What's up, everyone? This is Alex Lieberman, co-founder and executive chairman of Morning Brew.

Welcome back to Founders Journal, my personal audio diary, where I give you the business builder,

the tools you need to think better in order to build better, whether that's building a business,

a team, or a new product. So this week on Founders Journal, we've been doing things a little differently,

dropping our very first mini-series all about helping you to accelerate your career.

So instead of just one episode coming out on Monday, Wednesday, and today this week,

it's two. A new episode you won't want to miss, plus a classic show you may not have heard before.

Put it all together, and you've got a mini curriculum for taking your career to the next level.

If you haven't heard parts one through four in the series, definitely go back and check those

out. And once you've listened to all six parts, let me know what you think. Just shoot me an email

to Alex at MorningBrew.com or DM on Twitter at Business Barista. Now, let's hop into this episode.

Today, I am talking about how to accelerate promotions and raises in your career. Basically,

how to climb the ladder faster. I want to start by saying the number one way to accelerate

promotions and raises is by doing great work. And that does all the talking. I call these

internal forces, which is the actual work that you do. Now, this episode isn't going to go into

what it takes to be a top performer, because that's what Wednesday's episode was. But if you want to

go deeper on that, listen to the episode. It's all about how do you become an exceptional professional,

whereas a manager, how do you hire for that? But without doing a great job, all of what I'm going

to talk about breaks down. So that's the assumption for this episode is that you've done a great job.

But just to quickly share a few quotes about what doesn't mean to do good work and how that does

all the talking. There was one great quote by the founder of privy, where he just says,

do great work, take ownership, hit numbers, make it so painful at the thought of you not being

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