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Are you fed up with the corporate bullshit holding you back? Welcome to Invest in Yourself, the Digital Entrepreneur Podcast. The ultimate launchpad for those ready to seize control and unleash their creative genius as entrepreneurs. Hosted by Phil Better, the podcast mogul. Each episode he's sharing inspiring success stories from the digital entrepreneurs who took the risk and invested in themselves is your call to arms. Invest in yourself, break free from someone else's rules and build the empire you deserve. Now let's dive head first into today's explosive episode.

You're tuned into the Investing Yourself the Digital Entrepreneur podcast hosted by Phil Better, the podcast mogul. The podcast that helps high performing professionals escape burnout and build the digital business of their dreams and of course, their life. Today's guest is known exactly what it feels like after building a successful agency from the ground up with 22 employees and zero backup plan, he hit a wall that so many of us ambitious people face. But few talk about burnout. Not the kind that a weekend fix can help. But what followed was a transformation from marketing executive to mental health therapist and now business coach. He spent the last several years helping high achieving professionals not just recover from burnout, but break through it with lasting clarity, renewed energy and a business that aligns with your deepest values. If you're stuck in the grind, feeling disconnected from your work, or just wondering what's next, this episode might change everything for you.

So stick around because in just a few seconds you're going to hear from the founder of Double Dare, an author of you're Not Toast. Scott Anderson. If again, if monetization is your goal, don't miss out my monetization secret webinar, which will be linked in the description. But let's dive into it. Scott, thank you so much for being here.

My, my pleasure, Phil. It is so great to be here. I love the theme of your program and I'm really happy to talk to people about what does work with burnout because what most people do actually makes it worse. So I'm really glad to be here.

As a, as a recovering and burnout affected individual, I am glad to have you on here to get some more tip on how I can, you know, improve from the burnout and break through. But I'm going to go way back to the beginning. Why? Why did you become an entrepreneur? What made you decide first to start that agency way back when?

You know, I've always been entrepreneurial and I come by it honestly. I guess I come from many generations of entrepreneurs and in the culture of our little family. Anyway, Entrepreneurship seemed like a logical, normal thing to do because my, my father, my uncles, my grandfathers were all entrepreneurs one way or the other. And it was so. It wasn't a strange thing. It would have been strange if I didn't go in that direction. And you know, the other part of it later in life was that I. I began to see that being an employee had always been pitched to me as a way of having security.

But having been an employee a couple of times, I realized, wow, I have no security as an employee. And I think really, bottom line, Phil, I'm just not a good employee. That's the bottom line. I'm just not good at it.

Yeah, that seems to be a thorough threat. All the interviews I've had, whenever I ask this question, a large portion of my guests say they are horrible employees. Which makes sense because as an entrepreneur, you have that bug that if you see something that's not working, you want to fix it. But in a big corporation or even in some small businesses, that's not possible because you're just the employee. I want to. You started your agency obviously with the goal to be an agency to help people, help businesses, give people a place that they can work and give them a somewhat security that is often good employees. When did the burnout happen with that agency? And because it's a good story for entrepreneurs who want to start.

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Start a business that they can lead to burnout because we hear burnout for, for employees or mothers.

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Rare from entrepreneurs having that burnout. What do you do you want to just touch on what caused that?