Freelance Fitness

Freelance Fitness

di Alison Pentecost

Imprenditoria Fitness

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Martyrdom: Clients don't care if you fell on your sword to deliver

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. Talking about martyrdom might sound a little dramatic, right? But in freelancing—and in fitness—it shows up more often than we think. Your clients have their own worries and deliverables. There'll be moments when deadlines loom and you’ll be up later than usual. But regularly falling on your sword for your clients? That’s neither going to win you praise, nor do you any good in the long term. How to deliver without over-sacrificing? Links to exercise guides are here: child's pose, cat-cow, down dog, overhead arm stretch. Written and Hosted by: Alison Pentecost Theme Song: Snakes and Fire by Pär Hagström Playlist: Fleurs Douces 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.

The Numbers Game: Track Progress Without Losing Perspective

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 doing an upper-body strength workout. And it's for all fitness levels with plenty of options for you to choose from. Today I want to talk about stats. We talk a lot about numbers in business. Income. Leads. Followers. Website traffic. And yes, those numbers matter. But any one number doesn't tell the whole story. There's so much data out there. How can we focus on the right numbers so we have a clear idea whether or not we're on the right track? Links to exercise guides are here: pushups, super humans, plank march, tricep dips. Written and Hosted by: Alison Pentecost Theme Song: Snakes and Fire by Pär Hagström Playlist: Adelyn Paik 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.

From Workshop to Workflow: Practical Steps to Apply What You've Learned

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'll be running, and challenging oursleves by picking up the pace during the chorus of the songs on the playlist. Today, I want to talk about levelling up your skill set, but there is a big hurdle that comes afterward that I think gets overlooked: When you're so busy, how do you integrate this great new knowledge into your workflow? 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: Mimmi Bangoura 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.

When to Say No: The Freelance Survival Skill You Didn’t Know You Needed

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'll be working on lower body mobility, because we all have hips and we'd all like them to feel less tight. And can we talk about saying no? Turning down work or not auditioning for a job? As freelancers, a large part of our job is looking out for the next gig, because that's how we generate income and income is how we pay our bills. But it can sometimes feel like we have to shoot at all the targets for fear of missing out. I think it's important to have healthy boundaries. Links to video exercise guides are here: Over the Fence, Butterfly Pose, Pigeon Pose, Laying Figure Four. Written and Hosted by: Alison Pentecost Theme Song: Snakes and Fire by Pär Hagström Playlist: Colors of Illusion 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.

How Not To Screw Up Your First Long Form Project Like I Did

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 doing a lower-body strength workout. Working one side at a time. Isolating one side at a time forces to acknowledge our weaker side, which allow us to strengthen it individually, and not to always compensate with our dominate side. Also, I want to talk about long form projects, and how they are NOT the equivalent of a bunch of small projects stuck together. When all you've booked up to now are smaller, shorter projects, there are pitfalls you'll want to avoid. Links to guides for all of this week's exercises are here: Squats, Good Mornings, Split Squats, Curtsey Squat, Single Leg Deadlift, Forward Lunge. Written and Hosted by: Alison Pentecost Theme Song: Snakes and Fire by Pär Hagström Playlist: Bhris Drip 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.

No Shortcuts, Just Standards: Integrity Clients Can Rely On

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. In this episode, I guide you through a run while I make the argument that integrity is not just good for your mind, body and soul, but also your business. So let's talk integrity, why it matters, and how we can ensure we're holding true to our standards, Link to a dynamic warmup video exercise guide is here. Link to a cooldown stretching video guide is here. Written and Hosted by: Alison Pentecost Theme Song: Snakes and Fire by Pär Hagström Playlist: Def Lev 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.

Special Summer Out of Office Episode!

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'm taking a break from my regularly scheduled Freelance Fitness podcasts to bring you an episode where there'll be no work talk, no fitness talk, just lounging, strolling, frolicking, or grooving to fun summer beats. Whatever you want to do while I ramble on about things that aren't work-related like travel and festivals. Don't we all need a break from our regularly scheduled week sometimes? Come for the anecdotes, stay for the music! Written and Hosted by: Alison Pentecost Theme Song: Snakes and Fire by Pär Hagström Playlist: It Feels Like Summer by Sum Wave, Party On the Block by Wai, We Came to Party by Basixx feat. Ella Faye and AFTERPARTY by dasloe. 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.

Failure doesn't have to be the end of your client relationship

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 doing a mobility workout. 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. And we'll be discussing what to do when we fail in our freelance business. How can we rebuild lost trust and retain a client we've let down? Link to a video exercise guide is here. Written and Hosted by: Alison Pentecost Theme Song: Snakes and Fire by Pär Hagström Playlist: Bonkers Beat Club 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.

Motivation: What to do when you don't want to do

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 doing an isometric strength workout, that's a workout where we're going to contract the muscle and hold the position to build our muscular endurance. While we examine factors that can affect our motivation and some of the things we can do about it. Link to a video exercise guide is here. Written and Hosted by: Alison Pentecost Theme Song: Snakes and Fire by Pär Hagström Playlist: Victor Lundberg 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.

Detours: Even some of the best laid plans meet a roadblock

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 I'll be coaching a do-it-anywhere cardio workout while discussing ways to deal with the detours and potholes that can get in the way of our freelance business milestones. Link to a video exercise guide is here. Written and Hosted by: Alison Pentecost Theme Song: Snakes and Fire by Pär Hagström Playlist: Lawd Ito 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.

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