Transcript: Why I Record This From My Car: The Story Behind the Mess

So let me get this straight. You talk to us from your car? 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 today I kind of want to talk about the story behind the mess and the mess being me and this podcast. Why is it not a more professional show? Why is it not more? produced and highly curated and all that jazz.

And I kind of want to tell you guys exactly what's going on. Reader's Digest version. The reason that I record this podcast from my car most of the time is because it's the way I get it done. It's kind of like with the working out. I have to do things a certain way to make sure they get done. I keep all of the the working out in my calendar because if it's not in the calendar, it will not happen. I know this about myself.

This is something I have learned that if I don't have an appointment with myself, I will talk myself out of it. I will tell or I'll forget about it completely. I mean, that's the ADHD brain in me, but it's just the facts that I have to have these things in my calendar or they do not exist. With the recording in my car, it is the lowest barrier to entry to make sure that I get my story out there. I chose to record from my car simply because I knew that that would actually make me do it. And so every single time I'm on my way to the gym or on my way home, I always have my podcast microphones in my car with me so that I can easily plug them into my phone and just riff on the mic. Just get going.

And I can stop anywhere. And if I need to interview someone, I can do it because the microphones that I have. I can clip onto myself and another person and they both connect to my phone easily. It's a very simple way to just get it going. And so the big thing that I want you to take away from this is not so much that I'm recording it from my car. It's that I am taking away every excuse I could possibly have to keep me from doing it. And so it's the same with fitness.

I have to take away all excuses and make myself do the work. And the best way to do that is to set myself up for success. So if you are listening to this and you're considering getting started with your fitness journey, add it to your calendar, make an appointment with yourself, start getting your clothes out the night before, start making the plan the day before, or even a week ahead if you need to. Whatever you've got to do to make it so that you actually do the work, start doing it. If you have a fitness goal, You just got to plan for it. Because what is it that saying is? A dream without a plan is just a wish. Make it happen. Make a plan. Get to work. Same thing with any dream you may have for your career or your home life. Whatever it may be, if you start removing those barriers, it's that much easier to get stuff done. And that's the whole reason that this podcast is recorded from my car. The

other reason, I'll be honest with you guys, is because... I don't want to forget what I'm thinking whenever I'm thinking it. I want to actually be able to quickly say what's in my mind so that you get the raw and the real and the mess, honestly. You get the, while I'm in the thick of things, while I'm thinking about things, you hear them as they are in real time so that you don't get a polished, curated lie. And unfortunately, I have to just put it that way because the truth is... Some of the fitness content that I consume, it is so highly polished that it feels like nobody can live up to that level of standard. And so this podcast will never be a perfectly polished, beautiful thing. It's always going to be a mess.

And that's because it's real. It's raw and it's real. And I never want to lose that because I can't help but feel like if I start making this a perfect polished thing, that it will start becoming a lie. it will start feeling unachievable. And I want you guys to know I'm in the mess with you. This is raw and real because it's what I'm actually going through. This isn't something where I'm putting together a perfect highlight reel that you're gonna see on social media and feel like crap about yourself. This is what's actually happening. That's why I share the failures.

It's why I share the wins. And it's why I don't ever intend to stop doing it the way that I'm doing it. And honestly, if it starts feeling too polished, I kind of want to be called out on it because I don't want this to feel unachievable. I don't want this to feel like something you can't do because you can do it. And I believe in you and I want you to get started right now. I don't care if you don't have the perfect gym clothes. I don't care if you don't have the perfect water bottle and the most adorable thing that you saw on the TikTok shop or the Instagram shop or whatever it may be. You don't have to be.

Fitness Barbie. I mean, that's kind of been a joke that I've been having with my husband lately because I was looking at some different workout gear and I was like, oh my goodness, if I wore this, I would look like Fitness Barbie. There's nothing wrong with looking like Fitness Barbie if you want to, but don't let that impression, that idea that you have in your head of what you're supposed to look like stop you from working out. I want you to just go and do it. Like, I don't care what you're wearing. Obviously, please wear clothes. But I want you to actually just put in the work. So don't make it polished. It doesn't have to be. I don't care if your hair is not done. I don't care if you're not wearing nail polish. I don't care, you know, if you have the perfect shoes or the cutest matching outfit.

The whole point is start putting in the work. The only person holding you back is you. And I don't want that for you. I want you to start putting in the work. Show up for yourself. Do it messy. Do it raw. Do it real. Just do it. Happy day 365. I can't believe we made it here. I'm just, I'm floored by how, how much has happened in the last year. And I, I'm so looking forward to year two. This is episode 100. Thank you guys so much for being here this last year with me and on this journey. We're probably going to go back to the regular cadence that we were at before I amped things up to try to make sure that this was episode 100 on day 365. It's looking like it's going to be Mondays and Wednesdays again that I'll release episodes again going forward. But there's lots more content that will be coming to the Patreon. If you are not a Patreon member yet, it's free to join. We're going to be doing accountability posts and all kinds of