Aaron Bergbusch was getting nowhere with his music career, despite organizing his entire life around it.  Years of honing his craft punctuated by disastrous and mediocre gigs, learning the hard way how to record, songwrite, perform, and play with others.  He had to do everything his own way, it was all too important to be ordinary.  Too precious.  Too special.  It all just mattered too much.  A dream is a dream.  It was who he was somehow.  It was meaning itself.

Aaron played hundreds of open mics, recorded a studio album entitled 'Impossible Beautiful (2010), and still struggled to understand what it would take to really put himself out there and make real fans.  But procrastination, fear of failure, fear of success, and a seemingly impossible music industry mountain to climb made Aaron a real cynical bastard.  Despite quitting jobs in moments of clarity, ready again to give his all to the dream, always in the end finding disappointment and the piercing sense of a chance in life not taken.

After a move to Ottawa from his stomping grounds on Canada's west coast, faced with a clean slate Aaron knew he couldn't go on being torn in two directions.  On the one hand, his music dream, and on the other hand, everything else he was supposed to want in life that was a seemingly necessary sacrifice: romantic relationships, wife and kids, salary, vacations, and if not a glorious destiny at least a useful contribution to society.

When he got to the bottom of it, he not only discovered what had been holding him back, but also the secret to making fans and living his dream.  And then he had the best gig he's ever had.  Aaron has since been driven to share his new awareness with the world, and not just sharing with audiences, but with fellow musicians.  Aaron offers hope and a way forward for musicians everywhere who are hitting their heads against a wall, who are ready to hear again the secret they once knew, and who just need a little inspiration to make sense of things again.

"I can't stand the idea that there are so many real dreamers out there, real artists, that know what this connection is, if only in a vague sort of way, and know that they want it, but can't seem to find it, and live in a world of doubt, and may even become cynical about life."