1425: The Only Episode On Procrastination You'll Ever Need
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Release Date: 06/27/2026
1440: You Meant It When You Made the Plan
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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...
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1439: Nobody Quits On Purpose
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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. → 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...
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1438: Because Comfort Has Gone Too Far
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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...
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1437: Why You Keep Drifting & Disengaging + What Needs to Change
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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...
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1436: A Big Announcement & Major Changes
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Listen for the biggest change I've made in my business since we started in 2014. I'm excited and I hope you are! Thanks for being here for the last 12 years! Here's to the next great chapter!
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1435: Here's Why You Should Ditch Consistency (For Real)
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I'm being 100% serious: maybe you should throw away the word consistency entirely, and the pursuit of it, and in this episode I'm going to tell you exactly why this might be the breakthrough you didn't know you needed. The August cohort of DEFENSE Foundations starts today. This is the last chance to join us. If this episode landed, . This is the final chance ever for pay what you can pricing!
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1434: 3 Clients, 3 Vulnerabilities, 1 Move
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In this episode I walk you through three real examples of what defense actually looks like — two from clients, one from my own life — and the single move underneath all three. You'll hear why the frozen-pizza night is never really about the pizza, how to stop freezing when "I should already know better" keeps you stuck, and the exact question I stopped asking myself so I'd quit pushing work to "tomorrow" forever. Here's the theme: the goal is never to try harder or be more disciplined. It's to find your specific vulnerability — the place things fall apart — and build a defensive...
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1433: You're Running Out Your Own Clock
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Enrollment is open for the August DEFENSE cohort — and this is your last chance for pay-what-you-can pricing before the cart closes July 31. Grab your spot: elizabethbenton.com/defense/ Nothing has cost me more than the choices that felt completely reasonable. That's this whole episode. The choices that don't feel like choices — I'll start Monday, it's just this once, we only do this once a year. None of them feel like a weapon. That's exactly why they work. One of the best weapons we use against ourselves is holding the ball until time runs out. Not with big, dramatic failures — with...
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1432: When The Truth Steers You Wrong
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When something is true, you don't question it. Why would you? And that is exactly how you end up doing all the right things for years and still not getting anywhere near where you actually want to go. This one answers the question so many of you emailed after the last episode. How do you know when "you're doing so much better than you used to be" is true and worth celebrating, versus when it's the exact thing keeping you stuck? The answer starts with something almost nobody says out loud. An honest voice can steer you wrong. Not because it lies to you, but because it only ever answers the...
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1431: I Just Stopped Hiding From the Truth
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Show Notes Get on the DEFENSE waitlist: For four years I could have told you, honestly, every right thing I was doing with my health. Ate well. Ate protein. Didn't binge eat. Didn't drink. Worked out. Active. Slept. Every word of it true. And nothing was getting worse. My weight was stable. My habits were consistent. No crisis. Nothing going wrong. Which turned out to be part of the problem. Because when nothing is going wrong, you don't stop to check anything. You just keep going. And I'd been just keeping going for four years without actually asking whether going was the same thing as...
info_outlineThe most expensive sentence I've ever said is "I'll start tomorrow." Not because I said it once, but because I said it every day for years, quietly, in the area of my life that mattered most. When I recently asked you on Instagram what keeps you from following through, more than half of you named the same thing I struggled with: procrastination.
So this is the one episode I want you to never need another one for.
In this episode I'm breaking down why you actually procrastinate (it's simpler than you've been told), why putting something off doesn't relieve it but ages it, and the two moves that get you out: make later loud, and make starting cheap. I'll show you why the task was never the hard part, why starting is, and the one skill that beats procrastination almost every time. And I'll give you something to do in the next two minutes, because I refuse to let listening to this be the way you procrastinate today.
If you've ever wanted something badly and still handed it to tomorrow, this one's for you.
In this episode:
- Why listening to procrastination advice can be a form of procrastination
- Why ease wins in the moment (loud vs. silent) and what to do about it
- The difference between relieving a task and avoiding it
- Why you pay for the thing whether you do it or not, and how to pay only once
- Activation energy: why starting costs more than continuing
- The lie of "do it or don't do it," and the creative third option that's always there
- How to be a two-minute person
- Why momentum is its own kind of rest
A few lines worth sitting with:
- "You're going to pay for this task whether you do it or not. The only question is how many times."
- "When you put it off, you didn't get rid of it. You aged it."
- "What I was missing wasn't discipline. It was creativity."
- "I don't want to call you out. I want to call you up."
Ready to stop losing the negotiation?
Procrastination is the conversation you have with yourself in the seconds before a choice, where you talk yourself into "not right now" and win, against yourself. DEFENSE Foundations is four weeks of guided practice for exactly those seconds. The cart is open now and we begin July 1st.
Join us: elizabethbenton.com/defense/