Tony Robbins and Jerry Colonna (#742)





This episode is a two-for-one, and that’s because the podcast recently hit its 10-year anniversary and passed one billion downloads. To celebrate, I’ve curated some of the best of the best—some of my favorites—from more than 700 episodes over the last decade. I could not be more excited. The episode features segments from episode #37 “ Tony Robbins on Morning Routines, Peak Performance, and Mastering Money ” and #373 “ Jerry Colonna — The Coach with the Spider Tattoo .”



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#742: Tony Robbins and Jerry Colonna



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SHOW NOTES




[05:00] Notes about this supercombo format.



[06:03] Enter Tony Robbins.



[06:27] Tony’s daily routines.



[07:28] Cryotherapy.



[10:55] Priming.



[15:04] Tony’s ideal music for meditation.



[16:20] Richard Branson’s first pre-investment questions.



[17:05] What a 50% investment loss actually means.



[17:42] The Paul Tudor Jones 5:1 strategy.



[18:36] How Kyle Bass taught his kids about investing with nickels.



[21:34] What the world’s best investors know for certain.



[24:00] Enter Jerry Colonna.



[24:21] Jerry’s spider tattoo origin story.



[30:03] The 2002 Olympic bid meeting that changed Jerry’s life.



[35:47] Jerry’s suicide attempt at 18 and his psychiatric hospital stay.



[37:06] The difference between responsible and complicit in Jerry’s life in 2002.



[39:55] Three important questions from Jerry’s therapist.



[41:02] Something important Jerry needed to say but didn’t during this time.



[42:39] How Jerry overcame self-doubt and unanswerable questions.



[44:46] Jerry’s path to coaching and three influential books.



[51:46] How much of Jerry’s coaching stemmed from focusing outside himself and healing his younger self.



[53:12] Convincing high-achievers of the importance of self-discovery.



[54:10] Jerry’s first question: “How are you really feeling?”



[57:11] Working with the chronically busy.



[59:40] Examining my handling of busyness, saying “No,” and related difficulties.



[1:09:40] Three basic risks we all try to manage: love, safety, and belonging.



[1:13:06] Tools, books, and approaches for setting boundaries and saying “No.”



[1:14:50] “All beings own their own karma. Their happiness or unhappiness depend upon their actions, not my wishes for them.”



[1:16:11] A boundary tool that acknowledges compassion from a distance.



[1:17:30] The challenge is in the meaning assigned to a situation before applying a tool.



[1:18:11] Dealing with vexing “Newman” personalities in our lives.



[1:22:56] Moving from intellectual agreement to behavioral change.



[1:25:26] Benefits of journaling for personal growth.



[1:27:33] Guilt vs. remorse.



[1:28:12] Marie Ponsot, the crow, and letting the crow speak in the journal.



[1:32:00] Jerry’s bedtimes, mornings, and journaling process.



[1:35:09] Journaling for accepting life’s totality and our inner “multitudes.”



[1:37:14] Tara Brach’s Radical Acceptance .



[1:37:41] Using Marvel’s Hulk and Thor to understand and reconcile parts of oneself.



[1:42:39] A difficult but life-changing decision Jerry made to say “No.”



[1:49:19] Advice for anyone at a similar junction.



[1:51:07] Using journaling and meditation to cope with anxiety and inner turmoil.



[1:54:43] Learning about loving kindness (metta) meditation.



[1:56:49] A new behavior or belief that improved Jerry’s quality of life.



[1:58:36] Jerry’s billboard.



[2:00:55] Parting thoughts.




SELECTED LINKS FROM THE EPISODE



Connect with Tony Robbins :



Website  |  Twitter  |  Instagram  |  Threads




Money — Master the Game: 7 Simple Steps to Financial Freedom by Tony Robbins | Amazon



Life Force: How New Breakthroughs in Precision Medicine Can Transform the Quality of Your Life and Those You Love by Tony Robbins, Peter H. Diamandis, and Robert Hariri | Amazon



Awaken The Giant Within: How to Take Immediate Control of Your Mental, Emotional, Physical, and Financial Destiny by Tony Robbins | Amazon



Cryotherapy | Wikipedia



Whole Body Cryotherapy | Cryohealthcare



How Should I Start Each Day? What’s Priming? | Tony Robbins



Controlling the Breath to Control the Mind | Himalayan Institute Online



Tony Robbins: Hour of Power | Fast Company [Breathwork at 1:10:30]



Meditation, Mindset, and Mastery | The Tim Ferriss Show #201



Sir Richard Branson — The Billionaire Maverick of the Virgin Empire | The Tim Ferriss Show #272



Invest Like a MultiBillionaire: Asymmetric Risk/Reward | Tony Robbins



Eight Paul Tudor Jones Trading Quotes That Will Change Your Trading | Forex Mentor Online



Kyle Bass’ Big Nickel Bet | Moneyness



Dive Into Scrooge McDuck’s Money Bin at D23 Expo | DisneyD23



What Is Asset Allocation and Why Is It Important? | Investopedia




Connect with  Jerry Colonna :



Reboot.io  |  Twitter




Reboot: Leadership and the Art of Growing Up by Jerry Colonna | Amazon



J.P. Morgan Partners | Crunchbase



Flatiron Partners | Crunchbase



InformationWeek Magazine



The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson | Amazon



What is Ecopsychology? | Gatherings



Argiope Aurantia (Black and Yellow Garden Spider) | Spider ID



Iktomi: Native American Spider-Trickster Spirit Whose Stories Teach Moral Values | Ancient Pages



JetBlue Airlines



Emotional Ups and Downs After 9/11 Traced in Report | The New York Times



Union Square Ventures



For Those Who ‘Worked The Pile’ At Ground Zero, Horrors Of Sept. 11 Haven’t Faded | NPR



142 Of The Funniest New Yorker Cartoons Ever | Bored Panda



Canyon Ranch



The Jamaica Hospital Nursing Home



Creedmoor State Hospital | Asylum Projects



Cabrini Medical Center | Wikipedia



Being Complicit | And Now This



The Benefits of Suffering and the Costs of Well Being: Secondary Gains and Losses | MentalHelp.net



New York Times Corrects Misquote of Thoreau’s ‘Quiet Desperation’ Line | Poynter



The Bhagavad Gita



When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times by Pema Chodron | Amazon



Faith: Trusting Your Own Deepest Experience by Sharon Salzberg | Amazon



Let Your Life Speak: Listening for the Voice of Vocation by Parker J. Palmer | Amazon



The Dharma: The Teachings of the Buddha | Religious Literacy Project



Internal Family Systems



Life and Teachings of Jesus | Religious Literacy Project



Burning Man



This Man Makes Founders Cry | Wired



The Reality of Imposter Syndrome | Psychology Today



What is Karma? | The Yogic Encyclopedia



The Center for Nonviolent Communication



Seinfeld Saying “Newman!” | YouTube



The Living Art of Bonsai | Bonsai Empire



Who said, “Those Who Mind Don’t Matter, and Those Who Matter Don’t Mind?” | Quote Investigator



Guilt vs. Remorse | HuffPost



How to Cage the Monkey Mind | The Tim Ferriss Show #175



Taming the Mammoth: Why You Should Stop Caring What Other People Think | Wait But Why



The Artist’s Way Morning Pages Journal by Julia Cameron | Amazon



The 7 Levels of Consciousness | Tiny Buddha



Song of Myself by Walt Whitman | University of Toronto Libraries



Radical Acceptance: Embracing Your Life With the Heart of a Buddha by Tara Brach | Amazon



City Living: Bensonhurst, Brooklyn’s Little Italy, Is Now Teeming with Diversity | AMNY



Market Crashes: The Dotcom Crash | Investopedia



Know Your Brain: Amygdala | Neuroscientifically Challenged



Metta Meditation (aka Loving Kindness Meditation) | Metta Institute



Jack Kornfield Wants You to Love Yourself by Tim Ferriss | Outside



The Klingon Hamlet by The Klingon Language Institute | Amazon




PEOPLE MENTIONED




Jim Rohn



Russell Simmons



Richard Branson



Paul Tudor Jones



Kyle Bass



Scrooge McDuck



Ray Dalio



Carl Icahn



Peter Thiel



Carl Jung



Bill Plotkin



Iktomi



Fred Wilson



Brad Burnham



Dr. Avivah Sayres



Mary Anne MacLeod Trump



Mike, Sam, and Emma Colonna



Ralph Waldo Emerson



Henry David Thoreau



Gautama Buddha



Ani Pema Chodron



Sharon Salzberg



Parker J. Palmer



Jesus



Seth Godin



Newman



Jerry Seinfeld



Dr. Seuss



Marie Ponsot



Tim Urban



Julia Cameron



Walt Whitman



Tara Brach



Hulk



Thor



Jeff Walker



Jack Kornfield

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