27. Travel Mishaps & the Value of Insurance with Dr. Suzy Spadafora
Point Me To First Class
Devon Gimbel MD
5 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 4 September 2023
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
Dr. Suzy Spadafora is a world wanderer with her husband and 2 teenage boys, except for when she's playing tennis or practicing dermatology. She has been travel hacking since 2016, visiting tons of countries including Turks and Caicos, Bonaire, the Philippines, Langkawi Island (Malaysia), Peru, Romania, Amsterdam, and the Seychelles.
In this episode, discover everything you need to know about travel coverage before you need it for a travel mishap. Dr. Suzy Spadafora is sharing her favorite insurance products, walking us through how the claims process works, and covering some of the nuances around insurance and points travel specifically.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Point Me to First Class, the only show for employed professionals, entrepreneurs, |
| 0:06.2 | and business owners who are looking to optimize their higher than average expenses to travel the world. |
| 0:10.8 | I'm your host, Stephen Gimbleimble and I believe that your expenses are your |
| 0:13.9 | greatest untapped asset if you know how to leverage them. Ready to dive into the world |
| 0:18.8 | of credit card points and miles so you can travel more, travel better, and travel often. |
| 0:23.0 | Let's get started. |
| 0:25.0 | Welcome back to the podcast, everybody. |
| 0:30.0 | Today, I am joined by someone who is an absolute wealth of knowledge and I know is going to share so many useful things with all of us and joining me today is Dr. |
| 0:41.4 | Susie Spataphora. She is a world wanderer. She's a practicing |
| 0:46.3 | dermatologist and she has been in this world of using points to travel |
| 0:50.6 | around for many years since 2016 and she has been to all of the places so she has a tremendous amount of knowledge and experience when it comes to traveling using points. |
| 1:01.3 | But today we are going to take a little bit of a diversion in that we're not |
| 1:06.4 | actually going to be focusing on any of the things that we usually talk about when it comes to |
| 1:11.2 | points travel, like which points can take you to which specific place or, you know, what airlines are amazing to fly using points because the truth is that the more you travel, |
| 1:23.0 | like Susie has with points, |
| 1:24.4 | and like I have with points, |
| 1:26.4 | sometimes things don't go according to plan. |
| 1:29.5 | Sometimes we run into obstacles when we are traveling and I think it's really important that we have a |
| 1:36.2 | conversation about what do we do when things don't go according to plan and so that's actually why I've invited Susie here today because despite |
| 1:45.4 | the fact that she could tell us so many amazing and useful things about different trips that |
| 1:50.4 | we could take using points she also has had a number of experiences |
| 1:54.9 | traveling where things have not gone according to plan. And so she's here to |
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