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Why the First Translation Is Always the Hardest
What Elizabeth Zott teaches us about taking your expertise somewhere the institution never prepared you to go.
May 30
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Shannon D. Smith, CPTD
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Why you can’t see your expertise clearly
You think it's a gap in your self-awareness, but it's actually a gap in the institution's design.
May 28
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Shannon D. Smith, CPTD
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What Happens When the Environment Can't Hold What You Bring
What Elizabeth Zott's story reveals about every credentialed woman working inside a room too small for what she knows
May 23
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Shannon D. Smith, CPTD
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The Expertise You've Stopped Noticing Is Usually the Expertise Worth Owning
What 60 years of tacit knowledge research tells us about why fluent expertise is the hardest to see and the easiest to give away.
May 17
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Shannon D. Smith, CPTD
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How to Handle the Question You Don't Know the Answer To
Fear of one wrong answer keeps more experts off the stage than stage fright ever did
May 11
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Shannon D. Smith, CPTD
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How to Talk About Your Pricing Without Apologizing
The silence after you name your price will tell you everything
May 4
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Shannon D. Smith, CPTD
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Why Talking About Your Work Feels Like Bragging (And What to Do Instead)
It wasn’t until I reached age 40 that I could use the word “expert” when referring to myself without being apologetic.
May 3
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Shannon D. Smith, CPTD
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The Positioning Sentence That Makes Pitching Easier
Pitching feels hard when you haven't clearly positioned what you do.
May 3
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Shannon D. Smith, CPTD
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Where is your expertise leaking?
Find the exact place your expertise leaks before it becomes income in 5 minutes or less.
May 2
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Shannon D. Smith, CPTD
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April 2026
What It Costs to Sit on What You Know
What staying quiet actually takes from your money, your momentum, and the woman you were going to be by now.
Apr 29
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Shannon D. Smith, CPTD
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You are not underqualified. Your expertise is untranslated.
What if the thing holding you back is not confidence, but language?
Apr 29
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Shannon D. Smith, CPTD
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Why I Built This
Untrap Your Expertise is where women who write, teach, and speak stop sitting on their brilliance so they can finally position, package, and profit from…
Apr 27
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Shannon D. Smith, CPTD
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