What's up everyone? Welcome to Founders Journal and you might be noticing that. I am not Alex Lieberman. I'm not the executive chairman and co-founder of Morning

Bruce, unfortunately you're stuck with me Kyle Hagie, but I do at least work at

Morning Brew where I'm chief of staff to our COO and I'm the co-host of the podcast per my last

email, which gives you the hot takes and tactics to navigate work life.

But today I am filling in for Alex on Founders Journal and we're going to talk all about

career pivots. This is a topic that I am super interested in. I've seen a ton of pivots in my own career and often when I'm talking to other people they're really curious about how they might be able to pivot their career into a new role, into a new industry.

And so I hope by going through my career journey and then giving you some tactics, you'll be

better able to think about career pivots and then hopefully act on a pivot if that's

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Who am I and what's my background and career that will help illuminate my career pivot point?

So I graduated from the University of Minnesota, it's similar to the University of Michigan where Alex went but a lot better and I graduated with a philosophy

and political science degree.

So two degrees that don't really set you up for a job right out of college and so I actually

did AmeriCorps for two years.

AmeriCorps I was working with a nonprofit called College Possible and essentially I was a

high school teacher for 40 juniors and then 40 senior students in Milwaukee.

I then pivoted and I went and got my master's degree

in political science, kind of doubled down

in this degree I wasn't already using.

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