From Rejection to Reinvention: How PATH WATER Became a Movement

Hi. Thanks for listening to the Tony Robbins podcast. This is just a quick note about this episode in case you'd rather watch and see the video of this conversation. That's found at youtube.com tony robbins live. You'd like to listen? You're in the right place. Okay. Here's Tony. Most of the innovation in the water space had been focused on the liquid inside of the bottle, but not on the actual container, the packaging itself. Complexity is the enemy of execution. Everyone else is trying to change what's inside. They changed what was outside. We hired, someone in in over seas to create a list of every single manufacturer in The United States, and we just started calling them. And it was a list of 500 names. We were down to the last three on the list. You know, we're sitting on the curb. Our product wasn't moving. It was collecting dust on the shelf. We're like, what are we gonna do? We have, at this point, negative $400 in our bank account. There's no replacement. There's no relentlessness. Period. We're the water company that doesn't wanna sell you any more water. Tell us a little bit. You started out at a very young age being pretty advanced. I was I was doing some homework on you in terms of Yeah. Like, you were going to college, doing college courses when you were, like, 13 or 14 years old. Yeah. You know? I was blessed. I had great parents that pushed me very hard. You know? That immigrant mindset, definitely instilled that that work ethic. Yeah. My dad is here supporting today. So Where's where's your dad? He's right here. Please stand up. Give him a hand. Now you must be so proud. Give him a hand. So you grew up in San Francisco area. You've got Syrian and Jordanian immigrant parents, like you said. Correct. Yeah. So how did that affect your entrepreneurial spirit or your work ethic or your way your learning focus? Yeah. I mean, I was pushed very hard as a kid. I, you know, instead of going out and hanging out with my friends during the summer, I would have to read a book and write a book report for my mom. And at the time, I I was not really happy about it, but looking back, that was like the biggest blessing ever. Right? That's That's That's Now, you you early on started a small business. You went to school, started a small business, and it was related, to covers on on phones. Is that correct? Am I understanding that correctly? Yeah. That was that was one of the the first few businesses that I'd started. I'm very entrepreneurially minded, I would say, so I had a bunch of friends. Tell me about those things and how'd they go and what'd you learn? Yeah. I mean, they all, you know, barely got off the ground, if ever getting off the ground, you know. …