About Blake Cooper Griffin: Blake Cooper Griffin is an actor, advocate, speaker, and entrepreneur whose career bridges film, television, and public life. Known for emotionally layered performances and wide-ranging screen roles, he has worked opposite Academy Award winners and led projects across genres, from prestige drama to thriller and comedy. Off-screen, he is the founder of Brainworks Team, an education and mentorship company helping students nationwide build academic strength and self-authorship. A national surrogate for three U.S. presidential campaigns, Griffin has spoken widely on identity, democracy, and the power of personal reinvention. His work and commentary have appeared in outlets including The Washington Post, NPR, and HuffPost. The Story of You: A Life Rewritten is his nonfiction debut.

About the book: 

Part memoir, part guidebook-for anyone standing in the middle of change, when the old version of life no longer fits and the next chapter remains uncertain.

Actor and advocate Blake Cooper Griffin traces the quiet wreckage-and unexpected grace-of personal reinvention. From a Southern childhood marked by silence and shame to building a screen career in Hollywood and speaking on national political stages, he reveals what it took to stop performing a version of his life-and start truly living it.

Blending emotional depth with practical clarity, The Story of You invites readers to reframe the narratives that have held them back. Each chapter delivers cinematic storytelling, hard-earned insight, and a re-authoring question designed to move readers forward-not with perfection but with power.

This isn't about having the answers. The Story of You is about reclaiming the pen, stepping into the unknown, and daring to write what comes next-with intention, clarity, and heart.

Pre-order The Story of You: A Life Re-Written: HERE

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