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Chickbook Creative Weekly MindSweep Postcast
by Jamie Chapman
The Weekly MindSweep is a space where creativity meets clarity. Each week, we explore a single theme that matters to heart-centered and neurodivergent entrepreneurs—breaking it down into approachable insights you can actually use. Every month follows a rhythm: Week 1: Define the concept and why it matters. Week 2: Explore its impact on entrepreneurship and daily business life. Week 3: Dive into the neuroscience behind it. Week 4: Wrap up with personal reflections, key takeaways, and thought-provoking questions. The goal of the blog isn’t just to share ideas, it’s to create a roadmap for managing your mind, building trust in yourself, and navigating business with both strategy and heart. Whether you’re looking for inspiration, practical tools, or a new perspective, the Weekly MindSweep is your invitati
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Weekly MindSweep No. 245 | Mind Your Business II | Masking
🧠 Weekly MindSweep No. 245 | Mind Your Business II | Masking The Mask That Feels Like Home in Entrepreneurship Why "it's always worked" might be the most expensive sentence in your business. If you’re a creative entrepreneur, neurodivergent business owner, or service-based founder whose business...
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Weekly MindSweep No. 244 | Curated Conversation II | Masking
🧠 Weekly MindSweep No. 244 | Curated Conversation II | Masking The Mask Nobody Asked Me to Wear If you're an ADHD entrepreneur, neurodivergent creative, or multipassionate business owner who has ever felt like a very competent stand-in for yourself, this episode follows masking somewhere last...
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Weekly MindSweep No. 243 | Mind Your Business | Masking
🧠 Weekly MindSweep No. 243 | Mind Your Business | Masking We Got Promoted for Masking What It Cost Us What it cost to look like we had it together, and why the mask followed us into entrepreneurship. Masking in entrepreneurship isn't just an ADHD or autism buzzword — it's the reason so many...
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Weekly MindSweep No. 242 | Curated Conversation | Masking
🧠 Weekly MindSweep No. 242 | Curated Conversation | Masking Masking: Showing Up Without the Show A brain-based business podcast for the ADHD entrepreneur, neurodivergent entrepreneur, and creative entrepreneur building a service-based business without a one-size-fits-all playbook. This week…
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Weekly MindSweep No. 241 | What’s On My Mind | Interdependence
🧠 Weekly MindSweep No. 241 | What’s On My Mind | Interdependence We Didn’t Just Notice It. We Started Undoing It. From noticing the pattern to living something different. A brain-based business podcast for the ADHD entrepreneur, neurodivergent entrepreneur, and creative entrepreneur building a...
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Weekly MindSweep No. 240 | Manage Your Mind | Interdependence
🧠 Weekly MindSweep No. 238 | Curated Conversation | Interdependence How Dare You Tend to Me. I’ve got it. Fifty topics in, and interdependence is the one we're the worst at. A brain-based business podcast for the ADHD entrepreneur, neurodivergent entrepreneur, and creative entrepreneur building…
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Weekly MindSweep No. 239 | Mind Your Business | Interdependence
🧠 Weekly MindSweep No. 238 | Curated Conversation | Interdependence How Dare You Tend to Me. I’ve got it. Fifty topics in, and interdependence is the one we're the worst at. A brain-based business podcast for the ADHD entrepreneur, neurodivergent entrepreneur, and creative entrepreneur building…
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Weekly MindSweep No. 238 | Curated Conversation | Interdependence
🧠 Weekly MindSweep No. 238 | Curated Conversation | Interdependence How Dare You Tend to Me. I’ve got it. Fifty topics in, and interdependence is the one we're the worst at. A brain-based business podcast for the ADHD entrepreneur, neurodivergent entrepreneur, and creative entrepreneur building…
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Weekly MindSweep No. 237 | What’s On My Mind | Tending
🧠 Weekly MindSweep No. 237 | What’s On My Mind | Tending The Garden Was Never Meant to Be Tended Alone We Bloom in Community For the ADHD entrepreneur, neurodivergent entrepreneur, and creative entrepreneur running a service-based business: this week wraps a month spent exploring what "tending"...
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Weekly MindSweep No. 236 | Manage Your Mind | Tending
🧠 Weekly MindSweep No. 236 | Manage Your Mind | Tending The Space Between Forest and Furrow — The neuroscience of why big ideas feel impossible to start If you're an ADHD entrepreneur, neurodivergent creative, or multipassionate business owner who can see your big idea finished in perfect detail...
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Weekly MindSweep No. 235 | Mind Your Business | Tending
🧠 Weekly MindSweep No. 235 | Mind Your Business | Tending Tending is a verb If you're an ADHD entrepreneur, neurodivergent creative, or multipassionate business owner with too many ideas and one big scary one you keep avoiding, this episode is your permission slip to start small. This week on…
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Weekly MindSweep No. 234 | Curated Conversation | Tending
🧠 Weekly MindSweep No. 234 | Curated Conversation | Tending It Roots Before It Rises. Tending Your Business Idea as a Neurodivergent Entrepreneur ADHD entrepreneurs have no shortage of ideas. What we struggle with is what happens after the idea arrives — the slow, unglamorous, invisible work of...
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Weekly MindSweep No. 233 | Curator’s Perspective | Visibility
🧠 Weekly MindSweep No. 233 | Curator’s Perspective | Visibility Visibility Needs Tending Last Monday's Curated Conversation uncovered a place I hadn't considered before. We found a third stalling point I'd never named, sitting alongside two I already knew well. In this episode, I walk through…
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Weekly MindSweep No. 232 | What’s On My Mind | Visibility
🧠 Weekly MindSweep No. 232 | What’s On My | Visibility The Visibility Checkpoint In this episode, I take you inside the moment I hit send on a proposal at the rate I actually need to charge — not because the math was wrong, but because it was right, and right was terrifying. My knees were…
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Weekly MindSweep No. 231 | Manage Your Mind | Visibility
🧠 Weekly MindSweep No. 231 | Manage Your Mind | Visibility The Gap Between Your Brilliant Idea and Sharing It The Neuroscience Behind Why Visibility Hits the Brakes The idea arrived fully formed. The math made sense. The revenue projections were solid. The rainbows filled the sky and the…
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Weekly MindSweep No. 230 | Mind Your Business | Visibility
🧠 Weekly MindSweep No. 230 | Mind Your Business | Visibility Visibility Isn't a Marketing Problem. It's a Nervous System One. This week, I walked into my first improv class hosted by Liz Heichelbech of Creative Incites — and ran headfirst into everything we've been unpacking all month about...
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Weekly MindSweep No. 229 | Curated Conversation | Visibility
🧠 Weekly MindSweep No. 229 | Curated Conversation | Visibility You've Been Presenting. It's Time to Be Seen. Visibility for creative and ADHD entrepreneurs who are ready to close the gap. There's a document on Jamie's desktop that hasn't been opened in six months. It's not unfinished. It's...
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Weekly MindSweep No. 228 | What’s On My Mind |Uncertainty
🧠 Weekly MindSweep No. 228 | What's On My Mind | Uncertainty What If It All Turns Out Beautiful A final word on uncertainty, and a challenge for you. We close out our month of uncertainty with the question that's been underneath everything: what if you stopped waiting for certainty that was…
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Weekly MindSweep No. 227 | Manage Your Mind |Uncertainty
🧠 Weekly MindSweep No. 227 | Manage Your Mind | Uncertainty Your Brain Is Not Broken. It's Busy. The neuroscience of uncertainty, and what to do about it. What's actually happening in your brain when things get unclear — and what to do next. This is Week 3 of the Weekly MindSweep Uncertainty...
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Weekly MindSweep No. 226 | Mind Your Business |Uncertainty
🧠 Weekly MindSweep No. 226 | Mind Your Business | Uncertainty Uncertainty is open for business Busyness, performance, and five steps forward There's a particular kind of busyness in creative entrepreneurship that has nothing to do with productivity. The laundry gets done. The inbox gets managed....
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Weekly MindSweep No. 225 | Curated Conversation |Uncertainty
🧠 Weekly MindSweep No. 225 | Curated Conversation | Uncertainty Uncertainty Called. It Wants Credit. It's time we introduced ourselves properly. Have you ever met an entrepreneur who couldn't launch until everything was perfect? Or one who posted the event graphic before the sign-up link…
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Weekly MindSweep No. 224 | Curator’s Perspective |Tolerance
🧠 Weekly MindSweep No. 224 | Curator's Perspective | Tolerance The Thing Underneath the Thing Underneath the Thing Of course it was. This week, Jamie closes out April's month on Tolerance with a Curator's Perspective — a personal reflection on what the month actually revealed. We came in…
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Weekly MindSweep No. 223 | What's On My Mind |Tolerance
🧠 Weekly MindSweep No. 223 | What's On My Mind |Tolerance The Magnifying Glass Doesn't Lie: Four weeks of tolerance and what we couldn't unsee Four weeks of focusing on tolerance, and something unexpected happened: it stopped being a topic and became a magnifying glass. In this closing…
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Weekly MindSweep No. 222 | Manage Your Mind | Tolerance
🧠 Weekly MindSweep No. 222 | Manage Your Mind | Tolerance The Story You Tell While You're Still In It Why the same practice that helps you stay is showing you what to leave Something unexpected happens when you build the capacity to stay present in discomfort. You start noticing what you've been...
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Weekly MindSweep No. 221 | Mind Your Business | Tolerance
🧠 Weekly MindSweep No. 221 | Mind Your Business | Tolerance The Moment We Make Ourselves Smaller: Building Tolerance as an ADHD Creative Entrepreneur You didn't leave the room. But you left the conversation. If you've ever softened an offer before anyone asked you to, rewritten a post until it…
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Weekly MindSweep No. 220 | Curated Conversation | Tolerance
🧠 Weekly MindSweep No. 220 | Curated Conversation | Tolerance The Space Between Reaction and Response How tolerance shapes your decisions, visibility, and growth as a creative entrepreneur What does it actually take to stay? Not to override what you’re feeling. Not to rush to a resolution. Not…
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Weekly MindSweep No. 219 | What’s On My Mind | Resistance
🧠 Weekly MindSweep No. 219 | What’s On My Mind | Resistance When Everything Changes: A Real-Time Look at Resistance What do you do when everything changes, but you still need to keep going? In this final episode of our March series on Resistance, I found myself living the work we’ve been…
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Weekly MindSweep No. 218 | Manage Your Mind | Resistance
🧠 Weekly MindSweep No. 218 | Manage Your Mind | Resistance Spells, Stories, and the Neuroscience of Resistance 5 Resistance Practices for Creative ADHD Entrepreneurs Ever sit down to do your most important work, only to find yourself doing anything else? Reorganizing files. Researching tools....
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Weekly MindSweep No. 217 | Mind Your Business | Resistance
🧠 Weekly MindSweep No. 217 | Mind Your Business | Resistance Resistance rarely announces itself loudly. More often, it shows up quietly disguised as responsibility, overthinking, or a very full to-do list. In this episode of the Weekly MindSweep, Jamie Chapman explores the subtle resistance...
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Weekly MindSweep No. 216 | Curated Conversation | Resistance
🧠 Weekly MindSweep No. 216 | Curated Conversation | Intuition Creating Anyway: The Quiet Resistance of Showing Up in a Dysregulated World You already know what needs to be done. You’ve put in the effort, you have a plan, and you trust yourself. So why does it still feel hard to move forward? In...
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Weekly MindSweep No. 215 | What’s On My Mind | Intuition
🧠 Weekly MindSweep No. 215 | What’s On My Mind | Intuition A Quieter Relationship With Intuition: How Your Nervous System Shapes What You Call “Intuition” We often talk about trusting our intuition as if it’s a fixed, reliable voice. But what if the real issue isn’t whether you trust it; it’s…
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Weekly MindSweep No. 214 | Manage Your Mind | Intuition
Weekly MindSweep No. 214 | Manage Your Mind | Intuition “It Doesn’t Feel Aligned” Isn’t Intuition. Fear, Memory, and the Truth About Gut Feelings “It doesn’t feel aligned.” But what if that feeling isn’t intuition, but an old memory trying to keep you safe? In this episode of Weekly MindSweep…
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Weekly MindSweep No. 213 | Mind Your Business | Intuition
🧠 Weekly MindSweep No. 213 | Mind Your Business | Intuition Is Intuition or Fear Running Your Business? Is intuition guiding your business decisions, or is fear quietly running the show? In Weekly MindSweep No. 213: Mind Your Business | Intuition, we explore a question many creative,...
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Weekly MindSweep No. 212 | Curated Conversation | Intuition
🧠 Weekly MindSweep No. 212 | Curated Conversation | Intuition When Your Intuition Speaks, What Do You Do With It? We talk about intuition as something we should follow. But what happens when what feels like intuition is actually conditioning, fear, or a familiar story dressed up as logic? In…
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Weekly MindSweep No. 211 | What’s On My Mind | Value
🧠 Weekly MindSweep No. 211 | What’s On My Mind | Value This month, we didn’t just talk about value—we lived inside it. In this episode, I’m reflecting on what changed when value stopped being a concept and became a daily practice. How it shows up in how we spend our time, energy, and attention....
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Weekly MindSweep No. 210 | Manage Your Mind | Value
🧠 Weekly MindSweep No. 210 | Manage Your Mind | Value “Not Worth It” Is a Brain Story I spent six weeks fully focused on an idea. When I launched it, only three people said yes. Right away, my mind told me it wasn’t worth it. In this episode, we look at how the brain decides what is valuable…
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Weekly MindSweep No. 209 | Mind Your Business | Value
🧠 Weekly MindSweep No. 209 | Mind Your Business | Value The rooms you spend time in shape more than your thinking—they shape how you price, how you show up, and whether your business is sustainable. In this episode of the Weekly MindSweep, Jamie explores how many creative, heart-centered...
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Weekly MindSweep No. 208 | Curated Conversation | Value
🧠 Weekly MindSweep No. 208 | Curated Conversation | Value This episode marks four years of Weekly MindSweep, and with it, an important reckoning. In this conversation, we explore value not as a pricing strategy or branding exercise, but as something our brains learn. How fear, comparison, money...
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Curated Conversation Evolution
🧠 Curated Conversation is evolving and you’re invited. January’s topic revealed. Sign up to receive the Weekly MindSweep email and an invitation to Curated Conversations: https://bit.ly/MindSweep Read past Weekly MindSweeps at https://chickbookcreative.com/weekly-mind-sweep Visit...
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Weekly MindSweep No. 207 | Curator’s Perspective | Belonging
🧠 Weekly MindSweep No. 207 | Curator’s Perspective | Belonging Belonging, Without Translation. This Is What Safe Feels Like “This is the first room where I don’t have to translate myself.” In this episode of Weekly MindSweep, Jamie looks at the neuroscience of belonging and explains why it’s not...
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Weekly MindSweep No. 206 | What’s On My Mind | Belonging
🧠 Weekly MindSweep No. 206 | What’s On Mind | Belonging Your Brain Is Tired of Auditioning Belonging doesn’t arrive loudly. It hums. In this episode, we explore belonging not as a mindset or a metric—but as a nervous-system experience. The kind you feel in your body when your shoulders drop…
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Weekly MindSweep No. 205 | Manage Your Mind | Belonging
🧠 Weekly MindSweep No. 205 | Manage Your Mind | Belonging Belonging Doesn’t Equal Being Wanted Have you ever been in rooms that looked successful on the outside but left you feeling exhausted, smaller, or disconnected on the inside? In this episode of Weekly MindSweep, we explore the…
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Weekly MindSweep No. 204 | Mind Your Business | Belonging
🧠 Weekly MindSweep No. 204 | Mind Your Business | Belonging In this episode of Weekly MindSweep, Jamie Chapman unpacks the real, lived experience of re-entering the entrepreneurial world during a global pandemic—and the frustration, exhaustion, and quiet heartbreak of trying to “fit” into spaces...
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Weekly MindSweep No. 203 | Curated Conversation | Belonging
🧠 Weekly MindSweep No. 203 | Curated Conversation | Belonging This week’s Curated Conversation turns toward one of the deepest human needs—and one of the most misunderstood: Belonging. After a month exploring Shame, it became clear that everything beneath the fear, defensiveness…
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Weekly MindSweep No. 202 | What’s On My Mind | Shame
This week, we close out our month-long exploration of shame — not as a flaw, but as a signal. A spotlight. A guide. In this reflective episode, I share the moment that quietly cracked me open: a simple head tilt at a networking event that sent my nervous system into a full shame flood. Not…
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Weekly MindSweep No. 201 | Manage Your Mind | Shame
This week, we unpack the moment a simple networking question sent me into a full shame flood — and why this experience is so common for creative and neurodivergent entrepreneurs. In this episode, we explore: • Why a head tilt or clarifying question can feel like rejection • The neuroscience…
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Weekly MindSweep No. 200 | Mind Your Business | Shame
Have you ever sent a proposal and immediately wished you could unsend it? That wave of panic that hits before your client even opens it — cheeks flushed, heart racing, mind already writing the worst-case scenario? This week, we’re talking about shame and self-worth in business — specifically…
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Weekly MindSweep No. 199 | Curated Conversation | Shame
Shame doesn’t crash in like failure — it seeps in like almost enough. In this week’s MindSweep, we’re unraveling The Creative Shame Spiral — the quiet, protective voice that tells you to blend in, prove your worth, or stay small. For ADHD and creative entrepreneurs, shame isn’t just emotional —...
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Weekly MindSweep No. 198 | Curator’s Perspective | Unmasking the Performance
In this episode, Jamie Chapman invites you behind the polished surface of entrepreneurship — into the quiet, hidden world of masking. For many ADHD and heart-centered entrepreneurs, masking looks like competence, confidence, or the perfect “I’ve got it together” brand. But underneath, it’s...
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Weekly MindSweep No. 197 | What’s On My Mind | Self-Worth
This week, we close our month on self-worth with a story that lives between confidence and doubt. What happens when your brain chases proof but your heart knows you’re already enough? We’ll explore how dopamine drives the need for validation, how awareness turns into belief, and how self-worth...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
The Weekly MindSweep is a space where creativity meets clarity. Each week, we explore a single theme that matters to heart-centered and neurodivergent entrepreneurs—breaking it down into approachable insights you can actually use.
Every month follows a rhythm:
Week 1: Define the concept and why it matters.
Week 2: Explore its impact on entrepreneurship and daily business life.
Week 3: Dive into the neuroscience behind it.
Week 4: Wrap up with personal reflections, key takeaways, and thought-provoking questions.
The goal of the blog isn’t just to share ideas, it’s to create a roadmap for managing your mind, building trust in yourself, and navigating business with both strategy and heart.
Whether you’re looking for inspiration, practical tools, or a new perspective, the Weekly MindSweep is your invitati
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