Cut The Noise | Wellness Simplified

032. The Consistency Code

• Ben & Lindsay Hack • Season 1 • Episode 32

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What if the key to transforming your health isn’t working harder but being consistent?

In this episode of "The Consistency Code," we cut through the overwhelming noise of wellness advice and show you how small, daily actions lead to lasting results—no complex plans—just simple, actionable steps that fit into your busy life.

Through real stories and practical tips, you'll learn how tiny, consistent changes, like a single push-up or a healthier breakfast, can reshape your wellness journey. Forget perfection—progress comes from consistency.

🎙️Take the first step—listen now to discover how consistency can unlock your health transformation.

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Ben:

Welcome to Cut the Noise. Wellness Simplified, it is episode 32.

Lindsay:

32.

Ben:

My name is Ben.

Lindsay:

And I am Lindsay. Welcome back to another week.

Ben:

Yep, we're here again. We are here and ready to go.

Lindsay:

Yeah, and again, just as always, thank you so much for taking some time to listen to us. Whether you're in the car, going for your walk, maybe at the gym, whatever you're doing listening to this, we appreciate you.

Ben:

I think I've heard all of those places.

Lindsay:

Yeah, exactly, and we love your feedback, guys. So, please, please, please, continue to send it to our way. Whether you send it to our way, whether you let us know if you're a client or you send us an email, we love it. We love it so much, yeah, and if you don't, like it.

Ben:

Let us know as well, please do.

Lindsay:

We are open to any constructive criticism.

Ben:

Just be nice, yeah just don't be mean, right, just be nice. I think as well just with what Lindsay said as well I think it's great when we kind of stack habits on top of one another. So I mean sitting down and listening to a podcast. I mean, do you ever sit down and listen to a podcast? You're always doing it with something else. I'm always doing something Me too, and I think that you know it's one of those things that we want to try and make it so that it's easy to listen to, Because sometimes podcasts are awesome. I listen to a few podcasts that I absolutely love, but I actually have to be focused on them. It has to almost be my primary activity.

Lindsay:

Really yeah, see, I'm the opposite of that.

Ben:

You don't listen to those?

Lindsay:

No, I listen to them, but I can't sit and do nothing and listen to them.

Ben:

No but I guess what I'm saying is like the nature of the podcast is such that I actually have to be focusing on it. In other words, I guess the content is complex. It's possibly more educational than I guess. Yeah, well, and I get that Versus easy listening, right yeah?

Lindsay:

I understand that. I think for me the big thing with podcasts that are any type of value. I'm washing dishes. That's something I do often with my podcast. I'm walking, I'm running. Those are the areas that I'm listening the most.

Ben:

And I think that's one of the things we're trying to do in this podcast. I mean, you tell me if you agree, Linz, but it's one of these things where there's lots and lots of really great content out there and you listen to it and you're like that's fabulous. And then the next question you have to ask yourself is how am I actually going to implement that? And we want to try and remove that step. We want to try and just be like this is what you do versus this is the science. Now figure out how you actually implement that into your life. So I think that's the simplicity, and we always say this, we've said it from the beginning like we just hope that we give you one thing that you can walk away with. It's either going to be something new or a reminder of something that you once knew and have forgotten and just to start doing it.

Lindsay:

Yeah, and I think the big thing with that is to constantly remember that there is so much information out there. You know, we know I was just actually saying this the other day where, you know, so many great emails come in. There's podcasts I get emails after emails of podcasts I want to listen to and there's so much information. We don't have as much time to do all of that, but when it comes to, you know, finding a little bit of time which is why we try to make these, you know, under 30 minutes, we can find that time in our busy day actually, that's a good point and that's not the subject we're talking about today.

Ben:

we'll eventually get there. But but we were talking earlier this week about content and about information. And we live in an age where we've got so much content and so much information coming at us from loads of different sources. You've got podcasts, you've got social media, you've got TV, you've got magazines. I guess you've got newspapers still for some people. I guess you've got radio still as well, you've got satellite radio or whatever you know. We've got all of these voices coming in and I actually think sometimes that's a problem. What you actually have to do is you have to block so much of that so that you're just taking in one or two voices in a particular area, so that you can actually not get confused, because I think sometimes, when you're listening to lots and lots of things about the same subject, it can be overwhelming.

Lindsay:

think, sometimes, when you're listening to lots and lots of things about the same subject, it can be overwhelming, and when you're overwhelmed you tend to do nothing yeah, it's interesting because, you know, even from a coaching perspective, we constantly say to our clients you know, if you're following other coaches, you know it's going to be really hard to put into action what we're saying because, let's be honest, there's lots of information out there. You know. I know our coaches for our business. They say the same thing. If you're following two or three coaches, like, come back and talk to me when you're, when you only want one, because it's hard. It's hard. There's so much, not only information that conflicts with each other, but information that is what's most important and what's this and I mean with all the things that are on the internet right now, you know top five reasons for this and don't forget to do that.

Ben:

It's it gets very overwhelming, very quickly so I think you know the the bottom line is just listen to our podcast and no one else's right, that's what we're saying basically no, but we're just saying find the time to listen.

Lindsay:

That's why we try to keep it a little bit. You know less. We're not spending hours. I know for me, when I'm picking podcasts, depending on my what I'm doing, I look specifically at how long it is actually I just looked at.

Ben:

I follow a pretty popular podcast and I pick and choose the actual episodes that I listen to based on interest, but often when I go into Spotify, I listen to mine. Through Spotify I'll see that there's like 10 unfinished right, because there are like two and three hour formats, right so you have to go back and listen well, I don't sometimes I definitely don't.

Lindsay:

And again, not that. This is what we're talking about, but knowing yourself really well, because I won't even start a podcast if I don't think I can finish it, because I know I'm not the one who's going to go back and listen to it. I know that I have to do it all in one sitting.

Ben:

I'm I'm a starter, not a finisher that's very true, you are starter, not a finisher. But what we want to talk about today, we want to keep it, really, we want to keep it simple. Surprise, surprise, that's what we do. But we wanted to talk just simply about this idea of consistency, which is something that's come up a ton of times. If you've listened to the previous 31 episodes, I bet we've mentioned consistency every single one of those episodes, and we wanted to talk a little bit about what it means. And it's not to be like patronizing in terms of like, well, it's clearly obvious what consistency means, but I think it's just give examples and kind of remind ourselves as to what consistency might look like, and we just want to talk about that a little bit.

Lindsay:

Yeah, and I think you know consistency as a term in the dictionary is one thing, but consistency in your life is something very different. And you know, in a perfect world which we don't exist in, consistency is one thing, but in a world where we are all busy, we all have multiple things going on in our schedule family, business, whatever's happening consistency looks different. And you know, when we talk about how to implement it right and this is the other thing. Going back to just all the information is there's so much information out there. You, you don't need more information, but sometimes what we do need and what we need support with is the how how do we take consistency as a concept and how do we make it work in our life?

Ben:

people don't have an information problem. They definitely don't have an information problem. We have an execution and taking action problem. Right, absolutely. If you didn't listen to another piece of content again and just took action on all of the things that you know, you'd be so much further ahead, so much. But that's not the problem. It's the taking the action step.

Ben:

And I think you know, when we talk about consistency I don't know, I'm going to tell you kind of a little bit about what I think consistency looks like with my clients and then you tell me yours and then we'll kick it around. But you know, I think consistency can be as simple as you consistently show up, no matter how imperfect your workouts are or how imperfect your eating is. Consistency is the act of continually showing up for yourself, day after day. In its most simplest form, it's just with showing up consistently over time you definitely progress, and that progression you gain momentum and that momentum allows you to improve over time. So you know, be totally crap at the beginning and but be consistent, keep showing up, regardless of how imperfect it is, and you'll be surprised at where you would actually get in six months if that's all you did.

Lindsay:

Yeah, and I'm just gonna tell a little story that has nothing to do with Ben or I, but our youngest daughter was not a massive reader. She had a lot of stories in her head about not being a massive reader. She had a lot of stories in her head about not being a massive reader and she didn't like reading, et cetera. And so you know, with constantly just saying, okay, just read a few, a few pages, read a sentence, and you know, it got to the point where even that she didn't love to do, but she would show up and she'd read her sentence and then she'd read her page, and then she'd read her five pages. And I swear, this summer we barely saw her because she was reading book after book after book after book.

Ben:

And I think that's really interesting. It draws a parallel to this idea of you know when you, when you hear them, and we've even we've even said it here. Right, the idea is, let's say, if I use exercises, you know, if you're working out three times a week for about 30 minutes strength training, that's great. And you might be like, well, I'm not working out at all right now, so three times a week for 30 minutes seems like a big stretch, and that's where we'll just show up once and do five minutes and then just have a go at that for a while and that becomes more consistent, and then maybe you do it for 10 minutes or maybe you do it again for a second time for five minutes, and consistency is just the act of showing up. It's not about trying to hit the end goal. Like I always say to clients compete against the person that you were yesterday, not the person you want to be in 12 months.

Lindsay:

Totally. And if you've ever heard of us talk about it and it's probably one of my favorites is Atomic Habits by James Clear or Tiny Habits by BJ Fogg. I'm listening to Mini Habits by Stephen Geist.

Lindsay:

There's books out there that talk about the absolute bare minimum and the idea is, you know, one push-up. And I know, and everybody thinks as soon as you say that that's not enough, that's not going to do anything. But the reality is, if you could do one pushup every day, it is so simple and so easy that to not do it is is crazy, because it's only one, one thing a day, but ultimately one probably turns into four, that turns into 10, and maybe that's where you move from there. But every habit that we have, all these really positive, healthy habits that we're trying to incorporate, it is that consistency. So, whether it's I want to write every day, I want to do push-ups every day, I want to have a fruit, a piece of fruit every day. Make it so small that when you hit it you're like score, awesome, great, and then you can add to it if you want the smaller the change, the the greater likelihood of you being consistent.

Ben:

Absolutely, and I think you know we, we always kind of start trying to implement change like at the perfect change right. So in other words, I'm going to eat perfectly all day.

Lindsay:

I'm going to do all the exercise.

Ben:

Whereas maybe it's just eating a really good breakfast. That's where you start, and once you get good at that, you look at your lunch, you look at dinner, you look at snacks and say, okay, what's the next? And and we think, well, it's not big enough. And honestly, I think, when I look at the success that clients that I've worked with have had over time, not one point has anything been remarkable. It's always like these really insignificant, small changes and the challenge with that is it's so insignificant you can look at it and say, well, it won't make a difference, and it's so insignificant that you don't see it making the change in the moment. So it's like, well, if I'm not going to see the change in the benefit, it's probably not worth doing. But in actual fact, that's the trick, because it is worth doing, because it builds over time, yeah, and it's interesting, right, if you take the concept of saving $1 every day, at the end of the year you get $365.

Lindsay:

And it's interesting, right, if you take, if you take the concept of saving $1 every day, at the end of the year you get $365 and that may not feel like a lot.

Ben:

But it's more than $1, right.

Lindsay:

So $365 at the end of the year is the consistency of saving that $1. And so if you look at, I have a client right now who you know all I have asked her to do is change her fizzy, drink again soda pop whatever you are from, you know what I mean like a Coke, a Pepsi, whatever, and have one less and have a bottle of water at lunch. That was all I asked her to do and you know, the very first thing she said to me was that can't be enough. And two weeks in she's now had 14 waters instead of 14 cokes at that one moment. And and that was all we looked at it makes a difference. That's 14 over two week period. And then you do the math, which I'm not mathing in the year is a massive oh, it's huge numbers.

Ben:

We've done studies with clients on similar things with regards to starbucks. I have one particular client whose husband has multiple kind of Starbucks fancy drinks, frappe, creamy.

Lindsay:

I always call them fancy drinks because one, I don't drink coffee. Two, we never go to Starbucks. So fancy fancies. You know what we mean when we say that.

Ben:

High calorie drinks to a day, right? So let's say, for example, that's probably 600 to 800 calories between the two. Probably more, probably more, but let's just say 800 calories. And then let's say that probably costs what like $7 or $8? Let's call it $8 as well, for easy math. That's easy math.

Ben:

You look at that and turn around and say, okay, well, what could a small change be? A small change could be. It could be. I'll only have one, right? Or it could be rather than having a large, I'm gonna have a medium. So I have two grande, I have two mediums. So I go down from two large to two mediums. Let's say it cuts the actual calorie count in half. It probably doesn't. It's probably more like 60, but for easy math. And again, it won't cut the actual spend down in half. But again you know you're dropping those calories and you're dropping that spend by 30 to 40 percent. And now you look at that times 365 days of the year and and that calorie count saving could be the equivalent of eight to ten days worth of calories. So it could could be, you know, 30,000 calories.

Lindsay:

Which, if you do the math, that is plenty of pounds.

Ben:

Right. And then if you look at it from a dollar perspective, you know again, if you're, if you're splitting your cost by about 40% again, not only are you saving money, but you're saving on calories and you don't feel like you're having to give anything up, because what you're actually doing is you're having to give anything up because what you're actually doing is you're just modifying the portion. Right, and we talk a lot about modifying portions because then you're not attacking your lifestyle, you're basically just managing and I think time or frequency, how often, and portion how much you can. You can lose a ton of weight just by having something less frequently and eating a smaller portion of, and you still get that thing that you enjoy. But just by those changes alone over the course of a year you probably could lose 10 to 20 pounds.

Lindsay:

Easy. And the thing, the thing with consistency is, you know, if you were to ask yourself, think just, whatever you're doing, you're walking, you're doing the dishes, whatever ask yourself right now, what's one thing I have done from January 1st to today?

Lindsay:

Okay, so, whatever you're listening to it, let's just say it's at least nine months. Okay, maybe 10, maybe 11, whatever you're listening to. Um, what's one thing that you've done, and that is a consistency portion of it, right? So I have a TikTok challenge on myself that I have to post one video every single day. It's called Keep it Simple, funny, funny and it's. You know, today is day 200 and I don't even know.

Ben:

You don't know, you know, just so everyone knows. Lindsay asks what day am I on?

Lindsay:

every single day for the last 260 days, or however often, it is 282 or something like that, but anyway, so that's one thing that I know I have done consistently over time, because I am actually keeping track of it by days Not very well, as Ben just mentioned, but what's one thing, and oftentimes we can go back to that and not find many things, because we live in a sprint world. We live in a go go go, go, go, go, go, go go go, go Well.

Ben:

We live in an instant gratification world, like if we can't see the result of our action right now, then what's the point in doing it? It's like we need to get good at delayed gratification, right.

Lindsay:

And you know that comes into discipline and what discipline means for your future self versus your present self and all of those things. But the thing with consistency is doing it for a long period of time, and you know, I know in the health and fitness world long periods of time don't sound good to anybody. Nobody wants to talk about 12 to 18 months. However, if you're doing it for two weeks, five weeks, eight weeks and then stopping and wondering why you're not seeing success, it's because of that stop, that stop is what does it, and you know we've heard people talk about like breaking the chain.

Lindsay:

So if you have, like, a check mark or a crisscross and you know, every time you do, and coming back to a tiny habit, for example, every time you do one pushup, you give yourself an X or a check mark and now your goal is to not break the chain. Right, that's another way of looking at consistency.

Ben:

And breaking the chain is just missing a day or missing a session, right. But at the same time, it's difficult, and I'm going to throw something back at you because it's challenging, right. So we want to be consistent, which means showing up and doing the thing, the activity, consistently. But sometimes we have to be able to understand that progress involves skipping Definitely. And that's a tough one, because once we get good at being consistent, we tend to really fear skipping, and we had an example. You have plenty of examples. We had a client this morning with regards to being ill, right?

Lindsay:

Yep, so I have a client who is currently not feeling great and we have missed sessions all week, and so I checked in with her for this morning session and she's like I'm feeling better. I'm like okay, perfect, how, how better are you feeling? And she's like significantly better, question mark. And she was asking me and I'm like okay, well, what does that mean?

Lindsay:

and the reality is, if you don't feel, you know and I said significantly better, and then I gave her kind of a scale on one to ten there's no point in doing treadmill or workouts or whatever, because it could just take one step back versus taking two steps forward. But here's the thing with the idea of like the tiny habit is that it's so simple that even like a one push-up could be done. You know, most of the time.

Ben:

You know writing for five minutes could be done most of the time, but listening to your body has to be a part of that right, we live in a world that's not black and white, and I think that's the tough part about a lot of these things it's understanding that consistency isn't perfect.

Ben:

And you know, we've talked a lot about our philosophy around food and around movement and around all of these things being like this idea of we do it 80 percent of the time, and that's kind of what we're aspiring towards. So consistency, ironically enough, is about 80 percent of the time and that's kind of what we're aspiring towards. So consistency, ironically enough, is about 80% of the time. Right, it's not 100% of the time, it's 80% of the time, because sometimes we get ill, sometimes we are busy, sometimes things crop up, sometimes we leave it too late, but ultimately, we're showing up with consistency, which is we're showing up 80% of the time and we're doing it 80% of the time and that's enough as well. And so I think you know, when you think about consistency, we're not by any means saying we look at a chain that's perfectly green for 365 days. We're just looking and saying, hey, you know, I show up about 80% of the time, right, and if you've previously shown up 10% of the time, 20% of the time.

Ben:

You know, then 80% is huge and you start to get results. And I always say this to clients that have lost a lot of weight that we work with, like I always kind of make the joke Well, if you look back, what was the moment? Everything changed for you? And they kind of smile, they're like, well, there wasn't a moment. It's not about those moments, and I think that's really important to understand is, again going back to what I just said. It's like the changes that we make, the small changes that we make, the tiny habits that we make, are so insignificant but so significant that it's easy to be like, well, it doesn't really matter, when in actual fact, it's the small stuff that's added up that matters. And that's why consistently showing up is key and we talk about it a lot and I often wonder, you know, are people mistaking consistency for perfection?

Lindsay:

Right? And I think part of that definitely is the way that our brains think right? Perfection is an all or nothing mentality and so many people, including myself I know Ben has some too have this idea that if we can't do it right, we're just not going to do it.

Ben:

I think it's really interesting as well, because don't think you know like we tell ourselves these stories right? This is who I am and I will say for me I have a perfectionist mindset in certain areas of my life, but not in certain areas of my life, but not in other areas of my life. So I've kind of mastered it with certain things and then other things not so much. So it's not like I either am or I'm not.

Ben:

Sometimes what you'll find is you actually adopt the progress mindset really well and effectively in some areas of your life, and in other areas of your life you'll be like well, I have to be perfect, otherwise there's no point. Like I know that if I use running for an example is I am less than perfect, but I am better than I ever have been. So from that perspective I do adopt progress over perfection, and consistency isn't perfection. Consistency is showing up, you know, 80% of the time. But then I think in other areas of my life I'm like well, if I can't do it to this standard, this unobtainable perfect standard with consistency.

Lindsay:

What's the point?

Ben:

Right.

Lindsay:

What's the point, and I think you know, and again, this, this part of that, is to let anybody know who thinks that we have perfection going on in our world. We definitely, definitely don't. But I also think too that there's going to be areas like I know I have a client who is very, very perfection driven, and in her work life and you know, in her job, and so she often says why can't I translate that into my health? And it is. It's a massive, massive challenge sometimes when you find areas that you do feel comfortable with in one way but you don't in the other. And you know, oftentimes it comes back down to breaking it down into those smaller pieces. You know, in this case, my client's been in the industry her industry for 20 plus years. She knows what she's doing, she's learned along the way. So when you come back to your health, if you don't break it down into those small pieces, then how are you ever going to be better Not perfect, but better.

Ben:

But the goal isn't, I think, to be the same in all of these different areas of your life. So when we look at consistency in our health and we look at consistency in our work and we look at consistency in other areas, you're never going to look at that and say I'm 80% in all of these areas of life. So you are going to look at that and say I'm 80% in all of these areas of life. So you are going to be better in some areas and, frankly, you will always be better in some areas than others. Some of them will come a bit more naturally to you and some of them won't, and we put our energy and effort into trying to become more consistent in those areas that we're not quite so strong with, and that's okay as well.

Ben:

So, like this idea that we're going to get to this point where I'm consistently the same in everything I do, it's just again. That's like trying to aspire towards perfection, and I think that's the big thing that we wanted to talk a little bit about today was just, you know, first of all, cut yourself some slack first of all, or second of all, you know, try and be as consistent as you can be without expecting to be perfect and just keep showing up and just keep trying to improve yeah, and I think, remember, consistency looks different in all areas too.

Lindsay:

In the sense that I have a client right now who's traveling for work, what you're doing in your daily day is very different in your daily day, in your day-to-day.

Lindsay:

You said your daily day well, my day-to-day is different than when you're at home, so for her consistency, this week looks very different. Actually, funny enough, she came and showed up at ben's classes. She was able to do, uh, you know, some food changes, but definitely not perfect and definitely not where she was like when she's at home in her own routine, but consistently showing up for herself while she was traveling. So it just depends on where you're at and what you're doing.

Ben:

I think so and it's interesting you should say that and this isn't like a hard and fast rule, but I'll speak about myself is I find that I am better than 80% from a food perspective Monday to Friday because I have a more consistent schedule with work and my commitments during the week, have a more consistent schedule with work and my commitments during the week. I'm less consistent on a weekend because my schedule is different weekend to weekend. So if you think about that, roughly speaking, my 80% consistency comes during the week. My less consistent times come over the weekend, which is my 20%, and I'm fine with that. That's just the way it is, but I'm more consistent than I am inconsistent. So my 80% is Monday to Friday, my 20% is Saturday to Sunday.

Lindsay:

Saturday to Sunday, yeah, and I think you know Ben made a comment on this and I think it's really important to understand as well is that there are moments when you are going to find yourself perfectly in the sense of what you're trying to accomplish, and then there's other times when you're not, whether you're sick or you have school, or you have work, or your kids are sick or whatever, and that's okay as long as you continue to work towards it. And the biggest question that I know we both ask our clients on a regular basis is what would have, what would have the response or what would the reaction and what would your consistency look like two to three years ago?

Lindsay:

totally right and everybody that we work with. We know for a fact their consistency looks different today than it did two or three years ago. But for that, as another question I would ask you to ask yourself is you know what I'm doing right now? I'm working, you know, I'm working towards my goals. What would I have done last year, two years ago, six months ago, in this scenario? And if you're, if you're doing better than you did, then, then that is a win and I think we have to celebrate all those small wins totally, and I think you know it's.

Ben:

It's another subject completely, but that's where realistic expectations come in right. I mean, the fact is this this this is long term, this is a lifestyle, and every week, every, every year that you do these things, you typically get better and better and better at them. And you look back and you, you, you would never have imagined you could do the things today that you're doing a year ago or two years ago, but you are, and it's because you've just gradually added these small changes. And that always blows me away. Then, also, being realistic and I just thinking about this as you were speaking, you know this idea of it's incredible how challenging and how much effort and focus it takes to build new habits.

Ben:

And it's quite surprising how easy it is right go back to your well, not just to fall out of that habit. Sometimes you'll get really in the groove with a habit and it comes, you know, know, relatively easy to you and you just inflow. It's just happening and you just got it down. You'll get ill and you're trying to rebuild that habit and you're literally holy shit, how did I, how was I doing it or how was I making it look so easy? Like it's a real kind of grind to get back in and it just shows you that when you do things with consistency, they do come easier to you.

Lindsay:

Yeah, and I think too, just you know if you are listening to this and you're really struggling with the idea of like, but how, how do I get back in? How do I ask? So I have a client who, as I told you, I told her she wasn't allowed to work out this week. She's taking the whole whole week off, but how she gets back is I have an appointment with her on Monday morning and I am expecting you know, her to be there, and so if you are struggling with that accountability or if you are struggling with your own consistency, reach out to Ben and I.

Lindsay:

That's what we do. That's what we're here for as coaches. We are here to help you get back into your routine, stay consistent with your team looking at your daily tasks every day. That is our job right, and it's interesting.

Ben:

You know, often you you'll think about engaging a coach or an expert because of their expertise or their knowledge or their experience. What are you talking about? For sure, and all of those things are absolutely true, but there's three other things that I always say are hugely important. Number one is the accountability 100. Number two is the support right. And the third, which I always laugh about, is the outsource discipline. Yeah, so you're outsourcing the discipline that you can't find yourself right to us and we help you build that discipline. So, ideally, over time, you are going to be one of those people that can go off and do it by yourself, which is wonderful, or you recognize that you're one of those people that just does better with that support long term, and that's fine as well.

Lindsay:

And that is absolutely okay. So just remember as a takeaway consistency is key. If you need support with that said consistency, reach out to Ben or I. We're here to help, but again, another week, another episode.

Ben:

Well, 32 every week. I feel like we've been consistent.

Lindsay:

So consistent, which, again, as you know, we didn't start our podcast for a really long time, and so this is something that we have done. But you know what helped with our consistency? Telling you guys that it was going to be out every Friday morning at 7 am Eastern 9 am.

Ben:

Eastern 9 am.

Lindsay:

Eastern, sorry 7 am, because that means we have to do it.

Ben:

It's interesting. I mean again, who knows what may happen and something might come up. But I just feel like we would do whatever it takes to get it out whatever it takes, because we've put it out there would you do one by yourself if you had to?

Lindsay:

absolutely I would, because if, if it meant that we got it out, because that's a consistent we our goal is to have a podcast every week for the entire first year. So march, blank, blank, blank, whatever time was our first episode 2025.

Ben:

That is our goal, and so we are going to put it out there so I think with a plan like that, one of the things to kind of relay like and it related back to health is that very much, that that is our goal, but we would pivot and adapt if we needed to right and I think that's the big thing if, if we did miss a week, what would we do'd?

Lindsay:

just get right back on for next week.

Ben:

Right and it wouldn't really matter. I mean, it really wouldn't matter when you consider we've strung 32 episodes together. Let's say, next week it doesn't happen for whatever reason, and we come back and do it the following week. How has that dramatically changed things?

Lindsay:

It wouldn't, and that's why, when we do things consistently, it doesn't make a massive impact on your long-term goals.

Ben:

It's about the times you do it, not the times you miss right.

Lindsay:

All right guys, Another week, another episode. We appreciate you here, as always, share, let us know what you think and we'll speak to you next week.

Ben:

Yes, we will speak to you soon, thank you.

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