Tony Robbins | All-In Live from Miami

Robbins says he now has interests in 114 companies generating a little over $9 billion in annual revenue. He describes the portfolio as deliberately diverse, with strong operating partners allowing him to move between businesses, speaking, sports, health and philanthropy without personally running each operation.

At 11, after a stranger delivered Thanksgiving groceries to his broke family, Robbins promised himself he would someday feed other families. He says that moment changed charity from humiliation into proof that strangers care, eventually becoming a feeding effort he says surpassed one billion meals in the United States.

Robbins says a Stanford-linked study of his five-day Date With Destiny program found 97% of participants had no depressive symptoms after six weeks, with suicidal ideation falling from 17% to zero. He attributes the reported durability to combining cognitive techniques with intense physical and emotional activation.

Robbins says his current philanthropic moonshot is a 100-billion-meal campaign, after previously reaching one billion meals in the United States. He says the newer effort reached 30 billion meals in its first 18 months and has since more than doubled, while he is also funding C-130 food airdrops into Darfur.

His time-management system starts with a measurable result, the reason it matters, and a “massive action plan,” then isolates the 20% of actions most likely to create 80% of progress. He sets weekly outcomes across separate categories such as family, health and companies, rather than treating every task as equally urgent.

At 65, Robbins says he only began seriously thinking about mortality in the previous year and a half, largely because he had a daughter at 61. He now frames longevity around being present for her adulthood, while looking to highly active friends in their 80s as the model for how he wants to age.

Five weeks before the interview, Robbins says testing found an arsenic level of 345 on a scale where 50 was already “off the charts”; days later, his retina detached and required emergency surgery. He says detoxification returned his measured metal levels to normal within five weeks, intensifying his focus on longevity and immune health.

Robbins says he personally tried psychedelics in South America after initially opposing them, and the experience substantially reduced his fear of death. He now sees potential in guided, intentional therapeutic use, but warns against unsafe settings and argues that altered-state experiences matter only if people integrate them into lasting behavioral change.