The DEFENSE Workshop
The live workshop is over · The recording is available
You could have finished it already.
On September 1st I spent two hours showing people the exact places their follow-through breaks down. That recording is yours, along with the 80-page DEFENSE Master Playbook.
See both optionsTwo ways in. One of them starts September 8.
Two ways to do this
Take the tools, or build it with me.
Both start with the same thing: the full workshop recording and the DEFENSE Master Playbook. The difference is whether you work it alone or I work it with you.
The Workshop & Playbook
For the person who wants the material and is ready to run with it.
- The full two-hour DEFENSE workshop, recorded September 1
- The DEFENSE Master Playbook, 80+ pages, yours to keep
- Close to a hundred tools and reframes to work from
- The five permission patterns and how to spot yours
- Immediate access. Go at your own pace.
$97
One payment. Instant access.
Get the workshop + playbookguarantee
The Four-Week DEFENSE Build
For the person with one stubborn problem that has survived all the plans.
- Everything in option one, immediately
- Plus four weeks of building, testing and adjusting together
- We get specific about your one thing and find the exact moment you lose it
- We build a defense for that moment, together
- You take it into your real life and it gets pressure tested
- You bring back what happened: what held, what broke, what neither of us saw coming
- We adjust it and you test it again. Four weeks of that.
- Capped at 20 so I have eyes on your defense the whole way
- Backed by a 100% money back guarantee
$497
September 8 – October 2. Twenty people.
Build it with meDefense is built, not bought. Option one hands you the tools. Option two puts them under pressure and fixes what breaks.
Option two, up close
This is the part you can't do alone.
Build
We find the moment
Not your goal in general. The specific moment you lose it. Then we build a defense for that exact moment.
Test
Real life gets a vote
You take it out into your week. Tuesday at 9pm does not care what we decided on a call.
Report
What actually happened
What held. What broke. Whether it even came to mind. What showed up that neither of us anticipated.
Adjust
Then we go again
We use what happened to make it stronger, and you take it back out. Four weeks of that.
Twenty hours of practice with feedback beats two thousand without it.
You know exactly what to do. You've known for years.
You've started more times than you'd admit out loud.
And every time, it comes apart in the same few moments.
It was never a plan problem. Your plans have been fine.
Nobody ever taught you how to protect one at four o'clock on a Tuesday when you're tired, it's been a week, and Monday is right there.
The math nobody does
Add it up.
Every fresh start. Every good week. Every January. Every Monday you actually followed through on.
Now lay all of it end to end. Consecutive. One day after the next, instead of scattered across fifteen years.
You'd have finished it a hundred times over.
You'd be living on the other side of it right now. Done. Box checked. On to something else entirely.
You've already put in the work. It isn't that you didn't want it badly enough, and it isn't that you didn't try hard enough.
It's that none of it was consecutive. There were gaps. And the gaps are the reason you're not there yet.
Why continuity beats effort
The chain.
There's a story told about a famous comedian and a wall calendar.
Write a joke, put a red X on the day. Do it again tomorrow, put another X. After a few days you've got a chain, and the only job left is: don't break the chain.
Years of that built a career. Not years of effort. Years of consecutive days.
Now picture the other version.
Same talent. Same understanding that writing daily is what makes you good. But he writes four days and stops for six. Great month, dead month. Fired up in January, drifting by March.
Twenty years of that doesn't produce the same career. It isn't close.
Same work. Completely different life.
Most people hear that and think: I need to force the chain. Be more disciplined. Don't miss.
If you could force it, you'd have forced it by now.
The work isn't manufacturing continuity through willpower. The work is finding out what keeps breaking it.
Where you're actually losing
What breaks it.
Everything you've ever tried has been offense. A better plan. More information. More rules. More discipline. A clean start with a fresh calendar.
Offense was never where you were losing.
You were losing in maybe ten or fifteen minutes across an entire week. Thirty seconds here. Seven seconds there. Moments where a sentence shows up in your own voice, it sounds completely reasonable, and the standard bends.
You meant to get back to it. You always mean to get back to it.
Those moments aren't random and they aren't unique to you. They're a small, predictable handful of patterns, and they'll follow you into the next plan and the one after that until somebody helps you find them.
Defense is the work of finding them and closing them.
Inside the two hours
What we covered.
- Why offense has been failing you, and what defense actually is
- The five permission patterns that quietly dismantle every plan you make
- How to spot which ones are running your life right now
- How to build a counter-argument strong enough to survive the moment it's up against
- How to change the conditions upstream so those moments show up less often
Real people. Real change.
From people who've done this work.
This is the first time in quite a while that I have stuck with something for 4 weeks. And I'm not tiring of it. In fact, I feel empowered by it.
The exercises, by themselves, do not seem ground breaking. However, four weeks in, I am thinking of things differently, feeling things differently. I feel like I have turned a corner.
DEFENSE participantI felt like the whole program clicked for me. I realize that is the true leak in the bathtub. Every other leak is based off that thinking.
I've had a good week. Finally went to the grocery store and cooked food after 3 weeks of Uber Eats. Went outside for a walk each day. Kept my commitments to myself.
DEFENSE participantThere was still a part of me that believed the DEFENSE program would not work for me when I started. It's only been 2 1/2 weeks and I have so much hope again.
I am getting tools that are so practical already. And I am being challenged to really put thought and effort into the work instead of skirting by. You have a gift of getting right to the issue.
DEFENSE participantI don't have to shift into positive thinking. I just have to shift into helpful thinking.
My mindset determines the choices I'm going to make. Don't make a decision from a bad mindset, otherwise I've rigged the game against myself.
DEFENSE participantOn the Four-Week Build
I'm also going to remove the financial risk for you.
If you join the Four-Week DEFENSE Build, complete the work I ask you to do throughout our four weeks together, and at the end you don't feel that you have a valuable, personalized DEFENSE for the problem you brought me, I'll refund 100% of what you paid.
There's no guarantee without participation. You have to actually do the work. But if you do your part and this doesn't deliver what I'm telling you we're going to build together, I don't want you to pay for it.
Guarantee terms
To be eligible for a refund, you must complete the exercises and implementation assignments provided during the Four-Week DEFENSE Build and submit or share your completed work as requested during the program. If, after completing the program requirements, you do not feel you have developed a valuable, personalized DEFENSE for the specific problem you identified at the beginning of the program, you may request a full refund by emailing [email protected] within 7 calendar days after the final program session. Approved refunds will be issued to the original payment method. This guarantee applies to the amount paid for the Four-Week DEFENSE Build.
Pick your lane
Two ways in.
The Workshop & Playbook
The full two-hour recording plus the 80-page DEFENSE Master Playbook. Immediate access, yours to keep.
$97
One payment. Instant access.
Get the workshop + playbookguarantee
The Four-Week DEFENSE Build
Everything above, plus four weeks of building your defense, pressure testing it in your real life, and adjusting it together based on what actually happened. Twenty people. Backed by a 100% money back guarantee.
$497
September 8 – October 2. Twenty people.
Build it with me
Who's teaching this
I'm Elizabeth Benton. I host Consistent, a podcast with more than 2,000 episodes, and I wrote Chasing Cupcakes.
DEFENSE came out of running cohort after cohort and watching the same handful of patterns take people out, in the same moments, no matter what the goal was. It isn't theory. It's what I've seen work.
— Elizabeth