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The Untold Story with Martha MacCallum

Tony Robbins’ Call To Action For The World's Starving

The Untold Story with Martha MacCallum

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4.6775 Ratings

🗓️ 10 December 2025

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

American author, motivational speaker, and business and life coach Tony Robbins discusses two major humanitarian crises he is working to address. Tony explains his personal experience with hunger as a child, including how one meal gifted by a stranger changed his outlook on the world. He also highlights a project he is working on that features a new song to raise awareness about starvation. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:28.8

A child dies of hunger every 10 seconds, according to the World Food Program.

0:47.1

Now you can help by joining the 100 billion meals challenge.

0:52.6

You can even appear in a recording of a new song featuring Janet Jackson,

0:56.7

Dr. Dre, Andrea Bocelli, and so many other legendary artists, the nation's number one life

1:03.2

and business strategist. One of the most famous people on the planet, Tony Robbins, is leading

1:09.5

this project. And he joins me now, Tony. It's really great to have you on the planet, Tony Robbins, is leading this project, and he joins me now. Tony, it's really

1:12.7

great to have you on the show today, so I want to thank you for that. You knew hunger.

1:19.0

Thanks, we're on.

1:19.9

It's great to have you. You knew hunger as a child. Your family was on food stamps. Tell me

1:26.0

a little bit about this project as we jump in here.

1:29.2

Well, it's interesting. When I was 11 years old, we had no money and no food. When I say no food,

1:33.5

we had crackers and peanut butter, but it was Thanksgiving. And so the level of anger and

1:37.8

depression amongst my family was pretty rough. And somebody came to the door and delivered

1:41.6

us an entire Thanksgiving meal. And we don't know who did it. We have a guest who might be, but we still don't know who did it from so many years ago. But it changed my life because I lived in an environment where looked like strangers didn't care. My father said that all the time. And now a stranger cared about our family at our time of need, so I could start caring about strangers. And I decided I'd feed two families. And when I was 17, I started two, and then four, and then a million, and then two million. And then about 12 years ago, I thought, I'm going to provide a billion meals, which just seemed like the most amazing thing to do in the U.S., and I did it in eight years. But of course, the problem's not gone away, Martha. people don't don't know is right now around the world, not only are there 42 million Americans, they're not sure where the next meal's coming from, but this year there are normally 80 million people on the verge of starvation. This year is 385 million because of the war in Ukraine. It's actually the breadbasket for most of Africa. And so what's happened now is they're taking food at the UN from people that are hungry to give it to people that are starving. So the founder, or I shouldn't say the founder of the head of the World Food Program, Governor Beasley, David Beasley, became a good friend of mine. And he got frustrated working the UN where there was such bureaucracy. And I said, why don't you and I personally create a strike team that does this with more precision? How many meals would it take to feed everybody that's hungry for 10 years while we're getting sustainability? And he said, I don't know, 50, 60 billion meals. I said, well, why don't we do a hundred billion meal challenge? He said, that's crazy. I said, I did a billion, and I wasn't a billionaire when I started. So I said, I think we can find a hundred other people like me. So we've so far delivered 62 billion meals in places like the Sudan where no one else got the food in. I paid initially get it. I got people to match me for a million people. And as we did it, we flew them in and used drones to feed

3:24.7

people for a month to keep them alive that were cut off from food. Same thing to give an idea,

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