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

coming to you with another episode of the Founders Journal.

Today we talk about insecurity. I felt pretty insecure today and I wanted to share that with you because

I think it would be pretty inauthentic of me to not share that and I think everyone feels

insecure sometimes in the work they're doing whether they're

founders or not and if this is your first time at listening to the show

you're going to see some fresh new cover art created by Frank Morning Brew's

in-house designer and thank you as always to producer Josh for guiding me through the

episode and asking me the questions that push me deeper. Enjoy the show.

All right busy day how are you feeling today?

Generally, I'm feeling fine.

I've been in a morning brew tank top since 830 a.m.

because it's interesting, I've found that throughout my whole career I've

always felt like I need to work out in the morning to get my day started but now

that I've been in quarantine I've shifted to working out a lot during the

middle of the day which has been an

interesting shift so long story short is I've just been in workout closed since

8 in the morning but no it was a good day it was a busy day as I was talking

about with you earlier today you, I've been feeling a certain level of just insecurity. I always want to feel like my learning curve is steep, like I am forming strong viewpoints on new aspects of like the world that we are experts in that comes from just learning and I'm I've been feeling for whatever reason

concern that I'm not learning fast enough and I'm not forming strong views

fast enough whether it be you know my time spent in the world of education.

I think I have an insecurity about how do I not

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