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Austin Belcak is the founder of Cultivated Culture, which people how to land jobs they love without “traditional” experience and without applying online.

Austin has 1.3 million followers on LinkedIn and his posts have been viewed hundreds of millions of times. He's recently started investing time into Twitter, where he already has more than 50,000 subscribers.

In this episode, we talk about Austin’s approach to content creation, what content is working on LinkedIn today, why good people give bad advice, and how being Data Driven helped him become one of the biggest accounts on LinkedIn.

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TIMESTAMPS

00:13 - LinkedIn is underrated

00:40 - Today’s guest

01:07 - The problem with our education system

02:03 - Applying to tech companies

03:34 - Is Austin LinkedIn’s TOP creator?

04:20 - What we learn today

04:58 - What do you want to be when you grow up?

05:42 - Austin’s early interest in entrepreneurship

06:29 - Good people give bad advice

08:45 - Learning the RIGHT way to get hired

11:09 - People project their own shortcomings onto you

14:32 - Sometimes your friends work against you

15:40 - Seeking approval from others is a bad idea

18:03 - You have to fail a lot

19:12 - Austin’s first piece of content

20:58 - Starting to create on LinkedIn

22:24 - Early struggles creating content

24:56 - Ways to remove anxiety from creating

25:35 - Developing habits

27:10 - Austin’s content posting cadence

32:09 - Importance of luck

32:59 - Importance of data

33:39 - Find a medium that gives you energy

34:21 - Analyzing your content to improve

37:13 - Why analyzing content is important

39:08 - New LinkedIn carousel strategy

41:24 - Longevity of LinkedIn content

43:00 - Austin on building genuine relationships

47:40 - Using a CRM to track relationships?

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