What is up, everyone? This is Alex Lieberman, co-founder and CEO of Morning Brew.

Welcome back to Founder's 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.

Being a great builder is about understanding who you are and what makes you tick.

And one thing that I know to be true about myself is that I am a people pleaser.

I just naturally derive a ton of my happiness and my confidence from making those around me happy.

And this tendency to put others before me can be both great and a huge challenge.

It's great because it makes my default setting, empathy, and serving others,

but it also leads me to take things personally.

And that is why one of the hardest experiences that I have had as an entrepreneur to date

has been employees telling me that they were leaving the business.

Over time, I've figured out ways to depersonalize the act of an employee quitting,

and I've figured out ways to adopt a growth mindset where I approach inevitable turnover that

happens in any business with curiosity rather than anxiety.

But it is not easy at all, and it's something I'm still trying to figure out.

I'm going to walk you through the process, and my goal for you is to bring this approach

into your professional life during the interpersonal challenges that you are inevitably going to face

at work. Let's hop into it. I always had this image in my head of building the best possible

culture at a company. If I wasn't a CEO, I could very easily see myself being a chief people officer.

I've always wanted to build a culture that's so good that no one would ever have an interest in

leaving, but that's just not realistic. And I had this view until someone did decide to leave,

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