Transcript: Day 365: I Didn't Die (One Year of Moving My Body Every Single Day)

Day 365 complete, and I didn't die. What's up,

my movers and shakers? Famous Ashley Grant here.

Welcome to More Movement Please, the podcast

where I hope to inspire you to move your body

more. Today is day 365. It's the day I've been

talking about for several weeks now, and I am

sweaty as can be, and I'm a hot mess. But I am

on my way home from my evening classes and I

just kind of wanted to record a debrief and tell

y 'all what happened today. So this morning I

started the way that I start most Monday mornings

with Zumba and low impact cardio and toning.

And normally I've been doing a stretch class

first thing in the morning as well. But I was

dealing with a lot of things that were going

on. Basically, I sent out a press release about

this day 365 and episode 100 coming out. And

so I was, you know, taking care of all that.

What they don't tell you about when you try to

be your own publicist is just how many emails

and things you have to go through and take care

of. And Lord have mercy, there was a lot. But

I'm so grateful for all the people that supported

me talking about This Day 365 and that published

the press release. And I've got more people that

have said that they're going to publish the press

release. And I'm just so thankful for everybody

who is supporting me on this journey because

this journey is so important. And it's not important

because of me. It's important because of what

it's doing. It's inspiring people to move their

bodies. And that means the world to me. Like

that is the most. important thing that I could

be doing right now. And that's inspiring people

to move. And I'm absolutely loving it. And I'm

just so grateful that I started this podcast

back in October of 2025 because no one told me

what to expect if I became a fitness podcaster.

And I honestly never set out to be a fitness

podcaster. I've talked about that before. But

yeah, I love the fact that we live in a time

where You don't have to be a guru or an expert.

You can be a contributor to the space. And I've

said before, the person that first turned me

on to that idea was Denise Duffield Thomas. She's

my money mentor. I absolutely love this woman.

She is one of the most fabulous people of ever.

If you want to get your money blocks sorted out,

you've got to check out her books. I'll leave

them in the show notes. She has some really awesome

books that basically help you sort through your

money crap. Yeah. I just, what a mind blowing

thing for someone to say that you don't have

to be an expert. You can be a contributor. And

I'm so grateful that I get to be a contributor

to the fitness space now. And that I actually

have a story of trying to get fit in my feral

forties. Like who knew that I was going to be

a fitness podcaster, you know, basically recording

my diary, if you will, of what it's like to actually

try to get fit in your forties after two decades

of inactivity. I mean, I've told you, I've told

you guys before that I, You know, I did have

spurts of activity, but I don't feel like it

really counts because I wasn't consistent with

it. I mean, I had a lot of false starts. And

this is the first time since I was, goodness,

since I got married that I committed to actually

moving my body every single day. And I'm so,

so damn grateful that I committed to it and that

I stuck with it and that I didn't stop because.

And that's one of the things that is so frustrating

is how easy it is to stop. But when you stop,

you pay for it. And I didn't want to pay for

it again. I didn't want to continue having health

issues. I didn't want to continue down the path

that I was on of inactivity. And, you know, I

was headed right for the path of more blood pressure

medication. I was headed for the path of cholesterol

medication. I was headed for the path of. More

pain in my knees and more pain in my back and

heart trouble and all the things. And that's

why this year has meant so much to me. I mean,

there's been some amazing things that have happened

in this year. But the most amazing thing that

has happened is how I feel like I finally took

control back of my health. And I want that for

everybody. I want everyone to have the opportunity

to move their bodies more and feel just how damn

good it can feel to. improve your strength and

improve your stamina and improve your balance.

I mean, holy cow, that's like that's one of the

biggest things that I didn't even see coming

is that some of the things that I've been doing

this year have been helping my balance. I mean,

that's why I've been taking so many stretch classes,

because it's basically like it's a standing yoga

thing that I've been doing. It's. Oh, man, there's

such great classes that I've been finding online.

And I mean, I call them stretch classes, but

they're you know, they they really are a workout.

They definitely get your blood pumping and get

your heart rate up, even though, you know, you

wouldn't expect it to because it's a stretch

class. But they're just so, so amazing. And I'm

so incredibly grateful that we live in a time

where, you know, fitness people are putting amazing

exercises online. They're removing the barrier

to entry to. to work out. And I'm just, I'm so

happy that I've moved my body as much as I have.

And I'm so happy that I intend to move it even

more. So anyway, I said I was going to debrief

and then I got tangented. That's something I'm

known to do. But so yeah, the day began with

Zumba and low impact cardio and toning. And then

I went to lunch with my gym girlies and I didn't

get to go with everybody. I would have loved

to have had more of y 'all there. I know that,

you know, with work and things like that, not

everybody can come. But I like to think y 'all

were there in spirit. And we had a good time.

We went to a parlor pizza here in Richmond, Kentucky

and had some really yummy food. And then I went

home and I had a meeting that I had to take.

Yeah, unfortunately, that meeting went a little

bit longer than I intended. And so I wasn't able

to do the classes that I had planned between

classes. And it's probably for the best because

I am still having those health issues that I

have mentioned a few times on this podcast. I'm

I'm working through them, but. It's for the best

that I did not do those additional three classes

that I had planned. But I did do the other two

classes that I had planned, which were the most

important ones to me. This evening, I did Tabata

and I did spin. And I have not done spin in a

hot minute. Goodness, I had bruised my tailbone

pretty badly a long time ago. And so I've been

weary of spin ever since. I'm kind of afraid

to take it. But I did it and it was awesome.

And it hurt. And yeah, a lot of pain today, but

it was all worth it. And I'm so, so grateful

for the day and the people that were around me

today and supporting me. working out with me.

And I'm thankful for you for listening to this.

Like just the fact that you're listening to this,

you are helping me spread the message of movement.

And that means the world to me. And I have bigger

plans for year two. I, I fully intend to keep

moving my body every single day. I've, I've mentioned

that I'm probably not going to do the. accountability

posts as much on Instagram and Facebook. I'm

going to be moving all of those posts over to

Patreon. So if you're not in our community, please

go to famousastronaut .com backslash group and

join us today. It's completely free to join.

And I'll be sharing all kinds of stuff there.

And if at some point you want to, you know. Go

further in your fitness journey. Our head coach,

Rhonda Good, has some incredible stuff that she

is starting to send to me that we are going to

put into the Patreon, into the higher level tiers,

the paid tiers. We're going to be sharing ad

-free episodes. We're going to be sharing never

before released episodes of the podcast. Amazing

information that I think people need to hear.

And we're also going to be doing some custom

workouts. We're going to be talking about, you

know, different things that you can do to move

your body. body without having to go to a gym.

And so we're taking away the excuses. I mean,

you don't have an excuse to not move your body.

And so I really hope you guys will consider joining

me on this movement of movement. Head into the