About Get Untrapped™

Get Untrapped Media is a guided editorial experience for women who are successful in public and stuck in private. It explores how self-abandonment quietly shapes decisions—and how to rebuild self-trust so your choices align with who you actually are.

This is for you if…

• You’re the reliable one at work, but you second-guess your own judgment.

• Your life looks stable from the outside, but inside you feel restless, resentful, or numb.

• You ask everyone else for their opinion, then ignore your own.

• You keep choosing “responsible” options that slowly drain you.

• You’re starting to realize: I’m not confused. I just stopped trusting myself.

Here, we don’t call that a personal failure.
We call it a trap you learned to survive.

Who I am (and why I care)

I’m Shannon D. Smith—trainer and creator of Get Untrapped Media™.

I’m a Certified Professional in Talent Development (CPTD) with dual master’s degrees in Instructional Design & Technology and Industrial-Organizational Psychology.
I’ve spent years designing training for adult learners, studying how people actually change—not just how they collect information.

Personally, I spent over a decade living the very thing I write about here:

• Saying yes when everything in me said no

• Staying in roles and relationships that looked “right” but hollowed me out

• Rebuilding my life from divorce, debt, and survival-mode decisions

• Tripling my income while learning to raise my internal decision floor

I help professional women who look capable on paper but feel conflicted in practice stop abandoning themselves in decisions—especially around career, money, and relationships.

Using behavioral psychology, adult learning, and lived experience, I teach women how to rebuild self-trust so they can make clear, steady decisions under pressure instead of defaulting to fear, approval, or over-responsibility.

This work isn’t about confidence or hustle; it’s about decision quality. When women learn to trust their internal authority again, their income rises, their relationships stabilize, and their lives stop feeling like something they’re managing instead of choosing.

Get Untrapped™ is the body of work I wish I had when I was loyal to everyone but myself.

Start here

If you’re new, don’t binge. Start intentional.

1. Read: Get Untrapped™: What This Space Is (And What It Isn’t)

2. Read: If You Do Three or More of These, You’re Not Fine. You’re Trapped.

3. Take Action: Complete the Self-Trust Stability Audit, a 5-minute check-in to reveal what’s destabilizing your decisions—and what to reinforce first.

What You’ll Get Here

Get Untrapped 101

A starting point for women who know something feels off but can’t quite name it yet. These foundational posts help you recognize the patterns beneath your hesitation and start making sense of why certain decisions feel harder than they should.

Untrapped Conversations

Real conversations about the decisions women make under pressure—and what it costs when we keep overriding ourselves to stay “good,” “smart,” or “easy.” Part story, part strategy, these episodes help you hear the pattern, name what’s true, and leave with an Untrapped move you can actually use.

Untrapped Blueprints, Tools & Guided Practice

Practical frameworks and guided exercises that help you make decisions you don’t have to talk yourself into. This is where you learn the method—step-by-step—so you can interrupt old patterns and choose with more steadiness.

Untrapped Deep Work

Case-based decision support for women who want to apply the work to real situations. This is where we go beneath the surface—so your choices start coming from self-trust, not pressure, fear, or performance.

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