What's up everyone, I'm Alex Lieberman, co-founder and executive chairman of Morning Brew.

Welcome back to another episode of Founder's Journal, Your Personal Consiers for Your Entrepreneurial

Journey.

Before we hop into the episode, I wanted to say thank you for the thousands of messages

that I have gotten from listeners since the relaunch of the show just a few months ago.

I spent five of my 20 hours flying home from my honeymoon catching up on emails from

you all.

It was incredibly validating to know how much value you get from the podcast.

Before we hop into today's show, I wanted to share a few of the most common pieces of

feedback that I received from the emails.

First, you absolutely love startup CrossFit where I take a business idea or an existing

startup and take it through the ringer assessing whether I think it's a good or a bad business,

so I plan to do more of those things.

Second, you enjoy when I get vulnerable.

Whether it's me talking about imposter syndrome, anxiety, my insecurities as a founder or

the topic I'm going to talk about today, you feel seen when I talk through my emotional

journey of building businesses and you feel like you don't get that from other podcasts,

so I plan to do more of that as well.

And third, you really enjoy celebshots where I have amazing entrepreneurs, whether it's

Sam Parr or whether it's Cody Sanchez, amazing people in my network who have built companies

very different from mine.

You love when you hear them and they're recorded guest journals so that you can hear impactful

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