When the Answer Is No: Rejection, Resilience, and Staying in Motion

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.