48. How Traveling with Kids Changes the Points Game with Dr. Chandani DeZure
Point Me To First Class
Devon Gimbel MD
5 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 29 January 2024
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
Dr. Chandani DeZure is a Board Certified Physician living in California who’s been maximizing points for travel since 2014. She started out on a resident’s salary, traveling with no kids and tons of flexibility, and now she’s taking her kids on her trips and her flexibility has all but vanished. But that doesn’t stop her getting an amazing deal.
Discover how traveling with children changes the game when it comes to credit card points and miles. Chandani is discussing how she maximizes her points when traveling with her family, how her priorities have shifted, and you’ll learn tons of practical tips for getting the most out of every point you earn.
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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 Kimballimble 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 |
| 0:18.9 | 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 | Hey everybody and welcome back to the podcast. |
| 0:30.0 | Today I'm joined by Dr. Shandini Dejour, a board certified physician living in California who's been maximizing points for travel since 2014. |
| 0:39.0 | Not only have points and the game of traveling using points changed a lot in those 10 years. |
| 0:44.0 | But Shandani's personal points journey has also evolved over that time. |
| 0:48.0 | From traveling on a resident's salary, meaning not a lot of money without kids and having lots of flexibility to traveling |
| 0:55.1 | with in her words little munchkins but with limited flexibility but she |
| 0:58.9 | loves finding a good deal and making travel more affordable for herself and others. |
| 1:03.7 | Her priorities when it comes to deciding if a redemption is worth it has also changed over time |
| 1:08.4 | to evolve with the needs of her family and she tries to avoid second-guessing decisions about |
| 1:12.2 | points redemptions. |
| 1:13.2 | Now we're going to get into all of that and more on today's episode but first I want to |
| 1:17.2 | welcome Shandini to the podcast. Thank you so much for joining me today. |
| 1:20.7 | I am so happy that you're here. Thanks, Devon, thank you for having me. I am so happy that you're here. |
| 1:22.6 | Thanks, Devon, thank you for having me. |
| 1:24.6 | Absolutely. Now, I wanted to have you on this podcast because you and I have a couple of things in common |
| 1:29.3 | when it comes to points. We've both been doing this for a number of years and so we've had that experience of seeing how just points and miles have changed over that time, but also a little bit randomly because you and I don't haven't known each other for those 10 years but we're around the same age. |
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