1299: How AI Can (and Can’t) Help You Reach Your Goals

Primal Potential

Elizabeth Benton

Money, Self-improvement, Inspiration, Transformation, Motivation, Affirmations, Health & Fitness, Mindset, Selfhelp, Weightloss, Education, Loseweight, Goals, Nutrition

5 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 26 April 2025

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

Is AI your new accountability partner… or just another shiny distraction?

In this episode, I’m sharing a real, nuanced conversation about the rise of AI tools—how they can support your goals, where they fall short, and why none of it matters if you’re still skipping the root work.

I use AI. I love it. It’s smart, fast, and powerful. But I’m seeing more and more people treat it like a replacement for coaching, for community, for consistency—and that’s where things get dangerous.

🔑 We talk about:

What AI can help you with (meal plans, workouts, motivation…)
Where it completely fails you (especially on your hard days)
Why self-awareness still beats strategy every time
The truth about “on/off” behavior loops and how AI can make them worse
A story about a client who had all the tools—and was still stuck

Because here’s the truth:
You don’t need more information.
You need to become the person who actually follows through.

🧠 This episode will help you:

Use AI without outsourcing your self-leadership
Spot the patterns that keep you stuck (and call them out)
Finally understand why your problem isn’t about the plan—it’s about the practice

🎯 And if you’re tired of ghosting your goals and calling it “life happens”…
This is exactly why I created The Consistency Course. It’s time to stop starting over. Let’s build the skill together.

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Check out Upgrade - a go-at-your-own pace 6 week program around implementation and becoming a better thinker (so you make better decisions)

P.S. Tag me on IG with your favorite takeaway or aha moment—I love hearing what lands for you.

Transcript

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0:00.0	If you want to be more consistent, you're in the right place. I'm Elizabeth Benton. Welcome to
0:07.1	Consistent, a podcast by Primal Potential that is for all of you who feel frustrated by your lack of
0:13.3	progress or overwhelmed by all the change that you want to make in your life. Here, we stop frantically
0:20.5	chasing new habits and start
0:22.6	strategically building a structure of consistency. Let's get into it. Hello, everybody.
0:31.2	Welcome back to the primal potential podcast. I am Elizabeth Benton. Thanks so much for joining me.
0:39.4	I'm really looking forward to getting into today's episode around how AI can help you reach your goals and how it can't help you.
0:46.9	Some of the mistakes that I see people making, I want to help you avoid. And I want to share about
0:51.6	how I've been using AI. And I haven't seen anybody doing it the
0:55.1	way that I'm doing it in one particular area. So I'm excited to share that with you. Before we get
1:01.4	into it, I told you guys I wanted to get back to doing a giveaway on Saturdays. So we're going to do
1:05.5	that. Today I'm going to give away a supplement that is an adaptogen blend. And basically an adaptogen refers to
1:12.8	something that helps to optimize our body's inherent response. So when we talk about like
1:19.5	adaptogens to the stress response, it's not that we want to eliminate stress. We don't. Stress is
1:24.3	necessary and healthy for the body. But we also don't want too much stress and so
1:29.0	it's a nuanced thing where we want to have a very a body that is responsive to stress in a healthy
1:37.3	way not too much not too little and mood plus is a fantastic supplement for that. I've talked about it a lot.
1:45.0	It's been a while, but this was something that really carried me through Dagnie's death
1:50.7	and also the very stressful period of time after the twins were born and they were in the
1:57.5	hospital and my time was not my own.
2:00.5	This is all natural. It is going not to
2:04.5	reduce cortisol, not to increase cortisol, but to moderate your body's stress response.
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