Check Out Chelsea Frank’s Story

Today we’d like to introduce you to Chelsea Frank.

Hi Chelsea, we’d love for you to start by introducing yourself.
I started as a standup comedian, which led to a series of writing jobs. Eventually, a blowjob joke of mine fell onto the Twitter screen of a travel editor who looked at it and must have thought, “now that’s a girl who can write about travel.”

I went from pitching TV scripts and doing dating jokes in sad comedy clubs to running around the world traveling for free, which is the greatest scam of all time. After several years writing travel, continuing to pursue TV writing, and getting more into hosting – I now host my own podcast, Globe Thotting, where I’m aiming to bridge my two worlds: travel and comedy.

Can you talk to us a bit about the challenges and lessons you’ve learned along the way. Looking back would you say it’s been easy or smooth in retrospect?
Travel writing has been a dream. Yeah, pitching sucks, but getting to travel like you’re JLO on someone else’s dime is something I will never complain about. As for TV jobs, there have been many times I thought, “this is it!” only to find that this was most certainly not it. The biggest challenge is arguing with the voice in your head that says maybe you should give up and go to grad school – God, there’s just something so humiliating about thinking maybe you’re delusional and maybe you just don’t have “it.” But then someone super talented and funny and brilliant gives you the slightest compliment and you’re like, “oh man, I can’t quit now.”

Appreciate you sharing that. What else should we know about what you do?
I’m a comedy writer and travel writer and recently a podcast host of Globe Thotting with Chelsea Frank (you better rate, review, and subscribe). I am very proud of the pod – it fuses comedy and travel which are my two greatest loves. A listener said, “I don’t even like to travel but I love listening to Globe Thotting for the stories and the bits.” That’s so fun.

There’s a script I’m in the process of pitching now that I am absolutely most proud of. It fuses Judaism and sex and comedy and Legally Blonde references and family baggage and community and identity and terribly offensive jokes in a way that feels most representative of my voice. It may never go anywhere, but it is the best writing I’ve ever done and deeply meaningful to me. If it doesn’t sell, I will take a nap on the freeway.

We’d love to hear about how you think about risk taking?
The biggest risk I’ve ever taken was moving into a two-bedroom apartment with my ex and my rebound. After three weeks, I realized I hated my rebound and dumped him. Then nobody was fucking anybody. But you know, I never signed a lease and I didn’t get pregnant, so it all worked out. It was a good lesson in risk taking: if the chances of ruining your credit or ending up with a baby you don’t want are low, it’s probably fine.

Pursuing a career in writing is a massive risk. There is no formula, no 10-step process, no guarantee you’ll ever make a dime or sell anything or stop being asked, “have you written on anything I would have heard of?”

But I am the perfect balance of mentally ill and super driven, so risk taking is the only option for me. No other pursuit feels worth it to me. Believe me, I’ve tried to flirt with “giving up” a million times. I once considered working in marketing, so it’s gotten real dark.

Risk taking is all about blending logic and intuition. Reason and pros/cons lists and consulting with your most sane friends can only go so far and then it’s just – do I really feel like I can do this? Do I have something to say? Is it worth saying? If I never have a billboard on Sunset/Vine with my face on it, will I still be happy I did this with my life?

Contact Info:

• Website: www.writingbychelseafrank.com / www.globethotting.co
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/chelseafrank/
• Twitter: https://twitter.com/globethottingcf
• Other: https://www.tiktok.com/@globethottingcf?lang=en