How I built a 1M+ subscriber newsletter and top 10 tech podcast | Lenny Rachitsky

I just sat down on this rock on a substance of some sort. This was as I was starting the newsletter, and this phrase of I have wisdom to share. coming through me over and over and over. And I was just watching this crazy visualization of some kind of sitting Buddha thing. And that was for three hours. It gave me the confidence that like, okay, maybe I do have things to share. What do you want to say to our mothers right now? Do you want to take that back? You started your newsletter 2019 and And it now has over a million subscribers. One point two million. One point two. Something that we've talked about a few times is the best stuff comes from actual experience. The source of the best advice is from practitioners doing the thing for real. At this point, most of my posts are guest posts where somebody's sharing the best thing they've learned in their career. On the struggle bus of startup life, probably. And then probably after that failed, I would have joined some company. Do you still like it? I can't imagine doing something more fulfilling and interesting, but the visual I always have is the Indiana Jones boulder is chasing me constantly. It's like this treadmill that you're on. Tell me about uh time you've been really stressed. in your business?

Today my guest is my brilliant incredible Wife Michelle Riyall. Who turns the table and interviews me? I've had so many people over the years want me to be interviewed on this podcast.

And what could be more fun than doing this with my wife? I share things during this conversation that I've never shared else. Including some of the hardest moments from this journey, I get a lot more personal than I've ever been on this podcast. Also, the day this podcast comes out just happens to be my wife's birthday. And she is also about to publish her third book.

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