Stop using money as evidence against yourself.

Part keynote, part one-woman performance. Shannah tells the true story of inheriting her father's hunger for more and her mother's shame around wanting any of it — and how she spent two decades folding receipts into paper cranes so no one would see what she was spending to feel like a person.

Unraveling is about the stories about money, worth, and identity we receive before we're old enough to refuse them — and what it actually takes to put them down. Audiences leave undone, in the best way.

Best for: Corporate culture & leadership events, TED-style stages, women's leadership summits, conferences seeking a signature moment, theaters and lecture series.

What the audience leaves with

• A new lens on the inherited stories they've been running on
• The distinction between a story they inherited and one they chose
• Permission to stop performing financial success
• An experience they'll still be talking about weeks later

What the organization gets

• A genuinely distinctive keynote — not another panel
• Builds psychological safety across the room within minutes
• The talk people remember the conference by

Every receipt tells a story. The Lululemon leggings weren't about the leggings. The DoorDash wasn't about dinner. Shannah unpacks what we're actually buying — belonging, safety, relief, an identity we're trying to hold onto — and introduces the Money Steady™ framework for looking at financial choices without turning receipts into evidence against yourself.

This is the talk that makes the financial wellness benefits your organization already offers actually get used. Your employees aren't disengaged because they don't care. They're disengaged because they're ashamed. And shame doesn't respond to information.

Best for: Corporate financial wellness programs, HR & benefits events, credit unions, women's ERGs, EAP programming, all-employee wellbeing days.

What the audience leaves with

• Why "track your spending" never works long-term
• The emotional contract underneath every purchase
• The three Money Steady™ steps for choosing steady over spiral

What the organization gets

• Higher engagement with existing financial wellness benefits
• Addresses financial stress — a top driver of lost productivity
• Gets to the emotional root, not just the mechanics

You hit the number. You closed the deal. You got the title. And nothing changed. Shannah talks about the moment she finally hit her made-up "enough" number and felt absolutely nothing — the arrival fallacy that's quietly running high performers into the ground.

Enough is for the high-functioning, quietly exhausted person who keeps raising the bar because stopping feels too dangerous. This talk gives audiences permission to stop running long enough to ask what they're actually running toward — and what "enough on your own terms" could actually feel like.

Best for: Leadership conferences, executive offsites, professional associations, women's leadership events, midlife & wellness programming.

What the audience leaves with

• Why achievement never silences the "not yet" feeling
• The cost of being high-functioning and quietly exhausted
• How to define enough on your own terms

What the organization gets

• Addresses burnout in top performers — the people you can't afford to lose
• Works powerfully for leadership and women's audiences

Nobody warns women that perimenopause doesn't just change the body — it changes the relationship with money. The 3 a.m. spirals. The decision fatigue. The brain fog hitting right in peak earning years. As a CFP who didn't see it coming herself, Shannah names the connection no one in personal finance is talking about.

This is not a clinical talk. It's an honest one — for women who've wondered why money has started to feel like a different language, and whether something is wrong with them. Nothing is wrong with them. Their nervous system is just running hotter, and no one told them that was even possible.

Best for: Women's ERGs & networks, menopause conferences, women's health events, leadership summits, midlife & wellness programming.

What the audience leaves with

• Why money feels harder in midlife even when the numbers haven't changed
• How hormonal shifts affect risk, spending, and financial decisions
• Permission to stop blaming themselves

What the organization gets

• Support for retaining experienced women in their peak years
• A genuinely novel session with high attendance and word-of-mouth