BREAKING FREE

Stop Holding Back, Start Being You

Most people know something needs to change before they can name what it is. They feel it in the Sunday dread, the career that looks fine on paper and quietly isn't, the version of themselves they keep meaning to get back to. Breaking Free is for that moment.

Shannon Talbot spent 17 years in corporate Canada performing the version of herself she thought was required. Scotiabank. Loblaw.  Publicis Groupe. High-stakes roles and a near-crippling anxiety nobody in the room knew about. This book is the honest account of what it took to stop holding back and start showing up as the real thing. It is practical, story-driven, and refreshingly free of the advice that sounds good but changes nothing.

Breaking Free is a natural companion to Shannon's keynotes. For organizations that want their people to leave the room with something concrete to keep working on, the book extends the conversation from the stage into real life.

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