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.

Let’s talk about distraction.

And not the dramatic kind—

I’m not talking about the smoke alarm going off or a sick kid or something genuinely urgent.

I mean the sneaky, everyday stuff.

Phone games.

Social media scrolling.

Checking email again.

Staring off into space pretending you’re “thinking creatively.”

Or doing busywork that feels productive… but doesn’t actually move the needle on your revenue.

So, how do we recognize distractions, how can we minimize them, and how do we keep them from sucking away our precious time and energy?

In this episode, I'll suggest some new habits to adopt.

Yes, it’s uncomfortable at first. New habits always are.

But stick with it.

The reward is more finished work… and more actual free time later.

If you want to follow along with the exercises from today’s workout, here is a guide to neck stretches, overhead arm stretches, chest to back stretch, hamstring sweeps, over the fence, and thoracic twists, all beginner-friendly and equipment-free.

Link to Paul Schmidt's business coaching website.

Written and Hosted by: Alison Pentecost

Theme Song: Snakes and Fire by Pär Hagström

Playlist: Airae

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.

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.

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.

All right, what's on your agenda for today? For the week? Are you checking off that To Do list, or is the pile of tasks just rolling over, and growing, like a cartoon snowball rolling downhill?

Having business goals is one thing; making a plan is another. And executing that plan is another thing entirely. When we miss a mark or a milestone, it's easy to beat ourselves up about it and maybe avoid the task entirely.

What can we do to hold ourselves accountable in our creative business without beating ourselves up when we fall a bit short? Let's find some direction and motivation in an upper-body workout designed to build strength and discipline.

So how do we work with these obstacles instead of pretending they don’t exist?

• Break tasks down until they feel almost too easy
• Set reminders instead of relying on motivation
• Decide in advance when and how you’ll work on your business
• Share your goals with someone who will actually ask you about them

You don’t need more motivation. You need better systems.

Links to exercise guides are here: French Door to Shoulder Press, Rotator Cuff Goal Posts, Plank walk, Super humans, Tricep dips, Overhead Arm Stretch.

If you're a voiceover artist looking for an accountability coach, check out my friend Billie Jo Konze!

Written and Hosted by: Alison Pentecost

Theme Song: Snakes and Fire by Pär Hagström

Playlist: Siine

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 scarcity thinking. That quiet belief that there’s only so much opportunity to go around.

A lot of creative freelancers carry this belief without even realizing it.

Scarcity thinking shrinks your decisions.

It leads to:

• underpricing because you’re afraid to lose the job
• overworking because you feel replaceable
• saying yes to projects that drain you
• copying others instead of trusting your voice

This episode gives you simple, practical steps to help you stick to your goals, bypass short-term thinking and play the long game.

Today’s run, or walk, will hopefully dispel the scarcity thinking myth, liberating that defensive, bitter energy for much better use.

Progression isn’t about speed. It’s about staying honest as the terrain changes.

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: Heyson

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 I'll be borrowing from the great tradition of yoga and coaching Sun Salutations. These movement sequences are great for warming up the muscles in our entire body, as well as grounding and relaxing us.

Today I'll be talking about new beginnings. Or, resets. Because you don't need to start from scratch to feel the nerves and the doubt.

I've felt it. I'm feeling it right now. New Year. New Plans. Branching out in my business. Closing out things that weren't working (hello, doubt!) and moving into new areas (hello, terror!)

However, since waiting and stagnating aren't helping my business grow, I've had to learn how to manage those feelings while adapting, pivoting, shifting, and ultimately moving forward.

This episode will set you up for a simple New Year reset.

You don’t need a perfect start. You just need an honest one.

If you want to follow along with the exercises from today’s workout, here is a guide to sun salutations, all beginner-friendly and equipment-free.

Written and Hosted by: Alison Pentecost

Theme Song: Snakes and Fire by Pär Hagström

Playlist: bomull

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.

New year, new strength, new clarity. Today’s workout is all about effort, and intention — and your business goals need that same energy. This week we're doing a New Year New You calorie burn strength workout,

You have goals for this year. Maybe vague, maybe very clear. But, even if you have the grit and determination, and I know you do because you pressed play on this podcast, how do you achieve them?

You need a plan. A plan with clear outlined steps and measurable goals to keep you on track.

This episode gives you simple, practical steps how to:

• Picturing your goal
• Identifying distractions
• Sketching a simple business plan
• Tracking your reality
• Correcting course with curiosity, and not shame

Links to exercise guides are here: squats, forward lunges, push-ups, lateral lunges, and squats with a calf raise.

Written and Hosted by: Alison Pentecost

Theme Song: Snakes and Fire by Pär Hagström

Playlist: I'MIN

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.