You've read the content advice.
You've saved the threads.
You've bookmarked the "how to be more consistent" posts.
And you're still sitting on work that should've been out six months ago.
That's not a knowledge gap. That's a self-trust gap and that's what we work on here.
Get Untrapped is a publication for women who write, teach, or speak — and keep freezing at the finish line.
Not because the work isn’t good.
Not because they don’t know their stuff.
But because something kicks in at the exact moment it’s time to let people see it.
The over-editing.
The second-guessing.
The “let me just tweak this one more time” spiral that never actually ends.
The thing is — that spiral isn’t about the work. It’s about what you believe happens when people really see you.
Who’s Behind This Work?
I’m Shannon D. Smith, a Certified Professional in Talent Development with dual Master’s degrees in Instructional Design and Industrial-Organizational Psychology.
I’ve spent years studying what drives human change — not what sounds good, but what actually moves the needle when someone is stuck.
And what I kept seeing — in myself, in women around me, and in every professional space I moved through was the same pattern: brilliant women doing the work, checking every box, and still not releasing what they were meant to share.
Not because they lacked capability. Because their self-concept was quietly overriding their strategy at the point of action.
That’s self-abandonment and it has a structure you can learn to see.
This publication gives you tools and support across three areas.
Visibility — for when the fear of being seen is the thing stopping you.
Message — for when the work itself needs refinement before it’s ready to share.
Systems — for when consistency is the problem and you need a rhythm that fits your actual life.
Most of us need all three. But not all at once.
Here’s what I don’t do here.
I don’t tell you to “just post it.”
I don’t give you a content calendar and call it transformation.
I don’t pretend that the gap between your drafts folder and your published work is a discipline problem.
It’s not.
It’s a self-trust problem and self-trust isn’t a feeling you wait for.
It’s an identity structure you build — one rep, one release, and one kept promise at a time.
What I do instead
I give you the diagnosis your pattern has been waiting for and the tools to interrupt it.
Practical ones.
The kind you can use on a Tuesday when your chest is tight and your finger is hovering over delete.
It’s based on behavioral science, simple processes and no fluff.
Because I know what it costs to keep finishing in private.
Not just in output — in confidence. In how you start to narrate yourself as someone who doesn’t follow through. In how the gap between what you know you’re capable of and what you’ve actually released starts to feel like evidence against you.
This publication exists to reverse that pattern. If you’re a woman who can create but struggle to release your work, you’re in the right place.
Subscribe to Get Untrapped and start getting the tools that help you calm the pressure, clarify the message, and release consistently — even on your busiest, lowest-energy days. The finish line doesn’t own you anymore. You do.