What's up everyone? Welcome back to another episode of Founders Journal. I'm Alex Lieberman.

Before we get started, I just want to share one thought, and that is with the return of Founders

Journal, my public audio diary around my entrepreneurial journey, I have three core principles that are

guiding what I do for this show every single week. The first is to create shit that helps increase

the odds of entrepreneur's success. The second is to connect with my audience as much as humanly

possible, and so I would love to connect with you, shoot me an email at Alex at MorningBrew.com,

just say hi, and I'll take it from there. The third is I want to try a lot of different formats

and see what resonates most. With that, I am bringing back a format that I tried last week,

everyone absolutely loved the first time around, and so we're going to give it another go.

It is called Temperature Check, and you can basically think of Temperature Check as a true

journal style episode where I sat down at the end of last week, and I wrote a simple journal prompt

at the top of my notebook. The prompt said, Alex, time for a temperature check. What went

well this week? What didn't go well? And what did you learn? And everything I am going to say

for the rest of this episode is my answer to this prompt exactly as I wrote it, no editing,

no filtering, I hope you enjoy.

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