One Knock... One Billion

Some stories don’t just move us - they activate something in us. They remind us of who we want to be, especially when no one is watching. This is one of those stories. It's about the kind of passion that goes beyond personal success and becomes a force of impact. A passion that’s lived out loud - not for attention, but for contribution. And it starts with one powerful moment in the life of a young Tony Robbins.

“When Tony was a child they family was struggling and they didn’t have food for Thanksgiving dinner one year. A knock came on the door and young Tony answered the door to find a big man standing there with a big box of food and an uncooked turkey. The man asked Tony if his father was home and Tony got his father to come to the door. His father angrily told the man at the door “we don’t accept charity” and went to slam the door on the man. The man put his foot in the door and forced the door open and told his father, “sir, I’m just the delivery guy, everybody has tough times; this is from somebody that cares about you and wants you to have a nice Thanksgiving”. The man asked his father to not let his ego get in the way of feeding his own children.

Tony took from that experience a sense of such gratitude that a stranger would care enough to help. It inspired Tony to give back. Tony started at seventeen by feeding two families and it continued to grow and now in conjunction with Feeding America, over 1 Billion meals have been provided.

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_{Source: Robbins, Tony. Interview with Oprah Winfrey. Oprah’s Next Chapter featuring Tony Robbins. Part 2 of 2. OWN. 19 February 2012. Television.}