy 2.Tony was kind enough to visit our gym. We also went to his seminar in Los Angeles. I became friends with Tony, and we talked on the phone and texted occasionally.
I remember one time I was depressed about a
Tony and I talked a few more times on the text, and I ended up going to see him in Toronto. He was always very hospitable and kind to me, he is a very genuinely kind person.
A few years later I was in Florida helping Glover Teixeira train for a fight at American top team. At the end of one training session, I got a text from Tony Robbins saying he heard I was in Florida and he wanted to know if I wanted to come to his house for coffee, would anybody on this planet say no to that? He told me he only had a half an hour before his next appointment, and after he gave me directions I realized it was about a 25 minute drive, but without a doubt driving 50 minutes to spend five minutes with Tony Robbins was definitely worth it, so I didn’t hesitate, and I started driving to his house.
Pulling up to Tony Robbins house was so real, it reminded me of the Mandalay Bay hotel in Las Vegas. Tony met me at the door and invited me in and give me a quick tour of his house/mansion. The only other person home with his personal assistant, but he brought me into the backyard and sat me down.
We didn’t waste much time with small talk, and even though he has a hell of a lot more going on than I do, but even though, the first thing he did was look at me and asked me how I was and what was going on in my life. I started telling him things that were going on in my life with my gym my fight team, my family, my personal training. He seemed to really care, and he asked me what my challenges were, so I told him, he turned to his personal assistant who was on the other side of the backyard doing some paperwork and he told her to cancel his next appointment. Tony Robbins sat next to me for the next hour and a half talking to me about my problems, my challenges and giving me solutions, and ideas how to make my life better. You heard me correctly, THE Tony Robbins spent the next 90 minutes sitting next to me giving me real-life advice and strategies on how to make my life better. this was all done out of the goodness of his heart, there was absolutely nothing in it for him but to help me.
I remember him walking me out, showing me his cryo-chamber and having me sit in it for two minutes, then walking me outside to my car. I remember driving home thinking how surreal the past hour and a half was. I was driving down the street thinking “Tony Robbins just took an hour and a half out of his day to help me make my life better”. I even thought what the $ value of that “therapy” session would be. Again, the only word they kept playing in my head was surreal