Transcript: Day 365 Is Coming: The Full Story of How More Movement Please Started

Less than four weeks to day 365 and all is well.

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. So if you are new to this podcast

and you have no idea what I'm talking about with

this whole day 365 thing, kind of wanted to clue

you in as to what the heck I'm talking about.

On July 14th, 2025, my instructor Rhonda Good

shook me up. She basically said to me that exercise

was a choice and that everybody had the same

number of hours in a day and that it was a choice

whether you chose to move your body or not. And

that wasn't the exact quote. I'm definitely paraphrasing

here. But her talking to me the way that she

did, she had talked to me that way many times,

several, several times. But for some reason,

in that moment, when she said what she said,

it shook me up. to my core. And the interesting

thing was at the time I was starting to have

some physical issues. I was having some health

problems and some family members were also having

health problems. And for some reason it was like

the perfect storm when she said what she said,

I was like bound and determined that I was going

to be serious about putting in more movement.

And so I had cracked a joke to her that maybe

I would surprise her and do, you know, 20 some

odd hours with her. that during that week, because

the woman is a beast. I mean, I've talked about

Rhonda many times on this podcast. She is a beast

and she teaches an ungodly number of hours of

classes each week. And I think at the time she

was teaching around, I want to say either 22

or 24 hours a week. I don't really remember the

exact number, but I had said that I was going

to just show up to all her classes. And she basically

said to me that I couldn't do it. She told me

that she didn't think I could make it. She wouldn't

recommend it. And I was like, OK, bet. Let's

do this. And I decided that I was going to show

up to all her classes that day, that particular

Monday. And so I did. That morning I had done

two of her classes and then I came back and I

did her evening classes as well. And it hurt.

Oh, man, y 'all, it hurt. But then the next day

she was covering Pilates for another instructor.

And I thought, you know what? I'm going to go

try this out too. And I did, and I stuck around

for it. And then I stuck around for her second

class, which was low impact cardio and toning.

And at the time she was also teaching cardio

drumming, which was the third class of the day.

And I thought, you know what? I'm gonna stick

around. I'm gonna do that one too. And I told

her that I was going to come back that night

and I did. And then I just kept going that week.

I got to a point that I just became absolutely

addicted. I think that what that first week I

did 19 hours, 19 classes with her. And by the

end of it, I was absolutely fatigued. But at

the same time, it had lit a fire under me. It

got me so excited about moving my body. It got

me so excited about the possibilities. And at

some point throughout the week, I just kept saying

more movement, please. I just I don't even remember

how many times I said it, but I was just like,

yeah, more movement, please. Let's go. And so.

I did it again the next week. I didn't do as

many hours, but I did go back the next week and

I did do a lot of hours with her. And it got

to a point where I was becoming addicted to working

out. And I remember how much pain I was in. And

I had said to Rhonda, I was like, how much do

I have to work out so that it doesn't hurt this

bad anymore? And she had made a joke that if

I just, you know, did three full weeks with her

that I'd completely forget about how much pain

I was in, which was not true, but. I guess that

glimmer of hope that I had that it wouldn't hurt

so much. I decided to just keep going. And so

I kept going and I kept showing up and I kept

saying more movement, please. And at some point

I decided, OK, I need to start recording what's

going on as I'm as I'm doing all these workouts.

And it began on Instagram. I started sharing.

Every single day, what I was doing, how I was

working out, I was basically doing an accountability

check -in, not just with other people, but mainly

for myself. I was doing it publicly because I

knew if I kept doing it publicly, I'd be more

likely to show up. Then came day 100. When day

100 hit, I started really recording everything

I was going through. I did an article on Medium

saying the lessons that I'd learned over the

last 100 days. I announced this podcast. I said

that I was going to be doing a podcast about

my experience trying to finally get fit in my

forties. And that's exactly what I did. I launched

the podcast and I didn't really tell anybody

about it except for that article. I mean, yeah,

I had, you know, started recording it and started

putting out episodes and everything, but I didn't

go really, I didn't go ham with telling everyone

about it until I interviewed Rhonda Good. And

when I got to interview her, That's when I knew

I had no choice. I had to put it out there. I

had to go big and tell everyone and their brother

about my pod because I knew that this was special.

I knew that this podcast was more than a thing

about me. It was not just about an audio diary

of what I've been going through. It's become

a movement of movement. That's the whole reason

that I actually launched a Patreon. You can go

to famousastrograph .com backslash group and

you'll learn everything you need to know about

how you can join and all the good things. But

basically, from the beginning, whenever I decided

to launch this podcast, I knew I wanted it to

be more than just audio. I knew that I wanted

it to be more than just me talking about my journey.

I wanted it to be sharing other people's journeys

as well and sharing, you know. All the good stuff,

all the instruction that people had been bestowing

upon me, I wanted to share everything that I'm

learning so that I can keep things going and

keep inspiring people to move their bodies more.

Since the time that we have launched this podcast,

we have not gotten nearly as many downloads as

I hoped we would, but some amazing things have

happened. I've inspired people to go to the gym,

and I've even had people come up to me and tell

me that because of this podcast, they are working

out. And that that's all I need, y 'all. I need

to know that people are working out because of

this show and because of this movement. And that's

also why we launched the Patreon is because I

want this to grow even bigger. And I'm just I'm

just excited about it. And so. I've been celebrating

every single milestone obnoxiously because I

want this to keep being a big thing in my life.

And I want to keep sharing with other people

what it's like to try to get fit in your 40s.

And wherever you are on your fitness journey

right now, I want you to know. It's not too late.

If you're still breathing, you can still move.

And I want you to move. And so day 365 is the