{"id":11057,"date":"2014-02-13T11:06:40","date_gmt":"2014-02-13T16:06:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dobermandan.com\/?p=11057"},"modified":"2015-08-03T10:02:01","modified_gmt":"2015-08-03T15:02:01","slug":"ben-settle-from-copywriter-slave-to-free-renegade-entrepreneur-podcast-episode-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dobermandan.com\/blog\/ben-settle-from-copywriter-slave-to-free-renegade-entrepreneur-podcast-episode-3\/","title":{"rendered":"EP 3. Ben Settle &#8211; From Copywriter Slave To Free Renegade Entrepreneur"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_2593\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-11057-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/DD-Renegade-Entrepreneurs-Podcast\/Episode-3-Ben-Settle.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/DD-Renegade-Entrepreneurs-Podcast\/Episode-3-Ben-Settle.mp3\">http:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/DD-Renegade-Entrepreneurs-Podcast\/Episode-3-Ben-Settle.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"http:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/DD-Renegade-Entrepreneurs-Podcast\/Episode-3-Ben-Settle.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/www.dobermandan.com\/blog\/?powerpress_pinw=11057-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/DD-Renegade-Entrepreneurs-Podcast\/Episode-3-Ben-Settle.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"Episode-3-Ben-Settle.mp3\">Download<\/a> (Duration: 1:25:43 &#8212; 79.2MB) | <a href=\"#\" class=\"powerpress_link_e\" title=\"Embed\" onclick=\"return powerpress_show_embed('11057-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Embed<\/a><\/p><p class=\"powerpress_embed_box\" id=\"powerpress_embed_11057-podcast\" style=\"display: none;\"><input id=\"powerpress_embed_11057-podcast_t\" type=\"text\" value=\"&lt;iframe width=&quot;320&quot; height=&quot;30&quot; src=&quot;https:\/\/www.dobermandan.com\/blog\/?powerpress_embed=11057-podcast&amp;amp;powerpress_player=mediaelement-audio&quot; title=&quot;Blubrry Podcast Player&quot; frameborder=&quot;0&quot; scrolling=&quot;no&quot;&gt;&lt;\/iframe&gt;\" onclick=\"javascript: this.select();\" onfocus=\"javascript: this.select();\" style=\"width: 70%;\" readOnly><\/p><br \/>\nHow Ben Settle gained his freedom from freelance &#8220;copywriting custody&#8221; to become a free renegade entrepreneur<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For almost 10 years Ben Settle worked almost exclusively as a &#8220;whore your brain out to the highest bidder&#8221; copywriter. 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He wanted financial and time freedom so he took a portion of every day and devoted it to his own businesses.<\/p>\n<p>In less than 6 months he fired all his clients and lived exclusively from his own projects, working an average of 1 to 2 hours a day.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s his story how he bought his freedom and the kind of lifestyle he now enjoys.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2238],"tags":[290,413,2324,2241,2360,790,2240],"class_list":{"0":"post-11057","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-dobermandanshowpodcast","7":"tag-copywriter","8":"tag-entrepreneur","9":"tag-ep-3","10":"tag-episode-3","11":"tag-freedom","12":"tag-freelance-copywriting","13":"tag-renegade"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>EP 3. 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