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. This is the final episode in our second ever mini-series of Founders Journal.

As a reminder, this week we are focused on one crucial topic in business, which is building

your team. Today, I am beyond excited to be chatting with Morning Brew's head of people Kate

Noelle to talk about how to attract and nurture great talent in a business. Let's hop into it.

Kate, great to have you on the show. Happy to be here. Thanks for the invite. It's a golden ticket.

So we're going to cover three different topics in this conversation. The first is recruiting,

the second is actually getting hired, and the third is what happens after you hire someone.

Okay, so we're going to tackle recruiting first. From your experience, what is the best way

to find talent in a business? And especially for a company that isn't like Morning Brew that has

a list of three million people that we can always use to market our roles, how do you go about

finding great talent? I mean, great talent is important to even understand the definition of

because great means it makes sense for your culture. So seeing the spaces that your company

would naturally be a part of can be the places that you find people. So if you are a business that

has a presence online in certain Facebook groups and certain job boards, that can be a starting point

or any business owner recruiter ahead of talent to get a move on. And then just having networks,

LinkedIn is a great space to create conversations with people who can be their own head of talent,

recruiters that are there externally. There are just a myriad of ways to get that going.

And then once you establish that relationship, it just continues on in itself with that relationship.

So assuming you don't just have one role open for the entire history of the company,

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