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, we are going through the listener mailbox. Let's hop into it.

So one of the amazing parts about building a media franchise and a community with hundreds of

thousands of listeners is the ability to make an impact on so many people's lives and the

opportunity to build deep relationships with many of you. And in the last month, as we have

just accumulated so many more listeners, I have gotten hundreds of listener emails ranging from

a new founder who's looking for advice on fundraising to a recent retiree that is resonating

with my feeling of lacking direction. And in the last month, I've gotten hundreds of listener emails

ranging from a new founder looking for advice on fundraising to a recent retiree resonating

with my feeling of directionlessness. First of all, if you haven't yet written into me,

make today the day that you do it. Send me an email to Alex at MorningBrew.com, introduce

yourself and tell me why it is that you listen to the pod. Second, what I have realized is that there

are so many insights packed into the emails from so many of you. And it would be a disservice to not

share my reactions or my answers to several of them. So that's what we're going to do. I'm going

to read a select few reader emails, react to them. And if it goes well, we'll do this again next month.

Starting with the first email, this is a response to the episode that we recently published

called Winning in your career as a jack of all trades. And this episode was all about the value

of being a generalist at a time when we are taught that specializing is the key to success.

Here is a paraphrased version of what our listener had to say. This podcast really struck a

chord with me because it's something that I have really been struggling with. Often when someone

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