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Tony Robbins
Hi guys, it's Tony Robbins. You're listening to Habits and Hustle.
Captain Jason Chambers
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Tony Robbins
You're welcome. You're welcome. Well, I. I have a little 10 year old daughter, so your segment yesterday when we met was very poignant.
Captain Jason Chambers
I. Oh, I love that. So that's. Yeah. So basically I was like doing the segment and then Jason pulls out his phone and showed me all these amazing cute pictures of his daughter who loves to climb trees. And basically what we, I think we bonded on the fact that tech, like on the west or in the West's, you know, Western civilization, the US People are just stuck on their phones and on social media and basically being bored or playing outside has become null and void. And so when you said to me about your daughter how she's the like the antithesis, like living and growing up in Bali, which we'll get into, is completely different. There's no such thing as that type of lifestyle.
Tony Robbins
Yeah, I met her mother in Spain. She's from Australia. She was a chef on boats. And I always had a dream of building a place to replicate a super yacht on land. You know, we do hospitality, like a resort style thing where we could actually provide some health and wellness, but also give that special five star service.
Captain Jason Chambers
Is that what you do on the boat? Because you can tell me about.
Tony Robbins
That's what we do on. Well, that's what we, we do on boats. We have luxury, luxury yachts where hospitality really. I'm just a concierge really, for, for anyone's needs. I drive a big boat around and provide, you know, wealthy people for anything.
Captain Jason Chambers
They want from this case. So I want to, I want to get all into what you do also with the charity, with it, with your daughter. But let's start from the beginning. Okay, so you're a captain on this boat and so were you. How long were you a captain before you became a captain on this big show?
Tony Robbins
So I've been, this is our third season coming out.
Captain Jason Chambers
Right.
Tony Robbins
Which has been what, about four years? It's been done. So I was a captain for about 20, 20 or 20 years prior to that. So I've been captain for 20 years. And then the show's been going for four.
Captain Jason Chambers
So wasn't there. Okay, now I'm going to, you're going to see how completely I'm going to sound like a complete idiot. I remember looking at, watching commercials and there was a man who had like a beard and he was, he had a gray hair. He looked like he was like much older as the captain. Was that like a different show?
Tony Robbins
Yeah, Bravo have gone off into a few other franchises. Franchises. We have sailing, we have Mediterranean. We did have Adventure and we have Down Under. So Captain Lee was the original and he's just hung the boots up a couple of years ago actually. So we still have a few other captains. Captain Sandy for the Mediterranean, Great female captain. That's really, you know, setting a good example for females out there and striving in this industry. And Captain Glenn, who's sailing and Captain Kerry, which has taken over from Captain.
Captain Jason Chambers
How many, how many versions of the show is there?
Tony Robbins
So there was, there's been five. So we're down to a couple now, but we did have adventure, but that didn't last too long. But sailing's been a stable mark, which is a sailboat, 50 meters or 170 foot. And then Sandy, Captain Sandy, who's in the Mediterranean. And then we have one in the Caribbean and down Under. So the, the guests get to see. It's kind of a bit of a fun travel reality, Real unstructured program.
Captain Jason Chambers
Okay, but so it kind of, it's kind of like the Real Housewives, basically, right? Like. Oh, well, no, only because it was a popular show. And so then they did, you know, Housewives of Beverly Hills, Housewives of Orange County, Housewives of New Jersey, and like, and on and on and on.
Tony Robbins
Right, yeah, there's that, there's that aspect that the audience get to see a different location as well. Like the Caribbean to the Mediterranean to Down Under. So it's not just about the, the dynamics of the crew trying to actually do a real job in a, in a pressure cooker environment and see what actually unfolds.
Captain Jason Chambers
So you're actually a real captain on the show. It's not just bullshit that you're just, you're, you're not just playing a captain on tv.
Tony Robbins
No, they don't, they don't script it. They don't tell us how to, how to run the boat. If they did, a captain wouldn't be a captain. As a captain, I wouldn't allow that, you know, because there's so much safe. There's a lot of safety aspects behind it. So we have to hold that. We have to be firm about that. As captains, we're driving big boats. We've got a lot of people, we've got a lot of camera crew in the background as well. So the safety always falls back onto us. Obviously, Bravo in the background have got their policies and procedures, which are pretty strong. But when it comes to the actual boat starting the engine, getting it out there and providing the guests their quality time that they pay for, they actually pay for it. They pay. You have to pay to get on. So just to sum it up, to make it easy, a boat our size would be anywhere from 300 to 500,000 a week to rent. We actually. And you might do eight charters in a season from, say, May till September or from December to May. And eight charters is a pretty busy charter season. And you might do a week, have a rest week, have a rest week. And in between that, the crew will let loose, relax, get set up for the next one and go again. We actually do Nine charters in six weeks.
Captain Jason Chambers
Wow.
Tony Robbins
So we're doing nine charters in six weeks. We're not doing eight charters in six months. And not only that, I turn up to the boat. I don't know the boat. Never driven the boat. The crew turn up. I very rarely know 80% of the crew. I might know a few return crew. Then the food turns up and all the provisions turn up. And the next day the guests turn up and it goes straight for six weeks. Not only that, after each charter, the crew go out, they relax, they celebrate their tips. It just got. They have a little bit too much sometimes, or they hook up with someone, or a bit of romance comes or a bit of argument or a little bit of argy bargy. A bit of. Bit of. Bit of misogynism comes out, egos come out, you know, develops. And people say, well, that's not real. Well, you know what? It's actually about two years of yachting shrunk into nine weeks. So it actually does happen, but we get to see it over a short period of time due to the environment that that's filmed in.
Captain Jason Chambers
Okay, I've got so many questions now. Okay, so you said so much stuff. Okay, so doesn't Bravo just pick people to be on the boat?
Tony Robbins
The casting actually picked the crew. The crew, experienced crew. They actually apply for it, obviously.
Captain Jason Chambers
Right.
Tony Robbins
I don't get to pick them.
Captain Jason Chambers
So. Right. So then, like. So are. So these are all people actually have. Do this job legitimately.
Tony Robbins
They are experienced, they've got qualifications. Yeah.
Captain Jason Chambers
And so it's not always the same crew, but always. So. But you're the captain, which means you're always consistent on the show. But does the entire. So does your crew always change?
Tony Robbins
Usually you have some fan favorites or people that have performed well will return.
Captain Jason Chambers
Okay.
Tony Robbins
And. But that would only be about maybe maximum two. So there's eight crew every year. New crew. So. Sorry, there's about six new every year.
Captain Jason Chambers
Okay, so then the people who are renting the boat, they're actually paying.
Tony Robbins
Yeah.
Captain Jason Chambers
To be on the show with the people with the. With the show.
Tony Robbins
Yeah. Rather than paying that 300 to 500,000 a week like a normal person, they're only paying, you know, 70 to 80,000 for three days.
Captain Jason Chambers
Oh, wow.
Tony Robbins
And then they have to tip on top of that as well.
Captain Jason Chambers
So what kind of tips do you guys get?
Tony Robbins
We get big tips. We average around about 20,000 per charter. So, you know, I'd say average that.
Captain Jason Chambers
So 20,000.
Tony Robbins
20,000 for charters.
Captain Jason Chambers
How long? You said like, for three days.
Tony Robbins
So we do nine of them. So we walk out with, say, 200,000 tip after nine weeks, and we split that between the 10 crew.
Captain Jason Chambers
Oh, you have to split everything. Yeah, Everything goes into a pot.
Tony Robbins
Yeah.
Captain Jason Chambers
Okay. And so are the. So the people that are, I guess, the guests of the boat, Instead of paying 300,000 or whatever, they're paying 70 or 80, and they're picked by Bravo.
Tony Robbins
Yeah, but a lot of guests want to. Want to be on the show and want to travel and enjoy the.
Captain Jason Chambers
I'd want to be a guest.
Tony Robbins
Yeah, look, bring your. A bit more into the complain about the crew. Make it hard for us, and that's all you have to do to be a guest.
Captain Jason Chambers
So I was going to say, so the more difficult the guest is, I guess, the better the show is for.
Tony Robbins
We want crew. We want guests to actually be engaged, be authentic, but also be active, but also be honest as well. We want to be critiqued, and as a captain, I want to be critiqued as well. Like, I would like to. I'd like my chef to be under the microscope. I want my stewardesses and the service to be under the microscope. It's better for us. It's better for the show, but it's better than. It's better for us to actually. To learn from and get better. So these ups and downs that go are real. And look, there's not a boat out there that charters that doesn't have a bad guess that actually is really hard. And that's fine. That makes us better.
Captain Jason Chambers
How do they fit? Like, how do you guys all sleep on the boat? Like, the whole crew and the. Get. How many bedrooms are on these boats?
Tony Robbins
So every charter boat can have only a maximum of 12 guests.
Captain Jason Chambers
Okay.
Tony Robbins
So it doesn't matter how much. How big Jeff Bezos boat is or whatever. It's. They can only have 12 guests. Otherwise you're moving into a passenger liner, which is a different realm.
Captain Jason Chambers
So 12 guests.
Tony Robbins
So 12 guests. And then the crew. We have about 10 to 12. 13. 13 crew.
Captain Jason Chambers
And where do you, like. Are you guys sleeping? Like, in. Are you guys triple bunking or.
Tony Robbins
Yeah, yeah, sometimes double bunking. Not the captain. He's got his own. But the crew always double or triple bunk, and then that's below deck, and that's why it's called below deck. All the adventure goes on below down.
Captain Jason Chambers
Right. So it's not really about the guests on the. On the.
Tony Robbins
No, I would say. I would say probably 10% of it's about the guests. 20% of it's about the location and the activities are good and the drama between them. And I think a good 70% of it then is about. About the crew and how they actually perform and get on.
Captain Jason Chambers
So which show is that performs the best is like the down under that you're on. The most popular, I'd have to say.
Tony Robbins
That Blow Deck Down Under.
Captain Jason Chambers
Yeah.
Tony Robbins
Well, yeah, we're all going pretty strong. We're all going pretty strong. The ratings have been strong. It's been going for 10 or 11 years. It's been fantastic. We got. Yeah, we got nominated for an Emmy nomination last year, our one season two. So that was a good.
Captain Jason Chambers
Yours, The down under one.
Tony Robbins
Yeah.
Captain Jason Chambers
Oh, my God, it's amazing.
Tony Robbins
Unstructured. Unstructured reality TV show. That was a pretty. We only got knocked off by Ryan Reynolds, so that's not too bad.
Captain Jason Chambers
Oh, okay. Well, that's not bad. Have you ever done any celebrities? Have you taken any celebrities on these? On these?
Tony Robbins
Some of the other franchises have done Housewives and stuff, but no real big celebrities.
Captain Jason Chambers
No. Besides the show, like, in real life, have you done.
Tony Robbins
Back in the day, I did remember both the boats that I were on, I was on with. I think we had Jennifer Lopez on once down in the Caribbean.
Captain Jason Chambers
You think you're not 100% sure? And was. Was that like a 500, 000 at anchor? Anacha, she was from Fatal Attraction. Yeah, yeah. Jennifer Lopez is the Patriot Games or.
Tony Robbins
Patriot or something with Harrison Ford.
Captain Jason Chambers
Yeah, but you also did Fatal Attraction. She was the white.
Tony Robbins
Oh, yeah, yeah, right. That's right. She was in a heyday too, Right.
Captain Jason Chambers
That was like her big thing. And those guys are paying 500, 000 a week or.
Tony Robbins
Yeah, definitely.
Captain Jason Chambers
Okay. And then were they nice? Was Jennifer Lopez nice?
Tony Robbins
Look, I can't remember that. I think I was really green then. That was my first season, so.
Captain Jason Chambers
Oh, your first scene ever, like, doing it.
Tony Robbins
That was weird. And actually all that crew were the crew of Wolf of Wall Streets, too.
Captain Jason Chambers
Oh, of what?
Tony Robbins
The movie, the Wolf of Wall Street. The boat that sank. My first captain. Was the captain on that? From that boat?
Captain Jason Chambers
Oh, really? Yeah, in, like the. In real life.
Tony Robbins
Yeah, in real life.
Captain Jason Chambers
So the guy who was the Wolf of Wall street was here and it was the most fascinating podcast. Like, he was telling me all sorts of stuff. I was like, I've seen the movie, of course, but, like, he was telling me, like, the movie didn't give. It was like, not even like a sliver of what really happened in real life.
Tony Robbins
I could probably look the. The crew that came off that boat, they Were pretty tight lipped. They didn't talk about anything really. So he can rest assured that no bad words were said about him.
Captain Jason Chambers
Oh my. Wow. That's because he was saying some bad words himself.
Tony Robbins
So that's probably. Probably going through the other side.
Captain Jason Chambers
Oh, yeah, exactly. So how do you even become a captain on the show? Did you get the audition?
Tony Robbins
I was in. I was in Papua New guinea doing a. Working for an American family there, which I wish I could tell you because they actually did some great work while we were there with some villages and stuff and rebuilding hospitals. Anyway.
Captain Jason Chambers
You were.
Tony Robbins
Yeah, we had some. We had a great opportunity.
Captain Jason Chambers
That has nothing to do with being a captain of a boat.
Tony Robbins
Yeah, yeah, I was on a boat. They wouldn't turn, they didn't turn up because of some political issues here. They just didn't want to be seen on their boat. They're a very, very big family here in America anyway, so I was working on that boat. What boat?
Captain Jason Chambers
Can you tell me?
Tony Robbins
I can't. I'm not going to say. So they, they don't want to. They're very low key. And they. We went, we dropped it. I remember dropping an anchor once and I had to go ashore with the helicopter pilot to find the chief to talk about whether I could anchor in his bay. And we had a bag of nail, we had a bucket of nails, some flour, some tarpaulins and some tools to give as a present. And we found this old deserted hospital and it still gets used with like 60 people. They average a month with paddle and pass on canoes. Oh, wow. Babies being born, no lights, no running water. Absolutely horrendous conditions. So we went back and we got all the engineers off the boat. We went up there, we looked at everything, we came back again, we, we fitted out running water, we fixed their pipes, we put new plumbing in, we put new pumps in, we put LED lights in and everything.
Captain Jason Chambers
Oh, wow.
Tony Robbins
And then when the owners did come, we took them for. They wanted to come and see it. And they said, how much did this cost? And I said, well, it cost me nothing. It cost you 10, 15,000. He said, Triple it and keep doing it. And his guest was a big medical supplier. So he actually sent over a pallet of medical supplies to him as well. And he said, just keep doing that, whatever you do. Just so we just cruised around and through the agent that we use there, we just found things to do. And a lot of boats do contribute, they go through these areas. But wow, what a moment in life. I remember once on the back of the boat. We had kids just sitting in dugout canoes, and we set up a big sheet and a projector when we watch Moana at night. They've never seen TV before.
Captain Jason Chambers
They've never seen tv. Wow.
Tony Robbins
And anyway, I was back in Australia. Covid was happening. I couldn't get back to the Philippines, where my daughter was.
Captain Jason Chambers
Right.
Tony Robbins
And it was at the end of COVID Just at the end. And I was about to try and get out of Australia and leave this job because it was coming to America and I wanted to stay in Asia. And I got an email to join Below Deck down under, which was doing a franchise in Australia. So, yeah, why not?
Captain Jason Chambers
But how did they even, like, okay, so how did they know to find you? Like?
Tony Robbins
I actually got an email through another captain friend. So through their casting, they put it out there, and my friend emailed me with them in it and said, listen, this is the guy that should be on the show. He's down there. He knows the area, and he should be on it. So we hooked up and we made contact. And I really fell in love with the production team. And talking to them, I thought, these. These guys are pretty cool. You know, they're really good. So I thought, why not do it? My crew convinced me to do it. I didn't think anything of it. I thought, I'll just do a season and then go and see my daughter, who I hadn't seen for a year. And here we are four years later. So.
Captain Jason Chambers
Wow.
Tony Robbins
Yeah, it's been fun.
Captain Jason Chambers
Have you ever done TV before?
Tony Robbins
No. Never? No. No. So I'm a fish out of water, so. So if you ever see any of the promos of me coming out of the water with my shirt off and everything, that is not me.
Captain Jason Chambers
Okay. I was going to say that. You know, I saw it yesterday in the green room because they were promoing me coming up next or whatever, and so they promoed both of us, I guess. And you're wearing this, like, wet T shirt or something coming out of the boat, and they were like, oh, the sexiest man on Bravo, which is a whole other thing. So how did you get this whole sexiest man on react on no comment.
Tony Robbins
No comment. I got no idea. Well, I don't want to be derogatory. I haven't got much. Well, no, you have.
Captain Jason Chambers
No, no, no, no, no. Jason, you're on this podcast. You kept it.
Tony Robbins
I think it's. It's an untitled one in some.
Captain Jason Chambers
Who called you this? Is it just some name that you like? The Bravo executives? Decided to call you.
Tony Robbins
I don't know where it's come from. And it's.
Captain Jason Chambers
Or is it all the women who are constantly asking about you or like, yeah, possibly. Are you serious? I'm asking. So.
Tony Robbins
By the way, I'm 52. I don't see it that way.
Captain Jason Chambers
You're so. But you're. You know what it is? That's, that's probably why they like you and why they think you're sexy is because you have, like a humility to you. That's what's actually pretty embarrassing. Well, that. Well, you being like this right now is actually sexy. And I'm not hitting on you. I'm just saying, like, I'm not, I'm not hitting on him. I'm just saying because if you are this arrogant guy who was like coming out here and trying to be all like, you know, thinking that you're like this, this hot thing, it's. That's unattractive. That's a turn off. But if you're like, shucks, come on, like, all this humility, try and do all these nice things in, like with these kids. I mean, that's why the ladies like you. I could totally understand. Right. Bravo executive over here. Right.
Tony Robbins
Well, the thing is, like, we spoke about the job is real. And then at the end of it, they get us to do all these promos. And to be quite honest, it's taken a bit, but there's so much fun doing these promos, you know, like, but. And each year, like, really, does it have to be shirt off again?
Captain Jason Chambers
Are you doing all the shirt. So, like, what is all. I haven't seen them. But, like, are you doing like billboards with your shirt off?
Tony Robbins
I'm sure they would if they could, but they're good. I'm sure they know the market. They hit the market and it's fun. Look, I, we, we just have fun doing it. It's after six weeks of really hard work, you know, a lot of fatigue, and it's kind of just this last three days of doing all these commercials.
Captain Jason Chambers
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Tony Robbins
And it's just like, oh, let's just have some fun and we go with it and have a great time doing it.
Captain Jason Chambers
But wait, wait, wait. You're like, you're, you're brushing this whole like, sexiest man on reality TV thing. So, like, do you get DMs from women, like, all day, all night?
Tony Robbins
Well, with. I'm filtered a lot. That's filtered.
Captain Jason Chambers
You do, so. But you do, basically.
Tony Robbins
I'm sure I do.
Captain Jason Chambers
And so I'm going to ask the Bravo lady. So how did you decide that Jason was going to be the sexiest man on Bravo? Is it because you guys just noticed the, like, influx of women who are constantly asking about him versus anybody else on the show? Well, is that really how. But like, who else do you guys even have on Bravo?
Tony Robbins
I'm down the list. I'm down the list.
Captain Jason Chambers
No, no. Who else? What other guys are on Bravo that are like a big, big name.
Tony Robbins
Yeah.
Captain Jason Chambers
Most of them are like, just like, you know, women who are like the whole package. Right. Like. And so then you just kind of create this whole, like, thing around it. You're leaning in. Okay, I like that. And he's embarrassed, which makes it even better. And all the other things.
Tony Robbins
So anyway, my daughter.
Captain Jason Chambers
Yeah. Exactly how many people watch below deck? Like, what's the. What's the numbers that.
Tony Robbins
I think, Look, I think each franchise is averaging just under. Under a mill, you know, varies. But I think all franchises are doing quite well. Really well. And as I said, it's been going for quite some time. And it's got to coming from someone from inside the industry. We used to look at it as like, oh, really? But we're just, we're actually starting to enjoying it as well. People that actually are in the industry, they're starting to watch it as well. It started off with, like, we don't really want the industry was like, frowning upon it, like, why have them understand this? But now it's. There's a lot of good points that are coming out of it, which I think we need to work on. Like Captain Sandy, a female captain who's actually really done a lot for a lot of charities that she works for, and she's probably allowed a lot of females to come up into the industry. They get a lot of female deck stewardesses on board. So it actually just gives a lot of women understanding that they can actually be working outside as well. It's not just a stewardessing job, you know, waitress job. You can actually be part of. Part of the system where you can get certifications for it. So there's a hell of a lot of good points in it.
Captain Jason Chambers
Why 30 people. Is 30 people for that type of size boat? A normal size?
Tony Robbins
No, you've got the crew. You got the crew.
Captain Jason Chambers
Okay, so the crew is who, the captain?
Tony Robbins
Yeah, captain. Captain, first mate, engineer. And then you'll have three stewardesses and three deckhands, you know, so you got six, you got 10, 10 or 11, 12, 13 crew, depending on the size. Then you'll have 12 guests, then we'll have four producers on at one time. And then you'll have probably five sound and five camera.
Captain Jason Chambers
Okay. No, no, no, not the camera, not the TV people. Just in general.
Tony Robbins
In general. Let's just say there's 12 plus 10, so 22 would be usual.
Captain Jason Chambers
And because you're also enclosed in such a small environment, there must be a lot of, like, drama and relationships and like that actually form. You said earlier that the mom of your daughter was the chef.
Tony Robbins
No, she was a chef. Not my chef.
Captain Jason Chambers
On the boat she was a chef, but not. But was she a chef for another boat or. Yeah, but you guys never met on a boat together. No, no, that was just a coincidence.
Tony Robbins
Yeah, we just met through friends. Yeah.
Captain Jason Chambers
Oh, but you. Because you're friends with a lot of the same people who are crew.
Tony Robbins
Yeah, but I know where you're going from going to. And it definitely. It's a. It's a close environment, so it's a very. You got different nationalities.
Captain Jason Chambers
Yeah.
Tony Robbins
You got different personalities, you know, and these are things that. Look, when you go to work at a 9 to 5 job, you know, you might not like Tom, who you're sitting next to, or Sarah, you know, but you get to go home and you actually just get to clock off and bitch to your partner going, tom's Tom. I can't stand Tom. Yeah, but I'll go back to work tomorrow. Whereas in our industry, we have to be with them 24 7. So the only way to combat that is actually respect someone's uniqueness or different personality and understand that and get to know them. We all know people from different countries, you know, behave differently. They have different aspects or different views on life or things. You know, some can be very pigheaded or misogynist or rude in their tone, but they're probably not. Some people are really, really beautiful people, but just they come across very, very harsh.
Captain Jason Chambers
Right.
Tony Robbins
So give that. Give that a moment. Understand where they come from, learn their nationality, learn their personality, learn their behaviors, and. And not everyone has to be how you think they should be. And that's a big lesson that crew have to learn, especially when you're living with them 24 7.
Captain Jason Chambers
Right. That's crazy. I mean, that's a small quarters to be with. Did you. Have you ever had any relationships with people in your crew ever?
Tony Robbins
Me, personally? Yeah, I've been doing it for 25 years. Of course.
Captain Jason Chambers
Of course, yes.
Tony Robbins
You know, on Bravo. No, no, not on Bravo. No, no, I've. I've had really strong relationships with too. You know, some that I've actually, you know, thought that might have been the one. You know, I don't live up in a suburb and with a cul de sac with a white picket fence and have barbecues every Saturday. You know, my friends are my crew that I've worked with over. Over two and a half decades.
Captain Jason Chambers
Wow.
Tony Robbins
Yeah, my best friends are, you know. Yeah, my best friends are crew that I've actually worked with and had a great relationship and then still keep in touch now and. Male or female?
Captain Jason Chambers
So what is the cap like? What's your day to day look like? Give me a break it down, like walk me through what a day in the life of a captain would be.
Tony Robbins
Well, obviously everything's based around the itinerary that you've already set before, right? So you're obviously looking at the weather. You've got the provisions, you've got the supply, you've got the maintenance of the vessel, you've got the crew, how they are, how are they going. Then you've also got the admin, you've got the accounting, you've got the, you've got the reporting to the management, you've got reporting to the owner. And then, then you're fulfilling the itinerary and the cruising and the going through the grounds and the activities through the day. And then that's all starting again. And then you also foreseeing what's happening in about four months time when you finish that season going into a shipyard, repair, maintenance time, where you've probably got about six weeks to turn the boat over, spend a million or two and then get back out. And then all that is with crew vacations, you know, crew leave, terminations, contractual stuff for that employment, hr, uniform sizes to. And then you got the crew drama, which has happened. So that would be a day of the life.
Captain Jason Chambers
What time do you guys wake up, like for our Bravo? Like when you're, when you're filming for Bravo?
Tony Robbins
Oh, when I'm filming, that's. That's real life filming. We're the same. It's the only thing different about all that is I'm not foreseeing, I'm not, you know, it's all set. That's what we're doing, right? Walk up to the boat and just focus on that every day. A captain, you know, he would. Might go to sleep, you know, after, after the guests have gone down or dinner, and he'd be up early getting into it. And we have set hours of rest that the crew have to have. Otherwise if they go outside that, it's past. It's past their legal requirements. They have to have a certain amount of rest in certain blocks for safety. But that does get broken every now and again because we want to try and get things done.
Captain Jason Chambers
Right, right, right. How do you guys have, like. Because, you know, you're out in the. You know, you're out in the outdoors, but how do you maintain, like, a healthy life? Like, you. You obviously said that you really care about before, even off camera, like longevity and health and wellness. And we're going to get into your whole story. Is it hard to take care of your health when you're, like, confined to, like, a boat underneath and you have to do a certain structured schedule? Like you. It just like, there's not much time to kind of like, even have. Like, if you have like, downtime, are you stuck going to your room or, like, are you allowed to, like, wander around the boat? Like, what happens?
Tony Robbins
Crew usually get a designated area.
Captain Jason Chambers
Yeah.
Tony Robbins
Where they can actually do some stuff. And a good owner or a good management system would understand that, respect that. And really good owners want their crew to have a healthy lifestyle. And I always promote that. The. The crew can always jump in the water with the guests as well. They can get on the paddle boards with the guests, you know, because it's actually.
Captain Jason Chambers
Oh, they can.
Tony Robbins
Well, to me, it looks like they're. Well, one, they're actually getting some refreshing activity. Two, they're actually acting as a safety with the guest.
Captain Jason Chambers
That's true.
Tony Robbins
They're another set of eyes. So it's actually access, two purposes. But I think society's changed a lot too. I think if you go 20 years ago, the crew would work, work, work, go to the bar, get drunk, have a great time.
Captain Jason Chambers
Right. That's different now.
Tony Robbins
I think we're a lot more conscious now. I see crew getting up early for the sunrise, meditating, journaling, doing yoga, doing being their fit. You can see it in society that, you know, men, young men are trying to be a lot fitter than they were 20 years ago.
Captain Jason Chambers
It's become super trendy now to be yoga meditate.
Tony Robbins
Meditating. Yeah. Look, breathworks is a big thing. I think crew are taking the more healthy approach to understanding that you can't keep working these environments without a healthy body and obviously healthy body, then healthy mind, really.
Captain Jason Chambers
Like, what are your habits? What do you do every day?
Tony Robbins
Wake up every morning, stretch for about half an hour.
Captain Jason Chambers
What time do you wake up? Typically?
Tony Robbins
5Ish. 6. Yeah. 5:36.
Captain Jason Chambers
Yeah, that's fair. That you stretch for half.
Tony Robbins
If I'm with my daughter, I'm up at 4 because I go to bed at 8, so. Yeah. So I stretch, I go for a walk. If I, if. If I'm not on land. If I'm on land, I go for a walk. I'll do my breathworks. I just do my. I usually do that when I'm in bed. I'll put on Wim Hof and do that 11 minute, three, three round.
Captain Jason Chambers
She was on here, too.
Tony Robbins
Oh, really?
Captain Jason Chambers
Yeah, I like Wim Hof. He's very nice.
Tony Robbins
And then. And then I'll do some, Some fire breathing.
Captain Jason Chambers
Yeah.
Tony Robbins
And. And then I'll just do some more stretching. I just do band exercises. I used to play professional rugby league when I was young, so I've got a lot. Few injuries.
Captain Jason Chambers
Oh.
Tony Robbins
So I find that if I start getting into the gym, it's just too much, really. Yeah, it's. The gym's too much. Lifting weights is too much for me. I actually, I find. I find getting into band exercises being more helpful and good for the call.
Captain Jason Chambers
It is, yeah. So wait, so because you said earlier too, like, your, Your daughter lives in Bali. You now. You live in Bali, but like you said, you haven't. You didn't see her for a year.
Tony Robbins
Yeah, a year and a half.
Captain Jason Chambers
Is it because your schedule with the.
Tony Robbins
I was covered. I was stuck in. I was stuck in Australia on a boat. I couldn't leave, so.
Captain Jason Chambers
But normally that's not the case.
Tony Robbins
Not. Well, normally, if a yacht captain. Very rarely there is rotational jobs, two months on, two months off, but they're very hard to find sometimes. Captain could be away at sea for 10 months. So.
Captain Jason Chambers
So how do you have, like a regular. How do you have a life with, like, anybody?
Tony Robbins
Very difficult. Very difficult. That's why, if my friends are friends on that I.
Captain Jason Chambers
100.
Tony Robbins
Yeah. So we don't have a normal life and you take two months off or a month off. Even as the captain, you're still on the laptop, you're still on the phone. And there's so many jobs waiting for captains as well. If you don't say yes to the conditions, someone else will take it. So every time you're on holiday, you're threatened whether you're going to keep your job or not. Like, it's like, Right, there's a mindset with yacht owners that, you know, they're just always there, right? They're always, they're always. They're always part of the boat. Whereas, no, you can't have any time off. There's a lot of, a lot of marital breaks up breakups in this industry.
Captain Jason Chambers
Also, has anyone have a relationship or.
Tony Robbins
Have kids very happy. Look, I find the same relationship breakups in, in the mining, in the offshore stuff where you do a lot of one month on, one month off.
Captain Jason Chambers
Yeah, yeah. So because there's a lot of time away, like there's no consistency in time in terms of spending time.
Tony Robbins
Well, what I see is the same pattern is the, you know, the, the mother, or let's just say the mother is at home with the children and the father's working away for a month or two and then he comes home, he walks into the household, he thinks he's back.
Captain Jason Chambers
Right.
Tony Robbins
Well, wait up. This has been my nest for two months without you.
Captain Jason Chambers
Exactly.
Tony Robbins
You know, don't just, don't just come in here. Just so you always see like a week of teething into slowly walking into the relationship with arguments when you come back and then they finally get settled and then you feel, then the wife or the mother feels like about two weeks before they're departing, like, starts to get that anxiety, like, and he starts to get that anxiety. So, you know, the whole two months off is actually a good portion of that is broken up with, you know, unrest and 100.
Captain Jason Chambers
Well, there's no rhythm.
Tony Robbins
No, there's no rhythm.
Captain Jason Chambers
There's no rhythm. Like, it's constantly like upheaval and like you know, growing apart. And then you come back and it's like they already went on with their lives a little bit and then you're kind of. So how do you even. With a kid like you. What I think is amazing, and I noticed this yesterday when we met is like any moment you can mention your daughter, you do like, you love your child so much, which is like beautiful. I love that it must be really hard to be away from her like that much.
Tony Robbins
So when, when this season we. I put everything into a building. That place in the Philippines.
Captain Jason Chambers
Yeah.
Tony Robbins
A nice little five star resort. You know, her mother really did a great job building it. Even though we weren't together, we said, okay, you build it will be 50, 50. It just gave us, gave me. It's. What I've always wanted was my daughter to grow up with a unique environment. So she grew up as this white blonde girl that speaks fluent Tagalog Filipina. She actually thinks she's Filipino. She's got that empathy, really. She just wants to give to other people, make sure everyone's looked after, which.
Captain Jason Chambers
Is just that true caretaker vitality, Real.
Tony Robbins
True Filipino care she grew up in a very remote location, and we've given her that. And now they've moved to. They've moved to Bali now for a better education. And yeah, look, I'm proud that we've given that point. But when below deck happened and Covid happened, post Covid, I was like, I don't care what happens the next two years. I'm not gonna work. I don't care if I spend all my money. I'm gonna stay with my daughter. And I've done that probably 80% of the time. So if this goes nowhere, it goes nowhere. I'll just go back onto a boat. Okay. But now I'm actually trying to pick things up, see how much I can actually really make the most out of this year. My two years is up.
Captain Jason Chambers
Yeah.
Tony Robbins
So now I'm actually trying to get back.
Captain Jason Chambers
Your two years is up.
Tony Robbins
Two years that I set. Set out for her, you know?
Captain Jason Chambers
Yeah. Yeah.
Tony Robbins
Well, you know when it's up. When I didn't see it from 6 to 6 to 8. Now she's 8 to 10.
Captain Jason Chambers
Yeah.
Tony Robbins
And I gave her a kiss good night for Beck because she sleeps with me. We just got a one bedroom villa in Bali. Sleeps with her mother who's got a one bedroom. And I gave her a kiss goodnight. She said, papa, I need to talk to you about something. I said, what? She said, boundaries. I went, what boundaries? She goes, I don't think you can give me a kiss good night. I'm like, what? Not on the lips. I went, okay, but can I hug you? She goes, you can hug me good night, but no more kissing goodnight. I went, really?
Captain Jason Chambers
Oh, my God, I'm so sorry.
Tony Robbins
So I rolled over. I rolled over and about two minutes later, she reached over and hugged me and gave me a kiss. So I'm actually understanding that it's, it's. It's that time that. Yeah, I know she's only 10, but I know that she's becoming more of a yeah girl.
Captain Jason Chambers
I know. I know what you're talking about.
Tony Robbins
She won't let me see with her top off anymore. She's got to have a top underneath her top, you know?
Captain Jason Chambers
Right.
Tony Robbins
She's got a baby, she's moving. She's.
Captain Jason Chambers
I don't. Trust me, I'm going through the same thing. My little one turns 10 in five weeks. And I know it's like a progress. Like they were just like a baby or they still are your baby, right?
Tony Robbins
Yeah.
Captain Jason Chambers
But like, there's different rules and boundaries. I'm getting the same conversation.
Tony Robbins
So Yeah, I know that. That's the hint of like, okay, well, I've. I can spread my wings.
Captain Jason Chambers
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Tony Robbins
Like, it's. It's fine. I've given her a good two years. I'll give her all my life, that's for sure. My whole life's about her, but I know that I can. She's like, fine, we got FaceTime.
Captain Jason Chambers
I'm like, is that what she said?
Tony Robbins
Whereas, you know, she misses. She rings me every day. But she's like, it's fine. As long as we can talk on FaceTime, it's fine. You know, but then she's like, come home, you know, and I need to see you. So I flew home. I had Christmas with my parents. My parents were not too well this year, so I had Christmas with them and, and I flew home straight away to see her for a week, you know, as soon as I had a good hunk of time with my parents.
Captain Jason Chambers
So where do you actually live?
Tony Robbins
Bali's. I've got a. I've got a home in Bali, but Philippines, we have the resort. So I'm actually been a little bit nomadic my, My entire life. But this year I'm trying to find some stability. Stability and actually look towards the place to put some anchors down roots.
Captain Jason Chambers
Are you gonna. Do you think you' live in the us?
Tony Robbins
Oh, she's in love with the la. She's love with the la. She's in love with la. I brought her here last, last year and she's like, oh, yeah, really? Why don't you live here, Papa? And I'll just come here and visit.
Captain Jason Chambers
Like, maybe so you might move here.
Tony Robbins
Look, I'm. I've got. I don't want to even put any anxiety or thought or thought into it to have any anxiety. I've got to get some stuff done this year. I've got a good first half. I've got a very busy first half of the year. And then once that's done, then I'll actually. I'll put more thought into it then.
Captain Jason Chambers
Wait, so how long did you say? When you, like, shoot for the show, how long did you say it is? Like a.
Tony Robbins
It's six weeks. But then we do about six months of editing, right? Not editing the show, but just things we didn't pick up or voiceovers that we didn't do. So I'll fly back to here once a month for about six months, probably six times just to tidy up things that maybe after. After each charter we get into agreement and talk about that charter. Maybe my enthusiasm wasn't there. I was tired or something. Or, you know, maybe I just need to be. Be a bit more upbeat about this. Or can you be a little bit more firmer about that termination? You did?
Captain Jason Chambers
Right. And so they do give you guidance in terms of how you should know.
Tony Robbins
This is much later.
Captain Jason Chambers
They even so after the season's done, they kind of give you feedback on what you can do next time.
Tony Robbins
No, we'll fly. When they're editing and they're putting it together, our voiceovers or our interpretation of their interpretation of that moment may not have been that conducive to what happened. So they might just ask us to. Can we. You say that again, but with a bit more enthusiasm. And then that's the clip. It's just. It's called pickups. It's editing part of the editing. So.
Captain Jason Chambers
No, I know. I used to have it real. I had this. I didn't. I wasn't. I didn't love it. I had a weight loss show and they had. But they had a bug in my ear, like, you know, like one of those things.
Tony Robbins
Yeah.
Captain Jason Chambers
And they'd be like, go up to so and so and tell them this or that. It felt very contrived. They don't do that on your show.
Tony Robbins
No, not at all.
Captain Jason Chambers
Oh, God, you're lucky.
Tony Robbins
Yeah. No, we've. I'm the captain of the boat. There's no way I'd run a boat.
Captain Jason Chambers
Good. Okay. I know you kind of said that, but I didn't. Like, sometimes it is Bravo. I mean, it's not like. It's like they're. They're known for their very dramatic reality shows. So.
Tony Robbins
Yeah.
Captain Jason Chambers
It just happens. Anyway, this is good.
Tony Robbins
This adds another. This is the thumb of the hand of theirs, I suppose, you know, whereas all the other stuff is very dramatic and reality and. And it's got their. Their audience. We give the Bravo audience another aspect of reality, but doing a real job.
Captain Jason Chambers
Right.
Tony Robbins
And it's good that they. It's just another genre, really. Within a genre.
Captain Jason Chambers
Yeah, yeah, yeah. What. How many years are you contractually, like.
Tony Robbins
Doing this gig season after season? So, you know, we just hope that the ratings are popping up and we get another one.
Captain Jason Chambers
Right. So you don't know, like, next year you may not be on.
Tony Robbins
Yeah.
Captain Jason Chambers
So if this season does lousy, you're screwed, basically.
Tony Robbins
That's. Yep.
Captain Jason Chambers
And would you, like. Do you like doing tv? Like, would you want to do more of that stuff?
Tony Robbins
I honestly have met so many friends through the production and the people at the back. Yeah, they're Very similar to ourselves. They're working away from home, they're putting so many hours in, they're trying to create something for someone else. Probably don't know when the next job's coming. Very much like I'd spoke about. They're all passionate about what they do and they. They're working hard and trying to. It's honestly, to be quite honest, you could actually have cameras filming them and that could be a show as well.
Captain Jason Chambers
Oh, my God. It might be the best show.
Tony Robbins
Yeah.
Captain Jason Chambers
It'd probably be the best drama show ever. I agree. How did you even become a captain, though? Like, what? Did you love the water? Did you. Did you love boats as a kid? Like, what was your evolution to be like, you know what? I want to become a captain of big boats?
Tony Robbins
Well, in a short. I'll keep it short. I was. I did a mechanics apprenticeship. I became a mechanic. I got drafted to play professional rugby league. I was a good rugby league player back in the day.
Captain Jason Chambers
Oh, wow.
Tony Robbins
I then did an apprenticeship as a plumber. Then I chose not to play football, but just rugby league. I just chose to. Chose to get married, actually. That's the first. No one knows that. I got married when I was very young.
Captain Jason Chambers
How old were you?
Tony Robbins
I was 20. Yeah. So I married my high school girlfriend, and then at 25, who we're still in touch with now. I was like, what are we doing? Like, yeah. So I actually gave up professional football to be with her. But then I traveled. I went a year around South America, then backpacked by myself and then hitchhiked around Middle east from Istanbul down to Cairo.
Captain Jason Chambers
You hitchhiked?
Tony Robbins
Yeah, and around South America as well. And then a friend of mine who I met in England got a job on a boat in Newport, Rhode Island. So I went back to Australia. I came to visit him, and I just walked onto a boat.
Captain Jason Chambers
To do what? Just, like, just to help.
Tony Robbins
And the crew came back and the engineer said, this guy knows what he's doing, you know, like, let's take him to Miami to the shipyard. So they took me down there and I started work and they said, let's just do a season with him. So I did that. Long story short, went back to Australia for a year of football, then came back and got a job as an. An engineer on a boat. Went up to Newport, New New York, saw the World Trade Centers come down, went back, the boat didn't sell. It was owned by Mitch.
Captain Jason Chambers
The boat didn't sell.
Tony Robbins
The boat. Sorry. The boat didn't sell. It was up for sale.
Captain Jason Chambers
Oh, sell the accent. I'm trying to. That's why I keep on missing. No, I like it. It's just like I'm listening very intently.
Tony Robbins
We came back down in New York and after the season, the boat was for sale and it didn't sell. Okay. No one was buying it. And it was 110foot boat. And the owners like said, well, we'll take it to the Mediterranean. And I was the only one looking after it by myself because it was for sale. And they said, we want you to drive it. And I said, I don't know how to drive. And they said, learn. So that was it. I was 28 years old, off to the Mediterranean, never been in the Mediterranean, never driven a boat before. And I just, we took off and winged it.
Captain Jason Chambers
You just winged it?
Tony Robbins
Winged it.
Captain Jason Chambers
And then ever since then you're a captain?
Tony Robbins
Ever since then I've been winging it.
Captain Jason Chambers
Seriously, what is like the protocol? Like, how does anyone become a captain? Is there like a school?
Tony Robbins
I had to do a certificate. I had, I had sea time enough to actually do the certificate, so I had to pass the certificate to do that. But it just fell short, under, under a grade, which was great for me. Easy to be able to get that, get the certificate. So then I took off. I surrounded myself with good people and actually for about five, 10 years, I really just learned on the run. And then eventually I end up driving one of the biggest boats. And what was the boat? It was, what is it, 300 foot and helicopters, everything. And, and I, we had 28 crew. It was a huge boat. So I actually got to the point and I thought, no, I'm too detached from the crew. I don't really. Like, I could stay up in the wheelhouse and never see a crew member for a week if I wanted to. I had a lounge up there. I had a kitchen, a galley, everything. So I thought, no, I'm. It's not me. I want more adventure. Even though I could have retired on that job.
Captain Jason Chambers
So I saw the pay in a boat like that.
Tony Robbins
Anywhere between 15 to 20,000amonth.
Captain Jason Chambers
So to be a captain of a 300 foot boat.
Tony Robbins
Yeah, it goes up to 30. 30,000.
Captain Jason Chambers
Really?
Tony Robbins
Anywhere from 15 to 30,000amonth.
Captain Jason Chambers
And then you get your tips and all that stuff.
Tony Robbins
Or if you're a charter boat. Yeah, yeah. So. But I go, I, I could have retired on that job, but I, it wasn't me. And I came back and bought land in Philippines and felt more. I actually learned more driving around these remote areas and got more out of it. And that's kind of where a lot of where I am now. That's why I'm working with these charities that I work with.
Captain Jason Chambers
I know, Tell me about that charity. I love that. Like the Classroom of Hope. Yeah. What is that?
Tony Robbins
We. I've been looking for a plastic waste solution in Philippines. Building our place, we had a lot of rubbish washing up. And I've been thinking we used to grind our plastic up and put it into our foundations just to get rid of it.
Captain Jason Chambers
Right.
Tony Robbins
So, yeah, I've been looking at blocks and everything. And I came across this foundation in Indonesia that use all fully recycled. You make these blocks out of all recycled plastic waste, 24,000 tons of plastic waste a day wash up onto Indonesian rivers and they have a big factory, they turn them into these Lego blocks and they build schools out of it. In 2018, 400 schools got knocked down by earthquakes. This foundation that was there went in there to help because they were an education foundation. After that, they said, well, if we keep rebuilding these schools, they're just going to knock down again because there's earthquakes all the time. So then they found this solution. So they've rebuilt 100 schools out of this solution. I loved it. I went and visited them. They don't even just. It's not just about the schools, about the education. They're working with each community and the chiefs to understand how they can help. Like the females there. If in their religion, if you. If you run off with a boy, you have to get married, and if you have a night with the boy, you have to get married. But the father of the boy is not gonna let you marry unless she can get pregnant. So you need to get pregnant before you can get married and then you can get divorced too. So they're trying to teach these communities that there's a better way with education. You don't have to fall back on that. You know, we can actually have a better solution. So they're actually got so many aspects of these foundation, of this foundation that are helping the community. But on top of that, they're building these schools, rebuilding these schools out of a plastic waste recycle material. And I'm. I'm a paddy. I'm a padi dive ambassador for Patty, the diving certificate. So what Patty. Patty is the dive certificate.
Captain Jason Chambers
Okay.
Tony Robbins
That we get you get your diving courses through.
Captain Jason Chambers
Okay.
Tony Robbins
So I'm the Padi dive ambassador. So ocean conservation is a big thing for me. Oh, I just got my daughter certified. So we went on, I said, how can I help to this foundation, they said, would love to have you on board. So they gave me a school for 171 children. No bathrooms. The girls, every time they have their monthly, have to go home for a week because, you know, it's just. There's no dignity there, really. There's no bathroom. So that was the school I got given last year, and I put it up, I threw it out there. Sheena off vanderpump rules, threw $5,000 and got it started. And in four months we raised 100,000 and I built the school and I took my daughter to open it and cut the ribbon. And last month we went to Melbourne, Australia, for a gala. We had to raise 60,000 more. I spoke at the gala. We raised 140,000. It's a great foundation and it's fantastic. And my daughter's part of being there with it too, which is a good thing for her.
Captain Jason Chambers
Wow.
Tony Robbins
Last year, last month, I took her up into the mountains of Bali. There's another foundation, Bali, for rice. With all the construction that's going on in Indonesia.
Captain Jason Chambers
Bali for what?
Tony Robbins
Barley? For rice.
Captain Jason Chambers
Rice.
Tony Robbins
Rice as in.
Captain Jason Chambers
As eating rice. Okay.
Tony Robbins
And all the rice fields are getting. Are getting taken for construction with all these foreigners, buildings. So there's a lot of elderly and, you know, and disabled people and special needs people that are actually not getting fed. So these foundations supply rice every week to these families. And it's a great organization and there's plenty of them. There's plenty of foreigners in. In Bali that are giving back. But look, Philippines is my heart, and I'd love to take some stuff to Philippines in the future. But at the moment, I'm in Bali and it's something that I feel passionate about, and I don't know what to do on my social media. I'm not very good at it.
Captain Jason Chambers
So you do your own social media?
Tony Robbins
I do my own social media. Everyone's like, you've got to get more in front of the camera. And I'm like, okay, but I don't know what. But this is easy. It's something I'm passionate about. Aligns to the ocean, conservation. I've got a child. Education is a big thing. I think my daughter's very lucky that she's growing up in a unique environment, you know, and she didn't want to hold the camera for me the other day when we were giving out the rice and I said to her she.
Captain Jason Chambers
Did not want to.
Tony Robbins
No. And I said to her later, I said, why didn't you want to do that? Saskia? And she said, I was embarrassed. And I said, I know why you're embarrassed. And she said, tell me. I said, because you've got more than them. You've. And she said, you're right. I was like that in the Philippines, you know, to bring the people to our house because we had a bigger house. And I was like, sass, this is just learning. And I'm glad you've got that feeling, because that's empathy.
Captain Jason Chambers
Yeah.
Tony Robbins
And that's not a bad thing. And don't be shy of that. You know, you can't. You can. You can be embarrassed and you can actually have empathy as well, but just know why you've got it. And it's because you have appreciation of what you have and, you know, and.
Captain Jason Chambers
What a beautiful lesson that you just taught your child.
Tony Robbins
That's. That's all we have to do, you know, a little bit. We don't have to ask for much. Yeah, I think it's. It's. I think it's.
Captain Jason Chambers
So she has gratitude, like, just from having that environment. What's amazing to me is the. Just the difference in terms of just where you raised your child, how they grow up, like, in terms of their, like, mentality, their needs, their desires. Like. Like, because she never stepped foot here in America. Right. She doesn't know from. From all this. She doesn't know from the fact that every kid here is stuck on their. On their phone and they won't play outside or they don't do play dates or they are on social media. Like, they're not doing that back there.
Tony Robbins
No. Okay. She loves her iPad now when she can get it. She doesn't get it. She doesn't get it with her mum, but she gets it with me.
Captain Jason Chambers
How much do you give her the iPad?
Tony Robbins
Look, I. She gets, I would say a couple of hours a week.
Captain Jason Chambers
Oh, okay. Yeah. But you regulate it and you monitor it.
Tony Robbins
I'm pretty bad with it. My mom's good with it.
Captain Jason Chambers
Your mom?
Tony Robbins
Her mom's good. But.
Captain Jason Chambers
But, you know, two hours a week.
Tony Robbins
But she does crochet. She does crochet now, like. And she makes. She does crocheting and stuff. She does.
Captain Jason Chambers
Really?
Tony Robbins
Yeah, she. She does. She make things. She's got her. Her invisible friends. She's got her. Her other plastic, her other dolls and stuff that she makes things for. And she. She has a little word to it the other day. She said, you can't sit there. I said, well, she goes, blah. I can't. Remember.
Captain Jason Chambers
Big dog or something.
Tony Robbins
That's cute. I'm not going to take that away from them. Like, that's great.
Captain Jason Chambers
No, they should. That's an imagination.
Tony Robbins
And keep that imagination, you know, like, allow it.
Captain Jason Chambers
100.
Tony Robbins
If we had it, we'd be fine. You know, entrepreneurs get. Have it.
Captain Jason Chambers
We do have. I mean, entrepreneurs do have it. You have to have. Well, that's because. Well, I mean, this is how the whole thing. Like, I believe that we need to be bored sometimes. And when we were kids, we. I was always bored. But that's where I believe, you know, boredom kind of breeds brilliance in a way. Right. Because that's where creativity lives. That's where you think of different things. Like, if you're not bored and you're constantly distracted all the time, you're never going to get those light bulb, those moments of genius.
Tony Robbins
Yeah. But you can actually visualize and imagine.
Captain Jason Chambers
Where the end is, well, 100%.
Tony Robbins
And not actually look at the obstacles in between.
Captain Jason Chambers
Exactly. So then if you're doing this stuff, like, you know, with the show, six weeks on, whatever, and then you do your pickups, how do you spend the rest of your time?
Tony Robbins
It's a good question. It's been a very, very low, low period where I've actually moved probably into a bit of a cave as well.
Captain Jason Chambers
Right.
Tony Robbins
Because I know when I'm out, I'm out.
Captain Jason Chambers
Right.
Tony Robbins
When I've got these things, you know, so health is a big thing. I've just had a huge end of the year with my father with Alzheimer's and.
Captain Jason Chambers
How old is your father?
Tony Robbins
They're. They're turning 80 next year, so I just. Mum had a heart attack, dad had Alzheimer's. I flew back to help. My best mate passed away in a horrific accident. I had the melanoma. I had a diagnosis of melanoma. I had a lot going on and I think that's nothing but going to propel me into where I really wanted to go. Anyway. I've always tipped around my yoga, my health, everything like that. But I want to. I want to move right into, like, not the. I'm not going to say peak. I want to see how far things my body can be, you know, I want to know more about mind cognitive behavior, preventative, reversing Alzheimer's a little bit. Know about the foods to eat, what we can take, you know, because I want to know more about it because of my dad, of course.
Captain Jason Chambers
And do they actually diagnose him with Alzheimer's?
Tony Robbins
Yeah, yeah.
Captain Jason Chambers
How did they know? Do they still. Did they do an MRI and scan?
Tony Robbins
They did the whole lot. We. We Always had for last six, seven months, we could see changes. And then when Mum had a heart attack, a triple bypass and he was by himself, it just came on like a ton of bricks. And it's really there now and it's prevalent. And, you know, he's. He's got. Now he's on medication to take that back. But I've been listening to a lot of podcasts, so I'm actually just trying to teach myself now, but I want to see what I can do, too. And I know that I've got a good journey ahead because of everything that just went. That happened at the end of last year. So I'm thinking, wait up. So I'm doing manifesting and mindful coaching. I want to do some journaling of where I can go and follow the journey, see where I am now, start selling some stuff online to try and make a passive income so I can actually try and use something from this. With Alzheimer's coming on with Dad, I feel like I've got the opportunity to learn more about that. And I'm doing mindful and manifesting coaching as well, which is good. I'm starting to do the therapy that my mate suggested when he passed, before he passed away.
Captain Jason Chambers
So you're doing. Do you have a coach or you're coaching?
Tony Robbins
Yeah, yeah, I've got a coach now. I've done two sessions with her. I get a lot out of it, too. She asked me the other day, what. What are the things I want to get out of it? And I said, I want discipline, I want continuity and accountability and execution. And she said, explain that. I said, well, you know, I've always been that person to go with the flow. So I want some. I want to be more disciplined, to actually set my targets and actually do it. Like, yeah, go and see that person or go and do that. Like, don't just brush it off and go with, if it happens, it happens. Continuity is actually continuing and doing that. And accountability to me is not just of the things that are going wrong, but be accountable and appreciative of things that you are doing right. So when think people, probably not the sexy stuff that's going on, but like, when people say. When people say, oh, you, you know, you. You did a good job or you did that, I'm going to say, thank you, you know, I appreciate that. Yeah, I'm going to take that on, but write that down as well and be grateful every day and say that to myself every day as well. And then execution is to get all.
Captain Jason Chambers
Of those things going it's funny. The podcast is called Habits and Hustle. Right. For a reason. Right? Because it's basically the habits and hustle of the most successful people and the best experts and how they got from place A to place baby to. To point A to point B. So we talk a lot on.
Tony Robbins
I mean, A, now I'm in place A.
Captain Jason Chambers
Well, you're. Well, next time you'll be here, you'll be on. You'll be at place B. Yeah. And then C. But what I talk about, my entire platform is, is really based around discipline. You rely on discipline. You don't rely on motivation because motivation wanes. So does willpower. It's a muscle. Just. You can't. It. It doesn't. It doesn't last. So discipline is how you get from A to B. And being consistent is. It's not about talent. It's really about being consistent day to day. It's not the most intense, but it's the most often like that it's. And it's also the most boring stuff, right? Like doing the same things day in, day out gives you that mindset of, you know, of being accountable to yourself.
Tony Robbins
Well, that's where habits are formed, is through subconscious. And that's about you actually doing.
Captain Jason Chambers
Yeah, you know, you do it.
Tony Robbins
It's action based. You. You know, if I. If I pick up that phone every day, if I pick up that phone every day, if I pick up that phone every day at 9:00, eventually next minute I'm just doing it without even 9 o'clock coming 100. And that's what it. That's what it for. I just use that analogy because there's a phone there. But you know what I mean?
Captain Jason Chambers
Like, well, it's routine, right?
Tony Robbins
But it's body movement. It's body movement. I think, you know, it's not just mental. It's not just saying it. It's actually doing.
Captain Jason Chambers
No, it's not. It's definitely not. You've got it.
Tony Robbins
You've got to move your body into.
Captain Jason Chambers
That habit, but you have to make habits. Like, that's why, you know, people laugh at me because I'm very regimented. But if you're not, Reg, if you're not to a certain degree regimented, things don't get done, right? Like, if you have goals, you have to have some type of plan, and you got to execute on that plan or things will just like, you know, maybe it can happen, maybe it won't, right? But with your lifestyle, you have a very, very, like, it's an all over the place. Lifestyle. Right. Like, you're on a boat, then you're not on a boat. It's like you may have work, you may not have work very hard.
Tony Robbins
The habits fall off.
Captain Jason Chambers
It's very.
Tony Robbins
It's very hard to actually have that. Even. Even traveling with the stuff that I like to eat, you know, I. I found that totally this year. My body went down a little bit in health because I was such on the moon. I was on the move for three months. But usually when I'm in that little mode and I've got my things I do every day, I eat my. My turmeric, my ginger, my onion, my garlic. All that.
Captain Jason Chambers
Yeah.
Tony Robbins
You know. You know, take my Brazil nuts and stuff like that. If I do. If I'm doing all that, or, you know, I'll take my creatine every day.
Captain Jason Chambers
Oh, I have creatine for you. Have you ever tried this creatine?
Tony Robbins
No. You got the magic M. The magic M can.
Captain Jason Chambers
By the way. We totally forgot about this. We have to do this shot.
Tony Robbins
Yeah.
Captain Jason Chambers
Normally we do this at the beginning of the podcast, but. And I've had, like, a lot of these today, but these are my.
Tony Robbins
These honestly does work. I was.
Captain Jason Chambers
I know it does. And it's like. And the ingredients. I wouldn't be even doing these shots if it didn't work. I've. I've tried tons of these different types, and this one is by far, the ingredients are the best. Try it. Oh, cheers. Okay.
Tony Robbins
I always leave a bit in there to get the bottom.
Captain Jason Chambers
Really? Because you. Could you shake it enough?
Tony Robbins
Probably not.
Captain Jason Chambers
Yeah, I shake. I've got to shake it. And then now you're going to be super focused for someone else's podcast.
Tony Robbins
Well, I have not had one of these for about a year, and when I did have one, it changed me. And I would love to. Sponsored by magic.
Captain Jason Chambers
I will. I will definitely set you up with them because this is a great company. Also, creatine. Have you tried this? I love the momentous creatine. It'd be perfect for you because they do these travels. Now I'm going to show you. They're like, you can take it with you and you can just. They're in individual packs. Do you do creatine?
Tony Robbins
Yeah, I did some today. Yeah.
Captain Jason Chambers
Good. So, like, these are the things, like, these are, like, habits that you can get into that are healthy.
Tony Robbins
Totally. But traveling is a big thing. What do I travel? How can. How can I travel around with the most, with the less things?
Captain Jason Chambers
Well, that's what I'm saying, like these little travel packs. Do you do any kind of other wellness modalities? Like, do you do red light? Do you do the sauna? Do you do all those things?
Tony Robbins
I ice bath a couple of times a week, easy. Red light sauna for sure.
Captain Jason Chambers
Okay, you mean infrared sauna or.
Tony Robbins
Yeah.
Captain Jason Chambers
Okay.
Tony Robbins
So I'd love to do red light therapy. I've been looking into it.
Captain Jason Chambers
You've never tried it before?
Tony Robbins
No, I understand the concept of it for sure. From a light frequency point of view. I've read about it or understand it that, you know, the ailments in your body are broken up through your light frequency. The red light actually brings it back together and I, I, I'm, I'm across all that. I, well, not across it, but I, I definitely believe all that I'm going to give you. That's not a belief, it's a, it's a fact.
Captain Jason Chambers
Well, it's, I'm going to, you're going to leave here today with like so many, like, wellness gifts because I love this thing. It's called the Trilite red light. It's a, a, it's a red light by this company called Therassage who has like, in my opinion, the best red light. But I travel with it and you can like, it's like a, a panel and then you can put it wherever, like, so you can put it on your leg, you can put on your face.
Tony Robbins
I just had a rotator cuff injury for last month, you know.
Captain Jason Chambers
Okay, so that's perfect.
Tony Robbins
Good now. And I actually think I, I did the NAD IV 500mg and then I did another one a week after that and it did improve it a hell of a lot.
Captain Jason Chambers
You felt a difference?
Tony Robbins
I felt like. Well, actually when it was going in, I actually felt that was the pain straight away. So they say it goes straight to, to where you need, wherever you need it.
Captain Jason Chambers
Did you get nauseous with the.
Tony Robbins
No, I cranked it right up. It was fine.
Captain Jason Chambers
How long did it take?
Tony Robbins
I reckon 45 minutes.
Captain Jason Chambers
Yeah, I mean, like, that's actually a lot. Well, if, if it takes, like, if you, you know, if you do it really, really fast, I get so nauseous on those things.
Tony Robbins
I could, yeah, I could feel it. It was just, yeah, it felt like, did a couple of shots of tequila.
Captain Jason Chambers
Right. I mean, I think tequilas would be better than the shot, but. Are you a drinker then? Because you are from.
Tony Robbins
I do. Honest. In this industry that I, I'm in, obviously I loved it, but now I do Big moments of. Of. No, no.
Captain Jason Chambers
No alcohol.
Tony Robbins
Yeah, no alcohol and big moments of. Or not big moments, but moments of. Yes. Look, I love a steak and a glass of red wine. I love going out once, once in a while. But I must admit, I'm bit more, as I said, introverted these days. I don't go out too much. If I'm in Bali, I'm with my daughter, I don't go out. So if I am traveling, you know, look, I don't want to be drinking at events anymore. Like, I want to be focused, so that's my rule. But if I'm with friends and stuff and there's something on and I feel comfortable and in a good position, I will. But I. I actually have a. You know, the anxiety, you know, when. The day after.
Captain Jason Chambers
Yeah, Yeah. I don't drink, so I wouldn't.
Tony Robbins
It's just. It's just not me. It's just not me. I. I don't like waking up in an environment. If I'm in a safe environment, I'll. I'll do it right.
Captain Jason Chambers
So. Yeah. Because I think drinking, in my opinion, is like the number one most terrible thing you can do.
Tony Robbins
Totally agree. I've had. Last year I went November till May. Nothing. Look, we were talking about this today in the car. Like, the focus you get after three months is just insane. It's so, so worth it. But, you know, I. I just love sitting with a nice big steak and a glass of red as well.
Captain Jason Chambers
I know. I like steak. Steak's good. Like, that's protein.
Tony Robbins
I totally. I. That's all I'll eat.
Captain Jason Chambers
Can you have it with something else, like a. Like a carbonated water?
Tony Robbins
I'll try. Well, I know, but I've been looking at nootropics. There's a company in Australia I was going to talk to. You know, they do a gin and tonic. They do a. An apparel spritz. And it's all alcohol free, sugar free. And I'd love to work with a company like that. There's. There's another one in New Zealand called Apra. Apra. They do it.
Captain Jason Chambers
What do they do?
Tony Robbins
They do a black currant. It's nootropics.
Captain Jason Chambers
No, neutropis is usually like a brain supplement of some kind.
Tony Robbins
Well, it's a. Yeah, it's a.
Captain Jason Chambers
But what is this?
Tony Robbins
These are drinks. These are drinks that actually support cognitive behavior. Like, which is just made out of.
Captain Jason Chambers
Oh, okay. But it's not like. Is there alcohol or. No, no, no alcohol.
Tony Robbins
Yeah, but they taste.
Captain Jason Chambers
Doesn't sound.
Tony Robbins
They Taste like alcohol. It's a gin and tonic, it's an aperol spritz and it's a Moscow Mule. But it's no alcohol, no sugar. And you know, there's, there's good.
Captain Jason Chambers
So it mimics the drink.
Tony Robbins
Mimics the drinks, but it's using nootropics. Plant based.
Captain Jason Chambers
So interesting.
Tony Robbins
Yeah. So there's a few of them coming out now.
Captain Jason Chambers
There's so much of this stuff. I mean, it's so overwhelming. This is now like this is my life. And every day I'm like noticing, I'm getting, I'm talking. I mean it's like there's so much of all of this.
Tony Robbins
Well, this is why I've brought out a fragrance this year. I've got a fragrance I'm bringing out because I usually do essential oil. So I have a fragrance launching in March. Yeah. Do you want to pass me the fragrance?
Captain Jason Chambers
And you are doing a lot of side hustles.
Tony Robbins
I am starting now.
Captain Jason Chambers
And then what made you so. Yeah. So. Well, I usually do need to pay you more, apparently.
Tony Robbins
I usually do. I usually do a lot of essential oils. Spray face mist on, on. On crew and on the sound. On the sound.
Captain Jason Chambers
Oh, okay, let me see this.
Tony Robbins
And on the sound and production team. So in Bali, I started doing this. I started learning about fragrances. So I put it's a gender neutral fragrance and that's coming out in March. Now. I didn't want to promote alcohol. Everyone does promote spritzers and everything. So this was something that I thought was totally different. It's along what I like. I always had my essential oils and I thought, well, I'll, I'll do a fragrance. And it's, it's. I sat down for about two or three months. It's taken about eight months to come for about two or three months to develop the, the scent. And it's actually kind of me on a boat. The sand, waterfalls. It's got some earthy tones and it's definitely, definitely got some nature there. And it's long lasting and it's actually done by some beautiful people that have actually got some great hearts.
Captain Jason Chambers
Wow. Where are you going to sell it?
Tony Robbins
It'll be on my website, which is coming out soon, which is Captain's Lounge.
Captain Jason Chambers
Captains.
Tony Robbins
The Captain captainslounge Life.
Captain Jason Chambers
Okay.
Tony Robbins
Which will be on my Instagram and that'll be dropping in February.
Captain Jason Chambers
So have you not promoted this at all yet?
Tony Robbins
No.
Captain Jason Chambers
You don't? Okay. So how can you. Are you gonna have someone to try to get it into like the department stores or Eventually.
Tony Robbins
Yeah, we'll. I'll work on it. Y.
Captain Jason Chambers
Who. Who. Actually. Do you have a. Like, who's making it? Does someone come to you and say.
Tony Robbins
Hey, no, it's just me.
Captain Jason Chambers
It's all you.
Tony Robbins
It's just me.
Captain Jason Chambers
Who paid for all the manufacturing?
Tony Robbins
Me. Yeah.
Captain Jason Chambers
Really? Do you have an agent?
Tony Robbins
No.
Captain Jason Chambers
You don't have an agent or anything? So it's just basically, like, you going out there and, like, making your own deals.
Tony Robbins
Yep.
Captain Jason Chambers
Wow. Do you think maybe you should get an agent or.
Tony Robbins
Don't know, Really. I mean, I'm a boat captain.
Captain Jason Chambers
I'm gonna give you some business 101 you can do. You're on a big reality show. This is my little. Like, you're in a. You're on a major, major reality show on Bravo. The women obviously really like you. According to Bravo. Why would you not get an agent to find you some, like, endorsement deals and some speaking gigs?
Tony Robbins
Let's go?
Captain Jason Chambers
I mean, I would think. I mean, I think that would be like a. That would be the next evolution of your career.
Tony Robbins
Maybe that's part of one is discipline. Probably a little bit more confidence and less insecurities. I could probably do that. I don't know. I'm. I'm a fish out of water in all that this.
Captain Jason Chambers
You are. You're just like a captain of a boat, and, like, this whole thing just happened.
Tony Robbins
Yeah. I can drive a boat with 30 people and crew and do all that there and make decisions and make on the spot, you know, emergency decisions and stuff, and look after your life and take it for the best ride of your life.
Captain Jason Chambers
Right.
Tony Robbins
But when it comes to open up that laptop and looking behind the screens of that social media, I got no idea.
Captain Jason Chambers
So wait a minute. So no agent has reached out to you? No managers?
Tony Robbins
I had. I had a manager for a while. Not much came through. I had a good deal with Invisi Line. I had.
Captain Jason Chambers
Yeah, that's a good one.
Tony Robbins
Yeah, I had a good deal with Johnson and Johnson with. With Accuv.
Captain Jason Chambers
Yeah.
Tony Robbins
So they've been good. They're the things that have got me through. But when it comes to doing the stuff for myself, I've never.
Captain Jason Chambers
But those are big ones, like Johnson and Johnson, like. Like Invisalign this. Those pay, like, a lot of money.
Tony Robbins
Yeah, it was good.
Captain Jason Chambers
So. So by saying if you had an agent or somebody to, like, go up there and, like, pitch you more regularly or at an agency, you'd be getting things like that all the time.
Tony Robbins
Let's go. I mean, but I have this Philosophy. And I actually think I'm sticking to it pretty good. I do not want to be selling things everywhere all the time.
Captain Jason Chambers
No, you do not.
Tony Robbins
I want to, I want to be true to what is for me and what I stand for. So when I do try to voice something like that now there'll be a portion of every sale of anything I ever do that'll go back to a project.
Captain Jason Chambers
Of course it would. Because you're a nice guy.
Tony Robbins
Well, which that's, that's where I'll get the love out of it, you know, that's amazing.
Captain Jason Chambers
You know, I have an idea for you. You know what you'd be, you do great at, I think because of who would watch it, like if you were to do like some kind of like partnership with like a QVC or an hsn. Because the people who watch QVC and hsn, there's like the shopping networks are the same people who are watching reality tv. They love reality. You know, they love the Real Housewives. I'm sure they love your show below deck. If you were to do like some kind of partnership with them, they would be able to make this so you wouldn't have to pay for the manufacturing or any of that. And then they could put you on the show and you would go, you would, you would basically sell on their, you know, block of time. And the women would love to see you because they love you. Probably already shir on or shirt off. Shirt. I think shirt off would probably do better. But if you, maybe you could do like a tight tank top, it could, you could like meet in the middle or something. You know what I mean?
Tony Robbins
I gotcha.
Captain Jason Chambers
But to me, that would be like a great, a great money gig for you. And that way, like right now you're, you're paying for the manufacturing of this, right? You're paying for all of this. Like all that heavy lifting is coming from your pocket. Yeah, yeah. And so like you would like, this is what I like. I think it's a no brainer. There are people who I meet in LA who literally don't have even half of what you have. They don't even have like, they have like one season of some, you know, Bo dunk horrible reality show from some shitty network and they're out there with their agents and their managers and their publicists trying to like hawk something. You're actually like a really decent guy who's got a very nice way about you on a massive hit show three seasons in and like you're making your own perfume. Are you kidding?
Tony Robbins
Me, right now, I'm just. I'm just hiding away in Bali somewhere. I really, I'm. I need to get out there. I need to be represented a bit better and probably learn a bit more. I suppose so, you know, but meeting you is probably giving me a little bit of. I'll take this on. It's a little bit of discipline and maybe a little bit more advice would be great.
Captain Jason Chambers
I'm going to give you more. I mean, listen, I'm, like, shocked at what I'm hearing. I mean, you know this right? From Bravo friend Hayley, but they're not.
Tony Robbins
Going to give us any.
Captain Jason Chambers
No, they're not going to help you with that. But, like, if you were. If you were really touted, like the sexiest man on Bravo or sexiest reality star, that headline itself, you can leverage that to, like, so many different endorsement deals. You can probably get a book deal. I could make you millions of dollars by next year. Let's go.
Tony Robbins
Insomnia.
Captain Jason Chambers
How are you not doing this?
Tony Robbins
Sign me up. Sign me up.
Captain Jason Chambers
I'll give you business advice later. Okay, so, guys, this is. He's the nicest guy. Captain Jason. Watch season three of Below Deck and you'll come back when you're at point B, right? Yeah, please do. I'm helping you get from A to B.
Tony Robbins
That would be great.
Captain Jason Chambers
I'll help you in the middle. So where do people find you? So promote where you can be found.
Tony Robbins
My Instagram, Captain J. Chambers. And on there, my website is CaptainSlounge Life, which is all on there and also on there in links, you'll see the foundation as well, and you'll see a lot of my grid on my Instagram is a link towards the foundations that we've been doing and the schools that we've been rebuilding as well. So from there, you'll find us and we'll be get a bit more active on the other social platforms as well. But for now, Instagram's the go to. And Captain J. Chambers. And As I said, CaptainSlounge life.
Captain Jason Chambers
Thank you so much, Jason. It was so nice to have you.
Tony Robbins
I'm glad we met.
Captain Jason Chambers
Thank you. Okay, guys, go watch his show and go follow him on Instagram. Bye.
Podcast Summary: Habits and Hustle
Episode 423: Jason Chambers: Below Deck's Captain on Navigating Fame, Fatherhood, and Luxury Yachts
Release Date: February 11, 2025
Hosts: Jen Cohen and Habit Nest
Introduction
In Episode 423 of Habits and Hustle, host Jen Cohen welcomes Captain Jason Chambers, the esteemed captain from the popular Bravo series Below Deck. The episode delves deep into Captain Jason's multifaceted life, exploring his experiences navigating fame, managing fatherhood, and commanding luxury yachts. Through an engaging dialogue, listeners gain intimate insights into the rigorous demands of reality TV leadership, personal growth, and philanthropic endeavors.
1. The Role of a Captain on Below Deck
Jen Cohen begins by introducing Captain Jason Chambers, highlighting his pivotal role on Below Deck, now in its third season spanning over four years. Captain Jason shares his extensive maritime background, having spent two decades as a captain before joining the show.
Notable Quote:
Jen Cohen remarks at [04:08]: "I've been a captain for 20 years, and then the show's been going for four."
Captain Jason elaborates on the show's structure, emphasizing its unscripted nature and the authenticity required to manage both the vessel and the dynamic crew under the constant gaze of cameras.
2. Navigating Fame and Reality TV
The conversation shifts to the intricacies of being a reality TV captain. Captain Jason discusses the high-paced environment, managing nine charters in six weeks, and the unpredictability that comes with frequently meeting new crew members and guests.
Notable Quote:
Captain Jason Chambers states at [07:21]: "We're doing nine charters in six weeks. We're not doing eight charters in six months."
He underscores the reality that despite the glamorous portrayal on screen, the role demands immense responsibility, especially regarding safety and crew management.
3. Life On and Off the Boat: Challenges and Dynamics
Captain Jason provides a candid look into the day-to-day operations aboard the yacht. From maintaining the vessel's itinerary to handling crew drama and guest relations, he paints a vivid picture of the balancing act required to ensure both operational efficiency and crew morale.
Notable Quote:
Captain Jason Chambers shares at [23:51]: "It's a close environment, so it's a very…"
He highlights the importance of understanding diverse personalities and cultures, fostering respect, and building strong interpersonal relationships to mitigate conflicts inherent in confined settings.
4. Fatherhood and Personal Life
A significant portion of the episode delves into Captain Jason's personal life, particularly his role as a father. Balancing the demands of a high-profile job with fatherhood, especially amidst the challenges posed by the COVID-19 pandemic, Captain Jason discusses his commitment to providing a unique upbringing for his daughter.
Notable Quote:
Captain Jason Chambers reveals at [33:26]: "She loves her iPad now when she can get it. She doesn't get it with her mum, but she gets it with me."
He shares heartfelt anecdotes about his daughter's growth, their interactions, and the establishment of a nurturing environment that contrasts sharply with the typical Western lifestyle dominated by technology.
5. Health and Wellness Practices
Maintaining physical and mental well-being is paramount for Captain Jason, given the strenuous nature of his job. He shares his daily habits, including stretching, walking, meditation, and specific breathing exercises inspired by Wim Hof.
Notable Quote:
Captain Jason Chambers mentions at [28:27]: "Wake up every morning, stretch for about half an hour."
He emphasizes the shift from past indulgences to a more health-conscious lifestyle, integrating yoga, journaling, and mindful practices to foster resilience and longevity.
6. Charity and Philanthropy Efforts
Beyond his professional life, Captain Jason is deeply committed to philanthropic endeavors. He discusses his involvement with the Classroom of Hope, a foundation focused on building schools using recycled plastic waste in the Philippines and Indonesia. His efforts aim to address educational infrastructure challenges while promoting environmental sustainability.
Notable Quote:
Captain Jason Chambers explains at [42:46]: "We're building schools out of plastic waste recycle material."
He narrates the transformative impact of these initiatives on local communities, underscoring the intersection of education, environmental conservation, and social reform.
7. Future Plans and Personal Development
As the episode progresses, Captain Jason reflects on his career trajectory and personal aspirations. Balancing reality TV fame with entrepreneurial ventures, such as launching his own fragrance line, he expresses a desire for stability and further personal growth.
Notable Quote:
Captain Jason Chambers contemplates at [65:02]: "You have to have some type of plan, and you got to execute on that plan or things will just like, you know, maybe it can happen, maybe it won't."
He acknowledges the challenges of expanding his personal brand and the importance of discipline, consistency, and accountability in achieving his goals.
Conclusion
Jen Cohen wraps up the episode by encouraging listeners to follow Captain Jason Chambers on Instagram (@CaptainJ.Chambers) and visit his upcoming website, CaptainSlounge Life. The episode offers a comprehensive look into the life of a reality TV captain who seamlessly blends professional excellence with personal integrity and a heartfelt commitment to community service.
Final Quote:
Captain Jason Chambers concludes at [67:43]: "And Captain J. Chambers. And as I said, CaptainSlounge life."
Listeners are left inspired by Captain Jason's dedication, resilience, and the harmonious integration of his diverse roles as a leader, father, and philanthropist.
Key Takeaways:
For those intrigued by the complexities of life aboard luxury yachts and the personal journeys of those who command them, this episode of Habits and Hustle provides an enriching and insightful narrative.