What's up, everyone? Welcome back to another episode of Founders Journal. This is Alex Lieberman co-founder and executive chairman of Morning Brew

There are a ton of new listeners to the show this month, so I want to provide a quick reintroduction

Founders Journal is my personal audio diary made public for the world. The show comes out three times a week

Monday Wednesday and Friday and episodes range from 10 to 20 minutes long

So it's very digestible. Before we hop into today's episode

I wanted to quickly share a conversation that I had with my producer yesterday

I asked him what are the five highest performing episodes since we brought back the show and I want to share the list of the top five

Number one was be the idiot in the room the episode about getting good at asking questions

Number two was why successful business minds have paranoid brains the episode about an

Invaluable characteristic of my co-founder Austin and so many other great CEOs I've met number three was

Why standard operating procedures or SOPs suck where I talk about how to create great playbooks?

I think that's a better name than SOP had to create great playbooks in your business

And then I actually provide you a template to do so number four was 10 valuable lessons from a successful show where I break down

Why Morning Brew's daily show has become the largest daily business news show in business in the world and

Number five is four takeaways from threads and episode covering my thoughts on Instagram's competitor to X

Recorded right after they launched first off

I will link to all five of these episodes in the show notes so that you can check out our fan favorites if you haven't already

Second something I found interesting looking at this leaderboard is how the two most popular episodes are not at all

Tactical or strategic

But more around the mental and emotional parts of the entrepreneurial journey and for that reason

I'm gonna keep the momentum going with a more psychological topic for today's episode

It's one that's very personal to me. I'm gonna talk about my relationship with money as I've made more of it

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