Functioning Failure Disorder - What It Is and What You Can Do About It with Ben Butler: An EOFire Classic from 2021

Entrepreneurs on Fire

John Lee Dumas

Business, Careers, Entrepreneurship

4.8 • 4.1K Ratings

🗓️ 28 May 2023

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

From the archive: This episode was originally recorded and published in 2020. Our interviews on Entrepreneurs On Fire are meant to be evergreen, and we do our best to confirm that all offers and URL's in these archive episodes are still relevant.

Ben Butler is the Founder of Top Hat — the 7 year-old, 11-person creative agency with offices in Pittsburgh and St. Pete, FL. Fun fact: they once did a project entirely in exchange for beer!

Top 3 Value Bombs:

1. Functioning Failure Disorder is not being able to recognize that, perhaps you are not getting into your goals as an entrepreneur.

2. You might be experiencing Functioning Failure Disorder if you look attractive on the front of your business, but behind the scenes there is a lot of deprivation and challenges going on.

3. Find a way to break yourself free to achieve the life that you want.

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Boom Shake the Room Fire Nation, JLD here and welcome to entrepreneurs on fire
0:06.8	brought to you by the HubSpot Podcast Network the audio destination for
0:10.7	business professionals with great shows like content is profits.
0:14.4	Today we're pulling a timeless Eofire episode from the archives so the giveaway may not be
0:19.6	active and we'll be breaking down functioning failure disorder what it is and what you can do
0:24.7	about it. To drop these value bombs I brought to Ben Butler and the EO Fire Studios.
0:29.2	Ben is a founder of Top Hat, the seven-year-old 11-person creative agency with offices in Pittsburgh and St. Pete.
0:36.2	Fun fact, they once did a project entirely in exchange for beer in Fire Nation.
0:41.3	Today we'll talk about functioning failure disorder, how it's not being able to recognize
0:45.2	that perhaps you are not getting into your goals as an entrepreneur.
0:49.2	We'll talk about finding a way to break yourself free to achieve the life that you want and so much more.
0:53.7	And the big thank you for sponsoring today's episode goes to Ben and our sponsors.
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1:21.0	they shouldn't be doing in the first place?
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1:26.4	Learn how to make the most of your time
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