From $500 and a Firing to Running the World's Top Butler School, with Steven Ferry

The Inspired Stories Podcast · Mar 15, 2026 · 1h 7m · transcript

🎙️ From $500 and a Firing to Running the World's Top Butler School: Steven Ferry's Journey Modernizing the Butler Profession

Steven Ferry, Chairman of the International Institute of Modern Butlers in Inverness, Florida, shares his journey from a nonprofit worker in England who left Hollywood with $500 in his pocket, got fired from his first temp job for writing a memo to a room full of smokers, and eventually built the institution peers call the Ivy League of butler education by arguing that a thousand-year-old profession needed to modernize before anyone else would say it out loud.

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