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. Today, I'm talking about feeling lost. Let's hop into it.

I would be lying if I said the months since selling Morning Brew, as well as moving into my new role

from CEO to executive chairman, have been easy and pure euphoria. I've spent weeks worrying,

wondering and thinking. I've worried if I'm a one-trick pony. I've wondered what's next in my life.

I've thought about what gives me energy and fulfillment. And much of this time has felt

to be totally honest, directionless. I know what I'm doing within Morning Brew, and that direction

is clear. But outside of the day to day, I don't know what I'm working towards. And with this move

from the CEO to the executive chairman role, I've been given time, a fair bit of it. I went from

working, you know, 70 hours a week on Morning Brew to, let's call it 30 to 35 hours a week.

And I see many different directions with what I can do with that newfound time.

I could spend time working on myself, going all in on therapy, executive coaching, and studying

ways of thinking like Buddhism or stoicism. I could get operational experience to strengthen a

muscle that, candidly, I don't feel like I've adequately built up. And I could do that through

something like buying small businesses like mini golf courses that is actually something that I

have looked into doing. I could go back to the zero to one part of business building that I love

and start a little side business for fun, which would also provide some great content for founders

journal because it'd take me back to the early stages of building. Recent idea that I had was

building a direct to consumer mindfulness business that started with meditation cushions as the

first product. I could go really deep into NFTs and Web 3 and just explore a corner of the internet

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