Stop Waiting for Permission: How Solo Travel Brings Women Back to Themselves with Damianne President

The Transformation Network™ · Oct 27, 2026 · 59:57

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Damianne President was six months old when she went to live with her grandmother in Saint Lucia. At twelve, she moved to Canada to live with a father she barely knew and a stepmother who had once been her teacher. At twenty-three, with no teaching jobs available, she took a post in India — and never really stopped moving. More than 45 solo trips later, she coaches women over 40 who are tired of waiting for the right time, the right partner, or the right permission to take the trip that keeps calling them. In this conversation with Shannon O'Flaherty, Damianne explores what it means to be raised in a bubble of quiet love and grow up unattached to place, how early uprootings can become the foundation for extraordinary freedom, and why solo travel isn't just a holiday — it's a way back to yourself. For any woman who has ever said 'I'll go when...' — this is the episode that changes that sentence.

Giveaways:
· https://freedomlookslikethis.com/solo-trip-fit/