
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 i... more
| Publishes | Weekly | Episodes | 97 | Founded | 2 years ago |
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| Number of Listeners | Categories | BusinessEntrepreneurship | |||

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 like TurboTax and LinkedIn, an... more
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 Avni Barman, founder of Gen Sh... more
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 himself 😲
In this episode, John g... more
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 has been building her personal b... more
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I found courtney on a different podcast and Linked In is a platform that I slept on- her information is very helpful. It motivated me to start posting there 🙏Thank you Courtney
Loving this podcast!! Learning so much about LinkedIn & building my brand - thank you Courtney! 💖
Loved the hidden tricks slid into the middle of episodes. Everyone should listen!
Every single episode gives me ideas or tips that have helped me so much with work, showing up online, and challenge some of my ways of thinking. Great energy and conversations 👏
Courtney is magic. Courtney is walking magic. -Chris Lee
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The show centers on helping founders, creators, and operators turn expertise into authority and visibility into opportunity. Across episodes, listeners get tactical guidance on building a personal brand, creating scalable content systems, and turning audience attention into long-term leverage through frameworks, storytelling, and practical experiments. Guests span CEOs, authors, and marketing specialists who share actionable playbooks for launching products, getting press, monetizing influence, and navigating the creator economy. A notable strength is the emphasis on authenticity, public accountability, and “learn in public” mindset, with repeatable strategies that listeners can adapt to their own brands and businesses.
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Recent guests on Built in Public include:
1. John Hu
2. Gigi Robinson
3. Brian Luebben
4. Sam Gaudet
5. Hala Taha
6. Jasmine Star
7. Cherie Brooke
8. Jean Luo
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