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Travel Safety Tips
Want to know how to stay safe on your travels?
Traveling as a woman+, especially alone, can seem scary and intimidating. Even I still get nervous sometimes. But that shouldn’t stop us, only help us be more prepared. Here are some of my best travel safety tips to help prepare you and keep you safe on your next magical adventures.
One of the very best travel safety tips I can give is to protect yourself with travel insurance. Whatever happens – from cancelled flights, to lost luggage, to severe injuries after you’ve fought off an attack – it’ll have your back. Don’t go anywhere without it.
It’s also important that you stick to transit options that you can trust, especially when traveling in less secure areas.
Public transit is an excellent budget-friendly option, but may not always be the safest. In those situations, it’s a good idea to rent a car from a trusted provider like RentalCars.com. That way you’ll be sure you can get yourself wherever you need to go safe and sound.
Travel Safety Gear
Get prepared and protected for your next trip with my top travel-friendly safety gear and defensive weapons.
Some are affiliate items I’ve found invaluable and some are designed by yours truly. Either way, I wouldn’t recommend them if I didn’t trust them myself. Rest assured that every item recommended here is super sweet and badass, just like you.
Now don’t just buy these and forget about them. The key to survival is preparation. So you also need to practice, practice, practice, and make sure you’re extremely comfortable using your chosen weapons and accessories. Only then will you be truly prepared to protect yourself when the time comes — when your heart is racing and you only have a split second to react to save your life.
Arm yourself — your body, your mind, and your soul. Wear your Tough Cookie spirit with pride and show the world you are not an easy target. You are not a victim. You are a survivor. And you are not alone. We Tough Cookies stick together.
Welcome to your preparation destination.
Ready To Learn How To Fight Like A Tough Cookie?
Well then young grasshopper, it’s time you joined my…
Tough Cookie Travel Self Defense Course
You have the power inside you to defend yourself like the strong woman+ you are!
Discover how easy (and fun!) it can be to learn how to defend yourself.
Listen, I’ve got your back. Because I’ve been through it too. I’ve taken what I’ve learned over the years in the gym, the dojo, and the real world, and combined them into my own more holistic, realistic, female-centric Tough Cookie Travel Self Defense system.
This is the only women’s self defense online course of its kind.
My Tough Cookie Self Defense Course is the first truly comprehensive women’s self defense online course that’s actually designed FOR women+ like you BY a woman who’s been through it too. In this Course, I will teach you all of the ABCs steps in my simple 8-module system that is as thorough and thoughtful as you are, and your self defense training ought to be.
Not only will this online Course teach you how to stay safer and stronger wherever you go, it will also give you the tools, tactics, and support (including lifetime access to our private member community) to continue surviving and thriving long after you’ve completed the Course.
Want To Learn Self Defense In Person?
I completely understand. And I’ve also got some recommended self defense classes (that might be) near you.
You might prefer to take an in-person self defense class for more hands-on training, in addition to or instead of my Online Course. There are a few other organizations out there who, in my opinion, do offer truly realistic, holistic, and trauma-sensitive training on both the necessary physical and mental skills you need to defend yourself in any situation as a woman+ in the world.
See my Self Defense Classes page for more information on these classes in your area.
What about martial arts training for self defense?
If you’re looking for more traditional martial arts styles to learn, I have some recommendations on those as well. However, I strongly urge you to consider martial arts as merely supplementary training. Martial arts rarely replicate the intensity, speed, and fight-or-flight response of actual real life attacks. And most do even less to address the non-physical (aka mental, psychological, and legal) skills you’ll also need to survive.
Yet many can still be helpful for building spacial awareness, confidence, and a few effective moves for women in real life self defense situations. They have for me. So I would still consider them one solid piece of your larger self defense training.
Remember, fighting should always be a last resort, if all attempts to avoid, evade, and de-escalate fail you. Only then do you fight. And only then can the following martial arts styles and moves help you learn how.
Safe Destinations
Speaking of destinations, let’s talk about where you want to travel. While some places are safer than others, nowhere covered here is as scary as you think. With confidence, preparation, street smarts, and a smile, you’ll be ready to hang anywhere with the best and baddest of them.
Travel Inspiration
Need a little taste of wanderlust to tide you over till your next trip?
Get a motivational boost from these badass characters, quotes, and content. Learn from the best, however fictional, and put their tricks into real life action.
Be so strong that you lift others up with you. Be a force to reckon with. Be a Tough Cookie.
It’s time to fight back like a girl+!
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