The TrustBuilt Podcast

The podcast where real business owners share how they built trust, systems, and freedom into their business.

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Meet Your Host

Alan Bennett is a business owner, coach, and Certified Exit Planning Advisor with over 20 years of entrepreneurial experience—including successful exits and hard-earned lessons from the ones that didn’t go as planned.

He’s worked with business owners across the country to:

  • Break the negative trust cycle

  • Build trust-driven teams

  • Increase business value

  • Create businesses that thrive—even when the owner isn’t in the room

Alan doesn’t coach from theory.
 He coaches from experience.

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Be a Guest on the TrustBuilt Podcast

We’re looking for guests who are thoughtful, experienced, and willing to talk honestly about what it takes to build trust—especially when it’s hard.

Great Guests for the TrustBuilt Podcast Include:

Business Owners & Founders, especially those who have:

  • Built (or are building) a team they trust to run the day-to-day

  • Experienced the pain of owner-dependence and worked to move past it

  • Navigated growth, delegation, or succession

  • Learned the hard way—and are better leaders because of it


Leaders Who’ve Let Go of the Bottleneck
Operators, executives, and managers who have:

  • Shifted from “everything runs through me” to shared ownership

  • Built systems and clarity that empower others

  • Led teams through change, uncertainty, or growth


Advisors & Experts Who Work with Business Owners
Including (but not limited to):

  • Business coaches and leadership consultants

  • Exit planning, succession, or value-building professionals

  • HR, operations, or organizational development experts

  • Finance, legal, or strategy professionals who understand owner-dependence


We’re especially interested in guests who can connect people, process, and trust—not just tactics.

You don’t need a massive following.
You don’t need a perfect story.
You do need:

  • Real-world experience (successes and missteps)

  • A collaborative, thoughtful perspective

  • Willingness to share lessons—not just wins

  • Respect for the human side of leadership and business


If you believe:

  • Trust is built, not demanded

  • Teams perform best when clarity and accountability exist

  • A business should support the owner’s life—not consume it


You’ll feel right at home here.

Interested in Being a Guest?
Shoot us an email ➜

Tell us about your background, your perspective, and the story you’d like to share.
We review every application personally and our producers at Storytelller Wordsmith will follow up if it feels like a strong mutual fit.