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 years folding receipts into paper cranes so no one would see what she was spending to feel like a person.

Unraveling explores the stories about money, worth, and identity we receive before we're old enough to refuse them — and what it takes to decide which ones still belong to us.

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

• A new lens on the inherited stories shaping money and identity
• A way to separate the story they inherited from the one they choose
• Permission to stop using financial success as proof of personal worth

Every receipt tells a story. The leggings weren't only about the leggings. The delivery order wasn't only about dinner. Shannah unpacks what we may also be buying — belonging, safety, relief, identity, control — and introduces Money Steady™ as a way to look at financial choices with more curiosity and less shame.

Designed to make existing financial-wellness resources feel more approachable and relevant by starting with the human behavior underneath the numbers.

Best for: Corporate financial wellness, HR and benefits events, credit unions and banks, women’s ERGs, EAP programming, all-employee wellbeing days.

• A way to recognize the emotional need hiding inside a money choice
• Why knowing what to do does not automatically change a behavior
• The three Money Steady™ steps for moving from spiral to a steadier next action

You hit the number. You closed the deal. You got the title. Then the finish line quietly moved again. Shannah uses her own experience of finally reaching a made-up “enough” number — and feeling almost nothing — to explore how achievement can become a moving target.

Enough invites high-functioning, quietly exhausted people to ask a different question: not “How much more?” but “What am I asking more to prove?”

Best for: Leadership conferences, executive offsites, professional associations, women’s leadership events, midlife and wellbeing programming.

• Language for the moving-goalpost pattern
• A clearer look at the relationship between achievement, safety, and identity
• A prompt for defining enough on their own terms

What happens when sleep changes, brain fog, stress, caregiving pressure, identity shifts, and peak earning years all collide with money? Shannah talks about the disorienting experience of knowing plenty about finance and still feeling like financial decisions suddenly require a different kind of energy.

This is not a clinical talk. It is a lived-experience conversation about the money questions that can get louder in midlife — and how to meet them with more context, curiosity, and self-trust.

Best for: Women’s ERGs and networks, menopause and midlife events, women’s health conferences, leadership summits, wellbeing programming.

• Language for why money can feel different when the rest of life changes
• A way to separate financial facts from the story stress may be adding
• Permission to approach money decisions with more context and less self-judgment