Episode 31Jan 21, 2026· 5:07
We're All Gonna Die Anyway: Why Mortality Should Motivate Your Fitness
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What if your doctor called you a "ticking time bomb"? Host Famous Ashley Grant shares her raw, honest story of going from crippling pain just standing up from a chair to reclaiming her health in six months. After recent losses forced her to confront her own mortality, Ashley realized before amping up her fitness efforts, she wasn't living, she was barely surviving in a body that hurt to simply exist.
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Full transcript
00:07
What's up, you guys? Famous Astro Grant here.
00:09
Welcome to More Movement, Please, the podcast
00:10
where I hope to inspire you to move your body
00:12
more. Today, I want to talk about something a
00:15
little bit depressing, and that is that we are
00:17
all going to die. Oh, what a way to open a podcast,
00:21
right? But I guess the thing is, mortality has
00:24
been on my mind lately because I've suffered
00:26
some losses, and I've just been... Having like
00:30
those existential crises lately where what are
00:33
we doing on the planet? What's our what's our
00:35
point of being here? What's our purpose? Blah,
00:36
blah, blah. And it's been heavy on my mind that
00:40
just six months ago, I wasn't really living.
00:44
I was surviving. And it's because I was so out
00:48
of shape. It was because I was so physically
00:50
unfit. It was because I. I was not enjoying the
00:55
quality of life that. I am now because of the
01:01
fact that I had let myself get so out of shape.
01:05
So my big message today is that if we're going
01:09
to die anyway, shouldn't we do everything that
01:12
we can to be as healthy as possible while we're
01:16
still here? Shouldn't we do everything that we
01:19
can to take care of ourselves so that someone
01:22
else doesn't have to pick up the slack? So we
01:25
don't have to be a burden on others. I feel like
01:29
if I had kept going on the path I was on, I would
01:35
have had a heart attack in just a matter of years.
01:39
I mean, even my doctor called me a ticking time
01:41
bomb. And recently I had to go to the doctor
01:45
for something. And she said that for the first
01:50
time in as long as I can remember, she said my
01:52
blood pressure was normal. That's big for me.
01:57
I remember so clearly how painful everything
02:01
was six months ago. And don't get me wrong, I'm
02:03
in pain right now, but that's because I'm the
02:05
moron that took five classes yesterday. So of
02:07
course I'm going to be in a little bit of pain
02:09
today. But the pain I'm feeling right now is
02:12
so much better than the pain I was feeling six
02:15
months ago. It feels so much better to be in
02:19
pain from exercising. than it did from just standing
02:25
up. When I tell you that getting up from my chair
02:30
was painful, walking from my chair to the bed
02:36
or the bathroom or the kitchen or whatever, when
02:39
I tell you that was painful, that is not an overstatement.
02:43
That is not an exaggeration. I really was having
02:46
significant pain just existing. I don't want
02:52
that anymore. And I don't want that for you.
02:55
So with the years I have left in my life, I want
02:59
to make my body as fit as possible so that I
03:03
can handle the years I have left in my life.
03:06
So I can feel strong and confident that I'm not
03:10
going to end up having a heart attack or having
03:15
high blood pressure and needing medication so
03:18
that I can feel. confident knowing that I'm okay
03:24
I can lift groceries without help that I can
03:30
lift even the picture of of the Brita picture
03:35
of water without help I mean it was even getting
03:38
that bad guys like I I was having so much trouble
03:40
lifting anything I was having so much trouble
03:42
like walking it was ridiculous it was absolutely
03:46
ridiculous and I just, I guess that's why I'm
03:51
so passionate about sharing this. If we're going
03:54
to die anyway, let's live our lives as best as
03:58
we can and get more life in our lives. So if
04:02
you're listening to this and you haven't started
04:05
moving, start. If you're listening to this and
04:08
you're thinking about moving, start. If you're
04:11
listening to this and you already move, great.
04:15
Keep going. Keep doing it. Add in more movement.
04:19
More movement, please. Because the more we move
04:22
our bodies, the more that we are enhancing our
04:25
bodies. We're strengthening our bodies. We're
04:27
taking care of our bodies. I want that for you.
04:30
I want that for all of us. Onwards and upwards,
04:33
my friends. Have you worked out today?
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