Digging Deeper

by Steven Tyler

DIGGING DEEPER

Some things we carry are easy to see.

The bills. The mistakes. The losses. The relationships that ended. The things that didn't go the way we planned.

But some of the heaviest things we carry are buried deeper.

Old beliefs.

Old fears.

Old stories.

Expectations that were handed to us.

Pain we never dealt with.

Patterns we keep repeating without understanding why.

And sometimes, things we have been carrying for years that were never ours to begin with.

Digging Deeper is an honest look beneath the surface at the things that shape how we see ourselves, how we respond to life, and what we continue carrying long after the original moment has passed.

Through the unmistakable voice of Shovel Club Co., this book

• The history behind the dirt we carry
• The things we mistake for who we are
• The stories we keep telling ourselves
• The illusion of control
• The things we buried
• The patterns we keep digging back up
• The weight that was never ours to carry
• What we can do with what we find

This isn't about pretending the past didn't happen.

It's not about blaming everyone who hurt you.

And it isn't about becoming some perfect version of yourself overnight.

It's about understanding.

Because what happened to you can explain you without owning you.

Your mistakes can matter without becoming your identity.

Your past can be part of your story without becoming the whole story.

Sometimes you have to dig deeper to understand what's underneath you.

Not so you can stay there.

So you can finally build something different.

Grab your shovel.

Let's dig.

58 pages, Kindle Edition

Published October 31, 2026

About the author

Stephen Victor Tallarico, better known as Steven Tyler, is an American musician with Italian ancestry (His grandfather was Giovanni Tallarico, born and raised in Nicotera, Calabria), songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. He is best known as the frontman and lead singer for the Boston-based rock band Aerosmith.

In the 1970s and early 1980s, Tyler was also known for his heavy drug and alcohol abuse, though he completed drug rehabilitation in 1986 and maintained sobriety for over 20 years until he started abusing painkillers in 2009 and has since returned to rehab. During his high-energy stage performances, he usually dresses in bright, colorful outfits with his trademark scarves hanging from his microphone stand. He was recently named 99th on Rolling Stone's 100 greatest singers. and he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame with Aerosmith, and he was the presenter when AC/DC won the place in the Rock N Roll Hall of Fame. He is also ranked 3rd on Hit Parader's Top 100 Metal Vocalists of All Time.