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if you will...LEADING BUSINESS AND performance coach Tony Robbins plans to give €25,000 to the Cork Simon Community as part of a fundraising drive described as “unique” by the charity.
The motivational speaker is appealing to audience members who attended the Pendulum Summit at Dublin’s 3Arena last week to get involved – and to match his donation, with the hope of raising €50k.
A spokesperson for the charity said they were “delighted” with the effort, adding that they could provide three meals a day for 100 days for 50 people with the funds raised.
Robbins, who headlined last week’s Dublin event, will match the donations from audience members and members of the public up to €25k, the spokesperson said.
€4 donations can be made via text message, by texting CorkSimon to 50300, and you can also donate as much as you like online at a dedicated section of the website.
Robbins plans to tweet details of the drive to his near-three million followers this weekend.
“It’s particularly welcome at this time of year,” Simon’s spokesperson said.
It’s the first time the charity’s been involved in an initiative of this kind.
The world’s most successful performance coach, Robbins has worked with former US president Bill Clinton and tennis icon Serena Williams over his career, and has sold millions of books and seminar tickets.
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Bring back the pirates. Greatest era of radio in Ireland. Ah the memories :)
@Declan Moran: totally agree radio Nova was brilliant…signal for Christmas fm is very bad in some parts of the country this year for some reason
@Dave Ryan: Agree, last year on 87.7 in North Co.Cork, it was blowing the head off me, this year its weak and hissy at times
@Dave Ryan: ah it was great Dave. Nova, Q102 all the local ones in a lot of county towns. I always wanted to work in radio. The closest I came was playing music over the PA system in secondary school at lunchtime every day with two friends :). But I did spend most Saturdays in the studio of our local station Kiss FM in Tullamore. I was supposed to be gathering sports results but was having a great laugh with the guys on air. Such great times and they had so much freedom to broadcast properly. Today it’s minimum requirements for this and that and repetitive playlists. Haven’t listened to radio in Ireland for such a long time. It’s made up of a lot of shouty presenters with big egos. For me these days it’s spotify, my own collection or a station in Madrid that plays a great mix of music.
Well done to them
If I hear Bruce Springsteen once more I’m switching back to regular stations. They must be playing him twice an hour and it’s a terrible Christmas song.
@Dick Nagle: Have to agree with you on that dick. His shouting would frighten me never mind the kids.
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