The MaxLife Podcast with Ben Laws

#52: How Stress Masquerades as Drive with Jeff Benton


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Jeff Benton—advisor to Special Forces, pro athletes, and Fortune 500 leaders—reveals how stress hides in plain sight, disguised as ambition. Discover the simple physiological shift that restores clarity, energy, and connection most high performers never realize they’ve lost.


Guest Bio

Jeff Benton, Founder & CEO of Paragon Performance Evolution, focuses on peak performance training through various aspects of personal and collective growth. By developing customized leadership and high-performance programs, Paragon’s focus is to create significant impact for individuals and client organizations, ranging from FORTUNE 500 companies to Special Forces, professional athletes, leading academic institutions, Global First Ladies, and astronauts.

The core of Paragon's teachings revolve around achieving a coherent state through self-regulation and increased awareness of thoughts and emotions. By helping individuals attain this state of coherence, it enables them to optimize key brain functions and improve overall physiology, leading to greater clarity, presence, joy and gratitude. This enables an individual to achieve greater overall performance, and also deeper and more authentic relationships, at an individual, team and organizational level, creating a collective state of coherence.

The topics covered in Paragon's peak performance training programs are diverse and essential for personal and professional growth. Leadership, resiliency, heart-centered leadership, coherent communication, self-mastery, and emotional intelligence are all vital areas that contribute to overall success and well-being.

Paragon's approach is holistic, combining transformative methodologies with a deep understanding of human behavior to help individuals and organizations reach new heights of success and fulfillment.  This includes combining the best of modern science and human behavior with timeless wisdom.

Ultimately, Jeff’s work allows for him to combine his deepest passions of connecting people and supporting individuals in their journey of transformation, and to be his own human lab, exploring what is possible in this lifetime.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeffrey-robert-benton-51240a4/

https://www.instagram.com/paragon_performance/


Resources & Mentions

Tools of Titans by Tim Ferriss

www.performanceparagon.com 

https://performanceparagon.com/individual-programs/

To Receive a Free Coherence Call Invite - Email [email protected]

https://performanceparagon.com/resilience-reset/ 


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