Dear Diary: Lenses in Life, The Idea Maze, Messy Middle

Founder's Journal

Morning Brew

Entrepreneurship, Careers, Business

4.8 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 10 November 2023

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Episode 66: Alex Lieberman (@businessbarista) recounts a day in his life as an entrepreneur, creator, and new uncle. He reflects on the lens through which we decide to observe our life, the wisdom in children, and the beauty of presence & wonder. He shares his growth plan for Founder’s Journal, and how he feels sitting in the messy middle with StoryArb. Alex also explores three new business ideas. Send us an email and let us know what you think of the idea! foundersjournal@morningbrew.com Grow more (and stress less) with Brex: brex.com/foundersjournal #FoundersJournal #Startups #Entrepreneur Listen to Founder’s Journal here: https://link.chtbl.com/OV4W93_W Watch Founder’s Journal here: https://www.youtube.com/@FoundersJournal/ Subscribe to Morning Brew! Sign up for free today: https://bit.ly/morningbrewyt Follow The Brew! Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/morningbrew/ Twitter - https://twitter.com/MorningBrew Tik Tok - https://www.tiktok.com/@morningbrew Follow Alex! Alex Lieberman (@businessbarista) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	What's up everyone? Welcome back to another episode of Founders Journal, the go-to
0:04.8	podcast for the early-stage entrepreneur. I'm Alex Lieberman, co-founder and
0:09.2	executive chairman of Morning Brew. First off, I want to thank the hundreds of you that have sent me emails over the last few weeks.
0:18.0	It has been incredible to have one-on-one conversations with this community, and it energizes me so much and
0:23.8	honestly makes all the time that I spend writing these episodes and
0:26.8	recording them so incredibly worth it.
0:29.0	If you haven't yet emailed me or you just have a challenge top of mind that you want to share with me.
0:34.1	Shoot me an email to Alex at morningbrew.com.
0:36.5	I want to keep meeting you all.
0:38.6	And second, today's episode is my journal entry for the week.
0:42.3	It's 10 p.m. on Wednesday. I sat down 45 minutes ago and I just
0:46.6	started writing. Everything I'm about to read is what I wrote down exactly as I wrote it. Let's hop into it. Today's episode of Founders Journal is sponsored by Brex.
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