MESSAGE 6: JAY BLUMENFIELD
Jay Blumenfield
Co-Founder and CEO, The Jay & Tony Show
Question: As a leader, what is your message to Americans who are frightened about the future due to the Coronavirus?
Message: Things are going to suck for a while. The sooner we accept that the better. But we are going to come out of this different, stronger and happier in the long run. The key right now is truth. The key right now is science. And facts.
The key right now is to try to look past differences and understand that we are all in this together.
Hopefully at the end of this we will have a new understanding of how we are all dependent on one another.
The past few years have been more divisive and confusing than any in our lifetime.
The fever from all of that and the virus is going to break at some point. What we do when we collectively wake up in a pool of sweat knowing that the worst is behind us, is up to us.
In the meantime, there are ideas to try out. New paradigms to explore. Many of today’s biggest new companies were started in the recession of 2008.
You can own your destiny, but first we have to be kind, smart, honest and bold.
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Jay Blumenfield has made a career out of taking bold ideas and making them fun, fresh and, most importantly, relatable.
His career really got started when he directed the award-winning documentary Small Town Ecstasy, for HBO films.
His production company THE JAY & TONY SHOW went on to create lots of groundbreaking content and a few duds...here are some of both…Chelsea Handler Show (E!)…Here Comes The Newlyweds (ABC)…The Road To Stardom With Missy Elliot (UPN)…Restaurant Stakeout (Food Network)…Music Behind Bars (VH1)…Dane Cook’s Tourgasm (HBO)…Gigolos (Showtime)...Life On A Wire with Nik Wallenda (Discovery)…RoosterTeeth presents Shark Week Immersion.
Blumenfield was one of the first producers to get short form on mainstream linear television with Surprise Instant Xmas Carol for TBS.
Recently Jay has been executive producing a new series with WWE for short form platform QUIBI. He also just finished the American Influencer Awards show live from the Dolby theater.
For the past 4 years, Jay & his partner Tony have recorded The Jay & Tony Show Show, a podcast which has become a television industry must listen.
It’s a podcast that trade publication Reality Blurred called “insightful, candid, and surprisingly honest for people who work in an industry that prides itself on feasting on its own bullshit while insisting it is chocolate-covered caviar.”
Jay is a graduate of the University of California, Berkeley.
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Photo: Courtesy Lucy Blumenfield