1308: Build Before the Breakthrough: What to Do In the Waiting

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 May 2025

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

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Episode Summary:

If you’re in a hard season — a waiting season — this episode is for you.

Maybe your marriage feels fragile.
Maybe work is overwhelming.
Maybe you’re just… in the middle. Between stuck and change. Tired, but still hoping.

Today’s episode will help you stop using the hard as your excuse… and start using it as your reason.

You’ll learn how to use the waiting season to build something unshakable:

A body you can feel proud of.
A mind you can trust.
A foundation that holds, even when everything else feels shaky.

Because you don’t wait for life to smooth out before you take ownership of your health, your thoughts, or your choices.
You do it because life is hard.

What You’ll Learn:

Why most people stay stuck in “waiting mode” and how to break out of it
How taking care of yourself first creates clarity in your hardest seasons
What it actually looks like to build a strong foundation — without fluff or perfection
Specific ways to show up for yourself when you're overwhelmed or discouraged
Why now is the perfect time to lead yourself powerfully — even if everything still feels messy

Key Quote:

“You take ownership, get healthy, take action — not because life is smooth, but because it’s not.”

🎯 Ready to finally get consistent — even in the hard seasons?
Take the free Consistency Quiz now to discover your biggest barrier and how to overcome it.
👉 primalpotential.com/quiz

You’ll get:

Personalized insights
A clear next step
A powerful reason to stop starting over

🎧 Listen now, take the quiz, and stop waiting for change.
Start building it.

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.
0:29.4	Hello, everybody. Welcome back to the Primal Potential Podcast. I am Elizabeth Benton.
0:36.6	Thanks so much for joining me today. I want to talk about
0:41.2	when we're in tough seasons and when we feel like we're waiting for something. Maybe that waiting
0:46.9	is for things to get better in our relationship or we're waiting for a change in our careers
0:53.2	or a breakthrough in our finances. I want to talk about
0:57.1	what we do when we are waiting. Before we get there, I want to make sure you know about the brand
1:04.3	new quiz that I've created to help you identify and overcome your primary barrier to consistency
1:09.8	because I don't want you to just keep chasing new tactics
1:14.0	and new strategies. I want you to be clear on why the previous tactics and strategies haven't been
1:19.7	working so we can clear that barrier. The quiz is totally free. It only takes a few minutes.
1:25.9	Primalpotential.com forward slash quiz. And I will also link that up in
1:30.5	the show description so that you can easily just click from there and find it. Let's get into today's
1:35.7	episode. You know, hopefully you know, every week I have check-ins with my clients in the consistency
1:43.2	course. There's a lot that goes into the
1:45.3	consistency course, but probably one of my top favorite components are these weekly check-ins,
1:53.2	because I get to be a real part of my client's lives and I get to learn about their families
2:00.7	and their struggles and their
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