Transcript: What Started as a Digital Diary Became a Movement | More Movement Please 2026 Plans

What's up you guys, famous Ashley Grant here.

Welcome to More Movement Please, the podcast

where I hope to inspire you to move your body

more. Well, happy new year. I know that the first

episode of the year already went live a couple

of days ago, but believe it or not, that was

actually recorded last year. I try to do this

thing where I batch record as many episodes in

advance as possible. And thank goodness I do

because I actually got sick. And while I was

sick, I was unable to record. And I mean, yeah,

I probably could have recorded, but it would

have sounded awful. And you may still hear that

I'm a little bit scratchy in the throat, but

I'm a lot better than I was. And so I just kind

of wanted to hop on here and say Happy New Year

and welcome to 2026. I am so excited about this

year. My word of the year is movement. And for

the longest time, I actually stopped having a

word of the year. And the reason for that is

because I had a word of the decade a while back.

That word was experiment. And the idea was that

I was starting to get so scared of every single

thing that I wanted to do that I decided, you

know what, from now on, I'm just going to start

saying that things are an experiment so that

I wouldn't be so scared to do everything. So

anyway, sadly came the trope for a while is that

my word of the decade was experiment. And I still

am subscribing to that idea that I want to treat

everything as an experiment because the reality

is that is exactly what life is, right? Life

is an experiment. It's a series of experiments.

And if we treat it as such, then it's not so

scary to do all the things that we want to do

because everything's a possibility. Everything,

you know, is possible. And so I still contend

that my life is an experiment. However, my word

of the year is movement. And the reason for that

is because I really want to inspire people to

move more. That's the whole point of the podcast,

right? Is that I want... I want to inspire people

to start moving their bodies more. And so that's

kind of what I'm going to be working on all year

is encouraging people to move. I actually have

a meeting this week with a potential sponsor

for a different podcast that I'm planning on

launching. But doing that, like just going through

that process is getting me inspired for how I

will work on monetizing this podcast. And the

reason for... trying to get this monetized is

I really want to make it more feasible and more

sustainable because the truth is, even though

I am recording these episodes in my car, it does

take some time to, you know, do the processing

of this audio to put it through the program that

I use to enhance the speech, to go through the

process of creating the show notes, creating

the descriptions, promoting it on social media.

All of that takes time and energy. And I really

want to make this podcast more of a movement

in the sense that I want people to know about

it and hear about it and have the opportunity

to hear my journey and hear, you know, any guests

that I may bring on. You know, the very first

guest I had was Rhonda, who's my instructor here

at the Y. And I want to interview more people

like that is a huge goal of mine for 2026 is

to interview other people and find out, you know,

about their journeys in fitness. I've actually

already talked to a In their 70s, I want to talk

to them because I do find it fascinating that

there are people that are older than me that

are so much stronger than I am. And they're like

what I aspire to be whenever I grow up, right?

I really want to interview them just to talk

about, you know, fitness in your older years.

So I'm hopeful that throughout 2026, I'll be

able to interview more people. And I do want

to start, you know. doing more episodes. And

to be able to do that, I do have to monetize

this. So I'm just letting you guys know in advance

that this is coming. I will be trying to find

affiliate partnerships that make sense. I will

be trying to find mutually beneficial partnerships

for monetization. And that's not from a perspective

of just trying to be a sellout. It is just, you

know, as content creators, we do spend a lot

of time and energy and even passion projects

have to be monetized in order for them to be

sustainable. So if you know anybody that would

be interested in potentially, you know, partnering

with me for this podcast. I would love it if

you'd send them my way. You can find me pretty

much on any social media channel as at Famous

Ashley Grant. And if you can't find me at Famous

Ashley Grant, just search Famous Ashley Grant

and I'm sure you'll still find me. I also have

FamousAshleyGrant .com and you guys can find

me on that website. So hit me up. I would love

to talk to anybody and everybody who would help