Be a Guest on Untrapped
Your successes are part of the story. So are the difficult decisions, mistakes, and moments that changed you. Join Ben Davis for an honest conversation that lets people get to know the person behind the business.
Every application is reviewed for story, experience, and audience fit.
THE WHOLE STORY. YOURS.Why Tell Your Story Here
In a feed full of polished posts and AI-generated content, an honest conversation can give people something real to connect with. On Untrapped, there is room to explain what happened, how it felt, and what you would do differently.
We welcome experienced founders and business leaders who are ready to share a specific trap they faced. It might involve growth, cash flow, leadership, a partnership, marriage and family, faith, identity, or the pressure that comes with success.
You choose which experiences you are ready to share. You do not need to have everything figured out, just enough perspective to speak honestly and offer a lesson someone else can use.
Your Featured Episode
We take care of the preparation, recording, editing, and sharing so you can focus on the conversation. Your episode and the stories drawn from it give people time to understand your experience in your own words.
A prepared, professionally produced conversation about the traps you faced and how you overcame them, with space for the details that matter. Your full episode is published on YouTube, Apple Podcasts, and Spotify within two weeks of recording.
Your permanent episode page includes your biography, business, and relevant links. A separate, permanent written article explores the lessons from your interview. Both stay on Untrapped.com for people to discover and for you to share.
We introduce your story through a dedicated email to our subscribers and a dedicated LinkedIn newsletter edition, inviting readers to spend time with your episode and explore your work.
Three professionally edited highlights and accompanying stories give people a way into the full conversation, with social promotion across YouTube, LinkedIn, Instagram, and TikTok.
You receive downloadable files for the full episode and all three clips, with a perpetual license for your own website, email, organic social, and paid marketing. Share the conversation wherever it helps people get to know you.
Your episode appears on our YouTube channel with 100,000+ subscribers. We continue promoting the full episode until it reaches at least 10,000 views. Clip views are separate, and the view guarantee has its own timeline beyond the two-week publication commitment.
A listener may recognize their own doubts in a decision you faced, or find encouragement in how you moved through it. That is the kind of connection an honest story can make possible.
How It Works
Every episode should be useful to the audience and meaningful for the guest. That begins with understanding the story behind the business.
Tell us about your background, the trap you faced, and what another entrepreneur could learn.
Every application is reviewed carefully. Submission does not guarantee selection.
We prepare a focused interview guide to help you revisit the decisions, turning points, and lessons in your own words.
We edit and publish your conversation, develop the article and clips, and help people find the story. Promotion continues until the full episode reaches the view guarantee.
Meet Your Host
Ben Davis has spent more than 18 years building businesses across personal care, franchising, manufacturing, recruiting, and media. He knows the wins, but also the mistakes, difficult decisions, and private pressure that come with entrepreneurship.
Ben prepares carefully, asks questions as a fellow entrepreneur, and creates room for guests to share the parts of their story that rarely fit into a polished biography.
This is a thoughtful conversation about what you have lived, what you have learned, and how that lesson might help someone else.
Frequently Asked Questions
We look for experienced founders and business leaders who can speak honestly about a meaningful challenge, mistake, or blind spot and share lessons other entrepreneurs can use.
We explore traps involving growth, leadership, cash flow, sales, partnerships, marriage and family, faith, identity, exits, and the pressure that can come with success.
Yes. Featured participation is paid, and the application explains the fee and everything included. We review each guest for story and audience fit before sending booking details.
Your episode is published on YouTube and distributed through Apple Podcasts and Spotify, with a permanent episode page and separate article on Untrapped.com. We also share your story through a dedicated email, LinkedIn newsletter edition, and social promotion.
We guarantee that your full episode will be professionally produced and published within two weeks of recording. Promotion continues separately until the full episode reaches the guaranteed view minimum.
Yes. You receive downloadable files for the full episode and all three highlight clips, with a perpetual license for your own website, email, organic social, and paid marketing. You can also supply a tracking link for the episode description, article, newsletter, and pinned YouTube comment.
We guarantee that your full YouTube episode will receive at least 10,000 views. If it has not reached that number during the initial promotional period, we will continue promoting it until it does.
Your business is part of your story, and your episode page includes your biography and relevant links. The conversation follows your real experience: the decisions you faced, the lessons you learned, and what you hope others can take from them.
No. Every application is reviewed for story, experience, and audience fit. We accept only a limited number of featured guests.
Tell the Whole Story
Tell us about the trap you faced, how you found your way through it, and what you hope another entrepreneur will take away. We would like to hear your story.
Start Your Application Featured participation is paid. Full details are in the application. Every story is reviewed before booking.