
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 | 103 | Founded | 2 years ago |
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| Number of Listeners | Categories | EntrepreneurshipBusiness | |||

Tobias Allen was knocking on doors at 16 with no job, no connections, and no plan, and by 25 he was Director of Marketing at Acquisition.com working directly with Alex and Leila Hormozi.
And in this episode he gives away everything.
We get into how h... more
Simon Alexander Ong was let go from Lehman Brothers the day it collapsed in 2008. He had no plan. No backup. Just a decision to finally figure out what he really wanted in life.
That decision led to a Penguin book deal, a YouTube video with 4.1 milli... more
Anthony Smith was about to quit editing forever the night he saw the Diary of a CEO job posting. He'd just told his girlfriend he was done. She said give it one more chance.
He stayed up all night building a portfolio site on Wix, tracked down the c... more
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 that sat unread for five month... 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 šThank you Courtney
Loving this podcast!! Learning so much about LinkedIn & building my brand - thank you Courtney! š
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 š
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 ālearn in publicā 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. Anthony Smith
2. Alexandra Steinacker-Clark
3. Chandler Bolt
4. Keren Eldad
5. Ruffin Mitchener
6. John Hu
7. Gigi Robinson
8. Brian Luebben
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