1327: Lifestyle [BLEEP] - The Fantasy That’s Talking You Out of Action

CONSISTENT by Primal Potential

Elizabeth Benton

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

5 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 19 July 2025

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

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💡 Episode Summary:

You might think the curated content you scroll through every day is harmless entertainment—but what if it’s doing more than just taking your time?

In this episode, we’re unpacking the subtle but powerful impact of what I’m calling lifestyle porn—those stylized, aspirational glimpses of family life, fitness routines, and daily rhythms that seem to offer inspiration but often end up quietly talking us out of action.

We’ll explore how this kind of content distorts our expectations, disqualifies us from our own progress, and leaves us with a constant, low-grade sense of “not enough.”

If you’ve ever thought:

“Sure, if I didn’t have to work...”
“If my kids were older...”
“If I had that kind of support...”

…this one’s for you.

This isn’t about comparison. It’s about exposure.
This isn’t about laziness. It’s about awareness.
And this episode is about reclaiming your ability to act—without needing your life to look like hers.

🔑 Topics We Cover:

What “lifestyle porn” is and why the term matters
How we unknowingly use inspiration as an excuse
The disqualification loop: why we keep talking ourselves out of action
Why you always feel a little bit behind—even when you’re making progress
How to interrupt the pattern and reconnect with your version of progress

✍️ Journal Prompts from This Episode:

What kind of content subtly makes me feel like I’m not doing enough?
What am I actually craving when I feel pulled toward someone else’s lifestyle?
Where am I telling myself something won’t work for me… instead of asking how it could?

Something huge is coming! Get on the wait list!

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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.
0:28.9	Hello, everybody. Welcome back to the primal potential podcast. I am Elizabeth Benton.
0:34.6	If you have sensitive ears listening, you might want to listen to this later,
0:38.5	not because of the overarching content, but because there is a word that you may be sensitive to
0:43.7	your kiddos hearing or having to explain it to them. So this is your warning. If you've got
0:48.3	kiddos, you might want to earmuff them or come back to this one later.
0:57.7	I recently heard a phrase that landed hard.
0:58.8	I had never heard it before.
1:01.2	I heard it from Natalie Ellis, founder of Boss Babe.
1:06.9	And the term that she used was lifestyle porn.
1:09.4	Lifestyle porn. And she's going to, she talked about it in a different way than I did. She was
1:14.4	talking about it in terms of business owners, because that's the audience that she speaks to. But
1:18.0	the notion was basically that her opinion of so many of the content creators of this day and age
1:26.6	are putting forth what she calls lifestyle porn.
1:30.0	And if you think about traditional porn, you might think about ideas and images and videos
1:38.2	that can actually erode your own sexual experiences, maybe because you put more into this fantasy than into your
1:50.0	own reality. And I think a similar thing happens, not having to do with sex and not having
1:56.9	to do with business, but having to do with our own health and fitness. There's a lot of what we'll call lifestyle porn that I actually think is holding us back
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