530 - Something Simple to Do When Mental Health Derails You with Frannerd

Creative Pep Talk

Education, Business, Arts, Design

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🗓️ 12 November 2025

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Feeling lost on the creative journey? Download our 7 step Creative Career Path Handbooklet for FREE by signing up to our newsletter: http://andyjpizza.substack.com --- FRANNERD RETURNS! Illustrator, Comic Artist and YouTuber Fran Meneses is a long time friend of the show and it’s been 6 years since her last episode! We dive deep into: 1 - When mental health “gets in the way” of your creative plans and what has seemed to help both of us. 2 - How to think about creative crossroads and let go of things that don’t serve where you want to go and double down on the path you do want to take. 3 - How the pandemic impacted both of our careers and shaped out creative focus moving forward. This chat was a blast and filled me with so much hope and comfort. Hope it does the same for you! SHOW NOTES: Fran Meneses AKA Frannerdhttps://www.frannerd.clhttps://www.instagram.com/frannerd/?hl=enhttps://www.youtube.com/c/FranMeneseshttps://www.patreon.com/frannerd Producer / Editor: Sophie Miller http://sophiemiller.coAudio Editing / Sound Design: Conner Jones http://pendingbeautiful.coSoundtrack / Theme Song: Yoni Wolf / WHY? http://whywithaquestionmark.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is a huge episode because longtime friend of the show, Franerd, is back after a six-year
0:08.4	hiatus.
0:09.4	It wasn't on purpose that we didn't do an episode together in that time.
0:13.0	We actually had had calls and talked a little bit and caught up with each other in that break,
0:18.7	but I'm so thrilled to have Fran back on the show.
0:24.5	We have a similar creative journey in some ways, but over the past five years or so,
0:29.9	we've both been through a lot, but Fran has had a lot of big personal shifts and shifts
0:35.0	in her creative journey and how she relates to her creativity.
0:38.2	And I was just really excited to reconnect and walk through what she's been going through
0:44.4	and learning.
0:45.6	We talk about self-love and how it relates to your creativity.
0:49.1	We talk about a lot of mental health stuff, things like depression and anxiety and what
0:54.1	it's like trying to fit
0:55.2	creativity within that. And so if you struggle with those things, I hope that this episode is a
1:01.7	balm for that and hopefully can, you know, make you feel less alone and then maybe even find
1:10.3	some things that help you manage a little bit of
1:12.2	that. We talk about loving your past work and when you get out of creative crossroads and you have to
1:19.2	let go of something legitimately and choose something else and really double down. We talk a little bit
1:24.6	about aging and in relationship to creativity.
1:28.2	And it was just a great chat, a great reconnection.
1:32.3	And I hope that Fran comes back on the show again soon.
1:35.6	If you don't know Franard, I recommend checking out her comics on Instagram at Franard.
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