Exit Strategy: The Conversations That Got Me Out Alive

She spent years teaching salespeople how to control a room. Then she used the same system to survive a marriage that nearly killed her.
Exit Strategy is the true story of a sales trainer who discovered that the negotiation framework she built for boardrooms — ConvoControl® — was the exact system that got her out of a life-threatening marriage alive.

Tara Shuler didn't leave in one brave moment. She left over months of carefully managed conversations, where every word she chose (and every word she swallowed) was a deliberate, high-stakes move. This book pulls back the curtain on that exit — chapter by chapter, story paired with the specific conversation-control tool that made survival possible.

Inside, you'll learn the same skills that closed six-figure sales deals and now double as real-world safety tools:

• The Echo Technique — using listening as leverage in high-tension conversations
• Strategic Silence — protecting information without lying
• The Objection Deck — neutralizing the four predictable pushbacks abusers use
• Setting the Thermostat — controlling emotional temperature under pressure
• The Closing Conversation — executing a safe exit as a sequence, not a single moment

You don't have to be facing physical danger for these tools to matter. If you've ever calculated your words before speaking to someone who was supposed to love you, you've already been negotiating — you just didn't have a framework yet.

Part memoir, part survival guide, part communication masterclass — Exit Strategy proves that everything is sales, including getting yourself out alive.
Includes National Domestic Violence Hotline resources. This book is a companion to a safety plan, not a substitute for one.