{"podcast":{"title":"CONSISTENT by Primal Potential","slug":"consistent-by-primal-potential-172811","podcast_index_feed_id":172811,"rss_url":"https://primalpotential.libsyn.com/rss","website_url":"http://primalpotential.com","image_url":"https://static.libsyn.com/p/assets/a/f/a/e/afaef86a29f5ce2e16c3140a3186d450/1-20241227-9iq64uaxbv.png","author":"Elizabeth Benton","episode_count":1893,"summary":"Why are we so stressed & 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.","last_synced_at":"2026-08-02T06:19:16.984630+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/consistent-by-primal-potential-172811"},"episode":{"title":"1433: You're Running Out Your Own Clock","slug":"1433-you-re-running-out-your-own-clock","published_at":"2026-07-25T07:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/consistent-by-primal-potential-172811/1433-you-re-running-out-your-own-clock","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/consistent-by-primal-potential-172811","url":"https://primalpotential.libsyn.com/1433-youre-running-out-your-own-clock","audio_url":"https://pdcn.co/e/dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/pscrb.fm/rss/p/traffic.libsyn.com/secure/primalpotential/Hold_the_ball_episode.mp3?dest-id=238272","summary":"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 tiny, reasonable-sounding concessions that each feel like no big deal, until you look up and it's been years. The business you never started. The health you could have had. The pictures of your kids that don't exist, because you kept hiding from the camera. Time running out isn't a buzzer. It's a year, then another one. It's the version of you that you keep almost becoming. And then I show you the way out — defense. These patterns are predictable, and anything you can predict, you can defend against. I walk you through exactly what playing defense looks like, using my own real plan for taking my kids to the fair today. In this episode: Why reasonable is the most expensive word in your vocabulary The \"once a year\" that's really happening 52 times a year What running out of time actually looks like (it's not a buzzer) Defense: how to beat a pattern you can predict — and why doing it alone is a mistake Stop running out your own clock. The August DEFENSE cohort is where we find your specific, predictable vulnerabilities — the exact places you fold — and build your personalized plan for them, so you stop losing the same ground over and over. Enrollment is open now, and this is the last chance…","meta_description":"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 spo…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":1056,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/consistent-by-primal-potential-172811/episodes/1433-you-re-running-out-your-own-clock/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/consistent-by-primal-potential-172811/1433-you-re-running-out-your-own-clock.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}