The First Solo Trip Toolkit
$79
The complete solo travel planning system to book your first solo trip with confidence – even if anxiety, overwhelm and overthinking have been holding you back.
So you’ve been dreaming about travelling solo for months...
Or maybe it’s been years.
You’ve watched the videos. Read the blogs. Saved hundreds of Instagram posts. And, if you’re anything like I was before my first solo trip, your browser probably has 15 tabs open right now!
But every time you feel close to booking, another “what if” pops into your head.
What if I choose the wrong destination?
What if my accommodation doesn’t feel safe?
What if I panic when I get there?
And before long, your dream trip gets pushed back to the bucket list… again.
Sound familiar?!
Well, the problem ISN’T that you need more information or research.
You just need a clear roadmap that tells you exactly what to do next.
And that’s exactly why I created The First Solo Trip Toolkit!
Here’s the deal.
Reading one more blog post isn’t going to magically make you feel ready.
(Neither is endlessly Googling, watching YouTube till midnight or saving another 50 TikToks you’ll never look at again!!)
And waiting until you “feel ready” could mean putting your dream off for another year… and another… and another.
And I don’t want that for you.
So let me let you in on a secret:
Solo travel confidence doesn’t suddenly appear overnight. Preparation creates confidence.
So every planner page, worksheet and checklist inside this toolkit is designed to help you move from:
“I wish I could travel solo…”
to
“My flights are booked, and I’m actually doing this!”
❌ Without guesswork. Without overwhelm. Without constantly wondering what comes next.
It’s the exact roadmap I wish I’d had as an anxious 18-year-old, planning my first-ever solo trip to Switzerland!
How It Works
📚 1. Learn
Follow the free email course to build your confidence with practical tips, encouragement and simple mindset shifts that make solo travel feel genuinely possible – even if anxiety has always held you back before.
🗺️ 2. Plan
Use the First Solo Trip Notion Planner, step-by-step roadmap and guided workbooks to organise your bookings, build your itinerary, prepare for arrivals, tackle safety concerns and work through your biggest “what if?” worries.
No more scattered notes, forgotten screenshots or dozens of open tabs needed!
✈️ 3. Go
By departure day, you won’t be relying on luck or hoping everything works out.
You’ll know where you’re staying, how you’re getting there, what your backup plans are and exactly what to expect when you arrive.
Because preparation creates confidence.
What you’ll achieve…
Imagine opening your laptop and knowing your destination, itinerary, arrival plan, safety backups and packing list are all sorted, so you can spend your energy looking forward to the trip instead of worrying about it!
By following the step-by-step roadmap in this toolkit, you’ll be able to:
✔ Choose your dream destination without endlessly second-guessing yourself.
✔ Keep every booking, itinerary, note and confirmation organised in one place.
✔ Feel totally prepared for airport arrivals, transport and accommodation check-in.
✔ Work through your biggest fears with practical exercises and prompts, instead of letting them hold you back.
✔ Build a trip plan that feels exciting rather than overwhelming.
✔ Stop worrying that you’ve forgotten something important.
✔ Book your first solo adventure feeling prepared and, most importantly, excited!
What’s inside The First Solo Trip Toolkit?
Lifetime updates included for all resources! | Mobile and desktop friendly!
🧳 The Guided Notion Solo Travel Planner
Never wonder what you’ve forgotten again!
Keep your bookings, itinerary, packing lists, arrival plans and travel notes together in one organised workspace, designed specifically for solo travel.
Inside, you’ll find:
✈️ A personalised solo travel dashboard
🗓️ My smart, one-click itinerary builder
📦 Packing lists and departure checklists
📍 Detailed arrival planning sections
🔒 A dedicated solo female safety hub
📓 A travel journal and memory vault
This is the exact system I use to plan all of my trips, and I wish I’d had it back when I planned my own first solo trip!
📘 The First Solo Trip Starter Pack
When you’re solo travelling for the first time, the hardest part is constantly wondering what to do next.
That’s why I created a step-by-step roadmap covering the key decisions every first-time solo traveller needs to make, and exactly when, including:
✔️ My master solo travel planning checklist
✔️ My exact booking timeline (what to do, when!)
✔️ A ready-to-book confidence checklist
✔️ First-day arrival planning worksheets
✔️ Practical prompts to keep you moving forward without overwhelm
No more guessing. Just one clear next step at a time!
🛡️ The Solo Female Safety Toolkit
Feeling safe on the road starts a long time before you even board the plane.
This practical guide helps you prepare for common safety concerns with confidence, covering topics like:
🏨 Choosing accommodation safely
🚕 Planning airport arrivals and late-night transport
👜 Protecting your belongings
🚨 Creating simple emergency backup plans
🌍 Avoiding common tourist scams
🤝 Meeting people safely and confidently
Preparation (not luck) is what helps you feel safer travelling alone as a woman!
💛 The Solo Travel Anxiety & Confidence Workbook
If anxiety and overthinking have been the things stopping you from booking, this workbook was made for you!
Inside, you’ll work through guided exercises to:
✨ Untangle your biggest “what if?” worries
✨ Challenge anxious thought patterns
✨ Build evidence-based confidence
✨ Break big fears into manageable actions
✨ Create your own personalised courage plan
Because courage to solo travel isn’t the absence of anxiety.
It’s deciding your dream matters enough to keep going anyway!
🌍 The Destination Database + Decider
** Currently Europe Only
“But Katie, where should I actually go?!”
This interactive database shares my personal beginner-friendly Europe travel recommendations, ranked on:
⭐ Solo female friendliness
💰 Budget
🚆 Public transport
🛡️ Safety
✨ And more!
Plus, use the smart filters to instantly narrow down destinations that suit your confidence and interests!
🔗 Curated Solo Travel Resource Vault
Stop spending HOURS wondering which travel tools you can actually trust!
I’ve gathered my favourite travel resources into one place, including recommendations for:
📱 eSIMs
🏨 Accommodation booking
🎟️ Tours and experiences
💳 Money-saving tools
✈️ Essential planning resources I personally use
Why this toolkit is different…
Most travel planners organise logistics.
Most mindset resources talk about confidence.
Most safety guides share how to stay safe on the road.
This toolkit brings ALL THREE together to help you plan your dream solo trip safely and confidently!
| Most travel planners | The First Solo Trip Toolkit |
| Focus on organising bookings | Helps you make confident decisions from start to finish |
| Offer generic checklists | Designed specifically for first-time solo female travellers |
| Assume you’re already confident | Supports anxious travellers and overthinkers from day one |
| End once your itinerary is built | Guides you from dreaming about solo travel to departure day |
| Focus only on logistics | Combines planning, safety, mindset and practical action |
Here’s what other solo female travellers are saying…
Hi, I’m Katie 👋
Experienced solo female traveller of 5+ years. 24 countries (and counting!)
When I booked my first solo trip to Switzerland, I wasn’t fearless. At ALL.
I was excited, sure. But I also lived with social anxiety and PTSD (and still do), and I remember lying awake, believing I was making a huge mistake, while imagining every worst-case scenario.
And when I arrived, I cried in the airport (and the hotel!) because I felt so overwhelmed and underprepared.
So I know what it’s like to wonder whether everyone else is naturally brave while you’re secretly terrified!
But 5 years later, after solo travelling to 24+ countries, I’ve realised the thing that changed wasn’t my personality or my anxiety. It was my preparation.
And every solo trip after became easier because I slowly built systems that helped me feel organised, informed, safe and capable before I even left home.
The First Solo Trip Toolkit is the exact roadmap I wish 18-year-old Katie had had back then.
It’s everything I wanted when I was nervously Googling, overthinking and desperately wishing someone would hold my hand through the process and tell me, “Here’s what to do next.”
So now, that’s exactly what I hope to offer to you!
Frequently Asked Questions
Absolutely! In fact, I designed the planner with complete beginners in mind, so you don’t need to be particularly tech-savvy or have used Notion before.
Once you duplicate the planner into your own free Notion account, you can start filling it in straight away like a digital workbook.
But if you’d rather ease yourself in, you can use all of the printable PDFs and worksheets on their own while you get comfortable!
This toolkit is especially helpful for first-timers and anxious travellers, but many experienced solo travellers enjoy having a structured place to organise their trips too.
Plus, because you have lifetime access + updates, you can use the resources on every trip you take. Simply create a new trip page in the Notion planner and revisit the toolkit resources whenever you need a refresh!
The First Solo Trip Toolkit is a complete travel planning system designed specifically for first-time and anxious solo female travellers to go from “I wish I could do this” to “I’ve booked the trip!”
This isn’t just another printable checklist you download and forget.
You’ll receive instant access to:
- The Interactive Notion Solo Travel Planner
- The First Solo Trip Starter Pack
- The Solo Female Safety Toolkit
- The Solo Travel Anxiety & Confidence Workbook
- The Europe Destination Database + Decider
- My Curated Solo Travel Resource Vault
Together, these resources help you choose a destination, organise your travel plans, prepare for common safety concerns, work through anxious thoughts, and keep everything in one place from the moment you start dreaming until you arrive at your destination.
That’s completely okay! And honestly, you’re probably exactly who this toolkit is made for!
So many women believe they need to feel 100% confident before they book. But in reality, confidence grows because you’ve started planning.
By working through the exercises and checklists one step at a time, you’ll replace uncertainty with preparation and make booking feel far less intimidating when you’re ready.
Yes! Every workbook and guide is valuable as a standalone resource and can be viewed digitally or printed if you prefer pen and paper.
That said, the experience is best when you pair them with the Solo Travel Notion Planner, because everything (from your bookings to your itinerary, packing lists and notes) lives together in one organised place.
Yes! In fact, that’s one of the main reasons I created it.
I live with social anxiety and PTSD myself, so I know what it’s like to overthink every decision and imagine every worst-case scenario before a trip.
This toolkit doesn’t expect you to become fearless. Instead, it helps you build confidence through preparation, practical planning and small, manageable actions that make solo travel feel much more achievable.
Not at all.
While the Destination Decider currently focuses on beginner-friendly destinations in Europe, the rest of the toolkit (including the Solo Travel Notion Planner, the Solo Travel Starter Pack, the Safety Toolkit and the Confidence Workbook) can all be used for solo trips anywhere in the world.
The planning principles stay the same whether you’re heading to Portugal, Japan or New Zealand!
Nope! The planner works perfectly with Notion’s free forever plan, so there are no ongoing subscription fees or hidden costs.
Your purchase is a one-time payment, and you’ll continue to receive lifetime updates to the included databases and resources at no extra charge.
Immediately! As soon as your purchase is complete, you’ll receive everything you need to start planning right away. That means you can dive into the planner, browse the workbooks and begin mapping out your first solo adventure within minutes!
No. Because this is a digital product with instant, lifetime access, I’m unable to offer refunds once your purchase has been completed.
That said, I genuinely want you to have a great experience. So if you run into any technical issues or have questions about using the toolkit, just send me an email at katie@whereskatienow.com and I’ll do my best to help.
Ready to stop dreaming and finally book your first solo trip?
The only thing standing between “one day” and “booked” is a plan!
Have questions?
Have questions or not sure if the First Solo Trip Toolkit is right for you? Use the contact form below or email me at katie@whereskatienow.com, and I’ll get back to you as soon as I can!