Hosted by Courtney Johnson · 🇺🇸 US · EN-US · 98 episodes
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Built in Public is a personal brand podcast hosted by Courtney Johnson.Each week, Courtney sits down with founders, creators, and operators to unpack how they turn expertise into authority, visibility into opportunity, and content into long-term leverage.We talk positioning, audience building, thought leadership, and what it actually takes to show up before you feel ready.If you want to build it in public, this show is for you.
Courtney Johnson hosts Built in Public, a business show with 98 episodes published.
Alexandra Steinacker-Clark got her foot in the door at Sotheby's through a cold coffee request, built 27K followers on LinkedIn without a strategy, and landed a book deal with a Hachette subsidiary through a LinkedIn DM
Chandler Bolt was painting houses door to door at 18, getting cussed out and threatened, and then dropped out of college to co-author his first book at 23. Now his company publishes two to five books every single day. Ch
The people closest to Keren Eldad thought her content was so embarrassing they offered her a loan, a place to live, and her old job back. Keren Eldad, better known online as Coach Keren, is a coach, author, and speaker w
VCs laughed Ruffin Mitchener out of interview rooms for posting on TikTok. Four years later, she's the angel investor writing the checks. Now she’s built a six-figure creator business, landed recurring deals with brands
40 million LinkedIn views a month. Two to three videos a day. And she built it after returning venture capital money because she realized she hated the company she was building 😲 In this week's episode, I sat down with
I've just hit $200K on Stan. And John Hu built the platform that made it happen. John is the founder of Stan, the platform that has now made over $500 million for creators, and he started it because he needed it for hims
In this week’s episode, I’m answering your questions and digging into something that comes up over and over again in my work: why social media feels so uncomfortable for so many people, and why that discomfort is often t
She became a Sports Illustrated swimsuit model and a Penguin Random House author, and neither of those things came from a talent agent, a manager, or a plan. They came from a LinkedIn post and a cold DM. Gigi Robinson ha
Nobody quits a $252K job when they're the #8 sales rep out of 5,079. Brian Luebben did, driving through rural Georgia with a backseat full of Carhartt pants, realizing that a quarter million dollars a year still wasn't e
You're overthinking your content. Meanwhile, a 16-year-old was editing videos under his desk in math class and accidentally stumbled into building one of the biggest personal brands in business. Sam Gaudet started workin
Her first client paid her $700. Her second paid her $30,000. She didn't even have a website. Hala Taha, aka 'The Podcast Princess', started her career as Angie Martinez's assistant at Hot 97, spent years trying to make i
The personal brand space has sold you this idea that you need a website, a logo, a niche, and a strategy before you start. You don't. And Jasmine Star is proof. Jasmine Star dropped out of law school with no camera, no p
Hollywood told them they were "respectfully, nobodies." So they sat down at a kitchen table and built one of the fastest-growing podcasts in the world. Cherie and Jean Luo come from the most traditional path you can imag
The internet has sold you this idea that going viral is the goal. It's not. And it never was. JT Barnett left professional hockey with $0, no degree, and no plan. Instead of following the traditional path, he started pos
Most people treat LinkedIn like a job board. Mischa Collins treats it like the most powerful business development tool on the planet, and she has the receipts to prove it. After being laid off in 2024, Mischa didn't scra
There's a reason some people walk into a room and everyone notices. It's not luck. It's not looks. And it's not something you either have or you don't. Today I'm sitting down with Whitney Uland, founder of How to Be Famo
If you’ve ever thought, “I don’t really know what a personal brand is” or “how do I even start a personal brand???”, this episode is for you. Today I’m joined by Danielle Canty, former co-founder of Bossbabe, to break do
Welcome to the first official episode of Built In Public! If you’ve ever felt stuck choosing a niche… frustrated with low engagement… or unsure how to turn content into actual conversations and clients, this one’s for yo
In this week’s episode of Slay The Gatekeeper, I sit down with Andrew Kroeze for a conversation about the mindset that shapes everything we build on the outside: our work, our businesses, and our lives. Andrew shares his
In this week’s episode, I’m answering your questions and digging into something that comes up over and over again in my work: why social media feels so uncomfortable for so many people, and why that discomfort is often t
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Built in Public is hosted by Courtney Johnson. The show is categorised under business (entrepreneurship) and has published 98 episodes.
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