If you want to be more consistent, you're in the right place. I'm Elizabeth Benton. Welcome to Consistent,

a podcast by Primal Potential that is for all of you who feel frustrated by your lack of progress or

overwhelmed by all the change that you want to make in your life. Here, we stop frantically chasing new habits and start strategically

building a structure of consistency. Let's get into it. Hello everybody. Welcome back to Consistent

by Primal Potential. We are going to kick off a new series. and boy, do I have a lot to say about it.

This is one that you guys have asked for, and it's one that, quite frankly, I have resisted

doing, and the reason I have resisted doing it is not because I don't think it will be helpful.

I actually think it will be helpful. If you have ever gone through a hard season of your life, whether that was a job loss or the loss of a loved one or a health

struggle or a period of depression or anxiety or anything in between, financial hardship,

sometimes it can be very challenging, incredibly challenging, and almost seem impossible to take

care of yourself, your family, your finances in those situations. And I very unexpectedly found

myself in such a situation in 2020. And I wrote a book about it. And,

you know, most people are very familiar with my first book, Chasing Cupcakes. My second book,

Tools for the Trenches, is less well known. And I think the reason for that, one of many reasons

for that, is that it's a hard book for me to talk about. But I also think it is a

very valuable and helpful book, no matter the depth of the struggle that maybe you were in,

or maybe you are in, or maybe you will be in in a coming season. Because if we know one thing, we know that life is going

to be lifey, right? That we are going to have hardships and struggles. So I want to do a series.

Well, let's be honest. I don't really want to do this series, but we are going to do

this series. And we're not going to go through all of tools for the trenches. And you can find

it on Amazon, The Audible. I read, there's also a paperback. There might be a hardcover. Not really

sure. We're not going to go through the entire book, but we are going to do probably like 10 episodes going through this. And let me just

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