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I found Erik Ireland through his voice.He hosts a podcast called Listen to Sleep — bedtime stories and meditations, reco...
09/02/2026

I found Erik Ireland through his voice.

He hosts a podcast called Listen to Sleep — bedtime stories and meditations, recorded from what sounds like a cabin somewhere in the mountains. I put it on one night. He mentioned growing up in New England and spending time in Rhode Island, where I grew up. Something in me just went: this is my person.

That’s what first drew me in. What kept me interested was seeing how he built his work. As a business consultant, I notice how people share their talents. I kept coming back to what he offered and eventually picked up his book, Awaken Your Myth.

The book itself stands out. They don’t make them like this anymore. The cover, the artwork, and the feel of the paper all make it special. When you start reading, you can hear his voice just like you do when you listen to his podcast.

The hero’s journey isn’t a new idea. But this book made me feel something unexpected about it, something real about what it means to truly show up as yourself. Not just the trendy idea of being 'authentic' that everyone talks about. It’s something deeper and more challenging.

Read more about Erik and What’s Inspiring Me — https://chickbookcreative.com/whats-inspiring-me

09/01/2026

I drafted an email six times before I sent it.

All I needed was for someone to move a meeting by thirty minutes. A simple ask that most people would type in ten seconds and hit send without a second thought.

Instead, I wrote three sentences about why I needed the change. Then I added a line offering to make it up to them, though I wasn’t quite sure how I’d do that yet. Then I softened the whole thing with an apology for the inconvenience, even though nothing had actually been inconvenienced because I hadn’t actually sent it yet.

Then I read it back, decided it still sounded like too much of an imposition, so I added one more line thanking them in advance for their flexibility.

By the time I hit send, my simple ask had become a small essay full of justification, compensation, and gratitude, before anyone had said a single word back.

They replied within two minutes: “Sure, no problem!”

Two words. No problem. I’d built an entire defense for a request that apparently needed none.

Read more in the Weekly MindSweep No. 242 | Curated Conversation | Masking - Showing Up Without the Show

http://chickbookcreative.com/weekly-mind-sweep/week242

I drafted an email six times before I sent it.All I needed was for someone to move a meeting by thirty minutes. A ten-se...
09/01/2026

I drafted an email six times before I sent it.

All I needed was for someone to move a meeting by thirty minutes. A ten-second ask.
Instead: three sentences of justification, an offer to make it up to them, an apology for an inconvenience that hadn't even happened yet, and a closing line thanking them in advance for their flexibility.

They replied in two minutes: "Sure, no problem!"

Two words. I'd built an entire defense for a request that apparently needed none.

There's a name for what I was doing. It's not professionalism. It's not thoroughness. It's masking, and it's costing creative, ADHD entrepreneurs more than we realize.

Read the Weekly MindSweep No. 242 | Curated Conversation | Masking
http://chickbookcreative.com/weekly-mind-sweep/week242

Also inside:
🧠 10 Ways Masking Shows Up for Creative Humans.
💜 Join us live for Curated Conversation — Mondays at 8am EST. Your first month is free.
💜 Book a free consultation at chickbookcreative.com
📕 What's Inspiring Me: Awaken Your Myth By

I drafted an email six times before I sent it.All I needed was for someone to move a meeting by thirty minutes. A ten-se...
08/31/2026

I drafted an email six times before I sent it.

All I needed was for someone to move a meeting by thirty minutes. A ten-second ask.

Instead: three sentences of justification, an offer to make it up to them, an apology for an inconvenience that hadn't even happened yet, and a closing line thanking them in advance for their flexibility.

They replied in two minutes: "Sure, no problem!"

Two words. I'd built an entire defense for a request that apparently needed none.

There's a name for what I was doing. It's not professionalism. It's not thoroughness. It's masking, and it's costing creative, ADHD entrepreneurs more than we realize.

Subscribe to the Weekly MindSweep No. 242 | Curated Conversation | Masking for Tuesday morning delivery.

👉 https://mailchi.mp/chickbookcreative/chickbook-creative-weekly-mind-sweep

It's Monday. We're live at 8am EST. 🧠Today we're opening Masking, why we perform composure we don't feel, justify asks t...
08/31/2026

It's Monday. We're live at 8am EST. 🧠

Today we're opening Masking, why we perform composure we don't feel, justify asks that don't need justifying, and hold it together right up until the moment nobody's watching anymore.

"I've got it" became a performance long before it became a habit. The calm delivery hiding the chaos behind it. The fully-loaded ask, padded with apology before anyone even said no. The version of "fine" we give people who are actually checking on us.

Masking helped a lot of us survive rooms that were never built for how our brains work. This month, we're getting curious about what's waiting on the other side of it.

We're not trying to unmask everything today. Just starting to notice where the performance is running.

Special Guest for an oracle card pull

📅 Today, 8am EST
🎁 First month is free
💜 Stay for the Belonging

If you're already a member, see you soon.
If you've never joined us, today's a great day to start! Learn more: https://chickbookcreative.com/facebook-group

08/30/2026

Real people. Real work. Real Monday mornings.

Join Curated Conversation: a space for creative, heart-centered, ADHD-friendly entrepreneurs to connect and grow together.

Our next topic: Masking. The performance we didn’t know we were giving. In September, we practice showing up without the show.

This weeks special guest: Brand Designer + Canva Specialist will pull an oracle card from 9-9:05am!

Sign up today and work through MASKING with the support of like-hearted entrepreneurs like you.

📅 Mondays at 8am EST
🎁 First month is free
💜 Stay for the Belonging

If you’re already a member, see you Monday at 8am.

To get the Zoom link, just subscribe to the Weekly MindSweep: https://bit.ly/MindSweep

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08/28/2026

My heart is *so* full.

Thank you Good Company Workspace ,Picco Marlboro and each and every one of these beautiful humans for joining our discussion on Visibility.

Yacht rock, ice cream and amazing people in the room IS the perfect combination.

Thank you Good Company Workspace, Picco Marlborough and all of these beautiful humans for joining me!
08/28/2026

Thank you Good Company Workspace, Picco Marlborough and all of these beautiful humans for joining me!

08/27/2026

We sat with Interdependence in August. And we didn’t just notice the pattern. We started undoing it.

We learned asking for help was an option. Some of us actually took the leap and asked.

Along the way, we noticed something else. How much of ourselves we’d been editing before anyone even got the chance to help. The polished version. No loose threads. The version that’s fine, actually, don’t worry about it, I’ve got it.

The thing underneath the thing we uncovered? Masking.

Built as protection. Competence as the product. Likability as the entry fee. The fear that if people saw the real, unfinished, occasionally chaotic process behind the person, they’d leave.

Turns out that fear runs deeper than our businesses. We may be wired to want to be liked. We may have even learned it.

But are we performing who we are to get it?

September, that’s where we’re going.

Masking is the tension between the self we’ve built to be acceptable and the one actually underneath it. Between the calm delivery and the chaos behind it. Between the fully-loaded ask with a justification attached, and the simple, unguarded one.

Here’s what we’re exploring together this month:

🧠 What masking actually is, and how it’s different from privacy or boundaries
🧠 Why so many of us learned to perform competence before we ever learned to trust it
🧠 What masking actually costs the nervous system to maintain full-time
🧠 What it looks like to unmask in a business built on looking like you’ve got it together

If Interdependence was about letting someone tend to you, Masking is about letting them see who you really are.

Learn more and sign up: https://mailchi.mp/chickbookcreative/curated-conversation-evolution-september

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08/25/2026

The Shifts I Witnessed Happen This Month

Curated Conversation created a space for us to notice where this was showing up personally and in our creative entrepreneurship, and this month, we saw real change happen in our room right before our eyes. And not just what we talked about, but what people started saying differently by the end.

Seven of them are still on my mind.

Read the Weekly MindSweep No. 241 | What’s On My Mind | Interdependence

http://chickbookcreative.com/weekly-mind-sweep/week241

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