Freelance Fitness is your weekly 10-minute movement break designed for creative freelancers, voice actors, designers, writers, editors, and anyone who spends their days creating, producing, and problem-solving. Hosted by freelance voiceover artist and former fitness instructor Alison Pentecost, each episode blends mindset coaching, creative productivity, and simple exercises you can do anywhere.

Just because the work is piling up and deadlines are looming, doesn't mean we should risk injuring ourselves. Because if we're down for the count, then whose going to do that special thing that we do for our clients?

This week, we're doing a core strength workout because the core is our powerhouse. And it helps support so many of our other muscles. With a strong core, we risk less injury.

Creative freelance injuries can be sneaky.

They start off as just this nagging soreness.

Lower back pain from long hours sitting or standing.

Neck tension from prolonged computer use that turns into headaches.

Wrist, elbow, or shoulder pain from editing, mousing, tapping, or gripping.

Foot and knee pain from long days on set.

As freelancers, there’s no HR department watching out for us. No sick days that don’t cost us money. No one telling us to stop before we hit the wall.

If your body goes down — the business goes with it.

Your body is not separate from your creativity. Your health is not optional overhead.

It’s the asset.

Links to exercise guides are here: Seated Back Extensions, Seated Cross Body Crunches, Bird Dogs, Dead Bugs, Mountain Climbers, Bicycle Crunches, Super Humans, Child's Pose.

Written and Hosted by: Alison Pentecost

Theme Song: Snakes and Fire by Pär Hagström

Playlist: Tusabe

To learn more about my voiceover services — including commercial, corporate, e-learning, and narration work — visit www.alisonpentecost.com. Questions or feedback? Email podcast@alisonpentecost.com or connect with me on LinkedIn.

Freelance Fitness is your weekly 10-minute movement break designed for creative freelancers, voice actors, designers, writers, editors, and anyone who spends their days creating, producing, and problem-solving. Hosted by freelance voiceover artist and former fitness instructor Alison Pentecost, each episode blends mindset coaching, creative productivity, and simple exercises you can do anywhere.

Today we’re talking about peak performance, or at least the feeling of it.

But a lot of creators dream about becoming the best at something. And sometimes that quest for the summit, can make us forget all of the small steps of forward progress, or the sections of plateau, that actually make up the life of a creative freelancer.

Where the idea of perfection really messes with us is when it convinces us that we need to arrive before we’re allowed to participate.

That we need peak performance all the time.

But progress doesn’t work like that.

Progress looks like repetition.

Just like this run.

Ask yourself:

What can I put out today that’s good enough?

What can I repeat this week?

What small adjustment could make things slightly better next time?

Running posture checklist is here.

Links to warm up exercise guides are here: Hamstring Sweeps, Dynamic Knee Hugs, Dynamic Quad Stretch.

Links to cooldown stretches are here: Standing Figure Four, Standing Hamstring Stretch, Static Quad Stretch.

Written and Hosted by: Alison Pentecost

Theme Song: Snakes and Fire by Pär Hagström

Playlist: Master One

To learn more about my voiceover services — including commercial, corporate, e-learning, and narration work — visit www.alisonpentecost.com. Questions or feedback? Email podcast@alisonpentecost.com or connect with me on LinkedIn.

Freelance Fitness is your weekly 10-minute movement break designed for creative freelancers, voice actors, designers, writers, editors, and anyone who spends their days creating, producing, and problem-solving. Hosted by freelance voiceover artist and former fitness instructor Alison Pentecost, each episode blends mindset coaching, creative productivity, and simple exercises you can do anywhere.

This week we're talking about rejection.

You bid on it. You auditioned for it. You wrote the spec script. You built the rough cut, the demo, the animation, the proposal...And you didn’t land the gig.

Maybe you got a reply. A polite “we went another direction.”

Or absolutely nothing. No reply at all. That's the usual deal with voiceover auditions.

And you're just left hanging, wondering, why?

And even when you know rejection is part of the business, it still hits.

Sometimes harder than we expect.

So, how can we acknowledge that rejection sucks, without letting it eat away at us and our self-confidence, and maybe, even use it to our advantage?

Let's loosen up our hips and spine with some tension-releasing stretches and figure out how to spend less energy chasing — and more energy attracting.

Clear messaging.

Confident positioning.

Rejection doesn’t mean stop. It means recalibrate.

Clarify.

And keep moving.

If you want to follow along with the exercises from today’s workout, here is a guide to cat-cows, thread the needle, seated spinal twist, butterfly pose and pigeon pose, all beginner-friendly and equipment-free.

Written and Hosted by: Alison Pentecost

Theme Song: Snakes and Fire by Pär Hagström

Playlist: OTE

To learn more about my voiceover services — including commercial, corporate, e-learning, and narration work — visit www.alisonpentecost.com. Questions or feedback? Email podcast@alisonpentecost.com or connect with me on LinkedIn.