The Unf*ck Your Fitness Podcast

157. Real Talk: Do We All *Really* Have the Same 24 Hours as Beyonce?

• Kristy Castillo

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You’ve probably heard the saying “we all have the same 24 hours in a day”. 


Honestly, this is one of those statements that drives me CRAZY. 


So, I’m just going to come out and say it…


We do NOT all have the same 24 hours in a day.


Sure, we all ‘get’ a total of 24 hours every day, but they do NOT look the same. Not all time is created equal!


I know you have a lot on your plate, but that doesn’t give you permission to use the whole ‘I don’t have time’ excuse indefinitely, either. It’s important to make the most of YOUR 24 hours - especially if your health and fitness is a priority!


You’re not a loser, and you’re not a failure - you just don’t have the same amount of time as Beyonce, or anyone else! 


Thankfully, you DO have time to focus on what really matters to you. Stop waiting for life to be ‘less busy’, and make it happen NOW!



In this episode, we cover:

  • Why being an influencer & building a business online IS a full-time gig
  • Why we don’t *actually* have the same 24 hours as anyone else
  • Making the most of YOUR 24 hours
  • The real ‘time suck’ that is social media
  • Realizing that you probably *won’t* have more time in your schedule as your kids get older


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Speaker 1:

Welcome to the Un-Fuck-Your-Fitness Podcast. I am your host, Christy Castillo, and I'm here to give you real talk and cut the BS so you can actually enjoy building a body you love. I'm a personal trainer obsessed with giving you simple action steps to take you from feeling stuck to feeling sexy. Let's go. Hey guys, what's up?

Speaker 2:

Welcome to today's episode. I'm excited for this one. I'm loving these Friday episodes. They're short, sweet, spicy, they are just kind of something to get you into the weekend. My goal is to kind of get you rolling into the weekend with something either kind of lighthearted or kind of, you know, aggressive, like let's fucking go, you know the baddest version of yourself. And then this week we're going to talk about this premise that we all have the same 24 hours in the day. We all have 24 hours in the day and you know, some of us basically just like get it done.

Speaker 2:

You know, and I want to just come out and quite frankly say we do not all have the same keyword same 24 hours in a day. So let's just get real. I've been seeing this a lot on social media lately and I've been seeing a lot of people getting a little pissed off about it and creating reels that are. You know, I shared one actually a little while ago with just this guy on a swing and you know it was like point of view we all have 24 hours, the same 24 hours in the day, and he's on a swing, just like flipping the camera off. And yeah, I felt that and a lot of my clients felt that. A lot of you following me felt that and I got a lot of a lot of comments on that, because that's something that like we can kind of joke around about it, right, like, yeah, we don't all have the same 24 hours in a day. We all have 24 hours in a day, but it's not just as simple. As you know, I'm getting it done and you're not. And yeah, I mean I do say you know you have to. There's no such thing as motivation. You have to create it. There's no such thing as really having time. You have to create the time. So there's that premise and of course I stand by the fact that, yeah, I mean I would much rather sit on the couch and scroll my phone or go shopping or literally do anything pretty much other than work out, but at the end of the day, like we have to make that decision to go work out. So it has to. You know, you have to create the time and when you have the time, you have to make good use of it, like all of that, all of that realistic stuff. I'm not bypassing any of the things that I've previously said about this, but I do have clients that are like I see so and so working out all the time. I see these people on social media working out all the time my friend has more time and it's really frustrating because you know, I hear this like we have. We all have the same 24 hours in a day and you know, I'm just not finding a way to get it done and I'm like, but do you have the same 24 hours in a day? Let's break it down.

Speaker 2:

And I think it's kind of this joke on social media lately where it's like 20-year-old, let's say female, 20-year-old female fitness influencers where that's their only job. They're not married, they might have a significant other, right, but they don't have kids. This is their job and I'm not saying that an influencer or a fashion influencer or a fashion or I'm sorry, a fitness influencer or what I do as, like, a personal trainer online, it is a full-time job. If that's their job, it is a full-time job. I'm going to actually talk about that for a moment because I think that's important.

Speaker 2:

A lot of people will say like, well, she's just an influencer online If and I'm a 43-year-old personal trainer online but if there is a 20-year-old personal trainer, like an online personal trainer, building her brand. It's a full-time business. So I'm not going to discredit that in the least and I want you to know that too. If, behind the scenes, if she's going to the gym every day and working out and filming that, and then she's editing that, and then she has one-on-one clients and then she has to build workout programs for these clients and we have calls with these clients, and then we have other programs and we have apps and we have podcasts and we have you know, there is a lot. So that is a full-time job. So, yes, that person does have a full-time job and whether she hires those things out to be done great for her right. So that's busy.

Speaker 2:

So I wanna make that very clear that what I do and what other personal trainers online do as their full-time job, it is that a full-time job. I know it looks fun like oh, we're just posting our workouts and like jumping on one-on-one calls. It's a literal job. So I don't. First of all, let me just back myself up there and give us online personal trainers a little credit.

Speaker 2:

But the joke on social media and what I talk about with my clients, you know they're like this 24 hours. We all have 24 hours, but these girls are 20 years old and they don't know what it's like to have kids and sports schedules and you schedules and all the things. That's the difference. And so it's just kind of. This joke is like yeah, well, I'm in my 40s and I have teenage kids and I can't. It's not the same 24 hours. So that's what we're going to talk about. I'm going to be real with you.

Speaker 2:

You do not have the same 24 hours as a full-time working mom and period as anyone else. Okay, so if you are a full-time, even if you're not a working outside the home mom, just a stay at home mom. And I don't mean just like, oh, you're just a stay at home mom. I mean like if you are literally just a stay at home mom and you're not an accountant or you're not an online personal trainer or you're not a banker, whatever if that's your job to stay at home with your children and take care of them in your home that alone is a full-time job as well. Anything on top of that is maddening, right? So we do not have the same 24-hour day as anyone else, as anyone else.

Speaker 2:

So if you ever hear that I was talking to my client, deanna, shout out hey girl this morning and I was telling her that I don't know if you guys remember there was a quote and I believe it was on a coffee cup. I'm going to have to Google that really quick while I'm talking. I believe it was even on a coffee cup that was saying you have the same 24 hours as Beyonce. And I remember literally thinking and I was a lot younger then, but I remember, yep, I just pulled it up it's a coffee cup, it's white and it has you have the same amount of hours in a day as Beyonce. It's this quote, you can Google it you have the same amount of hours in a day as Beyonce. I was thinking it said the same 24 hours as Beyonce. Then there's visuals. So I'm sure some of you guys remember this Girls probably. For sure. I remember seeing that quote you have the same number of hours in a day as Beyonce.

Speaker 2:

And I took that very personal. I was like, wow, I suck. Look at Beyonce. She's out here doing all the things. She's Beyonce, right? This was a long time ago, like I'm saying. So now I would read that and be like, okay, but a little different lifestyle, right. But that being said, I read that quote and thought yeah, I suck, beyonce is killing it and I'm over here basically doing nothing, right? But when you break it down, and no hate to her, of course, but I'm sure she's got maids and I'm sure she basically doing nothing, right. But when you break it down, and no hate to her, of course, but I'm sure she's got maids and I'm sure she's got nutritionists and I'm sure she's got nannies and I'm sure you know what I mean Like it's just different and obviously she works her ass off, but so do I and so do you listening to this. So I remember seeing that quote very, very vividly and taking it to heart and thinking I suck.

Speaker 2:

So it's easy to do, it's easy to see these people online, it's easy to see your friends, it's easy to see people pulling up at the gym, maybe if you're driving by thinking like, oh, my kid's sick, I have to go straight home after work today, so I can't go to the gym, and this person has more time than me, right? You do not have the same. The same. You have the same amount of hours. Yeah, that's very, very true, but they're different. You don't have the same hours. Your hours don't look the same as Beyonce. They don't look the same as me. They don't look the same as your friend. They don't look the same as the 20-year-old influencer online. Your life is different than everybody else's. So you have a pass now from me to you to hear that quote and block the person that says it. You have a pass now from me to you to hear that quote and block the person that says it. You have a pass to not hate on yourself and think that you suck because you don't.

Speaker 2:

But let's take it a little further here and figure out okay, what hours do I have in the day right? To kind of figure this out. Like, if you do have goals which I hope you do, and whatever, let's say obviously we're relating this to fitness If you have goals to change your body, to eat better, to do all the things you only do have 24 hours in the day and you do have to look at your life right now and figure out how can I, with the 24 hours in a day that I have, and the responsibilities that I have and the things that I'm not willing to give up, how do I fit all of that in? And that's where you make your 24 hours count. So don't compare your 24 hours to anyone else's, because it's not the same. But do look at your 24 hours and really make them count, because the weeks go fast and the days are long, but the years are short, right, I always hear that corny quote when it comes to like kids, but it's so true the weeks fly by, the months fly by.

Speaker 2:

I mean, we're already way into February at this point and it's crazy. So we need to make sure that we are making the best use of our time, because it does go by and it's going to be spring and it's going to be summer and we're not going to have the body that we want, we're not going to have done anything towards our goals, because I don't have the time. And some people would just look at that quote and think you know, well, I don't have the same time as them, and they're a 20-year-old fitness influencer and good for them, and they don't have any responsibilities and they don't have a quote-unquote real job and they don't have a quote-unquote real life and they're out of touch with reality, right, a lot of people sit there and kind of make judgments and excuses in that kind of arena, and I don't like that because, yeah, I'm sure that that person does work hard and I'm sure that that person probably shouldn't say we all have the same 24 hours because, like we don't, we don't have the same 24 hours. But it's not an excuse to just say you know well, I don't have time and my 24 hours are crazier than this person's, and you know, shame on that person for even saying that. Like, what an idiot, so out of touch. That's not true and we shouldn't look at it like that. You shouldn't. You know you can kind of, of course, I'm kind of joking about it because it's just one of those things. It's one of those quotes that got to me and it's one of those quotes that gets to a lot of my clients. But at the end of the day, I do want you to you know, maybe take some time. I wasting time.

Speaker 2:

Probably social media. For me it's always going to be social media. I catch myself scrolling and I'm like, why am I doing this? It's okay to scroll, of course, sometimes it's okay to scroll, but it's almost like getting worse. Social media is so out of touch with reality, it's such a time suck that I can't imagine all the things that I would get done if I didn't have it, which would probably kind of be kind of nice. I do like social media, obviously.

Speaker 2:

I work from social media. I've learned a lot on social media. I learn a lot every day on social media. I scroll a lot of fitness accounts and I'm learning things and I'm just like watching people and thinking, wow, people are very, very creative and people are very, very smart and brave for putting themselves out there. And those are the accounts that I follow. That that's how I want to feel when I'm. It's kind of like the people you surround yourself in real life, like the five people you surround yourself with the closest are the people that you are most alike. I kind of feel like that online, the people that you are watching the most online, make sure they are people that you really either enjoy. I have I cannot think of their names, but I have this account. It's a mom and a little boy and I know he has a cochlear implant and he's so, so sweet and I love to watch their accounts because they're just so cute together. They're dynamic. And then I have like three fitness influencers that I follow that I can kind of go to their page and watch their stories and kind of scroll through their information and it's so good and it's they're very smart, they're very knowledgeable, they're very well spoken and it's very, very good content.

Speaker 2:

Otherwise, I find myself just kind of scrolling and scrolling and scrolling, and for what? So take a look at your 24 hours, make it count, do a little audit, see where you need to make some pivots and some adjustments, if there are things that you want to do. If you're like I can't meal prep because I don't have the time, and that's fine, I like to say that I don't have the time either, but I could. I could have the time, I could make the time. I don't want to, because I want to do other things with that time. But if you're finding, if really getting pissed that somebody else has more time in their day, or better time in their day or different time in their day, right, they have time. They don't, you know, have as many kids, they don't have as many responsibilities, blah, blah, blah, blah, that's fine. It doesn't mean that their life is easy. It doesn't mean that they are, you know, just able to, like, fuck around all day. It means that they are using what the time that they do have and the resources that they do have. So make things simple. If you want to meal prep, figure out how to do it simply. If you're like I can't meal prep, I don't have the time, then figure out how to hit your macros without meal prepping. That's what I had to do. Figure out how to work out three to four days a week instead of five to seven. So make your 24 hours count.

Speaker 2:

Absolutely the premise of this, but also kind of did want to shit on that subject of we all have 24 hours. They're the same 24 hours in the day because we quite simply do not. I know, as I remember being a hairstylist and getting home from my job and I didn't have kids yet or anything I would get home, I would go for a run and kind of have all this free time I could cook and I just did different things, of course, back in the day and then had kids and they're babies and you're trying to navigate that whole world and my body is different. My time is different. If I do have time set aside to work out, my baby would start crying or whatever it is. It's like life doesn't really go your way anymore. Or, yeah, I guess it's like life is kind of taking on. You're taking on a different role, so life looks different.

Speaker 2:

I was based around, you know, my daughter's feeding schedule and then I had two kids and so then my daughter's hungry and then I have to, you know, breastfeed my son, or whatever it's like. Life gets crazy. And then they're toddlers and I'm trying to figure out how to make this 24 hours work. I still want to work out, I still want to hang out with my kids, I still have to go to work. How do I make all of this work? And it was really hard. And then my kids get a little bit older and they start little sports. They were in little soccer leagues and t-ball and then my evenings are taken up. So this time where I would get home from work and be home and cook and clean a little bit and do laundry and do my workout, now became t-ball and soccer and things about the kids and we'd have music stuff and dance lessons or whatever right, and it just compounds over time.

Speaker 2:

You don't have more time. You won't have more time. Don't wait until later, don't wait until, oh, my 24 hours. You know, we'll clear up a little bit, I'll have. It'll seem like I have more time in the day Once my kids start school, I'll have more time. You won't. You have literally the same amount of time. You have 24 hours in a day. Yeah, they're going to go to school, but something's going to take that time up. You used to do something with it before and you'll find something to do with it again. Unless it's on purpose, that time won't count. I with it again. Unless it's on purpose, that time won't count.

Speaker 2:

I remember thinking, oh, my kids will be in school, I'll have so much free time. I don't remember ever feeling like I had free time Since I've had children. I don't remember feeling like I've had free time. And that's just how it is. And we've navigated through elementary school and middle school and now I've went all the way through high school and I'm telling you, life gets busier. It doesn't get easier, it gets harder, it gets busier. Time goes faster as your kids get older. So it's really a good idea to get a good handle on the 24 hours that you have and realize that. I hope that kind of smacks you in the face a little bit.

Speaker 2:

To be honest, I wish someone would have literally sat me down and said you will not have more time. In fact, as your children get older and you grow and you have things that you want to do and you change. You will have the same 24 hours in a day, but you'll have less time. You'll have less time. You'll have more laundry. You'll have more groceries to buy. You'll have more mouths to feed. You'll have more conversations. You'll have more laundry. You'll have more groceries to buy. You'll have more mouths to feed. You'll have more conversations. You'll have more sports activities. You'll have more family activities. You'll have more. You'll have more shit to do period.

Speaker 2:

I wish I would have known that sooner, and I never really had expectations of having a shit ton of time to myself, but I did always think as my kids get older, they won't need me as much. I'll have more time to myself. But I did always think as my kids get older, they won't need me as much. I'll have more time to myself. And, yeah, they don't need me as much. And no, I don't have more time to myself.

Speaker 2:

Maybe that's my fault for starting an online business that I run by myself, essentially, so maybe that's on me, but I think if I went to the salon to go to work right now, still it would be the exact same. I would feel the exact same. I would have the same workload that I do now, and so, yeah, that's just a little bit of real talk. We do not have the same 24 hours in a day. You don't have the same 24 hours as Beyonce. I'm going to put that on a coffee cup because that's crazy to look at and think you have the same amount of time in the day as Beyonce. I'm going to put that on a coffee cup because that's crazy to look at and think you have the same amount of time in the day as Beyonce. I mean, yeah, but way to put that on a coffee cup and make me feel like a loser. Whoever did that, that's crazy, I don't know.

Speaker 2:

Anyways, I hope this was a little short, sweet, spicy episode to get you through the weekend. You're not a failure, you're not a loser. You just don't have the same amount of time as anyone else, but you do have the time. So what do you want to do with it? What do you want to do with it? It's totally up to you. Just don't complain about the results you didn't get from the work you didn't put in. And we'll end on that. I'll talk to you in the next episode. Bye in and we'll end on that.

Speaker 1:

I'll talk to you in the next episode. Bye, thanks for listening to today's show. Go ahead and leave a rating and a review and, of course, follow the podcast so you don't miss out on any future episodes. And I would love it so much if you came to connect with me over on Instagram at ChristyCastilloFit. I will see you next time.