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Helping women rediscover themselves & thrive through travel.
Have you found yourself wondering if there’s more for you in life?
Perhaps …
✧ You’re realizing what you want in life isn’t matching your reality.
✧ You’ve experienced a major life change, and you’re dealing with waves of uncertainty.
✧ You need to get away and reset—to remember who you are and what you want.
✧ You’re wondering what’s next and you want to make the most of it.
Why not take this opportunity to reset and reimagine?
No matter your transition—divorce, re-imagining life as an empty nester, or retirement—I’ve found one thing to be true:
For wisdom to speak, we have to create the space to listen.
My own story of transformational travel …
Travel can be our greatest teacher—and a beautiful healer.
I’ve been through a lot of transitions in life. I’ve been a…
Lost 24-year-old grad student who had no idea what to do with her life.
Successful 35-year-old marketing director who suddenly found herself out of a job and wondering if she could pull off starting her own business and re-creating a career on her own terms.
46-year-old woman married for almost two decades going through a divorce and wondering what the hell she’s going to do next.
My travel experiences related to each of these transitions have looked different, but as I look back, they’ve always created a safe space to take a step back from my everyday life and just breathe.
To look at things from afar and ask the questions I needed to ask to find clarity and healing.
Every trip has been an adventure of its own, but one thing is always true:
Every trip I’ve taken has changed me.
If you’re experiencing divorce or contemplating a big life transition, I know it’s a difficult, lonely road. And if you’re thinking about traveling as a way to process or make sense of it all,
I want you to know this simple act of courage can change your life.
It did mine.
The average adult goes through 3 to 5 massive transitions in life.
This means mastering the skills to navigate these transitions is important. It also means we need support from those who’ve been there or who are still in the thick of it.
You don’t have to walk this path alone.
Introducing…
Brave Journey
A group coaching experience designed to help you envision and plan a solo transformational travel journey that best suits who you are and the transformation you desire.
A community of women on the same journey
What if you’re not the only one feeling unmoored or unsettled—and maybe a bit restless?
Brave Journey is designed to curate a small, like-minded community of women dedicated to not only finding their own extraordinary, but also to cheering you on in finding yours.
As you each plan your own solo travel experience, you’ll share insight, challenge each other to face fears, and have a built-in support system all along the process.
Each Brave Journey group will comprise of no more than 6 women to ensure it’s a personalized, high-touch experience that builds community and support..
From pre-trip planning to mid-journey guidance and post-trip support, the Brave Journey process is designed to be a truly transformative experience.
We’re currently looking to fill a few slots for our next program, so if you’re interested, apply today!
A guide who’s been there
I’m here to help you discover that the kind of travel experience you’ve dreamt of really is possible.
I’ll share the tools I’ve learned in my own transformational travel and life transition experiences to help you dig deep and create the kind of solo travel experience you long for.
You’ll practice listening to what your soul needs, and I’ll provide encouragement and planning advice to help you incorporate simple practices you can use on this trip, and for the rest of your life.
I’ve faced the fear and the pain of feeling lost and alone, and I found the courage to bet on myself and follow my curiosity to create a life and career I not only wanted, but desperately needed.
This is what birthed the Brave Journey coaching program. Born out of my own desire to find healing and clarity through travel, I’m now ready to share what I’ve learned with you.
“This experience has been worth everything to me. It’s changed my life.”
Brave Journey has helped Robin move forward and make plans to take a solo trip to France after a difficult divorce.
“You are known, and you are missed, if you’re not here.”
How does a small group coaching program support me specifically, and what’s it like to be part of it?
Ready to craft a soul-searching journey to
✧ Inspire you ✧
✧ Make you feel alive ✧
✧ Provide space to discover clarity or healing? ✧
How the Brave Journey process works
Phase 1: Setting the foundation & creating your vision
Every trip starts with imagining what you want and need out of the experience.
You’ll begin by getting to know yourself in a deeper way. You’ll work through some big questions designed to help you craft a journey that aligns with who you are, what you value and the transformation you desire.
This new knowledge will help you personalize your journey and map out possible destinations.
Personality and strengths assessments as well as specific exercises, directed journaling, spiritual practices and discussions will help you tackle questions like:
Who am I?
What do I value?
What is my vision for this trip?
What do I need?
How do I want to feel on this trip?
This phase will help you:
Get to know yourself - uncover your core superpowers, strengths and values with specific strengths and assessment tools
Explore your dreams - become clear on your vision for this experience—and what you want to feel and experience during it
Cultivate your curiosity - with all you’ve learned so far, where might you go? What might you do?
Gather your tribe -how to build your support team and a list of go-to resources for your journey
By the end of this phase:
You’ll have a good idea of what you want and need from your trip. You’ll have a short list of possibilities and will be ready to begin the planning process!
Phase 2: Map it out
A.k.a…the “get stuff done” phase
We’ll take what you’ve learned about who you are, your core superpowers, what you want, value, and need from this trip, and you’ll work on making it happen!
This phase covers:
Where will I go? - Getting clear on the location that’s right for you
How will I get there / what will I do? - Using my “follow your curiosity” framework to plan the exact right experience for you
Trip planning 101 - Flights, packing, passports, phone plans … the details can feel overwhelming. We’ll cover all the tips and tricks I’ve learned from almost 3 decades of traveling so you can feel safer and more secure as you prepare
Traveling solo - The basics of smart travel as a solo/woman traveler
Traveling with Cultural Intelligence - This training will not only provide practical skills as you prepare for your trip, it will also help you deepen your insight during it
Dealing with fear and anxiety - Top travel fears and practices to help you move through fear and anxiety, before—and during—your trip!
As a travel coach, my role is different from a travel agent in that I won’t be doing the actual planning for you. In fact, research shows that YOU doing the work involved in planning not only empowers you, but also ends in a more enjoyable experience for you! As your coach, I will, however, bring all the resources I have to support you in planning the kind of journey that provides the kind of healing and clarity you’re looking for!
By the end of this phase:
You’ll have mapped out and planned your ideal trip. You’ll know what you want and need to experience while you’re away—and you’ll be ready to go!
Phase 3: Takeoff & landing
This is the part you’ve been waiting for—embarking on your very own, personalized transformational travel experience! It can be exciting, sometimes scary, and definitely the most rewarding part of your journey!
This phase is also where you’ll take part in one of the most important, but overlooked aspects of travel: returning and processing all you’ve experienced in a way that promotes sustainable transformation and growth.
This phase will include:
A personalized plan for what you want to work on and/or experience during the trip and suggested exercises for making them happen
Personalized journaling and self-reflection prompts during and after your journey
One 1-on-1 coaching call for every two weeks you are away - Perfect for deeper processing and/or troubleshooting!
Spiritual practices and meditations for meaning making and dealing with feelings that arise - for use during and after your journey
Group coaching & training calls - Continued support from your coach and cohort during your journey. When you return, you’ll have an invaluable resource for years to come: a group of women who understand what you’re experiencing and can help you process and integrate what you’ve learned into “real” life.
By the end of this phase:
You will have experienced your transformational journey and return to a supportive community ready to hear about it, help you process it and make meaningful change with your new knowledge and insight!
“When we started, I was two years out from my divorce. I knew I needed to move forward. This group was the piece I needed.
My goals for my solo trip are to gain confidence, peace and inspiration. I have found them with this group—and I haven’t actually gone on the trip yet!
It has been life changing! Thank you Dawn!”
— Robin, Brave Journey member
About the process
Each phase lasts 2 months (8 weeks) and includes:
Live, bi-weekly group teaching & coaching calls for teaching and discussion (calls will be recorded if you can’t make a session)
Monthly one-on-one coaching with Dawn for individualized support and help when you’re feeling stuck, worried or alone
Targeted activities and exercises to deepen your knowledge and skills
(Note: You can sign up for one phase at a time—or the entire experience at once)
In each phase you’ll get
A dashboard of tasks to complete - Targeted worksheets, exercises and prompts designed to deepen your understanding, skills and knowledge
Journaling and self reflection prompts
A chance to connect, learn and grow with other women as you bring your challenges forward and celebrate each other’s victories!
The wisdom and support of a coach ready to help you find the clarity and healing you need.
BONUS PDF downloads:
Trip planning & packing cheat sheet
Journal prompts
Facing fears & anxiety exercises / meditations
—> I’m ready! How can I sign up?
I’m currently looking for a few women to be part of our next Brave Journey cohort! To provide a quality, tailored experience, I’m opening up just a few slots and will be conducting interviews to ensure the program is the right fit for you!
Schedule a call with Dawn to learn more and see if the Brave Journey program is right for you!
More about your travel coach, Dawn
As a kid, I remember regularly spinning the globe and placing my finger on a country so I could grab my encyclopedia Britannica (remember those?) and learn everything I could about that location.
I wondered what people were like there—how they dressed, what they ate, what they loved and what they worried about—and I promised my Indiana farm girl self that I’d one day see those places.
I grew up and made good on those promises. I saved when others spent, just so I could backpack South America (from Peru to Tierra del Fuego and back), ride the rails in Europe, study in Egypt and Israel, and live for several months in Kosovo.
I’ve planned some of my own transformational travel journeys during crucial times.
✧ Backpacking South America offered my 24-year-old self a chance to journal and think about next steps during long hikes and bus rides. That trip brought clarity about my future and career during a time I needed it most.
✧ Working remotely in Europe gave my 42-year-old self the freedom to see if I could create the life I’d always wanted. It was terrifying, and part of me was convinced I’d lose all my clients. It also taught me you sometimes have to risk failure in order to go after what you actually want.
✧ Living (and traveling solo) in Eastern Europe after my divorce was the bravest thing I’ve done to date. This was a profound emotional and spiritual healing journey that helped me learn to listen to that voice inside, have compassion for myself, and believe in that little girl with a globe again.
So far I’ve visited 42 countries (both solo and in groups). I’ve transitioned my career twice and taken a few of my own Brave Journeys.
I’m also a certified Cultural Intelligence facilitator, so I bring a LOT of cultural knowledge and expertise to your planning process.
Today, I help women find healing and clarity through transformational travel experiences. I do this through a small group coaching program that supports like-minded women in the process - from pre-trip planning to mid-journey guidance to post-trip integration and support.
I can’t wait to help you plan your own journey!
Ready to get on the list to join the Spring/Summer cohort?
With the Brave Journey experience, you’ll get:
Flexible, online format
We meet online via Zoom. While you’re encouraged to attend live and will get the most out of it that way, recordings will be available for times you have a scheduling conflict. All sessions are available as video or audio, so you can review sessions in a format that works best for you.
Interactive
We will have teaching time, coaching, reflective work, and Q&A. I’ll keep each session participatory, dynamic and focused on the most impactful information and exercises.
Ongoing growth & learning
In between our sessions, learning will continue with exercises, experiments, and journaling worksheets to allow you to practice the new skills in your daily life.
High-touch support
In this experience, you won’t be watching a bunch of boring, pre-recorded videos. I’ll do the group teaching and coaching live with you, so I can tailor it to the group and you can ask questions in real time. There will also be monthly individual calls with me.
I’m ready!
How much is the investment?
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To provide a quality, tailored experience, I’m opening up just a few slots twice each year!
Schedule a call with Dawn to see if Brave Journey is right for you!
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(Next cohort begins in May!)
$2,997
Ready for transformation?
This plan includes the entire Brave Journey experience.
*All sales are final on this one-time-only offering.
What’s it like to be part of the Brave Journey community?
Brave Journey is for you if…
You’re at a crossroads & need support
If you’re in the middle of a major life, faith or career transition (or considering one), everything likely feels upended.
You’re not sure who you are or what you want
You’re not where you thought you’d be at this point in life
You wonder, “Is this the way it’s all supposed to play out?”
And you most certainly feel alone in ALL of it.
Brave Journey encourages you to embark on a soul-searching journey designed to inspire you, make you feel alive and offer space for re-imagining and getting clarity on the next steps of your journey.
You want to grow through a solo travel experience, but you’re not sure where to start
Brave Journey will walk you step-by-step through the process of planning a trip that best suits who you are and the transformation you desire. It’s designed to give you the space to:
Challenge and empower yourself
Map out your next steps
Heal from a bad breakup or divorce
Re-discover yourself
Recalibrate to a new reality
Ask important questions
Locate more meaning
Re-connect with your creativity
How do you bridge the gap between where you are now and the life you imagine?
What if you could find clarity for this next phase of your journey?
What would it look like to create an experience that brings the kind of vitality, joy and clarity you desire?
Imagine crafting a personalized, solo travel journey that aligns with who you are, what you value, and the transformation you desire.
You might choose to design a journey that allows you to …
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Explore the south of France, spending your mornings with a book or a journal and an espresso, giving yourself permission to simply breathe slowly and dream again.
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Embark on an adventure to Eastern Europe so you can feel empowered, more creative and create space to ask all the hard questions pressing on your soul.
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Spend time at awe-inspiring Greek monasteries, wondering about the Divine and your own faith as you deconstruct—or reconstruct—it.
What Others Say About Working With Dawn …
“With hopes of traveling solo to Greece and Portugal, I asked the Universe for help with where to begin and was guided to Dawn’s Brave Journey program.
As a travel coach, she does not arrange your travel, but helps you dig deep into who you are, what your core strengths and desires are, and especially the feeling you want to feel when you travel.
This has been, and continues to be, an eye opening experience that has given me confidence to put things in motion and let my dreams come true.”
— J.W.
“I loved the one-on-one video calls with Dawn because we'd discuss what I was discovering about myself and work through any barriers I was facing.
I could always count on great coaching, encouragement, and advice.
Every step of the way, I was met with kind teaching, counseling, and always practical ways I could take what I was learning and apply it.”
— M.C.
