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

coming to you with another episode of The Founders Journal,

My Daily Audio Diary, where I talk about the biggest lessons, the biggest wins, the biggest losses, happening behind the scenes at Morning Brew as we're building.

Today we are talking about a very popular topic,

why my mom is my chief of staff.

Let's hop into it.

First off, why today?

This has been happening for a bit.

We'll get into the why, but you've kind of kept it low key for a bit we'll get into the why but you've kind of kept it

low key for a while now why are you yeah what happened so I don't know why I don't

know it prompted me most of my social posts are very much not scripted.

And I decided that this was going to be a social post yesterday.

So on Twitter and LinkedIn, I posted about my mom,

Stacy Lieberman, being my chief of staff.

And just about 24 hours later, the post has 4,912 likes 180 comments and 522,000 views.

So now a lot more people than yesterday know who Stacy Lieberman is and also know who my chief of staff is.

So if you ever email with me, you'll know who is emailing with you.

All right, so what has she been doing? There's a lot of different types of chiefs of staff,

but how, just give me more.

Yeah.

The beginning of the story.

Okay, so the short story is, Stacey Lieberman, Alex's mom, Chief of Staff to Alex.

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