Worked with the Beastie Boys. Wrote for Family Guy. Somehow talked Becky Lynch into writing the foreword.
Aaron Blitzstein
Pump Up
the Volume
On Confidence, Self-Doubt, and the Voice In Your Head That Can Go Straight To Hell
New Book
Pump Up the Volume
On Confidence, Self-Doubt, and the Voice In Your Head That Can Go Straight To Hell
Two weeks into a new job, I interrupted a roomful of people to ask if someone could explain what the hell we were talking about. Five people secretly texted me afterward. They were just too terrified to speak up.
This book is about what happens when you finally do.
Coming soon
With a foreword by Becky Lynch
Blurbs by Jimmy Kimmel and Chris Regan (Family Guy, The Daily Show)
Things I Actually Wrote in the Actual Book!
"At some point in every career there is a moment where you realize you have absolutely no idea what you're doing and neither does anyone else. That moment is called Monday."
"The self-help industry is worth billions of dollars. For an industry whose entire job is to put itself out of business, it seems to be thriving."
"Confidence is not the absence of doubt. It's doing the thing while the doubt is loudly expressing its concerns in the background."
"Stop apologizing before you speak. You're not a tornado. You don't need to warn people you're coming."
Beastie Boys. Becky Lynch. Seth Rogen.
The one thing they all had in common wasn't talent.
It was someone in their corner who knew how to listen.
That someone is now available to you.
I've spent thirty years in rooms where the stakes were real and the silence was expensive. Music. Television. Advertising. WWE. I've been on both sides of every conversation that mattered. The one where someone spoke up, and the one where nobody did.
I speak about confidence. Not the performed kind. The real kind. The kind that shows up after you open your mouth, not before. The kind that looks nothing like a power pose or a five-step framework and everything like a person who decided, just once, to stop abandoning themselves.
There is nothing I love more than standing in front of a room, whether it's a boardroom, a university, or a writers' room, and watching something shift in the people sitting there. The moment someone realizes the confidence they've been waiting to feel was already theirs. That moment is why I do this.
I've spoken to students, creatives, executives, and everyone in between. If you're looking for someone who will tell your audience something true and make them laugh while doing it, let's talk.
For speaking inquiries contact aaron@aaronblitzstein.com
If you're struggling with your next move, your confidence, your career, or just figuring out what you actually want to say and to whom, I'm available for one on one conversations.
Not coaching in the traditional sense. No worksheets. No frameworks. No advice that sounds the same regardless of who's asking. Just an honest conversation with someone who has been through a few things, survived all of them, and has spent thirty years creating, connecting, and championing people who needed someone in their corner.
Reach out at aaron@aaronblitzstein.com
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Aaron Blitzstein is an Emmy-nominated writer, director, and guest speaker whose work spans music, television, and advertising. He has worked with artists including Nirvana and the Beastie Boys and written for shows such as Family Guy and The Late Show with David Letterman.
