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  1443: My New Money Experiment That Might Change Everything You Buy 14.09.2026 18λ

  What if every discretionary purchase became a choice between the thing and the money?In this episode, I’m sharing a spending experiment I’ve started after realizing something simple and slightly painful:Everything you see used to be money.The clothes. The furniture. The random Amazon purchase. The thing you bought because it was on sale. The thing you barely use.So now, before I buy something, I’m asking a different question:Would I rather have the thing, or the money?And when I choose the money, I’m moving part of it into savings so the decision actually becomes visible.In this episode, I’m talking about:the $40 jacket that sparked the ideawhy “I can afford it” is often the wrong questionthe difference between not spending and actually redirecting the moneywhy the tiny purchases may be the most interesting parthow I’m tracking this experiment as it unfoldshow you can do it with meI’m sharing the full experiment, the running total, the individual decisions, and what I’m learning over on Substack.Follow me there so you can see how this plays out in real time:https://substack.com/@elizabethbentonthompson
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  1442: The One Breakthrough That Changed Everything About My Weight Loss 07.09.2026 17λ

  Give me the ONE thing you’re sick of starting over with. Give me four weeks.The Four-Week DEFENSE Build starts September 8, and I’m keeping this group intentionally small because this isn’t about spending four weeks learning DEFENSE.It’s about implementing it around your specific problem, with my eyes on it with you.Bring me the thing you know how to do, have probably done successfully many times, but somehow keep finding yourself starting over with.Over four weeks, we’re going to get specific about what keeps happening around that problem, identify where you actually need DEFENSE, build something you can use, let your real life test it, and use what happens to make it stronger.This is hands-on. This is personalized. And this is for the person who is tired of assuming the answer is another plan, another fresh start, or another promise to try harder.We start September 8.Your enrollment is also backed by my 100% money-back guarantee. Do the work and submit it as requested. If, at the end of our four weeks, you don’t feel you have a valuable, personalized DEFENSE for the specific problem you brought in, I’ll refund what you paid.If you do the work and I don’t deliver, I don’t want you to pay for it.Join the Four-Week DEFENSE Buildelizabethbenton.com/defense-buildIn today’s episodeI spent all of my childhood, adolescence and young adult years severely obese. At just 5'5", I weighed over 350 pounds. I had a degree in nutrition and was still a chronic binge eater.After decades of struggling, I stopped binge eating and went on to lose 130 pounds long before GLP-1s were a thing.People often ask me what finally clicked.There is one breakthrough I can trace so much of my personal transformation back to, and it started with a question I couldn’t answer:How could I demonstrate so much discipline in other areas of my life and struggle so profoundly to do it with food?The answer changed the problem I thought I needed to solve.In this episode, I’m sharing that breakthrough, what it taught me about perspective and permission, and why I eventually realized:I kept trying to solve the start when I needed to study the stop.If you recognize your own stubborn problem somewhere in this conversation, don’t just listen to this one.Bring it to me.Join the Four-Week DEFENSE Build here
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  1441: The Part of Starting Over You Need to Fix 03.09.2026 11λ

  What if the reason you keep starting over is because you’ve been focused on the wrong part of the problem?For years, every time I stopped doing what I said I was going to do, I treated it like a starting problem.When should I start again?What should I do this time?What’s the new plan?Except starting was never the part I needed help with.I needed to understand why I kept stopping.This pattern showed up most painfully for me with weight loss, but it isn't a weight-loss problem. It can happen with your fitness, your finances, your business—anything you genuinely want, know how to pursue, and somehow keep finding yourself starting again.In this episode, we're talking about what changes when you stop putting all your attention on the next start and finally investigate the stops themselves.GIVE ME ONE THING. GIVE ME FOUR WEEKS.If you already know the thing you're sick of starting over with, I want to help you build your DEFENSE around it.I'm taking just 20 people through the Four-Week DEFENSE Build beginning September 8th.You’ll get immediate access to the complete DEFENSE Workshop and 80+ page Master Playbook. Then we’ll spend four weeks doing the work that cannot be done generically:Building your DEFENSE around the way you stop.We'll build it. Put it into your actual life. Find the holes. Fix them. Test it again. Make it stronger.You already know how to start.Let's work on why you keep having to.JOIN THE FOUR-WEEK DEFENSE BUILD →20 people. One thing. Four weeks. We start September 8th.
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  1440: You Meant It When You Made the Plan 31.08.2026 20λ

  You really did mean it when you made the plan.You were motivated. The goal felt urgent. You were clear about what you wanted and what you were willing to do to get there.But the person who makes the plan and the person who has to negotiate with that plan later often have very different priorities.In this episode, we’re talking about what happens when the version of you who wants the long-term outcome runs into the version of you who wants something else right now—the extra hour of sleep, the thing that’s on sale, the relief, the exception.I’ll share a real example of how I use DEFENSE with my own financial goals, why “permission logic” can be so convincing even when you know exactly what you want, and why some of our most important work happens before we ever reach the moment where we’re tempted to change the plan.Your plan isn’t finished when you decide what you’re going to do. You need a defense for the person who’s going to negotiate with it.Tomorrow night, September 1st, I’m teaching a live two-hour DEFENSE workshop where we’ll work on exactly this: where your gaps open, the permission patterns that make moving the target feel reasonable, how to respond to them, and how to change some of the conditions upstream so those moments happen less often. The workshop is $47 and includes the complete 80+ page DEFENSE Master Playbook. There is no replay.Join me for the DEFENSE Workshop:Save your seat for September 1st →Read more from me on Substack:Subscribe to Elizabeth Benton Thompson on Substack →
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  1439: Nobody Quits On Purpose 24.08.2026 20λ

  Tuesday, September 1st. 7pm Eastern. Two hours, live with me. A comprehensive DEFENSE workshop to find your specific vulnerabilities: the exact places your follow-through breaks down, why it breaks there, and what to do about it. Plus the DEFENSE Master Playbook, eighty-plus pages, yours to keep. $47. No free replay. → Save your seat There was never a moment you decided to quit. That's what nobody says about this. You didn't wake up one day and choose to abandon the thing. There was no dramatic collapse, no rock bottom, no decision at all. It just got quieter. And then it was gone. And you couldn't tell me the week it left, because there wasn't one. That's the fade, and this episode is about why it happens to all of us, on a schedule, and what it has already cost you. In this episode: Why motivation is the worst possible foundation for something you want to keep. It's a battery. Every battery runs down. If your plan depends on it, your plan has an expiration date built into it and you just haven't looked at it yet. The full anatomy of the loop: motivation gets you started, novelty wears off, engagement drops with it, drift becomes disengagement, results go sideways, frustration rises, and frustration at a high enough level feels exactly like motivation. So you start something new. And around you go, sometimes for decades, on the same handful of goals. The one thing I ask every DEFENSE client to do on day one, and why it costs nothing and you can do it today without me. A story about my contacts that is deeply unimpressive and will probably describe your entire life. John Stephen Akhwari, the 1968 Olympic marathon, and the second thing he said that almost nobody quotes. It's not the grit line. It's better than the grit line, and it points at something completely different than what you think this story is about. Why I came in dead last in every cross country race of my childhood, why sitting down in the middle of the course was completely justifiable, and why true and helpful are not the same thing. The question I sat with that I did not enjoy: what would I not be struggling with if I was actually giving it my all? And the uncomfortable one: think about the thing you've been working on the longest. All those starts, all those good weeks, all those strong Januaries laid end to end instead of scattered across fifteen years. You could have finished it already. That's not harsh. That's the good news. It means the thing standing between you and that goal is much smaller than you think. The part that actually matters Everything you have ever tried has been offense. A better plan. More information. More rules. More discipline. A cleaner start with a fresh calendar. And offense was never where you were losing. You were losing in ten or fifteen moments a week where the plan got quietly renegotiated. Where a sentence showed up in your own voice that sounded completely reasonable and handed you permission to do something else. Those moments aren't random. They aren't unique to your life. They're a small, predictable handful of patterns wearing different outfits, and they will follow you into the next plan and the one after that until somebody helps you find them. Defense is that work. September 1st. One night. Not a month. I'm not asking you for two calls a week or homework you'll fall behind on or one more thing you signed up for in good faith and quietly stopped opening. Two hours. Live. Let's find out how much we can shake loose. You'll leave with your specific vulnerabilities identified and the DEFENSE Master Playbook in hand: every permission slip I've watched people talk themselves into across multiple cohorts, named and sorted, with the counter-argument that holds up under pressure. Some of you will walk out with enough and won't need another thing from me. That's the point. Tuesday, September 1 · 7:00pm ET · $47 There is no free replay. → Save your seat
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  1438: Because Comfort Has Gone Too Far 17.08.2026 16λ

  What if the enemy's greatest weapon isn't pain... but comfort? We've been taught to put ourselves first, protect our peace, and give ourselves what we want. While much of that started from a healthy place, I wonder if we've swung too far. What if, in the pursuit of self-care, we've confused care with comfort? In this episode, I explore how our desire to avoid discomfort may be quietly costing us the very things we want most—from our health and finances to our relationships and resilience. I also share a simple practice I use with my kids (and now with myself) called strategic disappointment and why intentionally telling yourself "no" might be one of the most powerful forms of self-care. If you've ever struggled to choose what you want most over what you want right now, this conversation is for you. Continue the conversation: If this episode resonated with you, I'd love to have you join me on Substack. Every week I publish free essays exploring the tension between what you want right now and what you want most, with practical ways to make decisions that move you toward the life you're trying to build. Subscribe here: Elizabeth Benton Thompson on Substack
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  1437: Why You Keep Drifting & Disengaging + What Needs to Change 10.08.2026 24λ

  Successful people ask for help. So why is it so hard to do? A client of Amy Porterfield's said something that stopped me: though she was resistant to asking for help, staying stuck finally felt worse than asking. If I had a drinking game with my clients, they'd have to drink every time I say successful people ask for help. I teach it constantly. And still, so many people try to do it all by themselves. They hide. They withdraw. They don't leverage the resources available to them. And they struggle. So today I'm going through what actually keeps us from asking. In this episode: Why "I've always just been a do it by myself person" isn't a personality trait The two very different fears hiding inside shame, and why they produce the same silence What you're really avoiding when you avoid asking for help Why "I'm not ready to change that" doesn't mean you're not ready for anything, and the Chick-fil-A order that proved it to me "I already know what to do" and why it answers a question nobody asked The least charitable assumption we make about the people we could be asking Why I ask my friends for help with things I could do myself Three ways to start asking when asking feels impossible Join me on Substack. I've moved to one free podcast a week here. The rest of my work now lives on Substack: member-only podcast episodes, deep dives that go further than I can go in a free episode, and a community of people doing this work alongside you. https://substack.com/@elizabethbentonthompson
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  1436: A Big Announcement & Major Changes 03.08.2026 19λ

  Listen for the biggest change I've made in my business since we started in 2014. I'm excited and I hope you are! Join me here and hit "subscribe", or, if you've already been following me over there, hit "upgrade to paid". Thanks for being here for the last 12 years! Here's to the next great chapter!
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  1435: Here's Why You Should Ditch Consistency (For Real) 01.08.2026 19λ

  I'm being 100% serious: maybe you should throw away the word consistency entirely, and the pursuit of it, and in this episode I'm going to tell you exactly why this might be the breakthrough you didn't know you needed. The August cohort of DEFENSE Foundations starts today. This is the last chance to join us. If this episode landed, elizabethbenton.com/defense. This is the final chance ever for pay what you can pricing!
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  1434: 3 Clients, 3 Vulnerabilities, 1 Move 27.07.2026 22λ

  In this episode I walk you through three real examples of what defense actually looks like — two from clients, one from my own life — and the single move underneath all three. You'll hear why the frozen-pizza night is never really about the pizza, how to stop freezing when "I should already know better" keeps you stuck, and the exact question I stopped asking myself so I'd quit pushing work to "tomorrow" forever. Here's the theme: the goal is never to try harder or be more disciplined. It's to find your specific vulnerability — the place things fall apart — and build a defensive strategy right there. And your defense won't look like mine, or like any of my clients'. That's the whole point. In this episode: Why the salad-vs-pizza guilt is the wrong conversation entirely How to escape the Goldilocks trap: the "should" too big to do, the "could" too small to count The backward-looking question quietly sabotaging your progress — and the one that protects it What it looks like to defend a vulnerability instead of white-knuckling through it → We're enrolling for the August cohort right now — and this is the final pay-what-you-can cohort ever. This is where you learn to run defense on your own patterns, with me. Doors close soon. Get in: elizabethbenton.com/defense Don't wait on this one. Pay-what-you-can is ending, and it's not coming back.
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  1433: You're Running Out Your Own Clock 25.07.2026 17λ

  Enrollment is open for the August DEFENSE cohort — and this is your last chance for pay-what-you-can pricing before the cart closes July 31. Grab your spot: elizabethbenton.com/defense/ Nothing has cost me more than the choices that felt completely reasonable. That's this whole episode. The choices that don't feel like choices — I'll start Monday, it's just this once, we only do this once a year. None of them feel like a weapon. That's exactly why they work. One of the best weapons we use against ourselves is holding the ball until time runs out. Not with big, dramatic failures — with tiny, reasonable-sounding concessions that each feel like no big deal, until you look up and it's been years. The business you never started. The health you could have had. The pictures of your kids that don't exist, because you kept hiding from the camera. Time running out isn't a buzzer. It's a year, then another one. It's the version of you that you keep almost becoming. And then I show you the way out — defense. These patterns are predictable, and anything you can predict, you can defend against. I walk you through exactly what playing defense looks like, using my own real plan for taking my kids to the fair today. In this episode: Why reasonable is the most expensive word in your vocabulary The "once a year" that's really happening 52 times a year What running out of time actually looks like (it's not a buzzer) Defense: how to beat a pattern you can predict — and why doing it alone is a mistake Stop running out your own clock. The August DEFENSE cohort is where we find your specific, predictable vulnerabilities — the exact places you fold — and build your personalized plan for them, so you stop losing the same ground over and over. Enrollment is open now, and this is the last chance to join at pay-what-you-can pricing. You decide what you pay, starting at a floor of $247. When the cart closes July 31, that pricing is gone. Waiting will feel completely reasonable. It always does. Grab your spot: elizabethbenton.com/defense/
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  1432: When The Truth Steers You Wrong 20.07.2026 20λ

  When something is true, you don't question it. Why would you? And that is exactly how you end up doing all the right things for years and still not getting anywhere near where you actually want to go. This one answers the question so many of you emailed after the last episode. How do you know when "you're doing so much better than you used to be" is true and worth celebrating, versus when it's the exact thing keeping you stuck? The answer starts with something almost nobody says out loud. An honest voice can steer you wrong. Not because it lies to you, but because it only ever answers the question you ask it, and most of us are asking the one question that can only ever come back yes. Elizabeth walks through why the voice you trust determines the direction you travel, why "am I better than I used to be" will keep you comfortable and stalled for years, and the four questions, in order, that turn your progress from a good feeling into an honest answer about where you're actually headed. Including the exact way to know when it is finally time to push. In this episode: Why a completely honest voice can still send you in the wrong direction The reason you never notice you've stalled, and why it's because everything you're telling yourself is true The difference between measuring your effort and measuring your direction The comfortable questions we ask to collect reassurance instead of the truth The four questions that tell you where you're really going, starting with the one that gates all the others How to know when it's time to stop celebrating how far you've come and start pushing again If you know the version of this for you is real, DEFENSE is the coaching program built for exactly this moment. It is not for people starting over. It is for people who have done the right things for years and are ready to be honest about where they are actually going. A new cohort opens soon. Get on the waitlist at elizabethbenton.com/defense-app/
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  1431: I Just Stopped Hiding From the Truth 18.07.2026 21λ

  Show Notes Get on the DEFENSE waitlist: elizabethbenton.com/defense-app/ For four years I could have told you, honestly, every right thing I was doing with my health. Ate well. Ate protein. Didn't binge eat. Didn't drink. Worked out. Active. Slept. Every word of it true. And nothing was getting worse. My weight was stable. My habits were consistent. No crisis. Nothing going wrong. Which turned out to be part of the problem. Because when nothing is going wrong, you don't stop to check anything. You just keep going. And I'd been just keeping going for four years without actually asking whether going was the same thing as getting somewhere. Then, around the Fourth of July, we took the kids to the ocean. A friend brought inner tubes tied to a bucket of rocks meant to anchor them so the kids couldn't get pulled out by the tide. Hours in, another friend walked over and said, hey, did you know these aren't tied to anything? Everything looked fine. The tubes were floating. The kids were on them. And the rope had been untied for who knows how long. That is the whole episode. This is a conversation about the thing that saved you becoming the thing that stops you. About the record of everything you've already done quietly turning into the reason you don't go further. Not because you're lazy. Not because you gave up. Because you started measuring backward and forgot to keep measuring forward. In this episode: The two ways we measure ourselves, and which one keeps saying yes for years past the point where it should have stopped being the question Why doing the right things is not the same as making progress The exact moment I stopped being able to pretend the rope was still tied for me Some seasons are meant to be temporary, and mine had been four years Three examples of this pattern outside of health (drinking, money, movement) so you can see it in your own life Why this honesty is a tool, not a weapon, and what "coulda, shoulda, woulda" costs you The both/and that most of us think we have to pick between, and why maturity is holding both The one question to ask about one area of your life this week If you're realizing the version of this for you isn't fat loss, and it's some other area of your life where you've been measuring backward for a long time, DEFENSE is the coaching program I built for exactly this. It's not for people who need to start over. It's for people who have done a lot of the right things and are ready to be honest that doing the right things is not the same as making progress. Check the rope. Not because you have failed. Because that is what honesty is for. Get on the DEFENSE waitlist: elizabethbenton.com/defense-app/
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  1430: Your Avoidance Is Heavier Than the Work 13.07.2026 21λ

  An NFL quarterback's coach gives him one rule on game day. No phone. Not less phone. None. Because of what it does to him before he's even taken a snap: how he sees, how fast he sorts what matters from what doesn't, how much noise he carries onto the field. Most of us start every day the exact way that quarterback is told not to. Already loud. Already full. Already carrying. This one is about the cost you're paying and never counted. The pile you've stopped seeing. The project you left half-open eight months ago. The storage unit you pay for and step around. A Yale study found your brain is working on all of it, everything in your field of vision, whether you choose to look at it or not. And here's the part that changes things: the weight of carrying those open loops is heavier than the work of closing them. So we're closing tabs. Not organizing them. Closing them. Inside, I get into the two ways to close any open loop (only one of them is finishing it), why pouring in more energy never fixes a leak, and the two tabs I handed my husband this month. Find one open thing this week. Close it. Notice what comes back. In this episode: Why clutter you're not even looking at still taxes your brain, and what the Yale research actually says The difference between carrying the work and carrying the open Offense versus defense: protecting your energy before the day spends it for you The Close the Tabs challenge, and how to pick a cadence you'll actually keep If you're ready to stop carrying it, this is the work we do inside DEFENSE. Apply at elizabethbenton.com/defense-app/
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  1429: I Cancelled My Birthday 11.07.2026 22λ

  I canceled my birthday party a few days before it happened. Everybody was invited. The childcare was booked. And I called the whole thing off. Not because anything went wrong. Because I asked myself four questions, and by the time I got through them, I understood something about my life that had nothing to do with karaoke. This episode is those four questions. They're the ones that quietly decide whether your life gets bigger or smaller, and not just on your birthday. On basically every choice you make. In this episode: The four questions to run before you cancel, quit, or bail on anything. Why "everybody already knows, oh well" is how most of us end up on autopilot. The difference between a choice that expands your life and one that contracts it, and why the thing you tell yourself is self-care is so often the opposite. Numb is not better. It's just quieter. How to tell restoration from avoidance before you have the morning-after proof. Why the guest list you're honest about is a compass, not a verdict on whether you're loved. The question almost nobody asks: what's under-constructed in my life that's showing up as this hollow feeling? This is the work we do inside DEFENSE. Not more discipline, not a better plan, but building the defense that holds in the moment before the choice, so you stop negotiating against the woman you could be. The DEFENSE waitlist is open now: elizabethbenton.com/defense-app/
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  1428: The Stalling Period (When It Feels Like It's Not Working) 06.07.2026 12λ

  Get on the DEFENSE waitlist: elizabethbenton.com/defense-app/ My kids planted zinnias, and then they stopped growing. They came through the dirt and just sat there, day after day, doing nothing. I was ready to take a chainsaw to a tree over it. Turns out the zinnias weren't broken. They were in the root stage. All the energy was going underground, where I couldn't see it, building the system that lets a plant shoot up later. The part that looked like failure was actually the most important work the plant would ever do. This episode is about what that root stage exposes in us. We want results to show up in tandem with our effort, and they don't. There is almost always a gap between when you put the work in and when you get to see it. That gap is where most people quit their debt payoff, their nutrition, their training, and go looking for a different plan that isn't actually the problem. So I'm asking you the honest question. Have you been consistent over time, through a stretch where you weren't seeing results? And if your answer is "kinda," I'll save you the suspense. Kinda is a no. If it's not a hell yes, it's a no. We also get into the apple tree, and why I have to pick the blossoms off mine this year on purpose. You have a finite amount of energy, and you cannot fruit in every area of your life at once. Not everything has to fruit this season. The trick is choosing where the energy goes instead of thinning it across everything and panicking when nothing blooms. Here's the thing underneath all of it. The stalling period is a predictable vulnerability. You will hit it every single time, in every pursuit that matters. It's the exact moment the negotiation starts and the standard begins to bend. And anything you can see coming, you can build defense against. That's what DEFENSE Foundations is. It's the structure that gets you through the root stage without bending, so you stop negotiating against the woman you could be in the moment it counts. You already know where you quit last time. Let's build the thing that gets you through it. You can't have a fruit system without a root system. Stop reaching for the chainsaw. Get on the DEFENSE waitlist: elizabethbenton.com/defense-app/
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  1427: THE MONSANTO RULING: What Just Happened, Why It Matters, And What You Actually Do About It 04.07.2026 37λ

  Last week the Supreme Court ruled seven to two in favor of Bayer-Monsanto, and it changes the rules for anyone who gardens, farms, or eats food grown in this country. Notice they did not go to the highest court in the land to prove Roundup is safe. They went to argue that even if it causes cancer, you are no longer allowed to sue them in your own state for failing to warn you. In this episode I walk you all the way through it. Not the headline, the whole thing. What the ruling actually says and why the legal logic is so slippery. The real story of who Bayer even is and why a drug company bought a pesticide company. The billions already paid out in cancer settlements, and the trap door that just closed. And then, because despair is just laziness in a nicer outfit, exactly what you and I do about it, starting today, with our hands and our habits and our dollars. You have more power here than you have been told. Let's use it. What We Cover Who John Durnell is, and the twenty-plus years of Roundup use behind this case What the ruling actually says, in plain English: FIFRA, the EPA, and the "Uniformity" clause that decided everything Why the legal reasoning is so slippery, and what the bipartisan dissent from Justices Jackson and Gorsuch warned about The honest version of the science fight: what the World Health Organization said versus what the EPA says Three branches of government, one year, moving in the same direction, and the one piece the people actually stopped Why a pharmaceutical company bought a pesticide company, and the structure underneath "create the problem, sell the cure" The settlement numbers, and the question they cannot answer: why pay billions for a product you swear is safe? What this precedent means for every other industry going forward What practical steps you can take right away The Receipts A few of the numbers and facts from this episode, so you have them: The case is Monsanto Co. v. Durnell, decided seven to two on June 25, 2026. Justice Kavanaugh wrote the majority. Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson dissented, joined by Justice Neil Gorsuch. The ruling reversed a Missouri jury's verdict that had awarded John Durnell one point two five million dollars on a failure-to-warn claim. In 2015, the World Health Organization's cancer research arm classified glyphosate as probably carcinogenic to humans. The EPA has concluded it is not likely to cause cancer when used as directed, and never required a warning label. In 2020, Bayer agreed to pay nearly eleven billion dollars to settle around a hundred thousand cancer claims. The company has spent well over ten billion total, and proposed another settlement of seven and a quarter billion in February 2026. In February, the President signed an executive order invoking the Defense Production Act to boost glyphosate production, though experts question whether it even reaches these lawsuits. A push to shield pesticide companies from these lawsuits in the Farm Bill was stripped out in late April by a bipartisan vote of two hundred eighty to one hundred forty two. The people stopped that one. What You Can Do Lower your toxic load where you can. Start with personal care products, the things you put on your skin every day. Skip drinking from, storing food in, and especially microwaving plastic when you have a glass or steel option. Know where your food comes from. Rinse and soak your produce before you eat it. This is the produce wash/soak product I use. Grow some of your own, even a little. One tomato plant on a balcony is more food sovereignty than most Americans have. Start absurdly small. Just start. Support local farms, and then ask the question. Find a farm you trust, and kindly ask them about their spraying practices. Give your money on purpose to the people who opt out. Support your body's own systems. Sweat regularly, move consistently, and give your gut real breaks between meals. Move, sweat, rest, repeat. None of this is medical advice or a substitute for your doctor, it is everyday support for a body built to handle a tough world. Resources and Links The produce wash and soak method I use: https://amzn.to/4xWl2DI Want to read the ruling yourself? Look up Monsanto Co. v. Durnell, decided June 25, 2026. Find a local farm or market near you and start the conversation about how your food is grown.
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  24 Hour Episode (Only) 30.06.2026 11λ

  Don't miss this. This episode comes down on July 1. elizabethbenton.com/defense
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  1426: You're Manufacturing Your Worst Days. Here's How to Stop. 29.06.2026 20λ

  div]:bg-bg-000/50 [&_pre>div]:border-0.5 [&_pre>div]:border-border-400 [&_.ignore-pre-bg>div]:bg-transparent [&_.standard-markdown_:is(p,blockquote,h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6)]:pl-2 [&_.standard-markdown_:is(p,blockquote,ul,ol,h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6)]:pr-8 [&_.progressive-markdown_:is(p,blockquote,h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6)]:pl-2 [&_.progressive-markdown_:is(p,blockquote,ul,ol,h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6)]:pr-8"> _*]:min-w-0 gap-3 standard-markdown"> Get in before the cart closes June 30: elizabethbenton.com/defense Most of the bad days you have, the overwhelmed ones, the stressed ones, the ones where you check out and tell yourself you don't care, you had more of a hand in creating than you think. That's not a criticism. It's the best news you'll hear all week. Because the things you manufacture, you can stop manufacturing. In this episode, Elizabeth takes you somewhere she rarely goes: inside a live coaching session from DEFENSE Foundations. You'll hear the real question she asked the room, the answers that came pouring back, and the work of building defense before you need it, not white-knuckling your way through the moment after it's already on top of you. Inside the episode: The fly trap on Elizabeth's door, and why we keep walking into the same one The difference between in-the-moment defense and preemptive defense, and why almost no one teaches the second one Real answers from real members naming exactly where they fall apart (you'll hear yourself in at least one) Why the goal isn't a better response to hard moments. It's manufacturing fewer of them. The warrior mindset: scanning for what's coming before it takes you out Gift or a tax: how the smallest choices either help tomorrow's you or rob her Here's the truth at the center of it. You already know where you fall apart. You could name it right now. The question is whether you'll keep walking into that same spot on your own, or finally build the thing that stops it. That's the work we do in DEFENSE, and the door is open right now. This is the last episode before the July cohort closes. Two things are on the table this week, and one of them you won't see again: a redo guarantee (join for July, get August free, two full rounds), plus pay what you can. The cart closes Monday, June 30th. Get in: elizabethbenton.com/defense
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  1425: The Only Episode On Procrastination You'll Ever Need 27.06.2026 27λ

  The most expensive sentence I've ever said is "I'll start tomorrow." Not because I said it once, but because I said it every day for years, quietly, in the area of my life that mattered most. When I recently asked you on Instagram what keeps you from following through, more than half of you named the same thing I struggled with: procrastination. So this is the one episode I want you to never need another one for. In this episode I'm breaking down why you actually procrastinate (it's simpler than you've been told), why putting something off doesn't relieve it but ages it, and the two moves that get you out: make later loud, and make starting cheap. I'll show you why the task was never the hard part, why starting is, and the one skill that beats procrastination almost every time. And I'll give you something to do in the next two minutes, because I refuse to let listening to this be the way you procrastinate today. If you've ever wanted something badly and still handed it to tomorrow, this one's for you. In this episode: Why listening to procrastination advice can be a form of procrastination Why ease wins in the moment (loud vs. silent) and what to do about it The difference between relieving a task and avoiding it Why you pay for the thing whether you do it or not, and how to pay only once Activation energy: why starting costs more than continuing The lie of "do it or don't do it," and the creative third option that's always there How to be a two-minute person Why momentum is its own kind of rest A few lines worth sitting with: "You're going to pay for this task whether you do it or not. The only question is how many times." "When you put it off, you didn't get rid of it. You aged it." "What I was missing wasn't discipline. It was creativity." "I don't want to call you out. I want to call you up." Ready to stop losing the negotiation? Procrastination is the conversation you have with yourself in the seconds before a choice, where you talk yourself into "not right now" and win, against yourself. DEFENSE Foundations is four weeks of guided practice for exactly those seconds. The cart is open now and we begin July 1st. Join us: elizabethbenton.com/defense/