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

and welcome back to Founders Journal, My Audio Diary made public for the world.

This show gives you the business builder a backstage pass into Building Morning Brew.

My goal is to help you think better in order to build better.

And I want to start with a special announcement.

I want to start by thanking my incredible listeners and my community

whether you've been listening for the last hundred episodes or been listening

for the last one episode. I want to thank you from the bottom of my heart.

December was Founders Journal's biggest month ever with 33% more downloads than the

previous month. We have massive things in store for this brand in 2021. We're going to

be putting way more resources into it and I am just so lucky to be on this ride

with you all. Okay, on to today's episode. I'm going to tell you what the hell it is that I do with my holiday

breaks personally and professionally and why one of the most important activities I do each year is rewriting my job

description as CEO of Morning Brew. You heard that right. Let's hop into it. So

basically the last four years of holiday breaks have gone very similarly for me.

The way it usually goes down is I spend the first few days of my breaks doing a whole lot of nothing, and then I get bored, I get restless, and I get anxious,

that my brain isn't thinking about the business nearly enough.

I'm sure other entrepreneurs who are listening to this understand the feeling.

And basically what ends up happening is I end up spending the back half of my break

very differently than the front half because of the

because of the anxiety about not thinking about the business. And so what my brakes usually turn into is some combination of

long-term work and business thinking and then random hobbies that I feel like I hadn't been able to accomplish all year

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