
"Traveling Different" with Dawn M. Barclay
09/17/22 • 44 min
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Dawn M. Barclay is the author of the book: "Traveling Different: Vacation Strategies for Parents of the Anxious, the Inflexible, and the Neurodiverse" Dawn is an award-winning author who has spent a career working in different aspects of the travel industry. She worked in sales and marketing for her parents’ two firms, Barclay Travel Ltd and Barclay International Group Short-Term Apartment Rentals, and then branched out into travel trade reporting with senior or contributing editor positions at Travel Agent Magazine, Travel Life, Travel Market Report, and most recently, Insider Travel Report. She is a mother of two and resides in New York’s scenic Hudson Valley. She also writes fiction as D.M. Barr and holds leadership roles in several writer organizations.
"Travelling Different: Vacation Strategies for Parents of the Anxious, the Inflexible, and the Neurodiverse.
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Dawn M. Barclay is the author of the book: "Traveling Different: Vacation Strategies for Parents of the Anxious, the Inflexible, and the Neurodiverse" Dawn is an award-winning author who has spent a career working in different aspects of the travel industry. She worked in sales and marketing for her parents’ two firms, Barclay Travel Ltd and Barclay International Group Short-Term Apartment Rentals, and then branched out into travel trade reporting with senior or contributing editor positions at Travel Agent Magazine, Travel Life, Travel Market Report, and most recently, Insider Travel Report. She is a mother of two and resides in New York’s scenic Hudson Valley. She also writes fiction as D.M. Barr and holds leadership roles in several writer organizations.
"Travelling Different: Vacation Strategies for Parents of the Anxious, the Inflexible, and the Neurodiverse.
Other Mentions
- Dawns author page: DMBarr.com
- Wings for All
- TSA Cares
- Author Michael Geraghty
- Would I Lie to You? - TV Show
- QI - TV Show
- 8 out of 10 Cats - TV Show
- Atlas Shrugged - Book
If you enjoy this podcast, there are many ways you can support the show.
Please consider leaving a review, or you can join our Discord community, support us on Patreon, or put some pennies in the tip-jar for Mind, the Mental Health Charity.
You can do all of this and more via the website:
ChattyGeekHiddenDragon.com
or the Link Tree
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Transcript
Now, what I found in speaking to many of the parents is that the thing that really kept them from traveling was that they were scared if their child had a sensory meltdown, that people would think that they were bad parents or that their child was a brat. And to me that's incredibly sad that you're gonna let worries over other people, stop you from enjoying the world. As far as I'm concerned, there are two kinds of people, people who know you
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