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Erika Taught Me

From A College Dorm Idea To Selling It For $75 Million with Alex Lieberman

Erika Taught Me

Erika Kullberg

Business, Entrepreneurship

4.82.3K Ratings

🗓️ 6 January 2023

⏱️ 74 minutes

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#13: I chat with Alex Leiberman about how he took a leap of faith quitting his dream job in finance at Morgan Stanley to co-found Morning Brew — a free daily newsletter designed for young business professionals. Learn tips from his experiences of choosing a new career path that felt right for him, and how to transform a startup idea into a business success. Go follow Alex on his Twitter @businessbarista. To apply for the Senior Podcast Producer position at Erika Taught Me: https://erikakullberg.com/producer-application Special thanks to our partners: Webull (free stocks) - erikataughtme.com/invest Aura - erikataughtme.com/aura Bilt Rewards - erikataughtme.com/bilt Thanks for tuning in and come back every Tuesday for a brand-new episode! Make sure you hit the follow button to get notified. Prefer video or want closed captions?⁠ Watch this episode on YouTube. Did you enjoy the episode?⁠⁠ Please leave us a review here⁠⁠: https://erikakullberg.com/review (just scroll to the bottom and tap on “leave a review”) It really helps the podcast especially since we’re just getting started. Even just a sentence is perfect! Follow the podcast @erikataughtme across platforms. ⁠Connect with me on Instagram.⁠ For more information, go to⁠ https://www.erikataughtme.com/⁠. Get on my personal finance & investing course priority waitlist here. https://erikakullberg.com/3DMoney Get my Mastering YouTube course, to learn how to grow a YouTube following and monetize it. https://erikakullberg.com/MasteringYT ⁠Get more of my free resources.⁠

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Because it was probably an eight month process of, honestly, me just being pretty

0:05.0

directionless and kind of anxious about what do I do? Because on one hand, I'd basically been

0:12.0

preparing my whole life to work at Morgan Stanley. I just knew I wanted to be in sales and trading

0:16.4

because that's what my family did. And so I was in my dream job at the time. But on the other hand,

0:20.8

I wasn't feeling fulfilled in my dream job. And so I knew that there was going to kind of be a fork

0:25.6

in the road where at some point I was going to either stay at Morgan Stanley and get rid of

0:30.5

Morning Brew or go to Morning Brew and leave Morgan Stanley. I thought about what would I regret

0:36.8

more? I remember like in call it 2017, 2018 and 2019. I didn't have much money, but I was so happy.

0:45.6

I just had this anxiety and emptiness about like I just want that level of happiness again.

0:50.0

If you choose the path of entrepreneurship, it is okay to not love every part of the journey.

0:56.1

It is okay to love a business and then realize it is okay to pass the baton over.

1:01.3

Alex Lieberman is the co-founder of the daily email newsletter Morning Brew. From starting it while

1:06.4

he was a student and then turning it into a business value at $75 million. Alex discusses the

1:12.8

different stages of his career and teaches us the number one selling technique that everyone needs

1:18.4

to master if they want to make it big. I'm Erica Colberg. This is Erica taught me and today we're

1:24.2

here with Alex Lieberman. You guys know that I love investing because you know that if your money

1:30.5

is just sitting in a bank account, you're losing out to inflation every single year. That's why you

1:36.8

invest it so that it grows for you without you having to put in any extra work. I've been using an

1:43.1

investing app called Weeble for almost four years and I had them do something really special for

1:48.5

my listeners. By using my link to sign up today, you can get between six to 12 fractional shares

1:55.5

for free. All you need to do is open an account and deposit any amount, even a dollar to claim your

2:02.5

free shares. So just by depositing a dollar, you'll get between six to 12 free fractional shares.

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