Episode 315: Your Next Brave Journey with Dawn Pick Benson
The Divorce Survival Guide Podcast
Kate Anthony
4.4 • 573 Ratings
🗓️ 20 March 2025
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
Dawn Pick Benson, a self-discovery travel coach and writer, joins me to explore how travel can be a powerful tool for transformation, especially during life's crossroads, whether it's divorce, a faith shift, or an identity crisis.
When everything feels uncertain, moving forward can seem impossible. Dawn shares how travel became a catalyst for reclaiming her power, redefining her faith, and embracing a new identity. Her journey to Kosovo reveals how travel isn't just an escape, it can be a path to deep spiritual reshaping and self-discovery.
What you'll hear:
- The pivotal moment when Dawn realized her marriage and faith no longer aligned with her true self (2:36)
- How travel allowed her to question and redefine her beliefs outside of societal expectations (11:49)
- Practical tips to make travel more affordable, even if you feel stuck financially or logistically (29:08)
- How the BRAVE Journey process helps women design meaningful solo travel experiences (32:09)
- The role of community and self-reflection in making travel a transformational experience (39:16)
Learn more about Dawn Pick Benson: Dawn Pick Benson is a self-discovery travel coach and writer who helps women rediscover themselves and thrive in their second half of life through travel.
Dawn's small group coaching program, Brave Journey, helps women envision, plan and take their own transformational journeys. She also hosts retreats for women each year around the world.
Dawn has visited more than 50 countries and has lived and worked in the Middle East and Eastern Europe. She's a Global Ambassador for the Travel Coach Network, a Certified Cultural Intelligence facilitator, and her work and story has appeared in The Washington Post, The New York Times, Wander and TripAdvisor.
Dawn splits her time between living in the U.S. & Kosovo, where she is currently working on a book about her own journey and the transformative power of solo travel after divorce.
Resources & Links:
Unbreakable – the Divorce Recovery Retreat, Sedona, AZ in April 2025
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| 0:00.0 | Really what travel does is allow us to create some space for, I say create space for magic to happen. |
| 0:07.0 | And that magic could look like a lot of different things. |
| 0:09.7 | It could be space for healing. |
| 0:11.3 | For me, when I was thinking, I traveled first when I was thinking about getting divorced, right? |
| 0:16.4 | So it got me out of the commentary and the chaos of my life and allowed me space to figure out |
| 0:22.8 | who I am. |
| 0:24.0 | When no one is needing something from me, no one's commenting, people don't know me, like, |
| 0:29.0 | who am I? |
| 0:30.1 | It's a really great way to rediscover and to discover yourself and also to feel empowered. |
| 0:39.6 | Welcome to the Divorce Survival Guide podcast, where we have open and honest conversations |
| 0:45.7 | about co-parenting, separation, divorce, and the hardest question of all, should you stay |
| 0:51.9 | or should you go? I'm Kate Anthony, your divorce survival guide, |
| 0:56.9 | and I'm here to help you navigate some of the roughest waters you've ever swum in and answer |
| 1:02.0 | some of your toughest questions. I've been to hell and back, and now it's my mission in life |
| 1:08.2 | to help you get to the other side of this process with your sanity and your heart intact. |
| 1:21.4 | Hey everyone. Welcome back. Today I have with me Dawn Pick Benson. She is a self-discovery travel coach and writer. |
| 1:32.1 | And she's joining me today to explore how travel can be a powerful tool for transformation, |
| 1:38.0 | especially during life's crossroads, whether it's divorce, a faith shift, or an identity crisis. And I love this conversation |
| 1:46.6 | with Dawn because she has some really powerful moments in her life that really shifted, like |
| 1:55.9 | her own divorce and her own crisis of faith and things not aligning with her true self. |
| 2:02.8 | And it just feels like such a perfect conversation for you guys and really in alignment |
| 2:09.9 | with the work that we do and the conversations that we all have. |
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