1301: Don’t Feel Ready? Why Resourcefulness Beats Readiness Every Time

Primal Potential

Elizabeth Benton

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

5 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 3 May 2025

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

If you’re waiting to feel confident, prepared, or fully equipped before you go after your goal — this episode is your wake-up call.

In this raw and honest solo show, I’m sharing lessons from a recent experience hosting the very first gala for the Dagny Foundation — including what it taught me about discomfort, asking for help, scrappy problem-solving, and why we often stay stuck by thinking the same old thoughts.

I’ll walk you through the biggest mindset shifts that helped me get through something I didn’t feel ready for — and how those same shifts apply directly to your goals. If you’ve ever felt unqualified, overwhelmed, or afraid to start, this is the conversation you need to hear.

What You’ll Learn in This Episode:

✅ Why waiting to feel ready keeps you stuck
✅ How discomfort can actually be a green light for growth
✅ Why asking for help is your power move, not your weakness
✅ Real examples of resourcefulness in action
✅ How to stop thinking inside the same limiting mental box
✅ Why what you’re dreading is almost never as bad as it seems

Listener Challenge:

Ask for help this week — even if it feels awkward.
Do one uncomfortable thing you’ve been avoiding.
Brainstorm 3 “stupid” ideas — and act on one of them.

Links & Mentions:

The Dagny Foundation
The Consistency Course
Grab Fit20 - the protein powder I gave away on today's episode. Our family loves it and the code BENTON can save you $10 on your first order.

Tag Me & Share!

If this episode hit home for you, share it with a friend and tag me @elizabethbenton on Instagram — I’d love to hear what stood out most!

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.
0:29.0	Hello, everybody. Welcome back to the primal potential podcast. I am Elizabeth Benton.
0:35.7	Thanks so much for joining me. I was sharing on Instagram the other day
0:38.9	that last weekend, we had a big gala fundraiser for the Dagni Foundation. And, oh, it was a wild ride.
0:49.3	Leading up to it was a wild ride. The event itself was ups and downs, and I learned so much. And as I was
0:58.9	reflecting on it, what I put on social in the picture of Chris and I in our 1920s get-up,
1:05.2	because that was the theme. I asked if folks wanted to hear some of the big lessons and quite frankly, how they apply to
1:13.3	stuff we are all dealing with every single day. I am really excited to dive into this,
1:21.6	especially if you're somebody who doesn't feel ready. The title of this episode is if you
1:27.1	don't feel ready, resourcefulness beats
1:29.8	readiness every time. And I talk to a lot of people who maybe they don't feel ready or they're
1:36.3	not sure they're ready to change their diet, to start getting fit, to get out of debt, to start the business.
1:46.0	Resourcefulness beats readiness every single time.
1:50.1	Before we get into the big lessons, some of them hard, some of them not as hard from the gala,
1:57.8	I wanted to give away the protein powder that we love and use on a regular basis.
2:03.1	It's called Fit 20. And the winner is somebody who left a review, J.A. Wilson, if that is you,
2:09.7	email me, Elizabeth at primalpotential.com, within 30 days of this episode airing, and include
2:15.2	your mailing address so I can get this out in the mail to you.
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