One winter morning in 2012, Familius co-founder Christopher Robbins had a life-changing idea. He envisioned a publishing company that was founded and focused on helping families be happy. He saw a company that published and created books, ebooks, audiobooks, videos, a podcast, blogs, articles, and conferences. He saw a way to bring people together who had the same objective, regardless of what type of family they had: to have a happy family. He saw a company that would align his love of books, publishing, and, most importantly, family to help create a better world.
On February 15, 2012, after being in the publishing world for twenty years in both books and magazines, while simultaneously raising their nine precocious children, Christopher and his wife, Michele Robbins, launched that company and called it Familius, a play on the Latin word for family. They then cemented the company’s purpose with the tagline and mission “Helping Families Be Happy”—a mission that governs everything the company does.
