Best-selling author of Buy Yourself the F*cking Lilies and Glow in the F*cking Dark, Tara Schuster is a former television executive turned keynote speaker, trailblazing in health & wellness.

Meet Tara Schuster

Tara Schuster, author of the best-selling Buy Yourself the F*cking Lilies (2020) and Glow in the F*cking Dark (2023), previously served as VP of talent and development at Comedy Central. There, she was the executive in charge of such critically acclaimed shows as the Emmy Award-winning Key & Peele.

Following her career in television, Tara Schuster became a best-selling author. Cosmopolitan, Real Simple, Publishers Weekly, and many more publications have attributed her works as some of the best on mental health and self-care. In addition, The New Yorker, Forbes, and InStyle have featured contributions from Tara Schuster.

Now, organizations hire Tara Schuster as a keynote speaker who combines her skills as a veteran television executive and self-care expert into transformative presentations.

Schuster takes pride in her Jewish faith and heritage, and also proudly gives tailored presentations to Jewish organizations and non-profits.

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Biography

Tara Schuster earned her BFA in Literary Arts and History from Brown University. Soon after, she landed an internship with The Daily Show. She excelled, and Schuster soon became a Digital Production Assistant with Comedy Central. Quickly rising to the top, Tara took herself from production assistant to Vice President of Talent and Development.

Tara Schuster’s Career after Comedy Central

Tara Schuster’s meteoric rise taught her the importance of self-care and self-help. Looking back, while only in her mid-twenties, Schuster realized the incredible burden she had borne on her way to the top. Seeing a need for an authentic voice from a corporate executive, Hollywood producer, and young entrepreneur, Schuster began her health & wellness career. Fortune 100 organizations now hire Tara Schuster for transformative keynote speeches on the power of confidence in the face of crisis.

How to Hire Tara Schuster

To hire Tara Schuster for an event, contact the Mollie Plotkin Group with the proposed event date, location, audience size, event format and program goals. Tara Schuster is available for corporate events, conferences, leadership meetings, private events, workshops, fireside chats and virtual programs.

After receiving your request, a Mollie Plotkin Group booking agent will review Tara Schuster’s availability, discuss the event details and get back to you within 48 hours with next steps for securing Tara Schuster for your program.

Tara Schuster Booking Fee

The cost to book Tara Schuster depends on the event date, location, format, audience size and scope of the appearance. Speaking fees may vary for keynote speeches, workshops, fireside chats, private events, corporate meetings and virtual programs.

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Speaking Topics & Programs

Finding Your Inner Voice

Funny, concrete tips and lessons on how anyone can find their most authentic voice.

Tara Schuster gives real-life examples from her time in Hollywood, and her best-selling memoir, to offer insights into what can stop us from employing our most authentic voices.

The Hollywood Reporter deemed Tara Schuster a “veteran television executive” for her success in developing Emmy-award-winning television shows.

Her secret was clarifying and amplifying the voices of artists like Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peel to help create Key & Peele.

Audiences learn how to:

Identify what’s stopping us from employing our most authentic voice
Overcome daily obstacles.
Find truths in real-world examples from Tara Schuster’s time in Hollywood

Building Faith In Yourself

From Shuster’s best-selling Buy Yourself the F*cking Lilies, called a “must-read” by People Magazine and Cosmopolitan

How do you build self love? With practical and tested tips and tricks from Shuster’s own life.

Tara Schuster will show us how to find our self-esteem and principles so we can grow into the people we most want to become.

A look at your first steps:

Identifying your inner critic
Replace it with a positive and confidence-building map of who we are
How to grow into the person you most want to become

Self Care as Community Care: A Jewish Perspective on the Power of Self Love

Tara speaks on her faith and the strength that can be found in Jewish communities.

Drawing from the lessons and stories she detailed in Buy Yourself the F*cking Lilies, Tara takes a Jewish perspective on the principles of self-love.

She speaks to Jewish organizations and non-profits about the importance of

A Shared Culture and Community
Faith and Understanding
Proactive Individual Growth for a Shared Benefit

Self Care in Crisis

Tara gives audiences actionable steps to find a little joy in the worst of circumstances.

In the current, chaotic climate, self-care is more essential than ever, but few have the tool kit necessary to nurture themselves.

Using hilarious stories of navigating personal and professional crises, Tara imparts three lessons to her audiences:

Finding joy in the worst of circumstances
Creating power to choose your own attitude.
How to navigate personal and professional crisis

Workshops

Embracing the Process (for real) for Mindfulness and Creativity

After Tara Schuster was nominated for an Emmy, she realized how much she relied on her status as a Hollywood Executive to define her value as a person. Tara Schuster attests that people said her job title as if it was her married last name: “Tara Schuster, Comedy Central.”

However, her Emmy nomination experience quickly became a master class in enjoying the process of creation and leaving behind any obsession with the outcome.

By sharing the story of discovering her own creative power, and giving instruction in mindful journaling practices, Schuster helps audiences hear their most authentic and alive selves. In this funny, half-fireside chat, half-workshop, Tara Schuster brings an entertaining spin on creativity and mindfulness.

This workshop covers:

Discovering your creative power
Mindful journalism practices
How to enjoy the process of creation

Self-Care in Creative (Chaotic) Careers

As a best-selling author and Executive in Charge of such hit shows as Key & Peele, Tara Schuster often finds her mind racing with new ideas, new to-dos, and very often, new distractions.

She’s had to find tools to quiet her racing thoughts and hear her own authentic voice, not just the noise, and bring it out in others. Through telling her own story and guiding audiences through exercises in sessions, participants will walk away with an entertaining take on the power of mindfulness in any creative pursuit.

This workshop covers:

Hearing your authentic voice.
Journaling for inner safety
An “un-horrible” meditation practice for emotional regulation.

“Weeks after our session, I’m still getting messages from participants about Tara’s impact and the actions they are taking from the talk to be more self-confident, bad-ass leaders in their communities.”

— Rebecca Cohen, Director, Women’s Leadership Initiative at BBYO

“When Tara started talking, I thought, “Yes! Someone who is really speaking in a way these kids can understand.’ Tara was relatable, very fresh, authentic, and humorous in a way that truly resonated with both the students and adults in the room.”

— Emily Manning Ellis, Director of Alumni Engagement, Brentwood School

Tara Schuster is the voice the Jewish Community needs to be listening to. We were thrilled to have her as this year’s keynote for our Jewish Federation Lion of Judah event and she was more than we could have even hoped for. The entire room was inspired by her resilience and we left feeling empowered and motivated.

-P. Glazer, November 2022

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Țara Schuster’s keynote at our annual luncheon was quite possibly the most impactful speaker we’ve ever had. Her story left the audience empathic for her experience, it was current, raw, real and relatable. She had the entire audience engaged the entire time and we didn’t want our time with her to end. Her resilience left us all feeling stronger, braver and ready to take on anything life brings our way.

-R.Cohen, Private Event, Philadelphia, 2022