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by Elizabeth Benton
Why are we so stressed and overwhelmed? Why do we have clear & compelling goals but fail to reach them? How can we want to change so desperately yet make choices that keep us from that change? Because we keep focusing on the habits we want instead of building the skill of consistency that allows us to achieve them. Consistency is a skill. It's a superpower. It isn't one-size-fits all. It unlocks any door and makes every goal achievable. A more effective, realistic approach starts here.
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- Today24 min
1444: 100 Days to Protect the Person You Still Have Time to Become
In 100 days, it will be 2027. And in case that sounds like plenty of time, 2016 was ten years ago.In this episode, I’m sharing the commitment I’ve made for the final 100 days of the year: to stop casually participating in the erosion of my own potential.This isn’t another rigid challenge. I’ve identified four parts of my life I’m no longer willing to leave exposed: my space, my money, my body, and my joy, and I’ll take one specific action to protect each of them every day.Because the life you want is rarely lost in one dramatic decision. It is usually surrendered an inch at a time.What part of your future are you leaving unprotected, and what could you do today to guard it?For more of my writing and subscriber-only podcast episodes, join me on Substack.
- 1 weeks ago18 min
1443: My New Money Experiment That Might Change Everything You Buy
What if every discretionary purchase became a choice between the thing and the money?In this episode, I’m sharing a spending experiment I’ve started after realizing something simple and slightly painful:Everything you see used to be money.The clothes. The furniture. The random Amazon purchase. The thing you bought because it was on sale. The thing you barely use.So now, before I buy something, I’m asking a different question:Would I rather have the thing, or the money?And when I choose the money, I’m moving part of it into savings so the decision actually becomes visible.In this episode, I’m talking about:the $40 jacket that sparked the ideawhy “I can afford it” is often the wrong questionthe difference between not spending and actually redirecting the moneywhy the tiny purchases may be the most interesting parthow I’m tracking this experiment as it unfoldshow you can do it with meI’m sharing the full experiment, the running total, the individual decisions, and what I’m learning over on Substack.Follow me there so you can see how this plays out in real time:https://substack.com/@elizabethbentonthompson
- 2 weeks ago17 min
1442: The One Breakthrough That Changed Everything About My Weight Loss
Give me the ONE thing you’re sick of starting over with. Give me four weeks.The Four-Week DEFENSE Build starts September 8, and I’m keeping this group intentionally small because this isn’t about spending four weeks learning DEFENSE.It’s about implementing it around your specific problem, with my eyes on it with you.Bring me the thing you know how to do, have probably done successfully many times, but somehow keep finding yourself starting over with.Over four weeks, we’re going to get specific about what keeps happening around that problem, identify where you actually need DEFENSE, build something you can use, let your real life test it, and use what happens to make it stronger.This is hands-on. This is personalized. And this is for the person who is tired of assuming the answer is another plan, another fresh start, or another promise to try harder.We start September 8.Your enrollment is also backed by my 100% money-back guarantee. Do the work and submit it as requested. If, at the end of our four weeks, you don’t feel you have a valuable, personalized DEFENSE for the specific problem you brought in, I’ll refund what you paid.If you do the work and I don’t deliver, I don’t want you to pay for it.Join the Four-Week DEFENSE Buildelizabethbenton.com/defense-buildIn today’s episodeI spent all of my childhood, adolescence and young adult years severely obese. At just 5'5", I weighed over 350 pounds. I had a degree in nutrition and was still a chronic binge eater.After decades of struggling, I stopped binge eating and went on to lose 130 pounds long before GLP-1s were a thing.People often ask me what finally clicked.There is one breakthrough I can trace so much of my personal transformation back to, and it started with a question I couldn’t answer:How could I demonstrate so much discipline in other areas of my life and struggle so profoundly to do it with food?The answer changed the problem I thought I needed to solve.In this episode, I’m sharing that breakthrough, what it taught me about perspective and permission, and why I eventually realized:I kept trying to solve the start when I needed to study the stop.If you recognize your own stubborn problem somewhere in this conversation, don’t just listen to this one.Bring it to me.Join the Four-Week DEFENSE Build here
- 2 weeks ago11 min
1441: The Part of Starting Over You Need to Fix
What if the reason you keep starting over is because you’ve been focused on the wrong part of the problem?For years, every time I stopped doing what I said I was going to do, I treated it like a starting problem.When should I start again?What should I do this time?What’s the new plan?Except starting was never the part I needed help with.I needed to understand why I kept stopping.This pattern showed up most painfully for me with weight loss, but it isn't a weight-loss problem. It can happen with your fitness, your finances, your business—anything you genuinely want, know how to pursue, and somehow keep finding yourself starting again.In this episode, we're talking about what changes when you stop putting all your attention on the next start and finally investigate the stops themselves.GIVE ME ONE THING. GIVE ME FOUR WEEKS.If you already know the thing you're sick of starting over with, I want to help you build your DEFENSE around it.I'm taking just 20 people through the Four-Week DEFENSE Build beginning September 8th.You’ll get immediate access to the complete DEFENSE Workshop and 80+ page Master Playbook. Then we’ll spend four weeks doing the work that cannot be done generically:Building your DEFENSE around the way you stop.We'll build it. Put it into your actual life. Find the holes. Fix them. Test it again. Make it stronger.You already know how to start.Let's work on why you keep having to.JOIN THE FOUR-WEEK DEFENSE BUILD →20 people. One thing. Four weeks. We start September 8th.
- 3 weeks ago20 min
1440: You Meant It When You Made the Plan
You really did mean it when you made the plan.You were motivated. The goal felt urgent. You were clear about what you wanted and what you were willing to do to get there.But the person who makes the plan and the person who has to negotiate with that plan later often have very different priorities.In this episode, we’re talking about what happens when the version of you who wants the long-term outcome runs into the version of you who wants something else right now—the extra hour of sleep, the thing that’s on sale, the relief, the exception.I’ll share a real example of how I use DEFENSE with my own financial goals, why “permission logic” can be so convincing even when you know exactly what you want, and why some of our most important work happens before we ever reach the moment where we’re tempted to change the plan.Your plan isn’t finished when you decide what you’re going to do. You need a defense for the person who’s going to negotiate with it.Tomorrow night, September 1st, I’m teaching a live two-hour DEFENSE workshop where we’ll work on exactly this: where your gaps open, the permission patterns that make moving the target feel reasonable, how to respond to them, and how to change some of the conditions upstream so those moments happen less often. The workshop is $47 and includes the complete 80+ page DEFENSE Master Playbook. There is no replay.Join me for the DEFENSE Workshop:Save your seat for September 1st →Read more from me on Substack:Subscribe to Elizabeth Benton Thompson on Substack →
- 4 weeks ago20 min
1439: Nobody Quits On Purpose
Tuesday, September 1st. 7pm Eastern. Two hours, live with me. A comprehensive DEFENSE workshop to find your specific vulnerabilities: the exact places your follow-through breaks down, why it breaks there, and what to do about it. Plus the DEFENSE Master Playbook, eighty-plus pages, yours to keep. $47. No free replay. → Save your seat There was never a moment you decided to quit. That's what nobody says about this. You didn't wake up one day and choose to abandon the thing. There was no dramatic collapse, no rock bottom, no decision at all. It just got quieter. And then it was gone. And you couldn't tell me the week it left, because there wasn't one. That's the fade, and this episode is about why it happens to all of us, on a schedule, and what it has already cost you. In this episode: Why motivation is the worst possible foundation for something you want to keep. It's a battery. Every battery runs down. If your plan depends on it, your plan has an expiration date built into it and you just haven't looked at it yet. The full anatomy of the loop: motivation gets you started, novelty wears off, engagement drops with it, drift becomes disengagement, results go sideways, frustration rises, and frustration at a high enough level feels exactly like motivation. So you start something new. And around you go, sometimes for decades, on the same handful of goals. The one thing I ask every DEFENSE client to do on day one, and why it costs nothing and you can do it today without me. A story about my contacts that is deeply unimpressive and will probably describe your entire life. John Stephen Akhwari, the 1968 Olympic marathon, and the second thing he said that almost nobody quotes. It's not the grit line. It's better than the grit line, and it points at something completely different than what you think this story is about. Why I came in dead last in every cross country race of my childhood, why sitting down in the middle of the course was completely justifiable, and why true and helpful are not the same thing. The question I sat with that I did not enjoy: what would I not be struggling with if I was actually giving it my all? And the uncomfortable one: think about the thing you've been working on the longest. All those starts, all those good weeks, all those strong Januaries laid end to end instead of scattered across fifteen years. You could have finished it already. That's not harsh. That's the good news. It means the thing standing between you and that goal is much smaller than you think. The part that actually matters Everything you have ever tried has been offense. A better plan. More information. More rules. More discipline. A cleaner start with a fresh calendar. And offense was never where you were losing. You were losing in ten or fifteen moments a week where the plan got quietly renegotiated. Where a sentence showed up in your own voice that sounded completely reasonable and handed you permission to do something else. Those moments aren't random. They aren't unique to your life. They're a small, predictable handful of patterns wearing different outfits, and they will follow you into the next plan and the one after that until somebody helps you find them. Defense is that work. September 1st. One night. Not a month. I'm not asking you for two calls a week or homework you'll fall behind on or one more thing you signed up for in good faith and quietly stopped opening. Two hours. Live. Let's find out how much we can shake loose. You'll leave with your specific vulnerabilities identified and the DEFENSE Master Playbook in hand: every permission slip I've watched people talk themselves into across multiple cohorts, named and sorted, with the counter-argument that holds up under pressure. Some of you will walk out with enough and won't need another thing from me. That's the point. Tuesday, September 1 · 7:00pm ET · $47 There is no free replay. → Save your seat
- Aug 17, 202616 min
1438: Because Comfort Has Gone Too Far
What if the enemy's greatest weapon isn't pain... but comfort? We've been taught to put ourselves first, protect our peace, and give ourselves what we want. While much of that started from a healthy place, I wonder if we've swung too far. What if, in the pursuit of self-care, we've confused care with comfort? In this episode, I explore how our desire to avoid discomfort may be quietly costing us the very things we want most—from our health and finances to our relationships and resilience. I also share a simple practice I use with my kids (and now with myself) called strategic disappointment and why intentionally telling yourself "no" might be one of the most powerful forms of self-care. If you've ever struggled to choose what you want most over what you want right now, this conversation is for you. Continue the conversation: If this episode resonated with you, I'd love to have you join me on Substack. Every week I publish free essays exploring the tension between what you want right now and what you want most, with practical ways to make decisions that move you toward the life you're trying to build. Subscribe here: Elizabeth Benton Thompson on Substack
- Aug 10, 202624 min
1437: Why You Keep Drifting & Disengaging + What Needs to Change
Successful people ask for help. So why is it so hard to do? A client of Amy Porterfield's said something that stopped me: though she was resistant to asking for help, staying stuck finally felt worse than asking. If I had a drinking game with my clients, they'd have to drink every time I say successful people ask for help. I teach it constantly. And still, so many people try to do it all by themselves. They hide. They withdraw. They don't leverage the resources available to them. And they struggle. So today I'm going through what actually keeps us from asking. In this episode: Why "I've always just been a do it by myself person" isn't a personality trait The two very different fears hiding inside shame, and why they produce the same silence What you're really avoiding when you avoid asking for help Why "I'm not ready to change that" doesn't mean you're not ready for anything, and the Chick-fil-A order that proved it to me "I already know what to do" and why it answers a question nobody asked The least charitable assumption we make about the people we could be asking Why I ask my friends for help with things I could do myself Three ways to start asking when asking feels impossible Join me on Substack. I've moved to one free podcast a week here. The rest of my work now lives on Substack: member-only podcast episodes, deep dives that go further than I can go in a free episode, and a community of people doing this work alongside you. https://substack.com/@elizabethbentonthompson
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