Anthony Robbins - “In Cahoots with God”

If you're interested in what the relationship between self-mastery and enlightenment might be, you're going to want to listen to this interview with famed self-improvement guru and bona fide force of nature, Tony Robbins. Excerpted from a longer piece recorded for EnlightenNext magazine's "The Self-Masters" issue, Robbins reveals his spiritual side, ripping into superficial and narcissistic notions of self-mastery, while extolling the time-honored virtues of humility, generosity, and love. Steering clear of popular spiritual jargon, Robbins conveys his passionate and authentic sense of the spirit, as he delves into territory rarely explored in his lectures and media coverage.

BIO

For more than a quarter of a century, Anthony Robbins has served as an advisor to leaders around the world. A recognized authority on the psychology of leadership, negotiations, organizational turnaround, and peak performance, he has been honored for his strategic intellect and humanitarian endeavors. His nonprofit Anthony Robbins Foundation provides assistance to the homeless, the elderly, and inner-city youth, and feeds more than one million people in nine countries every year through its international holiday “Basket Brigade.” Robbins has directly impacted the lives of nearly 50 million people from 80 countries with his best-selling books and audiotape products, public speaking engagements, and live appearances.

Committed to helping individuals transform the quality of their lives, Robbins brings his life coaching expertise to leaders from every walk of life—from teachers and parents to presidents, political leaders, advocates for humanity, CEOs of multinational corporations, psychologists, peak performance athletes, and world-class entertainers. Since fathering the life coaching industry more than 25 years ago, Robbins has produced the number-one audio coaching system of all time. He is also an international author, award-winning speaker, chairman overseeing five private companies, and vice chairman of two companies. Robbins has been honored by Accenture as one of the “Top 50 Business Intellectuals in the World,” by American Express as one of the top six business leaders in the world to coach their entrepreneurial clients, by Justice Byron White as one of the world's “Outstanding Humanitarians,” and by the International Chamber of Commerce as one of the top ten “Outstanding People of the World.”

Robbins has worked with political and business leaders in diverse world communities such as South Africa, England, Cuba, Panama, Venezuela, and the United States. Through his strategies for “Leadership in Times of Crisis” and his systems for “Indirect Negotiations,” Robbins has participated in negotiations that have broken patterns and rhetoric of violence.

Robbins has addressed such distinguished audiences as the British Parliament, Harvard Business School, the Gorbachev Foundation's Cold War Forum, the Presidents' Summit for America's Future, and the State of the World Forum. He is an internationally best-selling author with 5 books published in 14 languages. Highly respected as an authority on the psychology of peak performance and personal, professional, and organizational turnaround, Robbins has advised and counseled Fortune 500 CEOs, world-renowned medical doctors, championship sports teams, elite athletes and coaches (including Andre Agassi and Greg Norman), and legends in entertainment (such as Quincy Jones and Anthony Hopkins).