What is up everyone? This is Alex Lieberman, co-founder and CEO of Morning Brew coming to you with the first Founders Journal of the Week.

For those of you that are joining for the first time. The Founders Journal is my daily diary

where I talk about the biggest moment in my day

behind the scenes at Morning Brew.

Sometimes it's good things, sometimes bad things.

Sometimes it's just talking about the overwhelm of running a business. So let's hop into it.

Busy day, busy Monday. Very busy day. It's been it's been non-stop since

basically 9 a.m. I was able to get some yogurt and granola in but other than that haven't

been able to stop to eat. It's interesting because we've talked about in the past my

own struggles with productivity,

where I would say since freshman year of college,

I've never felt as productive as I could be.

I always feel like I get easily sidetracked.

But today is one of those days

where I actually feel like I've been very

effective with my time. I feel like I've been very efficient and it feels just like there's not

enough time in the day and something is going to have to give. And maybe what's going to have to give is my sleep. Maybe what's going to have to give is any of my

extracurriculars like learning to play the piano or taking this writing course I'm taking. But I really don't want to give up these things and so you know I ran to this podcast was out of breath you

noticed I was out of breath and you're like we should talk about it and so we're talking about it but I

definitely feel like there's a lot going on and calming down is kind of out of my control right now oh we can control on again today don't think that that's that relevant. You're talking to people you manage, you're

talking to freelancers, you're talking to a host of a podcast in 15 minutes, but how are you doing?

I think I'm doing well. I'm not particularly anxious right now. I'm more like

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