Today we’d like to introduce you to Gregory Ashley.
Hi Gregory, so excited to have you on the platform. So, before we get into questions about your work-life, maybe you can bring our readers up to speed on your story and how you got to where you are today?
I started my fitness journey like most former athletes in school. I have played basketball football baseball soccer but my passion is track and field the sprints (like to get in there and get it over with asap) I created Humble Deray fitness in 2015 but never went live until 2022. It is a lifestyle brand that focuses on mental and fitness. My mother suffers from mental health issues as do most of my family. I myself have anxiety and mild depression. But the gym makes me fill like I can definitely manage it. I created this brand to have a community of like-minded former or new athletes or moms dads humans in general can come and support each other through our individual problems together this brain is more than lifting weights it’s about lifting yourself up all those troubles you have all those worries you have that anxiety that depression that suicidal thought put it all on a bar and we left a pound for pound together if that’s group meditation or words of affirmation for each other or just going in there and hit the weights it’s about community fitness but most of all mental health
We all face challenges, but looking back would you describe it as a relatively smooth road?
It definitely has not been a smooth row based off of the fact that it’s dealing with mental health but once you figure out a way to understand what your mental health issues are and you own them and you have a community around you to help you get through it also then it becomes easier because no one really can lift a weight by themselves sometimes you got to have you a spotter
As you know, we’re big fans of Humble deray fitness. For our readers who might not be as familiar what can you tell them about the brand?
The brand that I have created is called humble deray fitness we are community-based fitness lifestyle brand we specialize in mental health and how it impacts us and how fitness can help ease that just a little bit along with counseling of course we are known for the goat like mentality which means I don’t wanna be the greatest of all time I wanna be the greatest of my time because trying to please everyone else will create more anxiety and more depression and more insecurities but if I focus on myself making myself better eating better sleeping better meditating more speaking to myself better then I’ll become goatlike I want the readers to understand that you don’t have to walk this journey Alone whether you are a single mom a single dad or a auntie for the first time or a first time gym Gore you have a community here who supports you through your mental health journey through fitness in camaraderie We make clothing For our community because the first thing that you want to do in the morning is look good do you want to look good going to the gym when I look good going to the store when I look back on your walk wanna look good on your date so we start with clothing what you can check out at humblederayfitness.com
We’d love to hear about what you think about risk-taking?
Taking a Risks in life are necessary because without taking Risks you are not really living you are more so just being I feel like you’ll never know the outcome if you never take that step forward taking a step forward may feel Like you were having crazy anxiety but that crazy anxiety that you’re having Is you being afraid of a risk you haven’t taken yet you can’t be afraid of the future before you can deal with the present so done with the present has taken at risk and see what happens
Contact Info:
- Website: Humblederayfitness.com
- Instagram: Humblederayfitness_
- Facebook: Humblederayfitness
